WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.960 Now one of your putting. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.040 on here. Something just kids, my dog. Something killed your dog, 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:08.880 my dog. We're flying through the or over the tree. 4 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.400 I don't know how it did it, Okay, damn, and 5 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:15.880 I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:17.760 over the fence and me was dead once you hit 7 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:19.600 the ground, like. I didn't see any cars. All I 8 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:38.240 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Say, what 9 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.920 are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling 10 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:51.520 around out here? Did you see what it was? 11 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:51.880 It was? 12 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.159 It was staying enough. I'm out here looking through the 13 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:56.039 window now and I don't see anything. I don't want 14 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:03.799 to go outside. Jesus, quiet you better or hello? Hit 15 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.040 the boddy out here? What went on out there? I 16 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.760 thought of a bit of about sixty nine. I don't 17 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:10.079 know him out there. 18 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.599 Yeah right, Oh, Readings is Fred and Alaska. 19 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:14.359 Thanks for joining me. 20 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.280 What I wanted to share with you today comes from Edwin. 21 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.760 Edwin had originally come up about a decade ago, and 22 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:22.760 he was working a cannery, and then he worked a 23 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.120 fishing boat. He worked his way around in the industry. 24 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:28.519 He ended up in my neck of the woods back 25 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.319 over in Dillingham. He was working for Peter Pan and Seafoods. 26 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.640 This was approximately four years ago, the year before the 27 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:39.239 COVID crap, So four or five years ago. Edwin along 28 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.760 with a couple of Filipino canry workers that he worked with. 29 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.680 One of them had a car that he was borrowing 30 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.439 from another friend or what have you. So they decided 31 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.159 they're gonna take a trip out and see what you 32 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.359 know Alaska is about. So even though Edwin had been 33 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.000 around the industry, he was always out in the water 34 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.519 or stuck in a canary. So having the tunity to 35 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:02.519 go somewhere like Snake Lake, they were all over it. 36 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.959 So from what Edwin said, which there's a little bit 37 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.960 of a language barrier, he was from Poland. His real 38 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.280 name isn't Edwin. I can't pronounce it. It's above my 39 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.080 pay grade. So what ends up happening to him and 40 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.639 his Filipino friends. They jet out up to Snake Lake Road. 41 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.400 They passed China Cap he said, they stopped at those 42 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.919 gravel pits. They're on the right hand side as you're 43 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.080 going back up in there, he said. When they got 44 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.199 up on the mountain, they stopped to overlook the vast 45 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:31.639 valley and just the beauty of it. And he said 46 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.159 one of the Filipino guys he had a pistol. So 47 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:35.919 what they decided they were going to do is try 48 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.759 to shoot a pond is probably two miles away. They 49 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.280 were just dicking around with a pistol and busting shots, 50 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.120 and of course they're not hitting anything because it just 51 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:44.879 sheer distance. 52 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.360 They weren't going to hit nothing. But after they were. 53 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.439 Done dumping some mags, Edwin said that they heard a 54 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:56.080 weird shrill, like a child screaming. It gives me the chills, 55 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.039 is thinking about behind them, up above them. He said 56 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.280 he wasn't sure how far, but it sounded real close 57 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.560 because it sounded like the kid was standing behind them, 58 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:06.879 shrieking squeal kind of a It shocked all of them. 59 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.879 They turned around. They were like, oh, we didn't even 60 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.120 know kid was there. They thought they startled a kid 61 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.000 by firing, so they were turning around to say sorry 62 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:14.520 or whatever. 63 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.240 Nothing was there. Edwin said. 64 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.240 One of the Filipino guys start pointing up in the 65 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.759 woods and started saying something in his home tongue, and 66 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:23.520 he couldn't make up what he say he was telling 67 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.560 him because the guy was getting real worked up, and 68 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.719 finally Edwin said he calmed him down enough to figure 69 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.039 out he was saying, they're the monster up there, right. 70 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:34.680 They were thinking, oh, bear, Oh, this monster is a bear. 71 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.639 Edwin thought it would be a good idea if he 72 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:41.719 walked up a little ways to flesh it out, because 73 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:43.360 the other guy didn't see it and wanted to see 74 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.759 the bear. One guy that initially saw this thing was like, no, 75 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.919 let's go, Let's get in the Carlos go. Because he 76 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:54.719 wasn't explaining to them what had happened. Edwin, for whatever reason, 77 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.439 he took the pistol, reloaded it, figured, Okay, I'm gonna 78 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.879 scare the bear out. My buddy will get a look 79 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:02.599 at it, we'll get out of here. He wasn't scared 80 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.879 of bears, teaches on. I'm not scared of bears. I'd 81 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.960 just rather be prepared for him with something better than 82 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:09.159 a nine milimeters pistol. 83 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:10.960 But anyway, teaches on. 84 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.439 So he goes up in there and he's got the 85 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.479 pistol and he's going to do all the alders and 86 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.480 stuff in the willows, and he's not making any headway. Man. 87 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:20.160 He said that he got in there and it was 88 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.639 a tangle. It was just try to push through like 89 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:26.279 a humongous, very strong spider web, and so he backed out, 90 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:28.519 tried to go up a little further and try to 91 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.279 make a way through one of the game trails, but 92 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.160 he would ended up down on his knees and was like, 93 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.839 screw this. He felt very vulnerable, so he backs up. 94 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.480 He comes back down the hill and his friends are 95 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.279 in the car. The one guy was started blaring on 96 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:43.000 the horn because they didn't see him come down to 97 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.079 the backside of the car, and he banged on the 98 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.319 trunk to get him to stop honking the horn, and 99 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.319 they turn around and startled, and it was shocked, and 100 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.800 He's like they were yelling, get in I'm not laughing 101 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.680 at the guy. I'm just mentally picturing these two freaked 102 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.600 out dudes in the car saying get the hell in here, 103 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.600 and Edwin's oblivi to what they're doing. He figured, oh, 104 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.759 they must saw the bear. So he's not actually listening 105 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.879 to these guys, which he later regrets. He walks in 106 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:09.639 front of the car a little ways and is looking 107 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.600 up the hill. What he didn't realize is this thing 108 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:14.720 had come down the hill, crossed in front of these 109 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.600 two guys within twenty five feet and just dropped barely 110 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:20.839 down off this side of the road. So he's looking 111 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:24.399 up and he's basically walking up and turning his back 112 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.680 at the very spot where this thing just went down 113 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:31.920 over their rise right, and so horn blaring again, and 114 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.120 he's holding the pistol still, and he's looking back. He's 115 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.839 telling him to stop. He's trying to get a look, 116 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.319 and he wants to see this bear, and he figured 117 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.240 it had to be big if they're scared, and for 118 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.759 whatever reason edwin it didn't FaZe him. For whatever reason, 119 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.480 he still doesn't understand it. So he walks a little 120 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.199 further to see if there's a trail up better than 121 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:53.000 the one he had just tried. And again he freely 122 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.920 admits he was making one mistake after another. So he 123 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:01.079 sees the spot and then he notices where there's a footstep, 124 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.240 and then he notices he looks down, he sees another footstep, 125 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.040 and so he's like, oh, and he looks at it 126 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.600 and he looks like a big human footprint. And as 127 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.720 he's looking down at it, that shrieked, shrill, childlike screen 128 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.279 came from right behind him. It startled the crap out 129 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.759 him so much he dropped the gun out of just shock. 130 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.120 Dropped gun, turns around and only sees just the top 131 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.720 of the head and the eyes from about right here, 132 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:32.720 just off the road down going down, because it's the 133 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.439 spot they were at, was just before it dropped into 134 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.079 the sheer drop offs, a little further up on Snake 135 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.560 Lake Road. And so this thing is down looking up 136 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.680 at him, and he's looking across at it, and he's 137 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.959 maybe fifteen feet away. 138 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:47.160 He said. 139 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.360 The top of the head looked very round, and the 140 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.079 eyes looked almost too small for its head, but in context, 141 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.360 the head was huge and the eyes were beady and 142 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.639 pitch black. He saw it blank, and he's trying to 143 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.639 figure out what the hell he's seeing because it's not 144 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.759 a bear, and it's still making these weird but cooling 145 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.519 noise and the different types of sounds he ain't never 146 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.040 heard before. It didn't relate to any animal he could 147 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.079 pick out, just strange whistles and all sorts of stuff. 148 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.040 Edwin said, as he's staring, horn starts blaring again, and 149 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.279 that's what snapped him out of his staring, and he 150 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.360 looks over is they're literally crawling out of their skin 151 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:28.639 trying to get Edwin get the hell back in that car. 152 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.480 Edwin reaches down and as soon as he's grabbing the pistol, 153 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.279 he feels dump and this thing is less than four 154 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:38.879 feet away, because when he looks back, he sees it 155 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.800 and he looks up. Edwin is six foot two, he 156 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.360 said he had to look up at it, and he's 157 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.160 guessing it had to have been between ten and eleven 158 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:52.800 foot tall. He said the head was very big and round, 159 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.720 the jaw was very wide set, black hair, very greasy, 160 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.480 almost pitch black skin, but it looked great because of 161 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.199 the greasy kind of complexion to it. Beat the eyes, 162 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.639 he couldn't make out any ears, and he's in a 163 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:10.759 compromised position. He's bent over to grab this pistol. The 164 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:14.319 Filipinos in the car lost, they have lost it. They 165 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.399 are both in the back seat, hunkered down low. They 166 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.360 want no parts of this. Right the horn blaring had stopped. 167 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.879 Edwin said that part of him wanted to grab the 168 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.800 pistol and tell it to get back, and the other 169 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.600 part of him, he sensed that he was in serious 170 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.240 danger if he did so. He just turned around and 171 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.080 faced it, not looking in his eye. He was trying 172 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:39.799 to examine it. He said the torso was abnormally longer 173 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.159 than the legs. It seemed like the legs didn't match 174 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.159 what should be there for torso. The black hair and 175 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.000 everything obscured everything. He had twigs and stuff in the hair, 176 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.519 and he said the smell was putrid, like dead meat 177 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.279 with a heavy body odor and urine smell, very heavy, 178 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:58.799 he says, very pungent. He said the clothes he was wearing. 179 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:00.720 It didn't touch him anything, but he was about four 180 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.639 feet away. The clothes he was wearing stunk like that 181 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.519 even after washing, so it had to been pretty futrid 182 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.720 for that kind of a holdover as far as the smell, 183 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:11.919 so he doesn't know what to do. He's standing there 184 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.440 and he's not wanting to make eye contact, but the 185 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.519 thing isn't moving. It's breathing heavy. 186 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:17.480 He said. 187 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:20.200 He was making a gurgling sound as it breathed. It 188 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.480 really struck him to his core. He said that he 189 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.960 was having an odd out of body experience, but all 190 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.519 he could see in his out of body experience was 191 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:36.279 looking down over his shoulders, basically just above himself. Still 192 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:38.240 wasn't looking to sing in the eye, which is what 193 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.240 do you do with that? He said, he was so scared. 194 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.960 He felt like he was having heart palpitations or whatever. 195 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:45.879 He thought he's going to have a heart attack. 196 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:51.240 He was healthy, young guy, mid thirties, strong, active, worked 197 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.679 hard his whole life, so he never had a heart problem. 198 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.120 But he was so panic stricken and worked up. And 199 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.039 he said, as he's standing there, he said no. He 200 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:04.240 screamed no, and it startled, this creature, and it took 201 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:08.200 a half step back, turned and walked about ten feet away, 202 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.120 and then turned back around and squatted down off the 203 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.519 side of the road. When it came up, he initially 204 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.799 turned towards it and then his out of body thing. 205 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.960 And then as he starts yelling no, he's turning himself, 206 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.799 and this thing turned and walked over into his field 207 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.919 of view, turned and squatted down and was looking right 208 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:29.200 back at him. He said it was very inquisitive looking. 209 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.919 And then at that point, because it was further away, 210 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.279 he decided to grab the pistol from the ground. He 211 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.039 grabbed the pistol and he held it, and he said, 212 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.559 the thing just looked at him. Was just kind of 213 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.000 the expression in his face changed. I went from curious 214 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.840 to okay, what now. This is a feeling he got. 215 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:54.519 Then Edwin said, as soon as he felt confident holding 216 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.600 the pistol, he lost it. He lost all confidence and 217 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.360 dropped the guy. He said, he doesn't know what came 218 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.000 over him, but he felt that if he continued to 219 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.919 hold that pistol, he was dead. Once he dropped the gun, 220 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.840 he bent down and sat Indian style and was looking 221 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.320 back at this thing that was squatted down like fifteen 222 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.360 feet away, and he said it was massive. He was 223 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.120 taking in its size because once he sat Indian style 224 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.919 and this thing was squatted down, he could see its girth, 225 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.240 its mass, and even though it seemed skinny, when it 226 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.720 was standing up, he said, you could see every muscle, 227 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.440 ripple everything. He said, it's hand, the thumb was offset 228 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.919 further this way. And this thing started not pawing at 229 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.360 the ground but reaching on the ground and doing something right. 230 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.159 And he couldn't make out what it was doing, but 231 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.360 it was doing something specific to it. He couldn't tell 232 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:45.039 if it was trying to write something on the ground. 233 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.399 He couldn't tell if it was just like we doodle 234 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.840 on paper or something. He couldn't figure it out. Because 235 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.000 this thing stopped paying attention to him and was doing 236 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.600 that thing on the ground, and he said, as it 237 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:58.440 was doing that, he was trying to figure out what 238 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.480 the hell. And then that's when he snapped out of 239 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.200 it again because his Filipino friends in the car. The 240 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.679 car started and the horn blared with the car starting 241 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:10.639 and the horn in unison because Edwin turned around and 242 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.960 the cars coming at him right so he didn't watch 243 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:16.639 this thing. He didn't watch the creature, but he turned 244 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.960 around and basically eased up onto the hood as his 245 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:21.879 friends came at him, and then as soon as he 246 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.759 was on the hood, they gunned it. And this thing 247 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:25.799 is as he looked back, he could already see it 248 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.799 going over the edge of the road and dropping down 249 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.840 off the side. They went down a little ways and 250 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.120 Edwin was banging him up because he was sliding off. 251 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.120 He wasn't going to last much longer. They stop, He 252 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.320 got off and he ran back to where he had 253 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.720 dropped the gun. They're backing up. They're doing a twenty 254 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.480 five point turnaround, which on that road is just absurd. 255 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.159 If you're curious, what kind of car is an old 256 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.480 Chevrolet Chavette little ford or he said it was an 257 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.559 early eighties model or something like that, eighty two or 258 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.080 eighty three. But anyway, so he runs back and grabs 259 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.720 the pistol. The pistol had been run over. It wasn't compromise, 260 00:12:58.840 --> 00:12:59.559 it wasn't. 261 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.200 Broke, say, but it was a bit out of operation. 262 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:04.519 And so he's got it. 263 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.639 He's trying to work the action and when he jumped 264 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.840 up on the hood, they end up running over the pistol. 265 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:11.879 And so what that did was packed a bunch of 266 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.320 dirt in between the slide and the frame, and so 267 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.879 it's a lot of extra friction. And so finally he 268 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.919 gets it, pops the round out of it, and took 269 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:23.639 the magazine out. The bottom plate of the magazine was 270 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.559 torn off a little bit, but it was still functional, 271 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.039 and he's working the slide to get the dirt out 272 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.000 of it and stuff. Puts the magazine back in, and 273 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.720 as he goes to racket, the base plate of the 274 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.080 mag let go and all of it just fell out 275 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.919 the bottom. So he had one round in this nine millimeter. 276 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:45.320 His friends are behind him still doing this twenty point 277 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.399 turnaround right and they're yelling out the window out of 278 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.200 all sorts of curse words and idiot, what are you 279 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.879 doing all this kind of stuff? And so he said, 280 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.960 as he's standing there just trying to take in everything 281 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.679 that just happened, because he said it was so surreal. 282 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.000 He could not believe that this was actually happening. And 283 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.559 he said, as he was working the action, because at 284 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.440 this point it was just like a nervous tick, He's 285 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.039 just working hell out of that action. As he's doing so, 286 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.000 he had emptied the round. The round was on the ground, 287 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:15.039 the other bullets were on the ground, and he was 288 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.120 just basically in shock working this action. 289 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.080 And I asked him, I was like, how long were 290 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.840 you like that? What drew you out of it? Did 291 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:21.840 they come back up in the car? 292 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:25.320 So he goes, no, what had happened is as he's 293 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.200 facing off that edge basically where he initially sought, just 294 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.480 its head and its eyes, he was basically at the 295 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:35.679 same spot, maybe a little further away, and he's just 296 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.879 working that action. And as he's doing so, he said, 297 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.559 this thing was right back almost at the same spot, 298 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.320 looking at him from the same kind of point of view, right, 299 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.039 and so he froze, And as he froze, he said, 300 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:51.720 he felt the bumper of the car bump into his 301 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.519 leg and that's what snapped him out of it. 302 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:55.480 And the guys are looking at when it was get in. 303 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.679 The guy on the passenger side, he crawled into the 304 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.080 back and he was pointing off the edge, and of 305 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.879 course Edwin was still looking at this thing, so he understood. 306 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.720 He jumps in, and as they take off back down 307 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:08.919 the road, Edwin's trying to look back and get a glance. 308 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.320 This thing came back up onto the road and then 309 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.519 went right up the mountain, just right on up. 310 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.919 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll 311 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:24.440 be right back after these messages, he said. 312 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:27.480 The initial alders and willis he tried to crawl through 313 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.639 were a maze of holy shit trying to get through there. 314 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.320 He said, this thing just went like it was nothing, 315 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.960 just right on up the mountain and disappeared out of you. 316 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.039 Because of the vantage point on the road and the 317 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.639 turns and stuff, they ended up getting a flat tire 318 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.000 because once they got back down by the gravel pit area, 319 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.519 the guy driving got a little squirrely and the old 320 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.799 tires on there once it kicked sideways, that popped one 321 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.519 of the rear tires. They did not care, not even 322 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:56.000 a little bit. They continued on down with the flat tire, 323 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.159 and all they got to China Cap, which we called 324 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.080 um up the mountain, which and I'll leave that alone anyway. 325 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.240 So they get down to China Cap only because it's 326 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:10.240 shaped like an old Chinese type style hat. So when 327 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.279 they get there, they stop and they're taking a breather, 328 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.200 and they start talking to each other, what the hell, 329 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:17.320 why were you doing that? And Edwin didn't have an answer. 330 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:21.399 But he doesn't know why he was possessed to not flee. 331 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.440 He said it was the weirdest thing. He said, it 332 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.480 almost felt like this thing was drawing him in to 333 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.519 its curiosity, not Edwin's, and asked him, can you flesh 334 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.399 that out a little bit? Can you explain that a 335 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:34.759 little better? And he didn't have an explanation. He said, 336 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.759 he just had the feeling that this thing was drawing 337 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.799 him into this thing's curiosity. When it went and sat 338 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.440 squatted down, he said, he had the strangest feeling like 339 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.679 it was trying to tell him something. But he's freaked out. 340 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.919 He's worried about pistol grabbing the gun. All the stuff 341 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:53.840 is happening. He was expecting it to be a bear, 342 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.039 and so it was just a conundrum. And he said, 343 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.240 but to this day, four or five years later, to 344 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:01.840 this day, he feels like this thing was trying to 345 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:05.440 communicate something to him on the ground, right, he said, 346 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.839 the way it was very It wasn't random just swirling 347 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.319 around of the hand. It was like it was doing 348 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.599 something with its hand. Whether it was writing with its 349 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.119 hand or trying to draw something. 350 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:17.599 He didn't know. 351 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:20.599 Because there's this monster in front of him and this 352 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:21.720 weird shit's happening. 353 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.559 What do you do with that? So his mind wasn't 354 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:27.920 on everything this creature was doing. It was just happening. 355 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.000 And to this day, he said, he still thinks that 356 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.680 this thing was trying to communicate something. He asked me 357 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.200 if I would go back there and check their I 358 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:37.839 was like, I'm gonna be there at some point, but 359 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.880 I don't know a boy that it's gonna be hard 360 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:41.960 enough to film in the woods back home. But I 361 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.200 want to thank Edwin for sharing. He'll be back to 362 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.559 Alaska next year doing some more fisheries work or canary work, 363 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.079 whichever it may be. Edwin had a message for everyone, 364 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.880 don't assume they're out to hurt you immediately. They could 365 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.240 be trying to communicate with you and you just don't 366 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.839 recognize their form of communication. So that's fair me personally, 367 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:05.039 I'm biased, so I'll just leave that alone. 368 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:06.480 But teach his own. 369 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:09.279 He says he feels he really missed out on something 370 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.240 that could have been groundbreaking because of what was going 371 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.519 on and everything and them starting up the car and 372 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.519 coming at him. One of his comments was, Dillingham's a 373 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.759 hell of a place. I can't agree more. Dillingham is 374 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.559 one hell of a place outside of the small town 375 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.319 village that you get with the social ILKs in general. 376 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:32.319 It's a beautiful place and it's definitely different. I wanted 377 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.599 to share with you today. Is a small family and 378 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:39.039 Dealingham just a few years back. We'll name him Keith 379 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.880 and Danielle. Keith and Danielle have their two daughters and 380 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.519 their son. Their oldest daughter at the time was twelve, 381 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:47.880 the next daughter was like nine. 382 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:49.039 And the little boy was five. 383 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.519 So what they did was is that they had a 384 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.759 subsistence site for king salmon on the Lusk River where 385 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:56.920 they had they're sitting at side at they weren't getting 386 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:58.440 king salmon that they wanted. 387 00:18:58.839 --> 00:18:59.480 They got a few. 388 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.039 Keith it talk to a relative of his who had 389 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.400 a setet site on the Wood River side. And if 390 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.519 you look at the map, becomes in the Nushigak Bay 391 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.519 goy Dillingham. Then the Nushigak branches off to your it 392 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.160 would be the right and then the Wood River cuts 393 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:13.039 up to Electing Gig. 394 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.799 So his plan was to take the wife and family 395 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:18.240 go get his king net. 396 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.920 He brought his red gear for subsistence and basically it's 397 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:26.079 just different shackle size for the smaller salmon gill net anyway, 398 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.319 so they get out there, they pull his gear, they 399 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.839 stack it up, and everyone uses a sign saying it's 400 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.359 basically for fishing game and whoever else this is set 401 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:39.599