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Dot Untold Radio 22 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:06.560 Network dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.359 on here. Something just kid with my dog. Something killed 25 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.719 your dog? My dog? We're flying through there over the tree. 26 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:20.319 I don't know how it did it? Okay, Damn, I'm 27 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:22.840 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 28 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.519 the fence, and they would have dead once you hit 29 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.359 the ground. I didn't have seen any cars. All I 30 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:45.200 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Are you 31 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:51.439 reporting we got some wonder or something crawling around out here? 32 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.359 Did you see what it was? It enough out here? 33 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.359 Look him new to window now and I don't see anything. 34 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:11.039 I don't want to go outside. Point hello, hit somebody 35 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.199 out here? What quent on out there? It's thought of 36 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.199 a bit of about sixty nine. I don't know easy 37 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:19.199 out there. Yeah, I'm right head A. 38 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.159 Greetings spread Alaska, thanks for joining me today. What I 39 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.400 wanted to share with you today comes from the Yukon River, 40 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.159 just south of where the Richardson Cross is it. This 41 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:33.000 comes from Dylan and Christina, former Alaskan residents. They no 42 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.560 longer live here. Dylan put in a transfer from his 43 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:41.560 position he had then and that's why they moved. This 44 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.280 was one of the catalysts. They had reserved a cabin 45 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.400 just south of Big Salt River. It was where the 46 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:52.319 Big Salt comes into the Yukon where they meet. There's 47 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.159 a little cabin there. They were there for approximately a week. 48 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.240 They had planned on being there for two weeks because 49 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.719 he wanted to use up every bit of his paid leave. 50 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:06.360 They wanted to do it somewhere remote and reset. Dylan's 51 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.680 job was high stress, had to do with the law 52 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.919 enforcement arena. After a week of just basically milling around 53 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.719 this cabin, d compressing, taking naps in the middle of 54 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.039 the day, they had a little portable DVD player they 55 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:21.000 would charge up every day with their small generator and stuff. 56 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:26.199 They were just enjoying themselves. A couple days before the 57 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.400 incident happened on their height, they had their dog with them. 58 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:33.000 Her name was Rizzo. She was a little pitbull mixed, 59 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.159 very loyal, very happy dog. From what they were saying, 60 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.039 Rizzo was approximately six years old at this time. Now 61 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.759 there's a smaller little creek. It cuts back up into 62 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.159 the mountain and it just gains elevation as it's going, 63 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.960 so it's really hard hiking. They were both athletic, they 64 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:53.439 didn't mind. Dylan was carrying a firearm he had himself, 65 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.759 I believe he said it was the four fifty four cassule, 66 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:01.759 and also she had a backpacker shotgun slung over her shoulders, 67 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.680 so they were loaded for barrisoa speak had they needed 68 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:10.080 to make use of firearms. So they're approximately five hours 69 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.719 into this hike. Because they're gaining elevation, they got steep sides. 70 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.519 The mountain directly behind the cabin is only like eleven 71 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:18.920 and thirty feet or something like that. It's not overly 72 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.519 huge by any means, but with all the thick vegetation, 73 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.199 and they're going up this little draw that kind of 74 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.759 hooks back around the back side of this mountain, it 75 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:31.279 was trying. It was very technical. Train for anyone who 76 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.600 does hiking of any kind, it would be up there 77 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.680 on the spectrum of difficulty. So basically what they're doing 78 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.639 is going up this dried up creek bed from runoffs, 79 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:43.240 and they would have to come off of the creek 80 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:45.959 and go around certain little drops and things of this nature. 81 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.319 So it was taking them time, but they were enjoying it. 82 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.639 So Dylan said they got to a certain point, and 83 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.959 Rizzo started behaving strangely, the same strange behavior they had 84 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.160 witnessed at the cabin a couple of days prior. She 85 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.360 would spin in a c bark at them and kind 86 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.160 of lunge at them, but not showing her teeth, but 87 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.120 barking at them, like trying to get their attention, like 88 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.040 jumping towards me in this real panicked way. And she 89 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.079 would run in a circle and do it again. And 90 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.360 she kept doing that and doing it again. Of course, 91 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.879 they got more alert because the dog was acting squirrely, 92 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.040 but the dog wasn't alerting anywhere. The dog was alerting 93 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:22.439 to them, basically getting their attention. They chalked it up 94 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.480 to her just being spun ky and being away from 95 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.360 home or whatever. They weren't picking up on those subtle cues. 96 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.680 Another couple hours in after her little the asshole of 97 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.360 running in a circle. After they calmed her down from 98 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.120 that and they continued on, Dylan and Christina both said 99 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.120 that Rizzo was like very focused in front of them. 100 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.000 She kept going up further, looking around, sniffing the air, 101 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.079 and then would turn around look at them, and as 102 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:48.519 soon as they got closer to us, she would do 103 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.040 the same thing, So it was like she was going 104 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:53.319 ahead of them a little ways checking things out. She 105 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.839 was obviously on alert for something. They recognized it, but 106 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.800 they didn't realize what it was for because it was 107 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.680 the vegetation was so thick. This was mid July, land 108 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.600 of the midnight sun. It's not like it was getting 109 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.680 dark anytime soon. They're looking around. Maybe there's a bear 110 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.639 day up in here we're unaware of. Maybe we should 111 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.399 back off right, So they decided they're smelling the air, 112 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.800 they're listening. They're not hearing anything. There's no songbirds going 113 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.680 on or anything, which twenty twenty hindsight Dylan said he 114 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.000 should have picked up on that queue. But they were 115 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:27.319 having such a good time, so they decided we'll go 116 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.439 a little further. There's a little bit of a shelf 117 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.279 that they could see from where they were coming up. 118 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.199 They wanted to get up on that little shelf and 119 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.920 have a little picnic style lunch right there. So they 120 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.000 get up to that point. While they're up on this 121 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.519 little shelf, it's far more vegetation than they realized. If 122 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.120 from their vantage point it looked fairly flat level and 123 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.759 vegetation free. But once they got up there. The grass 124 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.360 was four foot tall. There's a brush around and stuff, 125 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.959 so they kind of walked around peck and the grass 126 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.759 down so they could see over back down into this 127 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.680 draw to witness the accomplishment. They may coming up that 128 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.839 damn thing again eleven and some feet. The trying aspect 129 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.079 of it was coming down of the creek up on 130 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:09.040 these steep walls, trying to make a path. They're just 131 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.319 breaking trail. Christina starts digging out the lunch stuff, and 132 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.240 Dylan's getting out his little cookie stove. I think he 133 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.000 was using some kind of fuel, whether it be sterno 134 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.160 or something like that, to heat up water. They had 135 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.279 some freeze dried soup stuff they were going to make. 136 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.879 Rizzo at this time was laying down next to Christina 137 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.439 and kept looking further up that draw and was just 138 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.639 fixated on it. Okay, we'll pay attention to her, but 139 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:34.800 let's tend to what we're doing. The way they stumped 140 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.920 on the grass and stuff, Dylan said he felt he 141 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.639 had at least enough visible range if a bear did 142 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.920 come in on him that he had time to react. Christina, 143 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.639 where she was sitting, she had that backpacker shotgun right 144 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.879 on her lap, it wasn't technically a backpacker. It was 145 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.800 a Maverick eighty eight twelve gage. They were loaded for bear. 146 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.839 They had some slugs in there. So as she's sitting 147 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.720 there with the shotgun, he's working on the soup, Rizzo 148 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.360 stands up, circles them a couple times, circles them, and 149 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.399 as she's circling them, wherever she's at in the position 150 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.639 of the circle, she's looking back up that draw and 151 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:14.839 she's walking around. Dylan and Christina strange behavior again. They 152 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.040 start paying attention. Dylan, Yes, Christina, can you please watch 153 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.879 the soup that's boiling, stirred or whatever. I'm gonna go 154 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.800 walk over this direction that she keeps looking and take 155 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.399 a closer look. She said, fine, be careful, watch out 156 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:29.040 for the bears. Don't get eaten by a bear. And 157 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.879 they both kind of chuckle. He draws his four fifty 158 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:33.639 four so he has it in hand so he's not 159 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.519 jumped by the bear if it's real close, he said. 160 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.679 As he moved forward towards the brushwork dropped down back 161 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:44.159 into the draw, he said he noticed across the draw 162 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:45.840 from them. He said, it had to have been probably 163 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.159 two hundred yards. He knows this real dark dot in 164 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.120 the green foliage. It looked like a super dark shadow. 165 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.399 It had no shape because it was just black and 166 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.320 it was across the way, so he just took it 167 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.840 as a real dark shadow. Maybe there's a cave over there, 168 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.879 he starts rationalizing, maybe it's a cave where a bear 169 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.159 is hold up, and maybe after our lunch we'll just 170 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:07.960 get out of here. And so he looks over at 171 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.120 that spot a little while. He's not saying anything, so 172 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.279 he goes back over and resumes what he's doing. He 173 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.960 tells Christina about it, and she walks over after he 174 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.240 takes over the soup thing just during it and keep 175 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.559 an eye on it. She walks over and that's when 176 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.840 she's looking at the same thing, and she says, hey, 177 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.000 that big dark spot is moving. He was thrown off. 178 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:28.840 He was like, nah, it was just a shadow. You 179 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:32.279 sure the winding blown over there or something, again, rationalizing it. 180 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.720 She said, no, it's moving. And then Rizzo starts doing 181 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.240 this number again in a small circle Barkin and not 182 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.759 lunging at her, but like jumping towards her, getting her attention. 183 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.320 She's ignoring Rizzo because she's watching this black dot across 184 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.080 the way now, Dylan said, he stopped the cooking process. 185 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.720 He just put the lid on the top, set it 186 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.840 off to the side and put the lid on the 187 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:56.519 stern or or whatever to stop that process. And he 188 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.120 went over and stood next to her, and they watched 189 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:04.399 this dark, very dark, black shadow coming down through the trees. 190 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.360 And again it's broken up. You can see it, and 191 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.919 then you can't see it because the vegetation, the growth 192 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.519 is just crazy with all the willows and the popper 193 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:14.559 and stuff. They're just looking, what are we looking at here? 194 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.360 It looks like a big black bear. He felt a 195 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.639 little better thinking it was a large black bear because 196 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.120 with what they had, they'd take care of a black 197 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:26.519 bear if they had to, no problem. So he was like, okay, 198 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:29.639 it's just a black bear. Again, he starts rationalizing, no wonder, 199 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:33.159 Rizzo is acting funny. It probably dends up up here, 200 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.480 and maybe it came close to the cabin for a 201 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.240 couple of days. They're explaining everything away and putting it 202 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.360 on this black bear being in the area. They feel 203 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.480 a lot more relaxed because of their initial assumption. Right, 204 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:49.600 although Rizzo has not stopped running around in a circle 205 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.360 and barking back towards them, again, not lunging at them, 206 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.639 but lunging towards them, trying to get their attention. And 207 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.159 again they're just like girls, settled down. We know, we're 208 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.600 trying to reassure the dog that they RECOGNI there is 209 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.679 a potential threat. But again, they thought it was a 210 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.000 black bear. They had no clue of what was going on. 211 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.120 They go over. They each have one of those big 212 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.879 aluminum cups that you can drink coffee out of or 213 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.240 put your soup in, so they split the soup up, 214 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.279 and they had some Sylla Boy crackers and they're dipping 215 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.519 the crackers in the soup and they're talking. Of course, Dylan, 216 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:23.519 knowing that potential black bear's over there, he's eating quickly 217 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:25.720 and he's keeping his eye focused over there. And again 218 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.919 Rizzo was going in a circle but ended up laying 219 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.039 down facing that direction, just grumping and grumbling every once 220 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.120 in a while, not a full on growl, but just 221 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:37.200 little little noises. And they would pay attention to that, 222 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.360 but they were eating. They were a little too relaxed 223 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.919 about it, from what Dylan said, and that's twenty twenty hindsight, 224 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.519 of course, he said, had he known what was about 225 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.879 the transpire, they would have already been on their way 226 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:51.200 back down as the crow flies. The distance between the 227 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.519 cabin they're staying in and where they're at is not 228 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.480 that far. It's really not that far, less than a mile, 229 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.840 not very far. The majority of that distance would be 230 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.200 eaten up in the curve that they walked in a 231 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.960 straight line. It's not far at all, probably less than 232 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.480 a half mile, maybe a little more. He finishes eating, 233 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.120 and he does it real quickly, and he noticed himself 234 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:15.559 something was drawing his attention back over into this draw. 235 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.799 He said, about twenty feet in elevation above the draw, 236 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.879 the way it's going up the mountain. He finished up 237 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.120 pretty quickly and used his water jug, rinsed out his 238 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.000 little cup, plung the water, put everything away, and Christina 239 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.600 was just finishing up, and he took her stuff, cleaned 240 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.320 it up for her real quick, put it in her 241 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.960 pack for They stand up, and they're just standing there 242 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:38.840 a minute to let the soup and stuff settle. They 243 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.080 didn't want to start hiking immediately and get cramps. And 244 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.320 they're discussing that black bear. It's probably going to be 245 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.000 making its way towards us, and this was a topic 246 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.360 of the conversation from when they first saw it, and 247 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:54.159 then they kind of unknowingly set themselves up for an encounter, 248 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.000 which they could have probably avoided had they left immediately 249 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.320 upon seeing this dark shadow coming down. But again they 250 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.360 assumed it was a black bear. They said, nah, we'll 251 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.679 take our chances. We got firearms. We're up here to 252 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.200 enjoy the beauty of the place. Dylan takes the lead 253 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.720 and they go back down the trail that they made 254 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.559 coming up onto this little shelf to have their lunch. 255 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.799 And when they got down back to that creek, he 256 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.519 starts looking back up to draw looking for where this 257 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.799 bear might be, and sure enough, just almost out of you, 258 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.159 because it curves off to his left. From his vantage 259 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:31.480 point facing uphill, he sees the big black shape up there, 260 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:33.120 and he goes, okay, I got eyes on it. I 261 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.080 got eyes on it. And Rizzo comes down and again 262 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.799 gets in front of him and is spinning around and 263 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.080 jotting towards him, really trying her best to get his attention. 264 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.879 He's recognizing, but he also has eyes on this thing, 265 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.720 so he's not fully engaging the dog. He tells Christina, 266 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:52.039 get the dog. Get the dog. So she puts the 267 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.039 lead on the dog, the big black dot. As soon 268 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:59.159 as she clicks the leash on, this thing stands up 269 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:04.600 Dylan's It took probably ten seconds for him to comprehend 270 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:08.279 what he was looking at. This thing was silhouetted. The 271 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.559 sun was back behind the mountain off to their right. 272 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:15.080 It was high up in the sky the way the 273 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.679 sun was coming down with all the vegetation, this thing 274 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:21.639 was just dark and silhouetted. So he's watching, and this 275 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.480 thing steps out more from the brush where he can 276 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.320 see a humanoid shape right. He said. The approximate distance 277 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.080 was probably about sixty five yards. This thing was big, 278 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.399 he said. He watched it because of the light behind it. 279 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.480 He watched it take two steps, very short steps. He said. 280 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.519 It looked awkward the way the movement looked very awkward. 281 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:48.000 But it crossed across the creek bed and squatted back 282 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:51.039 down right in the brush that was a little less 283 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.080 sunlight penetrating it, and squatted down and was facing their 284 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.720 direction like it was watching. He's standing there. He's got 285 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.240 his pistol in his hand. He doesn't remember drawing it, 286 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.519 but he remembers holding it, and he had it cocked 287 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.639 all that happened autopilot from his training and stuff. He 288 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.039 has his firearm cocked and he wants to point in 289 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.399 that direction, but something's telling him just leave. As he's 290 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.440 contemplating this, Christina's behind him saying, what do you see? 291 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.559 What do you see? Because she had him in front 292 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.840 of her and she couldn't see nothing, so she focused 293 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.799 on putting the lead on the dog, and then her 294 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.240 view of what was going on was obstructed with Dylan 295 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.720 standing there in the way, so she takes a few 296 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:32.200 steps back away from Dylan. Rizzo's going in a circle, 297 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.480 not barking, making this weird whimper growl, in a circle, 298 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.840 in a circle. It's making a jingling sound with the 299 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.399 collar and the chain the way the leash is connected. 300 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.919 So she's trying to comfort the dog. Dylan turns around 301 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.799 and tells her, let's start moving. Let's start moving down 302 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.879 the trail. You start, I'm coming right behind you, but 303 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:55.080 let's start. As he's facing her real briefly, this thing 304 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:59.200 lets out a very sharp, short whoop. He said it 305 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:03.399 was sol but so short. It was a very powerful sound, 306 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:05.240 but it was just very brief. 307 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.000 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see right 308 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:11.080 back after these messages. 309 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:17.919 He said that whoop. He could hear it echo across 310 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.919 the Yukon River and back. How quick and sharp it was. 311 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.000 It was very loud, startled, and he turned around. He's 312 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.240 pointing the gun right back up in the direction and 313 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.919 he no longer sees this thing where it was because 314 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:31.720 it was easy to pick out. It was darker than 315 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:33.519 the shadows it was trying to hide in, and he 316 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.879 didn't see it there. Rizzo doing the thing again, running 317 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.039 in a circle and hopping towards Christina jumps and bites 318 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.840 her by her raincoat that she was wearing and starts 319 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:47.519 pulling her down back down trail. So she's listening to 320 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.399 the dog that got this weird whoop. She still hasn't 321 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.879 seen anything, so from her vantage point, she's just gonna 322 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.600 take the dog's lead, so to speak. She starts down 323 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.919 the trail, and Dylan said he took a few steps 324 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.919 and turned around back up to look from when he 325 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.519 turned around to tell her to get moving, this thing 326 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.400 must have crossed because it was back on the opposite side, 327 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.079 a little closer to them, and he saw it because 328 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:13.480 it was leaning out, peeking towards them again. Fully silhouetted. 329 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.000 He couldn't give a description of the face. He said 330 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.119 his heart skipped to beat because the way this thing 331 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:24.000 was leaning out and looking at him. He felt being 332 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:29.039 law enforcement, he was versed in dealing with shady incidents, right, 333 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.920 so I trust what he felt, and it was nothing nice. 334 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.720 He felt there was something sinister about that. He didn't 335 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.319 want to just open fire on potentially some just some 336 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.000 weirdo or something. So he figured, okay, we'll just retreat 337 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.319 out of here. Again, not fully realizing just what's going 338 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.799 on because again very limited vision of it, silhouetted. He 339 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.400 did see it cross, but again, when you're rationalizing things away, 340 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:57.079 there's some indecisions sometimes, right. So he said about forty 341 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.279 to fifty feet on their back trail that as they 342 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.559 were going down, Christina had a pretty decent lead on him. 343 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.559 He stopped and turned around, and when he did, one 344 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:09.559 of the spots where Rizzo was circling, she had pitdled 345 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.920 on the ground. When he turned back around to look 346 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.480 back up again, just forty fifty feet, not far at all. 347 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.880 He turns around to look, this thing was over sniffing 348 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:21.839 the air, low to the ground. He said, it looks 349 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.759 like it was trying to do a push up. Very dark. 350 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.000 He couldn't make out any features other than it looked humanoid, 351 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:29.920 and it looked like it was down in a push 352 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.440 up position, just sniffing the air just above the ground. 353 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.400 He said, it was the most prepast surreal thing he 354 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.880 had ever seen in his life. Coming from law enforcement. 355 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.200 I could imagine he's seen some crazy stuff. He's pointing 356 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:43.960 that gun back up at it, and as soon as 357 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.640 this thing sees him holding the gun pointing at him, 358 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:50.640 it stands up and darts uphill off to his right 359 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.680 hand side, he said, into the thickest part of the brush. 360 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.880 This thing was poom gone. He could hear this thing 361 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:02.000 making noise. He was thinking, initially, leaf, Okay, it's running away. 362 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.720 Whatever in the hell it is going away from us. 363 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:08.599 It gets uphill a little ways, about half the distance 364 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.240 to the top in banks to the right, circling cutting 365 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:17.000 back across the hillside towards where Christina is right. She 366 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:19.640 had stopped and she was watching what he was seeing, 367 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.119 and the whole time she could hear it running. She 368 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.640 had her shotgun pointed in that direction. The dog is 369 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.200 spinning a circle and started barking real out so Dylan 370 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:31.680 catches up to her says, let's get moving. So they're listening. 371 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.720 It's off to their left. Now they're listening to this thing. 372 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.799 Dylan said. It sounded like it was running back and forth, 373 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.319 but it was really hard to make out because it 374 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.799 wasn't a constant run back and forth. It would make 375 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:44.799 noise and go silent, and then it would make noise 376 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:49.000 again and go silent. So they're basically constantly checking their 377 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:51.799 back trail all around them as they make their way 378 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.119 back down. Well, once they've got back down by where 379 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:58.079 near the cabin was, they said they no longer heard it. 380 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.720 The dog started acting more normal, a little over anxious, 381 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:06.319 but acting normal nonetheless her normal self. So he was 382 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.960 giving Rizzo praise. He was like, oh, you're a good girl, 383 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:11.519 good protecting mom and whatnot right, and we should have 384 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:14.039 listened to you girl, that kind of stuff, he said. 385 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:17.440 For the next handful of knights at the cabin, he 386 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.359 could not sleep. He would doze off out of sheer exhaustion, 387 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:23.000 but then he would wake up to any odd noise, 388 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.640 the dog move and whatever. He said, they didn't see 389 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:28.680 anything after it ran up on the hill and was 390 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.200 moving back and forth, they didn't see it. It was 391 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.039 just a weird noise at that point. Once they're back 392 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:35.880 in the cabin, and he said he kept waking up 393 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.240 what struck him. He'd wake up, he would feel like 394 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:42.720 it was just outside. Of course, he would check. He'd 395 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.920 check around the perimeter and nothing Rizzol outside not acting 396 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:50.119 funny or anything. He trusted the dog's instincts a little more. 397 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.599 The dog wasn't acting out of place or doing the 398 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.319 little circle thing. He would relax and be able to 399 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:58.319 go back in and fall back asleep, but he said 400 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:01.480 it was really rough. They get out of there at 401 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:03.680