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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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.599 radionetwork dot com Today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.840 Hey everybody, this is Left Striving Yes, yes, I know 24 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:34.560 aka Survivor Man, and you're listening to Brian on Sasquatch Audisy. 25 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.439 Hey there and welcome back to Sasquatch Odyssey. Thank you 26 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:40.840 so much for being with us for the show. It 27 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.680 is Sunday. I hope you're having a great weekend. We 28 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.640 have an amazing show lined up for you. But as 29 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.680 I always want to start by inviting you. If you've 30 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:50.359 had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, 31 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:52.239 shoot me an email and get me at Brian at 32 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.319 Paranormal World Productions dot com. Can head over to the website, 33 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.640 check it out, become a memory there and help support 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.079 the show. As you know, last week we passed our 35 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.480 five hundredth episode on the show, so I started looking 36 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.040 back into the archives and wanted to remaster some of 37 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.039 the interviews that I've done the show, and I went 38 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.599 back to episode forty five that originally aired in July 39 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.240 of twenty twenty one. It is Jeff Harding from Pine 40 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.360 Island Research. He came on and shared one of the 41 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:19.599 most amazing experiences I'd ever heard, and then we had 42 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:22.599 a fantastic conversation about some of his techniques that he 43 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.759 uses while he's doing his research and some of the 44 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.319 results that he had gotten. So what you're about to 45 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.840 hear is the remastered version where I've went in and 46 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:33.039 improved the IDEO. I've taken out all the unnecessary bits, 47 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.919 and what you're left with is one fantastic encounter story 48 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.080 and one amazing interview. We're definitely gonna have to get 49 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.120 Jeff back on for another round and talk about what 50 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.159 kind of research he's doing and what's going on in 51 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.280 his research area here in twenty twenty four. But for now, 52 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.960 I know you guys are ready to get into it. 53 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.280 Jeff's on the line, he's ready to go. All it's 54 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.000 left for you to do is sit back, relax, and 55 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:19.159 enjoy the show. All right, folks, I want to welcome 56 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.639 Jeff to the show. Jeff comes to us from South Dakota. 57 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.639 He had an encounter up in Manitoba, Canada with a 58 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.560 big foot some years ago. Welcome to the show. 59 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.400 Jeff. Hey, thanks, are you fabulous man? 60 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.319 I appreciate you taking time to come on the show 61 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.639 and know that you had an encounter some years back. 62 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.479 Why don't you take us back to where you were, 63 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.199 what you were doing, and what happened here in your encounter. 64 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:43.560 Yeah, I grew up the son of a hunting guide 65 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.879 here in South Dakota and northern Minnesota. I didn't know 66 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.319 anybody who'd ever had an encounter before. When I graduated 67 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.919 from high school, I joined the Army. I wasn't going 68 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.159 to be leaving until the end of July. That last 69 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.240 week and May and one of my good friends high 70 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.360 school invited me to go with him and his younger 71 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:07.800 brother who was fourteen, his dad, two of his uncles, 72 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.120 and several of his cousins who were all in their 73 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.680 upper twenties, so we were the youngest on the group. 74 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.399 Where this happened was on Granville Lake as part of 75 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.519 the Churchill Reservoir System. It's about one hundred and ten 76 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:28.759 miles north of Flinthlon Flynt Swan's right on that Saskatchewan 77 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.800 Manitoba border, so we were twenty twenty five miles east 78 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.040 on the Manitoba side of the border. We drove up there. 79 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:40.240 It was a long guy from where we lived. It 80 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.040 was a couple of days just driving to get there. 81 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.399 The last sixty seventy mile was like diving on a 82 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.680 tank trail. It was really remote where we went. We 83 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:52.959 knew these guides up there that Paul's dad had worked 84 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.800 with before. There were three guides that were native to 85 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.800 the area. They lived at this place here, so they 86 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.720 were hunting guides on fishing guides. We had sixteen foot 87 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.240 aluminum boats with twenty twenty five horse tiller motors. We 88 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:11.639 were going to be up there fishing for eight days. 89 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:16.160 The first few days, me and Paul, my buddy, and 90 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.360 his younger brother, the three of us since we had 91 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:22.079 all grew up in the outdoors. Our parents are cup 92 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.920 boat with us being on our own in the outdoor, 93 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.079 so the three of us were in a boat by ourselves. 94 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.800 The first three days. We'd go out and fish in 95 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.439 the morning and they come back mid afternoon for a 96 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.079 little while, and we'd go out in the evening before supper. 97 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:41.160 While we were fishing. On that fourth day, Paul's brother 98 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.040 had to take a leak, and he's one of these 99 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.800 guys that can't go out of a boat. So we 100 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.040 pulled up on the shore of this little island. It 101 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.240 was probably about I would say, maybe thirty acres in size, 102 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:59.000 heavily wooded. It was a rise. There's a gravelly beach 103 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.560 around the edge that we were on. The beach is 104 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.519 about twenty creet wide to the edge of the tree line. 105 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.839 We pulled the boat up on the shore and I 106 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.040 walked over to what appeared to be a game trail. 107 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.279 It was about maybe four or five foot wide, and 108 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.279 it had rained that morning off and on. It was 109 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.000 pretty cool out the first week in June. It was 110 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.639 cold up there, especially in the mornings, and then by 111 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.360 the afternoon would be seventy degrees. But I'm looking up 112 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.600 at this game trail and it rose steeply. When you 113 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:36.480 looked up with the birch pine and poppers, it was 114 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.160 like a corridor that you could see about fifteen twenty feet. 115 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.920 Because of that dense cover, you couldn't see it further. 116 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:47.040 It was intriguing to me because I grew up hunting. 117 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.639 Most of my hunting was elk and deer and things 118 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.480 like that. But I'd been deep in the back country 119 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.319 with my dad and other hunting guides before, so I 120 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:00.000 really was afraid to walk up the trail. I guess 121 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.240 I started walking up. It was steek. I'd say it 122 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:07.120 was like a thirty degree incline. Just with tennis shoes on, 123 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:11.519 it was hard to walk up, slipping on this greasy, high, 124 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.759 neatly mud packed down the trail. I told those guys, 125 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.920 I was gonna walk up here quick. I'd be right back. 126 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.480 I walked up, probably about twenty yards up this thing. 127 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:24.079 It took me a little bit of time to get 128 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.839 up it, because you'd walk five feet, slide a foot 129 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.240 or two back, and then get your footing again. While 130 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.519 I was walking up, I heard a really loud, cracking snap, 131 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:40.319 and I really wasn't sure what carved that. It was still, 132 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.040 we had no wind at all out to that day. 133 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.519 The water was smooth as glass, and I thought, because 134 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.560 I figured there's got to be a bear here, and 135 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:50.959 I didn't want to walk up on a bear that 136 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.279 time of year that may have come. So I just 137 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.480 stood still, and it came from my web side. I'm 138 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.279 looking into the trees, and I'm confident that I'm going 139 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.879 to see movement of what made this sound because it 140 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.680 was closed. It felt like this thick pop and crack 141 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:12.639 sound was close to me, within thirty yards probably. I'm 142 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.319 looking to the left and stood there for almost two 143 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.040 bold that scanning waiting to see a black bear. I 144 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.920 turned my back and looked down the trail at the beach. 145 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.480 I can't see the beach. I'd to only see about 146 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:27.600 ten to fifteen yards through this heavily forested trail, and 147 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.040 because of stuff overhanging in the incline, you just can't 148 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.480 see forward that bar. So I'm looking down the decline 149 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.240 at the beach and I can't see the edge of 150 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.559 that gravel. I was looking downward, and as I turned 151 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.799 back up the trail, I'm staring at the knees of 152 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:48.440 something standing right in front of me, like fifteen feet 153 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:50.960 in front of me. What was standing in front of 154 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.080 me was in elevation, was probably three foot higher in 155 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:58.080 elevation than I was. Because of the rise of the trail. 156 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.200 I've seen the knees and it looked like I was 157 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.240 looking at maybe the lower area of a black bear 158 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.720 that's standing on its hind leggies. I just about freaked out, 159 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.159 but I thought so still, And as I looked up 160 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.600 at the waist level, I seen two huge hands cradling 161 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:21.960 underneath holding about a five to six foot section of 162 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.120 birch tree trunk that had about a six inch diameter 163 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.440 to it. So it wasn't light, and on one end 164 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.159 there was a giant like a five gallon bucket size 165 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.399 the root system with dirt. As I'm looking up for 166 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.320 it's like standing under a basketball rim trying to look 167 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.159 straight up at it right. And as I rise up 168 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:48.080 and look, as soon as I seen its face, was 169 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.799 making eye contact with it. It took this birch tree 170 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.000 that it was holding at its waist level and through it. 171 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.840 The only way I can describe it is if you 172 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:00.240 were to bounce past a basketball to me, how you're 173 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.080 not winding your hand behind your body, You're just from 174 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.320 your chest forward or you're waist forward pushing the ball later. 175 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:12.360 That's how it shook this birch trunk at me and 176 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.840 hit it downward so that it hit me at waste level. 177 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.639 I'll tell you what. It launched me completely off of 178 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.559 my beat. I flew backwards, landed on my back. Now 179 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:27.200 this branch is diagonally cross, my chest is under my 180 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.879 right arm, and my west legs wrapped around and I'm 181 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.919 sliding down this mud trail. As I'm looking back up, 182 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.960 I could see its legs still. I watched it jump 183 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.200 up and down twice as I'm falling down this trail. 184 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.559 I could feel the ground, the percussion of these two 185 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.919 stumps on the ground. The only way I could describe 186 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.480 it was if I walked up behind you and patted 187 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.360 you on your back. I could feel the ground that way. 188 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.600 As I was sliding down, I could feel it. It 189 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.639 never screamed or made any noise as I slip down. 190 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.720 I ended up at the edge of the gravel at 191 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.960 Obomba's Hill. I had twisted my left ankle pretty badly. 192 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.919 When I scurried up to my feet, I couldn't put 193 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:16.080 my weight on my left foot. I'm yelling at Paul 194 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.000 and his brother getting the boat, getting the boat. They 195 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.519 start panicking because I think they had heard the snap too. 196 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.639 I think they thought that I was attacked by a bear. 197 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.720 Jamie ran to the boat at fourteen years old. He's 198 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:31.879 just in a panic mode and he gets in the 199 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:34.600 boat and Paul grabs the nose of the boat and 200 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:39.000 pushes it out into the water. I'm walking backwards across 201 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.399 this gravel beach. I don't want to take my eyes 202 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:44.840 off that game trail. I really felt like what I 203 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.799 had just seen, if I turned my back to it 204 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:50.840 can come flying out and tackle me. I walked backwards, 205 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.440 just limping on my leg I get to the water 206 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:56.120 about a foot and half. He flopped myself over the 207 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.679 gun well of the boat. I'm sitting in the middle seat. 208 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.960 Jamie's back there trying to get this outboard and started, 209 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.840 and it's not starting. Paul had been driving the boat 210 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.039 for three days. Jamie never operated an outboard motor in 211 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.519 his life. I don't know if he didn't pump up 212 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:14.799 the ball or used the joke. He's pulled this thing 213 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.919 fifty times and it's not starting. He's probably got it flooded. 214 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:22.879 At this point, Paul's freaking out. Jamie is frantically looking 215 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.200 back at the motor. I'm sitting there looking at the 216 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.519 game trailer because I can't take my eyes off it, 217 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.799 but my body I can't say what I want to say. 218 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:35.759 Maybe that's shock or the adrenaline dump of what happened. 219 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.039 I just kept looking at my mouth taking and open, 220 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.440 trying to process what I'd just seen. When I got 221 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.440 back on the beach, I'm standing there immediately trying to 222 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.960 justify what had just happened. Some people that grew up 223 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:53.480 with that reference of hearing stories or having relatives at 224 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:56.279 head encounters. Maybe in that position, they'd look at this 225 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.039 and say, Wow, I just saw a big fleet. But 226 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.200 I didn't have that. I didn't have that history. So 227 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.159 I'm going through a checklist of what I know. It wasn't. 228 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.679 I'm telling myself it wasn't a black bear. It was 229 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.200 the brown bear. It wasn't a motion. The more I 230 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.879 can't come up with an explanation, the more I started 231 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.799 to panic. Finally, Paul had told Jamie. He said, you're 232 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.879 not going to get that thing started. Let me get 233 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.120 in the boat. I started yelling at Paul, just get 234 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:23.480 in the boat, Just get in the boat. So Paul 235 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.039 jumps in the boat and switches spots as Jamie and 236 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:29.120 he starts pulling it. He's not having much luck. I 237 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:33.559 looked down the shoreline from us, about seventy to eighty 238 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.919 yards away. I see a black bear come running out 239 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.679 of the tree line. It runs down onto the beach. 240 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.320 It's not even looking at us. It's walking our direction 241 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.440 once it gets to the beach, but it's not looking 242 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.919 at us. This thing's going to look up and see 243 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.399 us here and stop and go the other way. But 244 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.559 it just would not take its eyes off this tree line. 245 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.360 It's walking towards us with its head ninety degrees rest, 246 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:03.600 staring at the tree line like something had startled it 247 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.840 and scared it out of this tree line. That's when 248 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.759 I realized maybe this thing was getting by the same thing. 249 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.240 And it kept walking in our direction, and finally it 250 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.679 looks up and sees us, and when it sees us, 251 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.559 it starts picking up its pace. It just was odd 252 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.600 some of this said. When I comment on this, it's 253 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.840 in retrospect. It's not what I was thinking at the moment. 254 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.000 In retrospect, I feel like this bear saw us and 255 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.559 felt relieved, but it was making its way towards us. 256 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.679 And Paul Junger brother was literally crying. He had tears 257 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.240 in his eyes. He was freaking out, kept saying what happened, 258 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.159 what happened, what happened. I felt like, until we're out 259 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.039 of here here, I didn't feel safe. The boat's only 260 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.840 twenty feet on the edge of the beach. We're not 261 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.960 blowing anywhere. There's no wind that we can't get a 262 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.480 motor started. Now that we got this bear getting closer, 263 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.240 so I told Jamie, I said, we had caught some 264 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.440 northern four or five pound northern pike that morning that 265 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.000 we had on a stringer. I told Jami, I should 266 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.120 get world fish off the string or hurry up. Jamie 267 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.679 grabbed the stringer and got a fish off, threw it 268 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.960 up on the shore. Enough bear walked right up. He's 269 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.440 only twenty five feet from the front of our boat. 270 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.879 That's probably two years old, and it reaches down. That's 271 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.799 why I realized it's missing. It's right paw. It's not 272 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.200 a recent injury. It looks like maybe it was caught 273 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.399 in a trap at some point. Right at the wrist. 274 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:27.480 It grabs this fairsh pinches it against its wrist, lifts 275 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.679 it up and bites the head off and stairs back. 276 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.679 Looked at the trees as it chomps his head three 277 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:36.200 or four times and swallows it. It drops that finish 278 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.799 and takes off in a sprint. I didn't even know 279 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.000 bear could move that sass back in the direction that 280 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.600 it came from, like it was getting out of it. 281 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:47.879 Paul gets his motor started. I should get out of here. 282 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.639 We got to get out of here, because whatever made 283 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.759 the bear runaway was what had thrown this log at 284 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.519 me on this trail. I just knew that it was 285 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.879 still here, so we backed the boat up reversed just 286 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:04.279 backing away from the island. We back out till we're 287 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.879 about eighty two one hundred yards out. As we're watching 288 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.360 the shore, we watched this thing through the log. We 289 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.840 watched the big foot walk right out onto the beach 290 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:21.159 and probably three strides that covered the treeline to the 291 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.360 water's edge. When I say it bent over and picked 292 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.919 up a stish, I don't mean like me or you would. 293 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:28.879 If I was to pick something like that up, I'd 294 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.519 pop down on one knee almost to grab it, and 295 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.879 then you get yourself up. This thing just tilted its 296 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.360 shoulders at forty five degrees and lowered itself down like 297 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:42.279 an elevator, grabbed it in its right hand, and just 298 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:45.279 stood straight back up and held it right in front 299 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.799 of its chest. It's just staring at us for ten seconds, 300 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.519 just staring at the boat. Even though we were eighty 301 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:57.759 two hundred yards away. It was mostly cloudy, It wasn't 302 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.879 direct sunlight anywhere. There wasn't glare you can see the 303 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.440 Claire's day. Especially after just watching this bear for three minutes, 304 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.039 we knew that we weren't looking at a bear. It 305 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:13.480 stared at us after about ten fifteen seconds, turned around 306 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.079 with a fish and walked right back into the tree. 307 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.519 The whole time that this thing, from the moment it 308 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.519 walked out from the trees on the beach through a 309 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:25.440 moment I walked away. Paul and Jamie are just yelling, 310 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.480 what is that? What is that? What is that? I 311 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.000 just felt like I was frozen in shock. I never 312 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.599 said a word. I'm just watching, Holy crap, this is 313 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:39.000 what through the logger. I didn't just imagine that I 314 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.359 was attacked by them. It was about nine nine and 315 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.720 a half foot tall. It wasn't standing on the beach. 316 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.640 It was going to open, so I couldn't really gauge 317 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.720 its height by much, but I could tell that it 318 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.640 was extremely tall, and by what I was standing in 319 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.079 front of on the trail, even considering the incline and 320 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.599 it was on above me, it was pulled something that 321 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.000 when I looked up and seated and look as soon 322 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.599 as I saw it space. I got to see its 323 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:13.240 space for about half a second before through that log 324 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.799 and hit me at waist level. We sat in the 325 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.359 boat and kept backing away further and further. Paul said, 326 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.200 is that what was on the trail that made the 327 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.519 sound That's when I told them what happened. This thing 328 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.319 threw a log at me, hit me in the hip. 329 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.839 My ankle twisted, and as I'm telling them that, I'm thinking, 330 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.680 my ankle really doesn't hurt right now. I took my 331 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.440 shoe off, pulled my sock off, was looking at it. 332 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.400 I didn't really have any pain in my ankle at all. 333 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:42.960 This thing hurt so bad I couldn't put half my 334 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.759 weight on it. I had trouble pulling myself over the 335 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.440 edge of the boat because of how much it was hurting. 336 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.319 I told him what happened. I told him how I'd 337 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.240 injured my ankle. Paul said, I knew your ankle was 338 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:58.359 hurt because you couldn't walk. He said, I kept thinking 339 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.359 you were going to fall over. I was whold the 340 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.519 front of the boat, yelling. Yet you grew up, and 341 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.960 he said, I couldn't figure out why you weren't moving back, 342 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.720 and I could tell you were limping and you were 343 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.480 walking backwards and sideways. I said, I twisted my ankle 344 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.160 when I fell down. As we're in the boat, we're 345 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.160 talking about what had happened, what we just saw. We 346 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.799 all came to the conclusion that we had seen a 347 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:24.319 bigfoot just after I had went through the whole verbal 348 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:28.559 checklist with them again, I know that wasn't a bear. 349 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:32.160 I know what wasn't standing in front of me. When 350 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.000 it walked on the beach. It was confirmation that I 351 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.759 didn't imagine this thing. I saw it from ten fifteen 352 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.640 feet away. So at this point, Jamie is tears in 353 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:47.359 his eyes, out loud. He's whimpering and crying. He's scared, 354 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:51.079 really scared, even though we're not in any danger in 355 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:55.079 the boat. He just could not get over what we'd 356 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:58.599 just seen, what had happened. My friend Paul all through 357 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:00.960 high school, he was happy to lucky. He had a 358 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:04.279 joke for everything. He's always laughing at them for him 359 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:07.079 to just be quiet. He just doesn't know what to say. 360 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.359 The whole time is just I can't believe this. I 361 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:11.519 can't believe this is happening. I can't believe we just 362 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.440 saw that. So we started talking about let's go back. 363 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.440 We were quite a ways away from this guide camp. Understand, 364 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.400 this is so remote. We haven't seen another boat all day. 365 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:25.000 Even in the three days, we hadn't seen another boat 366 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.519 other than the guys we met from his family that 367 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:29.880 went with us. So I said, let's go back to 368 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.039 the guide camp. Paul said, we got to figure out 369 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:36.000 what we're doing to tell everybody. I said, we're just 370 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:38.359 going to go tell your dad. He said, no, they're 371 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:40.119 not going to believe us, Jeff. They're just going to 372 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:43.160 back like we're all in fine. I said, is the 373 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:46.359 son of a hunting guide? Myself? I felt if my 374 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:49.519 dad was here, maybe I could tell him about what happened. 375 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:51.759 But the more we fat in the boat, the more 376 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.119 it decurred to me that I don't know, it seems 377 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.000 like a good idea up front, but how long would 378 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:00.960 I have to live for him to look at me 379 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:05.640 and just wonder if I'm crazy? You know? And I 380 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:09.119 just couldn't figure out how he would look at me 381 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.880 and give me the same credibility even as his son. 382 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:15.839 I started to get where Paul was coming from, where 383 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.079 he was feeling like everybody's I ma in front of him. 384 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:19.880 All of his older cousins are going to look at 385 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.519 us think we're idiots. So when we eventually got back 386 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.160 to the dock, actually we stopped and we fished for 387 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.960 another hour or two. We were just trying to put 388 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.559 off having to go back and be around somebody that 389 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.319 we felt like we'd have to tell it to. As 390 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:39.240 we were fishing for a couple hours, we came to 391 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:41.799 an agreement, the three of us that we were just 392 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:46.440 gonna not tell me. But when we went back, understanding 393 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:49.880 we're the youngest of the party. Every day midday when 394 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.359 we'd go back, we're the ones that are jumping out 395 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.240 of the boat telling the war stories about we caught this, 396 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.599 we caught that we did. We get out of the 397 00:21:57.640 --> 00:21:59.960 boat and we're standing on the dock and we're just quiet, 398 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.000 and everybody else is talking about they did that morning. 399 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.279 I'm a pretty talkative guy. I didn't say a word 400 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.200 for the ten minutes we stood there around everybody. These 401 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:13.920