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So 21 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:05.319 what are you waiting for visit www dot untold radionetwork 22 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:06.560 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 --> 00:01:12.840 your dog? 26 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.040 My dog. 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.159 We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know 28 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.439 how it did it? Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All 29 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.239 I saw was my dog coming over the fence, and 30 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.400 name was dead once you hit the ground. I didn't 31 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.319 see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 32 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:46.959 over the fence. Sat what are you reporting? We got 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:57.640 some wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.560 see what it was? It was enough out here looking. 35 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.359 I'm new to window now and I don't need anything. 36 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.840 I don't want to go outside. Its point New York. Hello, 37 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.719 hit the boddy out here? What quent on out there? 38 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.319 I've thought of a bit of about sixty nine. I 39 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.199 don't know easy. I'm out there, Yeah, I'm walking right ahead. 40 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.719 Greetings, thanks for joining me. What I wanted to share 41 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.280 with you today comes from Mark. Now up here, there 42 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.719 are certain portions of land where you can go and 43 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.599 basically cut all the firewoods you want. There's places you 44 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.159 do need to permit, but other places it's just go 45 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.599 and get out the beatlekiller. Whatever Mark a couple of 46 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:39.159 years ago was in one of these areas. It was 47 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.919 his second day going back. His first day it was 48 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:45.120 blowing and snowing, so it was real miserable for him 49 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.240 cutting up his wood. The weather was supposed to clear, 50 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.039 so he decides, you know what, I'm gonna do this tomorrow. 51 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.800 He comes back the next morning at daylight. Basically that 52 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:57.240 ranges in the wintertime. This occurred late December, a year 53 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.439 before last. That time of year, you're not getting rise 54 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.960 until ten granchy, you get daylight before then. Let's say 55 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.280 it was between eight and nine. When he had it 56 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:08.840 out on a snow machine. With the sled, he had 57 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.800 a scandic white track. He no longer has that, and 58 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:16.199 that'll come into play in a minute now. He had 59 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.159 an old sled that was his grandpa's and it was 60 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.800 a work sled. It had no side runners. It was 61 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.919 just basically a big slab that he could strap down 62 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:29.120 to basically a hauling sled. The hauling sled was twelve 63 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.280 foot long. So with that wuid track he had no 64 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.159 problem telling it along is non issue when it came 65 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:39.719 to that now that second morning, because the first day, 66 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.479 he had heard some weird stuff, but the wind was blowing, 67 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.560 so it was like he had an eery feeling, but 68 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.159 he chalked it up to I'm out here long, there's 69 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:51.000 weird noises, the wind's blowing. It was an eerie day, 70 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.280 so he chalked it up to that, no harm, no foul. 71 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.319 The next day, he goes out. There's not a whisper 72 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.479 of wind at all. There was light snow falling, but 73 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.599 it wasn't not in major you know what I mean. 74 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.120 He gets to work, he goes back into this area 75 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.759 that's approximately thirty five forty feet away from the snow machine, 76 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.120 just out of you. If he was to turn around, 77 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.560 his trail kind of zigzag through the trees and stuff. 78 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.599 But he did not have a direct line of sight 79 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.600 to the snow machine because it was obscured by trees. 80 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.279 He said, when he was back in there, he went 81 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:23.199 right back to the spot he was the day before, 82 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.920 circled around a couple times because there was a little 83 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.000 extra snow the night before, and he was just packing 84 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.800 the trail kind of deal. He's back up in there 85 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.839 looking for the last tree he cut down. He didn't 86 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.920 buck it up. He'd just dropped it and figured I'll 87 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.600 get to this tomorrow. So he comes back to the 88 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.879 identical spot. That tree isn't there now, this is a 89 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.120 forty foot tall spruce tree. He's looking around. Maybe someone 90 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.199 came after I left. Okay, someone else got it. Good 91 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.279 for them or whatever. So he gets back down to business. 92 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.199 He spots another one that he likes, and he goes 93 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.959 and he starts cutting it down. It was approximately another 94 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.079 twenty five or so feet away going back into this 95 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.439 dense batch of trees. He said, once he got about 96 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.079 half the distance going from where the tree was missing 97 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.160 that he dropped the day before to where the new 98 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.199 one he was going to cut down. He covered half 99 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.639 that distance, and he said, all of a sudden, everything 100 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:22.199 within him was like, I can't be here. It just 101 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.920 came out of the blue. He doesn't know. In that moment, 102 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.759 he had no clue what the hell. He was, just like, 103 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:34.199 something's really off. He carried a forty caliber handgun and 104 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.399 a shoulder holster, just in case he came up on 105 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.759 a moose or something like that, because moose will stop 106 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.360 you to death. So he unzips his coat. He had 107 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.480 dropped the chainsaw down, unzips his coat and he draws 108 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.720 the gun out. He doesn't know why, he said, it 109 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.399 was just in that moment, he felt like I had 110 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.800 to have my gun in my hand. So he's sitting 111 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.879 there and he's trying to figure out why all of 112 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.240 a sudden he's so spooked. He said, if the snow 113 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.120 wasn't so deep, he would have ran off already, but 114 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.800 he had to make a tactical retreat because the snow 115 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.600 was up above his knees. So he's trying to assess 116 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.040 why am I freaking out? Because he had never felt 117 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.360 even being around bears, he never felt that. So he's 118 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.360 trying to make sense of why he's dealing with this. 119 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.040 So he's looking around through all the trees and stuff. 120 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.720 He's not seeing anything. It's dead quiet, it's still snowing lightly, 121 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:27.399 and so he stands there a minute and he chuckles 122 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.399 at himself, gosh, Mark, you coward, get your firewood. This 123 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.839 is ridiculous. Fire up the chainsaw. Whatever wild animal will 124 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.399 run off. So he tucks the pistol back in his coat, 125 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:42.000 leaves it on zip though for easier access, and goes over, 126 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.160 fires up the chainsaw, looks around again, and as he's 127 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.680 warming up his saw. He's just looking for any movement 128 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.519 that the sound of the running saw may have made 129 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.839 the game animal whatever it was, move away to where 130 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.920 he can get eyes on whatever's going on. Nothing was 131 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.839 going on. It was all quiet. So he drops his 132 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.720 and he's in the middle of limbing portion of it 133 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.319 and then bucking it up into carrying pieces which he 134 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.480 cut him about ten foot long roughly in with that 135 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.199 on the shoulder and pack it out right. So he's 136 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.000 doing that portion of it, and he's got a good 137 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.160 couple pieces ready to go, so he kills the saw. 138 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.519 He decides he's going to have a cigarette break while 139 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.079 he's sitting there. In essence, the whole time when he 140 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.240 was cutting it up and bucking it up, cutting the 141 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:24.480 limbs off and stuff, he was laughing at himself for 142 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.439 being so scared for nothing because he had nothing to 143 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.000 go on at this point. Yes, the one tree was missing, 144 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.040 but someone could have got it easy fire with. Oh hey, look, 145 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.519 someone already dropped it for me and got either there 146 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.360 with it. He's just chuckling at himself for being so 147 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.560 hyper paranoid as he's smoking a cigarette and he's feeling 148 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.360 the teeth on his chain to make sure he didn't 149 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.000 have to sharpen it and stuff like that, just pitdling around. 150 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.720 He hears a weird noise coming from back over by 151 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:55.120 the snow machine. It sounded like the cowling of the 152 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:59.759 snow machine. The cover over the engine was flopping against it. 153 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.839 Something was opening and closing it real fast, clump clump, clump, 154 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.199 making this noise, and it's a distinct sound. Anyone who's 155 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.319 had a snow machine knows that you're dropping the lid down. 156 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:12.560 So is someone messing with my machine? What the hell? 157 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.120 How dare someone come and mess with another man's machine 158 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:16.839 out here in the woods, because you don't do that 159 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.079 shit man, And then gets your ass whooped, so of 160 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.120 course he's pissed. He leaves the saw there and stuff, 161 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.519 and he's tramping on out. Now. He had this big, 162 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.639 long kind of s curve trail that he had to 163 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:30.959 trump through because he was kicking over the snow as 164 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.399 he was making new tracks, just to pack the trail 165 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.159 and pre ready it for easier packing, so he's not 166 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.679 tripping over himself trying to get these logs out to 167 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.679 his sled. Gets back over to the snow machine, and 168 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:46.240 it looks like someone with snowshoes on had walked around 169 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.399 the snow machine, and he noticed that these snowshoes walked 170 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.200 straight back from the machine, straight back in the direction 171 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.240 where he was just cutting, while his trail zigzagged back 172 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.799 to the place. So, in that sense, while he was 173 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:04.200 out focusing on the snow machine, whoever was in the 174 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:08.000 snow shoes was just basically walking past him and he 175 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.799 didn't even see it. So immediately his hair is up. 176 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:14.399 He's what, the who and the hell? So he pops 177 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.440 up the counting to make sure nothing of the motor 178 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:19.240 was messed with real quick, because he starts yelling out loud, Hey, 179 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:21.360 my machine, there better not be nothing wrong with it. 180 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.360 He's just yelling out loud because whoever was on the 181 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.480 snow shoes is somewhere in these trees right over here, 182 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.399 and they're bound to hear him. He's cussing the fuss 183 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:29.960 and telling them, hey, you messed up. Wait till I 184 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.240 come over there. He looks, he doesn't see anything outwardly 185 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.720 wrong with the snow machine, still cussing him. Fuss into 186 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.879 usob you don't mess with a man's gear. He's chastising 187 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.320 whoever this is as he's walking back this little s 188 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.840 curve kind of trail back to where he had cut 189 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.679 the tree. He said, when he was almost back, he 190 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:50.320 was just coming around a small group of smaller trees 191 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:53.320 with some poplar and alder or whatever it was. As 192 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.960 he was coming around, remember there are snowfalling, so that 193 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.320 a lot of the brush there's no leaves on it, 194 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.399 but with a heavy snow, it'll all lean and it'll 195 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.519 have the snow built up on it and stuff. So 196 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.679 he's coming around this particular bush and where he had cut. 197 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.759 He can partially see through this tree that's obscuring his vision. 198 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.679 As he comes around, he says, he's looking up because 199 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.600 the tracks look like they're coming straight back there, right, 200 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.720 So he's looking around, saying, hey, where are you come 201 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.519 out here? Let's talk about this. You don't be touching 202 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.559 a man's machine. He's listening and it's dead quiet, so 203 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.320 he's what the hell is going on here? Stop playing games. 204 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.120 He's calling this person out. He's calling him every kind 205 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.960 of bitch in the book, just to get a reaction 206 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.720 from whoever it is, because at this point he doesn't 207 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:40.879 know where this person is. He's really not happy now 208 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.960 as he's cussing of us, and all of a sudden, 209 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.159 he hears this grunt, this deep guttural grunt. He said. 210 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.200 It shook his guts and it was coming from behind him. 211 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.200 So here's the grunt. He's spoot, startled, whatever you want 212 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.639 to call it, shit in the gold brick. As he's 213 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.879 turning around, he's drawing that pistol out. He assumed the time, 214 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.279 maybe it was a bear that didn't hibernate because it 215 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.600 was too hungry, and he's in serious trouble if it is. 216 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.200 So that's what he was initially going on as he 217 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.240 was turning around pulling his pistol, he said, when he 218 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.679 turned around and pointed, it took him. He doesn't know 219 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.240 exactly how long because everything on tunnel vision real slow motion. 220 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.240 He's trying to make out what he's looking at. He said, 221 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.000 you could see snow on the hair. It wasn't fur, 222 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.320 it was hair. It was about six inches long all 223 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.200 over it, he said. The portion of the chest that 224 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:34.399 he saw there was an underhair and then an overhair. 225 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.399 It almost looked like belt on the body, but longer 226 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.720 hair over it looked to it, but it wasn't real 227 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.799 dense like bear fur or moose hide. Or anything like that. 228 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.559 He said he could see the skin when it moved, 229 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:50.919 and he said it was squatted down and it was 230 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.759 just looking at him. He explained to me, the face 231 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.919 was damn near pitch black, a lot of wrinkles, beady 232 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.039 black guys. But big head was really big, wide set jaw, 233 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:06.559 real wide mouth, nose flat to the face, pretty standard description, 234 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.399 he said. The thing that stood out most was this thing, 235 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.799 how it was looking at him. He said he felt 236 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.639 like this disdain and anger towards him. He's standing there 237 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.279 in shock. He's got a gun in his hand. At 238 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.080 this point. Mark said he didn't even realize he was 239 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.720 still holding the gun. He's literally pointing the gun at 240 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.879 this thing and trying to figure out what he's looking at. 241 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.320 He takes a step back and starts yelling get out 242 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:35.919 of here, but he didn't know what else to do. 243 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.519 He tried to treat it like he's going to run 244 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.639 off a bear. Again, it was no bear, he said. 245 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.000 It was obviously humanoid. It was squatted down. He couldn't 246 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.080 see the hands at first because they were sloped into 247 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.720 the snow. Again, this snow is deeper than his knee. Okay, 248 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.879 so this thing was squatted down, and he said, it 249 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.039 squatted down was still over six foot tall, like big. 250 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.919 So he's assessing my escape plan, right, but he doesn't 251 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.799 know shit or go blind. He's literally stuck in the 252 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.320 trees his trail out. Whichever way he chooses, he's got 253 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.519 to go through knee deep snow to make his retreat, 254 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.559 and he doesn't even know what the hell this thing 255 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.720 is at the moment. So as he took a step back, 256 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.159 he yells at it again, saying, get out of here, 257 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.039 get out of here. I'll shoot you. I'll shoot you, 258 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.360 he said. At that point, he was no longer pointing 259 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.240 the gun at it. He was holding the gun up, 260 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.559 showing the gun. I have a gun, I'll shoot you 261 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.919 that type of thing, he said. This thing was unfazed, 262 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.200 he said. Once he was yelling and showing the gun 263 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:41.039 like this, he said, this thing its head started doing 264 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.320 this number. It looked like it had no neck, so 265 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.000 when it was moving its head, its shoulders would naturally 266 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:49.720 go with it. He said. It slowly was rocking back 267 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:53.000 and forth, and then it stood up, and as it 268 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.279 stood up, it really started swaying more. And that's when 269 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:58.240 he could see the thing's hands. It had snow stuck 270 00:13:58.279 --> 00:13:59.919 to the hair on the arms and stuff because it 271 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.600 had his hands in the snow. But he said when 272 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:04.960 it got up, it did this number once or twice 273 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.919 to shake the snow off the hands and got into 274 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.960 a more hunch position, looking at him, almost like it 275 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.519 was about to rush him. Once this thing stands up 276 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.200 and is doing that, it appears to him that it's 277 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.519 about to start charging at him. He again points a 278 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.639 gun right at it and says, I will shoot you. 279 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.960 It's dead quiet this thing. It didn't move. It's just 280 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.879 standing there and it's given him this death glare. He said, 281 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.039 it was like it was staring through him. It wasn't 282 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.919 scared to mark one iota, not even a little bit. 283 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.000 So as this little standoff is going on, this thing 284 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:41.039 is like maybe twenty feet away, maybe something like that. 285 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.759 And this is all guestimation from a terrified mind in 286 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.559 the moment. It could have been a little more or 287 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.000 a little less, but it was right there, he said. 288 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.559 When it stood up, he had to look up at it. 289 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.080 Because of how things were, he couldn't give me a 290 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:57.399 very accurate description of its height. He said it had 291 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.720 to have been over ten foot. So we'll just go 292 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:03.519 with that, because a terrified mind sometimes things get a 293 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.519 little distorted. So he was just being conservative on his guestimation. 294 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.799 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll 295 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.759 be right back after these messages. 296 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.799 He's pointing a gun at this thing. It's not doing anything. 297 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:22.879 It's that standoff. He points the gun up and lets 298 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:23.679 two rounds off. 299 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:24.480 Bam. 300 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.440 He said. As soon as he let the two rounds off, 301 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:34.320 this thing pivoted facing towards his left and literally ran 302 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.399 so fast, almost disappeared in an instant because of how 303 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.519 quickly it took off. He said. He followed it with 304 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.679 his eyes for a moment, and then it dropped down 305 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.039 to all fours and then really started moving. He said 306 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.519 it bumped into a couple of trees on its way through, 307 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.039 just going by them or whatever, and he said it 308 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.080 sounded like he was just breaking and ripping the branches 309 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:59.159 off as he went through, because when he initially hit 310 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.399 the trees when he was making his way out of there, 311 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.559 there was no tree snapping. A moment or two later, 312 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.879 he started hearing cracking of branches and limbs and stuff. 313 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.639 So he's standing there in shock. He's trying to assess 314 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:14.559 what the hell did? I just see what the hell 315 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.799 is going on here? And he starts looking around in 316 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.159 case there is more right, because he didn't know what 317 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.480 the hell was going on. Mark said that he left 318 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:27.360 his chance off right there and backed out his trail 319 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.240 that he had gone down just a couple of times, 320 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.600 backed out, looking in the direction. This thing was still 321 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.759 making noise somewhere off in the distance, but it was 322 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.840 constantly moving, so it was no way to pinpoint exactly 323 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.120 where it was at any particular time, he said, when 324 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.360 he got back to the snow machine. When he got 325 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:49.519 back to it, the tunnel had been shifted, like the 326 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.639 rear of the seat we called the tunnel where the 327 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.799 track runs underneath. The tunnel had been twisted in such 328 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.639 a way that it was basically almost separating from the 329 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:01.279 front portionroom that holds the engine. And you got to understand, 330 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.319 there's a clutch wheel in there, a centripical clutch that 331 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.079 once you reach a certain rpm, the clutch tightens down 332 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.880 on the belt stinds the track. It had been twisted 333 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.839 in such a way, but that snow machine was no 334 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.200 longer functioning. The engine ran, but it would not drive. 335 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.920 So he's sitting there at the snow machine like he 336 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.240 doesn't know what he's gonna do now. This thing is 337 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.960 still over there, maybe hundred feet away, maybe a little more. Again, 338 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.319 he was in fits of terror, so it was dicey. 339 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.440 He's a few miles from where he parked his truck 340 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:38.880 and trailer, just under five miles. He immediately starts down 341 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.559 his path. He had no cell service and no one 342 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:44.640 would even start looking for him for many hours from now. 343 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.000 He already knew this, so he started trekking, and he 344 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.000 chained smoked a whole pack of cigarettes within the first mile, 345 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:53.359 trying to calm down. He was shaking. He couldn't stop 346 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.480 looking around. Every few steps he would stop. He said 347 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:58.720 he was smoking like half of the cigarette, throwing it 348 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:02.000 out at of nervous ticks that were kicking up hard. 349 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.640 He got about two miles into his almost five mile 350 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.839 journey to get back to his truck when he started 351 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:15.160 hearing something following him. He said, I could not run. 352 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.480 The trail was packed, but the times he tried running, 353 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.319 he started breaking through and sinking down. So he didn't 354 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.000 want to injure himself, so he was just gingerly walking 355 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.440 along because he didn't want to break through and then 356 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.480 have an injured knee or something, and then take even 357 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.079 longer to get out of He was trying to be 358 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:39.119 as tactful and safe in his retreat as possible, he said. However, 359 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.240 when he started hearing this thing off to his right, 360 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.880 moving paralleling him, he kept hearing a weird swishing sound, 361 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.160 like a tree. So he kept looking around to see 362 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.680 if there was a tree wiggling, because that was the 363 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.119 sound of was making, like tree branches rustling against each other. 364 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:56.720 And he kept looking, and he had his gun in 365 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.759 his hand and stuff, and he couldn't see anything. So 366 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.799 he just kept going. He would look around and keep going, 367 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.200 and this noise was a constant for about a mile, 368 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.200 he said. He was yelling out. He was saying, I'll 369 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.160 shoot you for real this time, all sorts of stuff. Right, So, 370 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.640 as he's going along, he said, all of a sudden, 371 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:16.640 he hears a weird noise like a big stick flipping 372 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:20.000 through tree branches. He could hear something, but like something 373 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:24.480 hitting branches wailing through there, right, he said, from his right, 374 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.000 all of a sudden, about twenty five thirty feet in 375 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:29.279 front of him, that tree that he had cut the 376 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.559 day before came flying out like a spear. He said. 377 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.519 It just bum and stuck just on the opposite side 378 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.000 of his little trail. And at this point he's in 379 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.279 a pretty narrow cutway through from a trail, a snow 380 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.559 machine trail, right, so he said, it was probably about 381 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:47.839 fifteen feet wide of clearing it going through there, just 382 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:50.559 seeing dug into the snow and then sat there and 383 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:54.319 then claps down because quite enough snow to keep it upright, 384 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:56.880 but it had impacted in the snow, and then slowly 385 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:01.920 sunk down in essence blocking his trail momentarily anyway, because 386 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.039 believe me, you turn into Carl Lewis and hurdles and 387 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.599 would be nothing at that point with your gentleman dumb. 388 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:10.880 So he's looking in the direction it came and he 389 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.400 hears that grumble again. He feel it in his guts, 390 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:17.559 he said, and he started yelling, hey, I'm leaving, stop 391 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.119 following me. It's the only thing he could think to say, 392 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.519 and trying to reason with this thing. And he doesn't 393 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:25.039 even know what it is, right, he said. When he 394 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.400 got up to where the tree was and stepped on 395 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:32.839 it and stepped over it, he heard thrashing and crashing 396 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.039 going away from him. Back in the direction where he 397 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.240 had left his chainsaw on a snumb machine. He said, 398 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.279 as soon as he cleared that it was gone, it 399 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.559 was moving, so of course, it startled the shit out 400 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:45.920 of him to hear that much commotion. He said, he 401 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.559