WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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We got some wonder or something 33 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:58.640 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? 34 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.359 It was enough here. Look, I'm new to window now 35 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:08.840 and I don't need anything. I don't want to go outside. Hello, 36 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.759 hit the boddy out here? What quent on out there? 37 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.520 It's thought of a bench about text nine? I don't 38 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.280 know easy amount there. Yeah, I'm walking right, heady. 39 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.800 Strange encounters with mysterious beasts in Alaska. The vast and 40 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.039 untamed wilderness of Alaska is a place of breath taking 41 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:31.520 natural beauty. A land of towering mountains, sprawling tundras, and 42 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:37.280 dense forests. Sparsely populated and largely untouched. This frigid expanse 43 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.520 is home to more than just its rugged landscapes and wildlife. 44 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.280 According to numerous reports, it also harbors creatures of a 45 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:48.159 more mysterious nature. While the legend of Bigfoot's presence in 46 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:52.000 Alaska is well known, other bizarre entities have been spotted 47 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.199 lurking in its remote reaches. This is a collection of 48 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.759 some of the most perplexing Alaska encryptid encounters. One particularly 49 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.680 ear Every category of sightings involved strange entities resembling what 50 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.319 can only be described as dog men. These creatures have 51 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.800 been reported in the far northern wilderness, including an encounter 52 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.719 shared by a witness named Melissa H. On The dog 53 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.439 Man Encounter's website. She recounts a chilling experience in Mattanouska 54 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.560 Valley County, Alaska, while driving home from work in the 55 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.240 early morning hours. Her route took her through the isolated 56 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.520 northern stretch of Trunk Road between Palmer and Wassilla, nearly 57 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:33.159 one hundred miles of icy, desolate wilderness where one could 58 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:37.039 drive all night without seeing another vehicle. It was around 59 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.120 two am on a cold October night in nineteen ninety eight, 60 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.719 and Melissa was cautiously navigating the icy roads about ten 61 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.840 minutes from home. Her headlights illuminated a massive, dark figure ahead. 62 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.199 Initially mistaking it for a moose, she slowed down, only 63 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.719 to realize it was standing on two legs, too slim 64 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.240 to be a bear. It had spikes running down its 65 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.840 neck and back. She describes the moment in chilling detail. 66 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.400 I could clearly see its wolfish muzzle, large upright ears. 67 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.759 The spikes on its back were in fact clumps of fur. 68 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.879 Its spine curved in a smooth, very natural looking way. 69 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.240 It was standing in the ditch inches from the pavement. 70 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:21.480 Because I was focused on its upper body, I do 71 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.240 not recall anything about its back legs or if it 72 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.160 had a tail. I did see its front legs, though 73 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.839 very doggy looking, hanging awkwardly down and slightly toward its front, 74 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.000 exactly as you'd expect if a dog stood upright. While 75 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.720 it clearly had a canine look, there was still something 76 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.800 off about it that I cannot articulate. It was perfectly still, 77 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.480 and at this point, given the proximity to Halloween, I 78 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.240 was quite convinced it was some sort of Halloween prop 79 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.480 Because it was clearly not any kind of existing animal. 80 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.800 I was deeply impressed, and gently stepped on the brakes, 81 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.519 intending to stop and examine it closely. Then it turned 82 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.399 its head to towards me. In the tiny fraction of 83 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:04.639 a second that it took for it to swivel its head, 84 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:08.160 I knew I had made a terrible mistake. The fluidness 85 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.759 of its movement removed any in all doubt that this 86 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:15.240 was some kind of prop It was horribly, terrifyingly alive. 87 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.560 The pale, off white glow of its eye shine in 88 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:22.439 the headlights destroyed any possibility of a human in a costume. 89 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.120 I think I sat there, gaping at it and shocked 90 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.160 for a few seconds. The car barely moving by now, 91 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.959 but still inching closer as I was almost upon it. 92 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.040 I think it could have leaned forward and touched the 93 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:36.399 car if it had wanted. I had to look up 94 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.000 to see its face. Again. I'm a bad judge of 95 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.399 such things, but I am five four, and it was 96 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.040 a hell of a lot taller than me, tall like 97 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:48.879 a polar bear, standing seven feet eight. I really can't say. 98 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.920 I snapped out of my trance and slammed on the gas. 99 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:55.120 The car fish tailed, and I prepared myself for death 100 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.519 by monster as I was certain I'd end up in 101 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.199 the ditch, but the tires caught the pavement and I 102 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.279 drove like a complete maniac all the way home. I 103 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.560 did not look back. This was no ordinary Bigfoot sighting. 104 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.759 What then did Melissa encounter that night on the lonely 105 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.000 frozen road. Could this have been one of the infamous 106 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:18.079 dogmen reported around the world. Was it some kind of werewolf, 107 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.560 a supernatural entity, or simply a figment of an over 108 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.519 active imagination. No one knows for sure, but it remains 109 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:30.800 a terrifying tale. Another Alaskan mystery creature, similar to Bigfoot, 110 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.959 but seemingly unique in its own right, has been reported 111 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.399 in the southwest region near Lake Iliamna. Known by various names, 112 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.240 the aru Latac bushman, big Man, tent monster, Nantina, or 113 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.639 most commonly, the Uruyuli, meaning hairy man, this beast is 114 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.360 said to resemble the classic Bigfoot, but with distinct differences. 115 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:56.560 Described as standing between seven and fourteen feet tall, the 116 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.560 Uruyuli is covered in shaggy hair, often appearing more ape 117 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.600 like than human. However, its most striking feature is its 118 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:10.079 disproportionately long arms, which extend down to its ankles, its eyes, 119 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.279 are said to glow red in the darkness, highly adept 120 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:16.319 at swimming. This creature has been blamed for livestock and 121 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:22.399 pet disappearances, campsite raids, and fish thefts. Alleged tracks attributed 122 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.040 to the Uruuli have been found near bodies of water, 123 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.439 and in nineteen eighty two, a hunting guide even captured 124 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.439 a supposed photograph of one standing on a mountain ridge 125 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.399 near Dillingham. Could the uraulely be a variant of Bigfoot 126 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.680 or is it something entirely different. Alaska is also home 127 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.600 to its share of aquatic cryptids. One of the most 128 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.319 famous is a mysterious sea creature said to inhabit the 129 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.920 waters around Kodiak Island. The first well documented modern siding 130 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.079 took place in April nineteen sixty nine, when the shrimp 131 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.720 boat my Lark detected an unusual sonar reading at a 132 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.000 depth of over three hundred feet. The crew was shot 133 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.040 to see what appeared to be the outline of an 134 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.839 enormous dinosaur like beast with fins and a long neck 135 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:10.000 resting on the seafloor. Although the creature remained motionless, the 136 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.839 sonar image was captured and skipper chet Peterson estimated its 137 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.680 length to be around two hundred feet. The image made 138 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:22.000 front page news in the Kodiak Daily Mirror. Another sighting 139 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.439 occurred in the summer of nineteen seventy one, when a 140 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.199 fishing crew spotted a bizarre thirty foot long marine animal 141 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.439 with a horse like head. One of the crew members 142 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:34.480 fired a rifle at it, causing the creature to submerge 143 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.840 and swim directly beneath their boat before resurfacing on the 144 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.200 other side. Eddie Pokinen, one of the crew members, described 145 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.759 the encounter. We don't know what it was, but it 146 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:47.240 had a grayish color and we couldn't see any fins 147 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.200 or any tail, and it never made any noise. It 148 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.320 would just come up and you could see the head 149 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.200 and part of the body. According to witnesses, the creature 150 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.720 appeared near shore at around two pm for several consecutive days, 151 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.200 and it was even photographed, with the image later appearing 152 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.919 in a Whanie magazine. A more recent sighting occurred in 153 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.799 two thousand and two, when a fishing skiff in Uganic 154 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.399 Bay spotted an unknown creature surfacing in the early morning 155 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:17.879 hours despite the dim light. Crew member Tolef Monson describe 156 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:21.159 what they saw there's this neck and head. And it 157 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.879 wasn't like your hands around the neck big. It was 158 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.000 like your arms around the neck big. I saw it 159 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.240 do its movements, but I couldn't tell you if the 160 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.320 neck was a foot in diameter or three feet in diameter. 161 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.240 It was all darkish, but I was paying attention to 162 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.960 driving the skiff. It didn't really focus on us. It 163 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.360 didn't look at us, it didn't make eye contact. No, 164 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:47.399 and whatever it was didn't stick around. In a few seconds, 165 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.559 it was gone back under the water. I mean, we 166 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.879 were so tired that it was like, did I just 167 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:57.240 see that? Did we just see that? Monson had another 168 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.759 unsettling encounter the following summer, when something rammed into their 169 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:04.200 boat from below on a calm day. The impact was 170 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.480 powerful enough to nearly throw him overboard, and he insisted 171 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.679 that no whales were present in the area. He remarked, 172 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.200 it was big, like a log hitting the skiff. But 173 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:17.120 nothing goes dong and lurches this big old skiff like that. 174 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.600 I don't know what that was either was this the 175 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.159 same sea creature or an entirely different beast. Whatever the case, 176 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.279 Alaska remains a land of mystery. Its vast wilderness and 177 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:34.840 deep waters, continuing to hide secrets that defy explanation. Tony 178 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.720 William's two day ordeal in the wilderness after falling into Lochlamarcher, 179 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:41.960 a man who spent two days stranded on an island 180 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.360 after his canoe capsized, claims he had a chilling encounter 181 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.639 with a mythical being in the Tleicho region of the 182 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.120 Northwest Territories. He's far from the first to report such 183 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.120 an experience. On July seventeenth, forty two year old Tony 184 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:59.440 William was traveling by boat from Wati to the northernmost 185 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.440 tip of lfe Acklamartre when he noticed something floating in 186 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.960 the water, a plastic bag drifting along the waves. Steering 187 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.159 his boat closer. He prepared to retrieve it. Just as 188 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:13.840 he reached in, a wave struck, throwing him overboard into 189 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:17.600 the freezing lake. Weighed down by his soaked clothes, he 190 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:20.559 struggled to climb back into the boat, but found himself 191 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.720 being pulled downward. Grasping a plastic bag of supplies, he 192 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.799 began the long, exhausting swim to shore. I managed to 193 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:30.720 swim to an island at the end of the point. 194 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.000 William recounted from his yellow Knife hospital bed last week 195 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:37.919 in an interview with CBC and TLITCHO. That's when he 196 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.399 encountered something he never expected, the bushman. All of a sudden, 197 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.039 there was a big man standing beside me, he recalled. 198 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.080 The figure soon disappeared, vanishing into the trees, with the 199 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:53.440 sound of snapping branches marking its departure. William quickly gathered 200 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.559 his soaked clothes, packed them into a white bag, and 201 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.399 prepared to leave the island. After swimming away, he endured 202 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.159 another forty eight hours alone in the wilderness before being 203 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.559 rescued by the RCMP and the Canadian military. Once safe, 204 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.919 he eagerly shared his story, telling anyone who would listen 205 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.080 about his encounter with the bushmen. For many in the 206 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.840 Tlecho region, the existence of bushmen, known in the Tlecho 207 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:23.240 language as nago, is an undeniable reality passed down through generations. 208 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.519 These mysterious human like entities are said to have roamed 209 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.960 the land for thousands of years, feared for their ability 210 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.080 to abduct people from bush camps. Clecho columnist John B. 211 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.720 Zoe described the terrifying nature of nago in a twenty 212 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:43.240 ten issue of NWT News North generally they are silent, 213 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.039 and for the unfortunate few who have seen them, these 214 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.440 symptoms can be experienced. The back of the neck will tingle, 215 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:54.039 skin will break into goose bumps, unstoppable shivers, the heart 216 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:59.279 beats faster, accompanied by shortness of breath, Zoey wrote Clecho 217 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.440 elder Mischee till Lewis Rebesca first heard about Nago as 218 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.120 a young boy while living in the bush with his parents. 219 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.200 I got the story from my grandma because my grandma 220 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.559 lived in the bush all the time, he said. According 221 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.159 to Rebesca, Nago and the Tlecho people have coexisted in 222 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.120 the same region since time immemorial. These beings resemble humans, 223 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.679 even wearing modern clothing, but possess powerful magic. They are 224 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.440 said to lure people in and abduct them, never to 225 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.000 be seen again. There are even stories of Nago stealing 226 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.799 entire moose and caribou carcasses. One of the most chilling 227 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.919 accounts Rebesca heard as a child was about a relative 228 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:42.960 who encountered Nago and mysteriously vanished. In that particular tale, 229 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.919 Nago appeared suddenly on an island. They used medicine power 230 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.879 to push him into the shore. They did it. They 231 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:53.879 took him. Rebesca recalled, so we never seen him, never 232 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.600 heard him again. Some people heard him talking, screaming help, 233 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:02.120 but nobody can do nothing. Nearly a century later, Rebesca 234 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.080 had his own unsettling encounter with Nago. It happened decades ago. 235 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.799 As he was driving toward the frank channel bridge between 236 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.480 Ray and Edzo early one morning, a man was standing 237 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.639 in the middle of the narrow bridge. Rebesca slowed down 238 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.360 as he approached, but before he could react, the man 239 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.480 suddenly leapt over the side. Alarmed, Rebesca rushed out of 240 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.840 his vehicle and ran to the edge, expecting to see 241 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.519 the man in the water below. But there was nothing. 242 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.039 I didn't see him. I don't know what happened to him. 243 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:34.840 Rebesca has spent years collecting and passing down stories of 244 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:39.039 Nago to future generations. He believes that as development pushes 245 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.759 deeper into the wilderness, encounters with the bushmen will only 246 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:46.960 become more frequent. A terrifying encounter on a logging road, 247 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.679 a hunter comes face to face with a Sasquatch. A 248 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.919 witness and his family were out bear hunting on a 249 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.519 remote logging road when they had an encounter that would 250 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:00.600 forever change their perception of the wilderness. Tune for more 251 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:01.639 sasquatch ott to see. 252 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:02.559 We'll be right back. 253 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:10.120 After these messages, at approximately nine thirty PM, as they 254 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.120 drove past a power line cut line, they noticed what 255 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.559 appeared to be the rear end of a bear disappearing 256 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.080 into the left hand side of the clearing. Curious, the 257 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.080 witness exited the vehicle and walked about fifty yards down 258 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.200 the cut line to the spot where the animal had 259 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.559 entered the dense brush. As he arrived, something unexpected happened 260 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.639 on the right hand side of the cut line. Opposite 261 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.080 to where the creature had entered. Several poplar trees, each 262 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.639 about six to eight inches in diameter, suddenly began shaking violently. 263 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.399 Describing it as an explosion of movement in the brush, 264 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.840 the witness was stunned as two enormous hands emerged from 265 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.840 the trees, parting the branches. The fingers, he estimated were 266 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.320 nearly the diameter of a red bull can and as 267 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:57.399 long as his entire hand. Despite standing on higher ground, 268 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.480 the witness found himself face to face with an unknown creature, 269 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.360 one he could only describe as a sasquatch. From his 270 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.000 vantage point, he had a clear view of its forehead 271 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.639 and nose, though its mouth remained obscured by the thick vegetation. 272 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.000 The creature's head was massive, roughly the width of a basketball. 273 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.799 Its eyes, the size of golf balls, were deep set 274 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.320 beneath a pronounced brow ridge, and had a dark brown 275 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.120 hue with no visible whites except for a faint purplish 276 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.559 tinge in the area where the whites would typically be. 277 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.559 The forehead was broad with sparse hair, while the nose 278 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.759 was flat with nostrils the size of two thumbs placed 279 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.600 side by side. The hair covering its body appeared matted, 280 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:44.320 and the witness even noticed eyelashes on its eyelids. Startled, 281 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.360 the witness instinctively raised his rifle toward the creature. At 282 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.480 that moment. It immediately retreated into the dense forest, moving 283 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:56.759 twenty to forty yards away. Meanwhile, his wife, who remained 284 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.080 in the truck with their children, had been flashing the 285 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.399 vehicle's headlights signaling him to return. Although she had not 286 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.079 seen the creature in detail, she could make out its 287 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.839 hunched silhouette in the brush, estimating that it was crouched 288 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.799 approximately three feet below its full height. She could also 289 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.319 see it shifting and moving throughout the encounter. As the 290 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:20.599 witness made his way back to the truck, something unsettling occurred. 291 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.559 Every second step he took the trees just fifteen yards 292 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.799 into the tree line beside him shook in response, as 293 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.599 if something was following his movements. Upon reaching the vehicle 294 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:36.559 and getting inside, the eerie experience escalated. Almost immediately. The 295 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.799 family heard a deep, resonant woo sound echo through the forest, 296 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.799 repeating several times. Moments later, a loud bang resounded from 297 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.440 the roof of the truck. Alarmed, they sped away, putting 298 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.440 distance between themselves and the encounter. Once they felt safe 299 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:55.640 enough to stop, they checked the roof to see what 300 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.160 had hit the vehicle. There they discovered a large clump 301 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.359 of mud and grass about the size of a dinner plate, 302 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.759 apparently torn from the ground and lobbed onto the truck. 303 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:10.440 That night, they decided to leave the area. The following day, 304 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.920 the witness returned alone to the side of the encounter, 305 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.960 hoping to find evidence of what he had witnessed. Upon arrival, 306 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.000 he discovered what he believed to be a possible handprint 307 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.880 in the mud on the cut line. Though it lacked 308 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.200 distinct detail, the impression was notably large, elongated, and wide set. 309 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.720 Further exploration revealed additional anomalies. Several trees had been stripped 310 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.559 of their branches up to a height of approximately seven feet, 311 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.759 with the bark peeled downward toward the ground. The sap 312 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.960 oozing from the damaged trees appeared fresh. The surrounding area 313 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.839 showed clear signs of disturbance. Broken branches littered the ground, 314 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.960 and patches of earth had been upturned. As an experienced 315 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.200 hunter and outdoorsman, the witness had spent countless hours in 316 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.799 the wilderness, yet he had never encountered anything remotely like 317 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:05.200 this before. Until that night, he had never believed in sasquatch. Now, 318 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.480 after coming face to face with what he could only 319 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.079 describe as one, his perspective had changed forever. Though shaken 320 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.240 by the encounter, he hopes that one day he might 321 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:19.400 see another sasquatch, this time in even greater detail. A 322 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:24.559 mysterious encounter near Cassig Look. One spring afternoon, a family 323 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:26.920 was out egg hunting near their village of Cassig Look 324 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.960 when they came across something incredible. A large, dark, hairy 325 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:35.039 creature walking upright, heading straight toward them. It was May 326 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:39.599 twenty ninth, twenty twelve, around three pm. The weather was beautiful, 327 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:42.839 slightly cloudy, and school had just let out for the summer. 328 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.599 The family, a mother and her two teenage sons, were 329 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.119 riding their four wheeler on the outskirts of the village 330 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.640 when they saw it. Could it have been the legendary Bigfoot? 331 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.200 We saw it near the lagoon here in Cassiglok, One 332 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.640 of the eyewitnesses said. It was southeast of Fox Lake 333 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:04.000 that day. Other people were also returning home from egg hunting, 334 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.079 so at first the family assumed the figure was just 335 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:10.680 another person, But after it passed, they looked at each 336 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.359 other in shock. We just saw Bigfoot, one of them said. 337 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.480 The creature was incredibly tall and dark, with long arms 338 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.640 that hung past its knees. It was about seventy five 339 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.920 yards away. The family watched for about two minutes as 340 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.480 it walked toward them, Then as soon as it noticed them, 341 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:32.119 it turned and disappeared over a hill. They quickly drove 342 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.279 to where they last saw it, but it was gone. 343 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:37.720 No one else seemed to have seen the mysterious figure. 344 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.079 The mother of the two boys later wrote down her experience. 345 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:43.440 I wanted to go egg hunting, but didn't want to 346 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:45.960 go alone, so I asked my sons to come with me. 347 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:48.880 My oldest son knew of a good spot, so we 348 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.519 headed toward the lagoon, where the land is flat to 349 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:54.640 the east. When we got there, my older son got 350 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:56.680 off the four wheeler and ran ahead to check if 351 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:59.519 anyone else was around. He went to the edge of 352 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:02.720 the hill and then ran back, saying somebody was already there. 353 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.200 We were about to leave when that somebody suddenly started 354 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.559 running at an unbelievable speed. No human could have covered 355 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:14.039 that much ground so fast. The figure was completely black 356 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.640 from head to toe, hunchbacked with no visible neck, and 357 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:21.440 its head was cone shaped. Its arms hung past its knees, 358 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.119 and it was incredibly tall. At first, we kept asking 359 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:28.319 each other who is that? But after watching it move, 360 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:33.039 we knew something wasn't right. It walked fast, taking huge strides, 361 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:35.519 and it would glance at us now and then. No 362 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:39.720 person could move that quickly across the tundra. I finally asked, 363 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:44.839 what is that? We were awe struck, completely dumbfounded. As 364 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:47.000 it reached the edge of our view, I finally said, 365 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:50.559 I think we just saw Bigfoot. In just about a minute, 366 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.319 it had crossed the entire hill. It didn't look like 367 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:57.440 it was running, just walking with massive steps. We rushed 368 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.359 to the top of the hill, but it had vanished. 369 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:04.359 Drove home feeling excited and amazed. That's my story. It 370 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:07.480 looked exactly like the Bigfoot in the Patterson film. If 371 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.400 you've ever seen it, Bigfoot, or the hairy Man, as 372 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.119 some call it, is not unheard of in the Yukon 373 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:18.480 Coscokwim Delta. Just last summer, there were reports of multiple 374 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:21.920 sightings in the Johnson River area and other nearby locations. 375 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.440 Could this have been the same mysterious creature the legends 376 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:29.920 of the Kushtaka. The young Klinget girl I was caring 377 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:33.599 for clutched my arm, shaking with fear. Her dark eyes 378 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.279 were wide, her voice barely above a whisper. Don't leave 379 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.599 my side or they'll take me. Who I asked the Kushtaka? 380 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.440 She whispered, afraid to say the name too loudly, as 381 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.039 if speaking it might summon them. That night, she was 382 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:51.680 too scared to sleep. We had just been told that 383 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:53.759 the house we were staying in was built on what 384 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:57.000 was rumored to be a native graveyard. The weight of 385 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.400 that knowledge hung over us in the quiet darkness. To 386 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:02.519 comfort her, I let her stay in my bed and 387 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:07.160 talked about anything and everything, small, meaningless things, until the 388 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.680 first light of dawn shimmered through the window. Only then 389 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:14.279 did she finally drift off to sleep. My sister Megan 390 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:16.920 once told me that for years she believed the Kushtaka 391 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:22.599 often pronounced kostika, were frighteningly real. That fear came from 392 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.319 our oldest brother, Jamie, who loved telling terrifying stories by 393 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:30.240 kerosene lamplight. He spoke of the horrors the Kushtaka were 394 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.480 capable of, how they lurked just outside the safety of 395 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.720 our home, hidden in the vast, silent wilderness that surrounded us. 396 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:43.200 Outside our windows, the night stretched endlessly. That darkness, combined 397 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:46.079 with Jamie's chilling tales, was enough to make my two 398 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:50.279 little brothers refuse to go outside alone after sunset, even 399 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:53.599 on quick trips to hall Wood. They needed someone with them. 400 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.920 Now an adult, my brother Robin recently shared a memory 401 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.799