WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.120 on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog, 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.960 my dog. We're flying through the or over the tree. 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.640 I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.120 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.800 the fence and he was dead. And once you hit 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.679 the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:38.119 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Happen? What 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.960 are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling 10 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:51.920 around out here? Did you see what it was? 11 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:52.240 Or was it was? 12 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.719 Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now 13 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.600 and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus, 14 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:04.799 quice you better New York. Hello, get somebody out here. 15 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:06.040 What quen on out there? 16 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.480 I thought of a bit of about sixty forty nine. 17 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.480 I don't know easy out there? Yeah, I'm wuking right head. 18 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.799 Oh hey, Grittings is read Alaska text. You're joining me today. 19 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.599 What I want to share with you comes from Paul 20 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:24.400 and his son. Paul is approaching eighty. His son is 21 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.519 a little older than me. Actually, I believe his son 22 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:31.040 is fifty two. Now. Paul is an atta natives from 23 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:35.200 the Copper River area. He has relatives in Saltia. This 24 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:40.319 particular instance happened near the Salta River. Family used to 25 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:42.680 have a cabin up that way off of a little 26 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:45.560 small tributary, couldn't really call it a river, but a 27 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.560 tributary to the Saltia which is a glorified creek. This 28 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:55.200 particular instance happened back when his son, who's fifty two now, 29 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.480 is approximately ten years old. It was a family cabin 30 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.319 before the elder owner of it got rid of it. 31 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.120 What ended up happening is Paul goes up with the sun. 32 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.960 They were doing some fishing and potentially get a moose. 33 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.599 For Paul, it was more spending time with the sun 34 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.759 than anything. He wasn't really concerned with necessarily tagging a moose, 35 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.280 even though that would have been great. It wasn't the 36 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.360 overall driving force. It's more get time of the sun outdoors. 37 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.879 They plan on being up there two weeks. They were 38 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.639 a little over week into the trip. Things were getting 39 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.120 ready to wind down in the next few days, so 40 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.080 the emphasis on hunting really stepped up right out behind 41 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:41.479 the cabin. Further up this glorified creek was a meadow 42 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.560 where they had some beaver ponds and muskeg that fed 43 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:48.000 this particular creek. He knew moose hung out there and stuff, 44 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.360 so that was always in his back pocket. It was like, Okay, 45 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.199 I got my trump cart over here, I'll take the 46 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.759 boy out there once things get moving along or whatever. 47 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.120 And he spent some quality time with them, teaching them 48 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.000 how to split wood and start a fire, just basic stuff. 49 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.520 The morning they were going out there, his son was 50 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.960 carrying his grandpa's thirty out six, which the stock had 51 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.840 been cut down a little bit because his grandpa was 52 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.840 a little dude, so it was good kit sized by 53 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.120 very powerful. He wanted his son to have a little 54 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:17.919 something to knock the moose down with. Paul had a 55 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.759 thirty out six as well. So they go back and 56 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.759 they follow this creek all the way back. It was 57 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.400 a couple of miles to where you get to this 58 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.439 muske in this open meadow with the beaver pond and 59 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.000 some other stuff. He said. Once they got up there 60 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.599 and they cleared the tree line, it opened up more 61 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:35.400 into the tundra type stuff. You could see the mounds 62 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.960 off in the background. There was the beginnings the foothills 63 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.280 of the mounds directly in front of them, on the 64 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.439 far end of this Muskeg swamp, this marsh area. So 65 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.400 his plan was to circle around to the right and 66 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:51.599 get back past the beaver pond because this particular stretch 67 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.360 of tundra in marsh, back around the corner a little ways, 68 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.159 it was a little firmer ground and that's usually where 69 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.479 you find the moose. So he takes his boy, let's 70 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.479 call his boy Aleck. Okay, So Paul and Alick they 71 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.439 get across. There's a couple kind of mushy spots, just 72 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:09.960 kind of like walking on a waterbed. But he gets 73 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.319 Aleck across their safely and everything, and they get back 74 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.759 and they're following along just inside the tree line where 75 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:17.519 the tree line meets up with the tundra and then 76 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.759 it goes off into the marsh off to the left. 77 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.879 They get back to where hooks around. As they're getting there, Paul, 78 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.120 here's a weird sound. Now this is in the wee 79 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.680 hours of the morning. It's in the fall, towards the 80 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.399 end of August. He hears what he thought was a 81 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.199 wolf pal which I mean shit. In the big scheme 82 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.120 of things, he really wasn't concerned if it was a 83 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:41.040 wolf or not, because they'd get a wolf if it 84 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:42.720 wasn't a mossie. No big deal as far as he 85 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.920 was concerned. So he was like, just be aware. Alec 86 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.160 was a little intimidated by the wolf. Pal unslung the 87 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.279 rifle and was holding it, and he was like, calm down, 88 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:53.360 sluing that rifle. I'll let you know when you need 89 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.759 to get your gun ready. So as there just inside 90 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.199 the tree line, just a few paces, just to stay 91 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.759 out of the open you. Every once in a while 92 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:03.519 he would have Alex stan still and he would go 93 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.399 to the tree line and look and see if there's 94 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:09.600 any moose nearby or movement going on or whatever. And 95 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.439 as they work around the curses right a little bit, 96 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.680 it's like a sock shape. Let's say you're going up 97 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.000 half of the sock, and then the back end would 98 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.639 be like the foot of the sock, and it hooked 99 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.000 off to the right a little bit. But that's the 100 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.319 shape of this marshy area. And so as they're going along, 101 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.160 he was just about at the apex when he came 102 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.959 out to look one last time and straight across what 103 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.839 it would be the toe area of the sock shaped 104 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.959 kind of meadow, he noticed something big and brown over there, 105 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.199 and instantly that's that moose. He thought, Wow, I wonder 106 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.680 if wolf Hack is after it, that'd be cool for 107 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.959 us to watch. So he saw that tuck back in 108 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.279 let Alec know his moose is up there. So they 109 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.720 continue on and they're cutting through the brush quietly so 110 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.160 they could come out of the tree line and be 111 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.959 not visible but have a good open view of this thing, 112 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:58.319 and so his son could have a perfect shot right 113 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.600 hopefully broadside, and just a nice could kill shop. So 114 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.120 when they get up to the area where they can 115 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.319 more clearly see into the open as they're still behind 116 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.399 it in the tree line in a little ways, he's 117 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.319 looking to where he saw that brown spot, and he 118 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.160 notices this brown spot hadn't moved into the brush a 119 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:18.839 little more. It was a little more shaded, so it 120 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.120 was darker looking, but he could see it moving, but 121 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:24.319 the movement was different than he was accustomed to see 122 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.680 him from a moose. It was a lot more faster 123 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.839 movements back and forth, and a lot more kind of 124 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.160 a bobbing type of motion. But again it was obscured 125 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.279 because of the shadowing and stuff. He couldn't fully make 126 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.040 it out. So they get a little closer, and they 127 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:39.600 moved down a little ways because of the way the 128 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.480 wind was blowing. He didn't want a scent picked up 129 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.800 and blowing around this area and potentially getting back to 130 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.279 the moose and startling it or whatever, so they moved 131 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.319 a little further down. When they repositioned and he got 132 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.680 Alex ready. Alex sat there and he was holding the rifle, 133 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.600 just waiting. Paul started making his moose call. The first 134 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.800 couple of calls he made, which they weren't just back 135 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.199 to back, you get time in between. That way, it 136 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.040 sounds natural. So he makes the first one, no attention 137 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.079 from this thing across the way, which he assumed it 138 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:11.000 was a bull moose. No attention given. Second call, this 139 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.759 thing moves inside the opposite tree line, which is about 140 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.519 seventy yards distance inside the tree line, moving and he figured, oh, okay, 141 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.240 the moose is moving around to try to look for 142 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.439 this cow. Call. So he waits a little while longer 143 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.199 and calls again. Meanwhile, in between the call, she repositioned 144 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.079 back to his left, staying in the tree line, but 145 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.800 give him more distance that he didn't want the bullmos 146 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.240 to come right out on him when if his son 147 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.800 missed the shot, potentially they get charged or whatever. So 148 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:43.720 he was trying to keep a safe distance for son 149 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.600 to get this shot. He said, when he made about 150 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.560 the fourth call, this thing came out of the trees 151 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.720 slowly and was looking back and forth, and it wasn't 152 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.439 a moose. Immediately he knew it was a bushman. Harry mate. 153 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.319 His son was just about to talk, and he covers 154 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.839 his mouth says, that's a bushman. We're going to get 155 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:03.160 out of here. We don't want nothing to do with. 156 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.199 As he had heard all the stories, he had seen 157 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.639 one a couple times in the past, but it was 158 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.199 never that close, and he just told us, stay quiet, 159 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.319 stay quiet, We're okay. And as he's talking to his son, 160 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.079 it comes out. Nick starts skirting the tree line back 161 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:21.000 in the direction he originally saw it, and the way 162 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.199 it was moving was bobbing down, standing up, moving back 163 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.800 and forth, smelling the air, just looking around and basically 164 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.839 doing what Paul had been doing before that, looking around 165 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:33.559 trying to find this move. So this thing was doing 166 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.159 the opposite, looking back in their direction, and finally it 167 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.759 got to a spot and it squatted down right in 168 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.759 front of some willows. This thing squatted down is looking 169 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.360 straight at Paul and his son. He locked onto him. 170 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.879 Paul said, he sensed it, knew they were over there. 171 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.919 It was just trying to figure out where and pinpointed me. 172 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:53.919 He said, it felt like he had us pinpointed, but 173 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.039 he didn't have a visual line of sight until he 174 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.720 got to that point, which again, at this point was 175 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.399 maybe eighty yards at the mom which in the big 176 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.000 scheme of things ain't that far. So when a squatted 177 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.159 down has got a lock on him, Paul stands up. 178 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.279 He's holding his rifle in his hands and he waves 179 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:14.000 them and goes, hey, we'll hunt somewhere else. We'll go 180 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.399 hunt somewhere else. This thing immediately turns and runs off 181 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.320 into the brush behind it. Here's crashing and thrashing as 182 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:23.799 it's moving off to their left on that opposite tree line, 183 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:27.480 back up in the trees going up this initial foothill 184 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.080 of the mountains behind there. Figures, great, it's getting away 185 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.679 from us. So he immediately gets Alec in front of 186 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.799 him as they're going back. Now on their way back, 187 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.440 they're coming up onto the beaver pond. Periodically, Paul would 188 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.759 hear noises he was trying out to be paranoid, but 189 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.399 it sounded like movement behind him with branches breaking periodically, 190 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.759 so he would stop, try not to scare Alex, because 191 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.840 Alec was already freaked out when he was a kid 192 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.759 seeing this stuff, and he was not feeling it. So 193 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.759 Paul was checking every once in a while. He said, 194 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.399 it was the last time. He couldn't just pass it off. Oh, 195 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.679 it was just a coincidental noise because of how loud 196 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:08.080 it was. It was cracked, something obviously big was broken. 197 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.440 And he happened to look back and there was some 198 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.440 black spruce and stuff intermingled within this tree line, so 199 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:18.360 it was mainly black spruce, some willows, and then there 200 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.840 was aspen here and there not very many in some alders. 201 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.639 It was more black spruce than anything, so you'd have 202 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:29.399 willow obscuring the lower ground and then the black spruce intermix. 203 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.320 And he said, when he looked back to figure out 204 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.840 what the noise was because it was so loud, he 205 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:39.879 saw basically a hand letting go of a black spruce 206 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.080 that had been broken in half. Just as he looked 207 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.120 back because of the loud noise, because he turned around 208 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:48.840 real fast, he saw a hand, this thing's hand. Obviously 209 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.240 it broke it, but everything was so obscured. He only 210 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.360 saw part of the hand and part of the forearm 211 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:55.639 as this thing was moving off to the right, which 212 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:00.799 was only maybe forty five fifty feet behind them, which 213 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.720 again freaked him out. Alec was really freaked. He had 214 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:08.720 to rifle shouldered. Paul was like, calm down, I will 215 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:10.440 tell you when you need to worry about shooting, and 216 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.600 Alec was just like, let's go, Dad, I just want 217 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:14.440 to go. Paul wanted nothing to do with that shit. 218 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.320 As they continued on have Alec move forward as he 219 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.159 kept watching him with quickly catch up to him, constantly surveying, 220 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.120 and they were coming into the area where the trees 221 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.320 weren't so densely packed it. It opened up a little 222 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.159 more as it was moving out onto the tundra right, 223 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.679 so they get clear of the trees and now they 224 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.279 just have a short bit of firm tundra. Before I 225 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.840 got Marshie that real marshy spot where they had to 226 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.240 cross was like walking on a waterbed. When they came 227 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.320 out into the opening the beaver ponds off to their left, 228 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.200 there's an active beaver at the time, a pretty good 229 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.279 sized lodge that was not that far away from the 230 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.039 edge the line of the marsh where it looked solid, 231 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:55.840 which probably wasn't very solid at all, but there wasn't 232 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.159 much distance between what appeared to be solid ground in 233 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:03.080 this lodge. So he gets aleck across the direction they came. 234 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.600 When they got across there and they were on more 235 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.320 firm ground, Paul turned around and looked This thing was 236 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.159 just outside of the tree line, squatted down. It was 237 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.159 sniffing the ground, which really creeped Paul out. He told 238 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.320 Alec not to look that way, to look the other way, 239 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.080 because he didn't want a son seeing it, for one, 240 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.919 and he didn't want this thing to take his son 241 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.399 looking as some kind of challenge. Being weirded out by 242 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.399 this thing squatted down sniffing, Paul again waves his arm 243 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.960 with his rifle. Hey, we're going to hunt elsewhere. Let 244 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.720 us be. We leave you be, no harm, leave us 245 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:38.000 alone kind of thing. This thing just ignored what he 246 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.679 was saying and kept smelling the ground and moving around 247 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.840 down on all fours. He said, imagine if a man 248 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.000 just leaned down, put his hands out and was moving 249 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.840 around on his tippy toes in his hands that's what 250 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.039 it looked like from his perspective, how it was moving 251 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.840 around and stuff. He said, the movements were real, sporadic. 252 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.519 They would lower down, sniffing, and then it would arch up, 253 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.919 blow up, and then do the same thing over, move 254 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.679 around at one point spinning in a little bit of 255 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.480 a circle. This is all happening. Wait faster. Its movements 256 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:10.759 were real, sporadic and fast away. It was sniffing and 257 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.799 stub like it was getting worked up or excited, which 258 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.960 again threaked him out. So he telled Alex, you keep 259 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.039 walking forward, but you stop. Once you get fully off 260 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.600 of the marshy spot, you stop. So Alex is doing 261 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.159 that while Paul is watching, and he has the rifle 262 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:29.679 at a little ready at this point. He doesn't want 263 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.159 to have to shoot at to say so. After this 264 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.879 thing stops, braddick spinning around and sniffing and stuff, and 265 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.320 it moved back off into the trees. So that's when 266 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.159 Paul turned and caught up with the sun. In the 267 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.080 brief distance, I'm not even thirty feet to catch up 268 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.039 to where his sun was, he was trotting. He was 269 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.879 as quickly as he could in boots on the tundrus 270 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.399 as soon as he catches up to the son, he 271 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.360 hears the water smacking sound and looks back and this 272 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.600 thing is bee lining straight towards them and is basically 273 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.799 almost where Paul was when and he turned just a 274 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.600 second ago to come and ketch up with his son. 275 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.279 It was moving fast, so Paul raises his rifle and 276 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.279 lets to round go bay Am. He said, this thing 277 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.240 hit the dirt hard, tumbled over, not fully stood up, 278 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.960 heading away from him, and he took back off into 279 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.200 the trees. Scared the shit out of Paul because he 280 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.279 thought it was going to continue coming. He said. He 281 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:23.320 thought he had a good shot on it, but it 282 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:27.320 was past adrenaline pumping and stuff. So once this thing 283 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:30.039 runs off, he again turns his attention to get the 284 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:31.919 hell out of there. He just shot this thing, and 285 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.759 he wanted no part of the potential after math of that. 286 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.480 They only had about maybe fifty ish feet before the 287 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.000 other tree line started where they followed the creek back 288 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.679 down to the cabin. Once he got to that tree line, 289 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.840 he was constantly looking over his shoulder. How he missed 290 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.679 this thing, how quickly it moved, he doesn't know. But 291 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.000 by time they got over there, he was here and cracking. 292 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:55.759 As he looks back and turns around and looks, this 293 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.159 thing is tearing apart that beaver lodge. It ran into 294 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.759 the trees. He turned around. They're trying to get back 295 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.840 to their back trail to get back to the cabin. 296 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.600 In that brief fifty feet if that whatever it was 297 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.120 with him looking back, he never heard it or nose 298 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.039 hit until the cracking and thrashing that it was making. 299 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:14.720 So when it turned around and looked and it's tearing 300 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:19.240 apart this beaver lodge, and stay tuned for more sasquatch 301 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.840 out to see. We'll be right back after the east messages. 302 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.080 He said, shit was flying. He said it was throwing 303 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.480 an everlove and fit, just like one handful after another, 304 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.840 just ripping this thing apart. He said he could see 305 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.320 the marsh ripple in from this thing's body weight. He 306 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.639 was like stuffed for a second. Alex started crying. That 307 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.200 snapped him out of it here in the sun cry 308 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.960 because he was watching this display of awesome power just 309 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.000 tearing this thing apart. So boom, he refocuses and they 310 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.799 get down going down the trail. Now, this particular trail 311 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.559 is a game trail, but it was also used by 312 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:57.440 him and other family members over the year, so it 313 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.600 was pretty well beaten pass. Depending time of the year, 314 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.919 the brush was closer in or further back. As they 315 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.080 were going back down, he said that they got maybe 316 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:10.679 one hundred yards down when he started hearing breaking and noises. 317 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.320 At the head of the trail. It meets up with 318 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.279 that marshary, So he turns around and he's got his 319 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.559 gun up. He's trying to figure out if it's coming 320 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.639 after him or if it's just an echoing or something 321 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.600 else going on in other than what he was fearing 322 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:27.919 that it was following them. He heard some noises and 323 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:29.840 it went quiet, so he decided to come on, let's go. 324 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.039 Turned around. Alec kept going. He kept going. He said, 325 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.000 every about twenty five thirty yards he would have to 326 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.840 stop because there was a new noise, and it always 327 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.320 stayed a certain distance behind him. As they were moving along, 328 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.759 he got the feeling that he was being watched. As 329 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:45.600 he's looking up the trail, he got the feeling is 330 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.519 being watched from behind him, which Alec was standing right 331 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.960 behind him like on his hip. So when he turned 332 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.000 around to look further down the trail, it was hard 333 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.039 to see it was obscured, but he saw a dark 334 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.960 figure move out of view right. He said, the hair 335 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.559 stood up real hard, like wirely bristols all over his body, 336 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.240 and he told Alec to grab onto his belt. So 337 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.119 Alec grabbed a hold of his belt. He said, do 338 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.799 you hold onto my belt tight? He said, you're gonna 339 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.559 trot and run beside Dad, you just hold on. So 340 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.880 Paul is basically half running. Alec is holding his belt 341 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.400 hanging on as Paul's pulling him along, and he's going 342 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.160 straight forwards where this thing induct and his reasoning was 343 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.279 is he was going to basically bluff charge this thing 344 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:36.599 and hopefully moving so they could get past it, because 345 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.920 he didn't want anything blocking him from potentially getting to 346 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.200 the cabin for safety and having some barriers up. He said, 347 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:47.720 he was going along and as he was approaching that area, 348 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.680 he saw this thing moving off to his lap, just 349 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:55.079 straight away from the trail perpendicular to Joe, just straight away, 350 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.279 not circling around like flank or anything. So that kind 351 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.960 of gave him a calm feelings. They got past that 352 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.000 spot and then he stopped and turned back and was 353 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.319 holding the rifle, trying to assess and listen for sound 354 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.079 and everything, and the one that was between him and 355 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.240 the cabin that really startled him had run straight away 356 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.839 from the trail where he had stopped to turn and look. 357 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.480 He had a little bit of an alley way between 358 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.160 the trees where he could see the direction this thing 359 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.440 had gone. Sure enough, this thing was standing there, but 360 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.359 it was at a distance, and it was just obscured 361 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:30.599 by some black spruce and of course the willows. It 362 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.359 was there, but it was further away. So turned again, 363 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.880 pulled out a cold on, and he kept doing that. 364 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.000 He heard noises a couple more times, but it faded 365 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.359 off and stopped the closer they got to the cabin, 366 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:44.960 which was again a couple of miles distant. So because 367 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.400 there was enough distance between the last sighting and the 368 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.640 last noises, he felt a little more comfortable. So what 369 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:55.279 he did was he didn't want them basically following them 370 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:56.680 back to the cabin. He didn't know what to do 371 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.839 though to prevent that, because it's just one game. Trail 372 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.480 was like, duh, it doesn't take a rocket scientist followed 373 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:04.920 the trail. I'm sure if they're in the area, they've 374 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:06.880 seen this cabin before. You know what, I mean, he 375 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.039 figured okay. He got Alec inside, looked around and there 376 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.119 was two windows, one on each side, and they were 377 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.759 about three foot square something like that. On either side. 378 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:21.039 It had an old oil drip stove and also a 379 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:24.240 woodburning stove. It had been decked out over the years 380 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.559 some amenities and some creature comforts as far as what 381 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:30.759 was available. Especially getting it up river is as his nightmare. 382 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.880 He gets Alex situated, tells him, hey, if anything other 383 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.319 than me comes through the door, you shoot it. I'm 384 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.119 going to be right back, and he grabs some of 385 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:42.519 this clorox and he goes basically about fifty yards up 386 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:44.880 to trail and is just whipping this clorox back and 387 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.759 forth all over the place, trying to mask their scent. Basically, 388 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:50.400 it was the only thing he could think of at 389 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:52.079 the time, and he said, looking back on it, it 390 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.599 was pointless because it didn't work, but he was trying. 391 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.680 So he does all that. He empties it out basically 392 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:59.519 by time he gets back to cabin, drops it on 393 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.359 the ground and runs back inside. Didn't hear anything. It 394 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.920 was dead quiet. Now. All this started at the wee 395 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:09.240 hours of the morning, and they were back home start 396 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.680 to finish within four hours five hours, because it took 397 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.039 time with a little one dope hike up and get 398 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.839 across all this terrain, move slowly, quietly all that. So 399 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:21.759 it was roughly around noonish when they got back safely 400 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:27.000 in the cabin. Now Paul would regularly check the windows. 401 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.400