Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog,
Speaker 1: my dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 1: the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
Speaker 1: the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
Speaker 1: saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what
Speaker 1: are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling
Speaker 1: around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 2: Or was it was?
Speaker 1: Standing up? I'm out here looking through the window now
Speaker 1: and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Speaker 1: Jesus quice you bick Hello, get somebody out here? Went
Speaker 1: on out there? I thought of a bit about sixty
Speaker 1: forty nine. I don't know easy out there? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: right away.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, greeting is his friend in Alaska. Thanks for
Speaker 3: joining me today. What I wanted to share with you today.
Speaker 3: This comes from Blake and Riley. They were up in
Speaker 3: Alaska for a little RV adventure. They had planned ahead
Speaker 3: like a year. Saved the money because it's expensive up here,
Speaker 3: especially traveling around. All the expense of meals and all that.
Speaker 3: They figured rent and RV self sufficient, self contained, well,
Speaker 3: have a place to cook, sleep and all that we
Speaker 3: can guide ourselves around fair enough. Hey, I'd do the
Speaker 3: same thing if I was in the same position. So
Speaker 3: Blake and Riley. This was basically for their fifth wedding anniversary.
Speaker 3: They decided to come towards the end of summer, beginning
Speaker 3: to fall. Riley his wife really joyed fall, the colors
Speaker 3: and all that. They planned to be up here two weeks.
Speaker 3: During the first week beautiful, the weather was great. They
Speaker 3: went up by Danale from Anchors and then in the
Speaker 3: Fairbanks and then back on down. On their way back down,
Speaker 3: they took the Richardson going towards glenn Allen and they
Speaker 3: got to glenn Allen and they were like, ah, let's
Speaker 3: backcheck a little bit, head back towards Danale. It was
Speaker 3: so beautiful and there was some more pictures that Riley
Speaker 3: wanted to take. They still got another week. They're at
Speaker 3: their own schedule. As they're heading back and they're taking
Speaker 3: the Denale Highway from Packson. It was this particular day
Speaker 3: it was getting on into darkness, and their book pretty
Speaker 3: tired from just the constant running in, the excitement, being
Speaker 3: in the Laska, the fresh air, all of it was
Speaker 3: just it was catching up to him. So they decided, Hey,
Speaker 3: we'll just pull out side of the road just camp
Speaker 3: right here, which many people do. Guys in their pickup
Speaker 3: trucks do that. I've done that, so why not they
Speaker 3: pull off. They do the little procedure to make sure
Speaker 3: they're level and stuff like that. This particular pull off
Speaker 3: is not too far from the Triangle Lakes pull off
Speaker 3: that has a trail to Sweet Lake and on down
Speaker 3: to the alphabets and stuff, a spot with many encounters
Speaker 3: from the past. So where they were parked, they'd just
Speaker 3: come up. Anyone who's been there, you're coming out of
Speaker 3: packs and you come up to a point where you
Speaker 3: got this little switchback that gets up onto this higher plateau.
Speaker 3: So they were just past that. The particular spot they
Speaker 3: picked was on the right hand side of the road
Speaker 3: heading towards Dnati. Now this is very near the same
Speaker 3: area where a couple of women had some crazy stuff happen. Right,
Speaker 3: they get set up, everything's level for the stuff they
Speaker 3: needed to do, as far as the requirements for the
Speaker 3: RV and whatnot. There was a small slide out that
Speaker 3: they extended out, and then they dropped the awning. As
Speaker 3: they were getting things set up. It wasn't a very
Speaker 3: clear day that day. It was low ceiling. They couldn't
Speaker 3: see as clearly. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't the
Speaker 3: photo opportunities that Riley was hoping for. No big deal.
Speaker 3: They still had time, so they sat there, they made
Speaker 3: their dinner. They came out and had some long chairs
Speaker 3: underneath the awning that they had out. They're basically facing
Speaker 3: souths so they're on the north side of the road
Speaker 3: and they're facing south. They're just sitting in their chairs.
Speaker 3: Periodically someone would drive by. It was just calm. It
Speaker 3: was relaxing. They're both really tired, especially after eating, and
Speaker 3: they were already burned out from the travel and so
Speaker 3: excited it was hard to sleep. They decided, hey, let's
Speaker 3: just turn in and we'll start right and early continue on.
Speaker 3: Blake said. Riley went in, was cleaning up a little
Speaker 3: bit of the mess they had in there or whatever,
Speaker 3: and he was just walking around the area making sure
Speaker 3: he accounted for everything as far as RV requirements. He
Speaker 3: goes to the back, he removes a little panel and
Speaker 3: slides out this little thing that was holding the little
Speaker 3: generator on it. He fires it up because they were
Speaker 3: gonna fall asleep watching a movie. When he put fuel
Speaker 3: in this particular little generator, he found that if he
Speaker 3: only put in like a half a gallon, that it
Speaker 3: would run long enough for a movie or two and
Speaker 3: then die out. He wouldn't have to worry about getting up,
Speaker 3: going outside and shutting it off. He does all that.
Speaker 3: He gets inside, they select their movie and stuff their
Speaker 3: kicked back. Where they decided they were going to crash
Speaker 3: out was where the little slideout is, where the seating
Speaker 3: area was. The tabletop drops down and then it turns
Speaker 3: into a mattress, little sleeping area right there, right about
Speaker 3: not quite the size of a double bed. They closed
Speaker 3: it up there, and they were watching their movie. They
Speaker 3: fell asleep. Blake remembers being in that fog and hearing
Speaker 3: the generator dying down from being out of gas. But
Speaker 3: it was doing the little fluctuation thing, so he listened
Speaker 3: to it for a second, just fades back out. He
Speaker 3: has no idea what time it was when that happened.
Speaker 3: He said, it couldn't have been too much longer after
Speaker 3: that that all of a sudden, the whole thing just shook.
Speaker 3: He said, it shook hard. He said, so hard that
Speaker 3: it was startling. Right, they're up, Riley digging around for
Speaker 3: this little headlamp they had, and also had this little
Speaker 3: led lantern took batteries. It was shaped like an old
Speaker 3: school kerosene lantern, but it was actually led lights in it.
Speaker 3: So she finds that stuff. As she turns it on,
Speaker 3: she sets it on one of the little smaller tables
Speaker 3: right across from him. They're looking at each other and
Speaker 3: they're talking, and they could hear movement outside it. What
Speaker 3: the hell is that? And Blake's starting to yell out hey,
Speaker 3: because again it was startling, how hard it shook. It
Speaker 3: felt like another vehicle had struck it or something. Riley's
Speaker 3: quite down. Listen, Blake, I'm not going to be quiet.
Speaker 3: Riley calms down and says listen, and they could hear movement.
Speaker 3: Blake's had it. He didn't know if they were struck
Speaker 3: because they were woken up by this violent shake. He
Speaker 3: grabs that little lantern. He goes out the door, and
Speaker 3: he said when he got out the door, he could
Speaker 3: tell that the back end of that RV had slit
Speaker 3: probably two three feet. He's holding up the lantern. He's
Speaker 3: looking around. He's yelling out, who's out here, who's out here?
Speaker 3: Doesn't hear nothing. A moment later, Riley comes out with
Speaker 3: the headlamp on. He's holding up the lantern, and because
Speaker 3: she had a more focused beam on her headlamp, he
Speaker 3: was like, hey, point your headlamp over in this direction.
Speaker 3: They did, and then down the road and up the
Speaker 3: road and across the road he goes, and he sets
Speaker 3: down where they had their two lawn chairs sitting. They
Speaker 3: were still sitting, but they had closed him up and
Speaker 3: just laid him down on the ground right there, because
Speaker 3: again it was under the awning right, but with the
Speaker 3: shift and everything, it was a little different. But he
Speaker 3: had popped one of those chairs up real quick and
Speaker 3: set the lantern down on it and asked Riley for
Speaker 3: the headlamp. She hands it to him. She grabs the lantern,
Speaker 3: goes back inside. He starts walking around the thing. He
Speaker 3: had picked up a couple of big rocks right because
Speaker 3: they heard something out there and the whole places shook,
Speaker 3: so Blake knew that someone was out here. He's yelling, hey,
Speaker 3: we don't appreciate it. We're here visiting the state. What
Speaker 3: he assumed initially was like some locals, not like in tourists,
Speaker 3: which I understand. I think it's one of those things. However,
Speaker 3: he goes around to the backside and he notices the
Speaker 3: way that the back end was pushed. It was off
Speaker 3: onto the softer part of the shoulder, right on the gravel.
Speaker 3: But he was a little concerned about that. Again, he's
Speaker 3: got the headlamp on. He hears something and it sounds
Speaker 3: like it's directly off to his right. So he turns
Speaker 3: and he looks, and he doesn't see anything. He's looking
Speaker 3: and looking. Then as he's doing so, he notices this
Speaker 3: shade of reddish brown that doesn't quite match the rest
Speaker 3: of the terrain. This was just past the brush off
Speaker 3: the side of the road, the way that the road
Speaker 3: went down. In his position, it was just beyond the brush. However,
Speaker 3: in the scheme of things, was probably fifty feet away.
Speaker 3: So he's looking and he starts focusing on this weird
Speaker 3: reddish brown color. He was like something was off, and
Speaker 3: he immediately felt panicked inside. And as he was trying
Speaker 3: to figure out what the hell he was looking at,
Speaker 3: because it was just so out of place with all
Speaker 3: the other colors of the tundra and the brush and stuff.
Speaker 3: He said. He backed up, and he backed up into
Speaker 3: that open little slide out for the generator. That caught
Speaker 3: his attention. So he turned back real quick because he
Speaker 3: was startled by it. And then when he turned back,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, this reddish brown thing or whatever
Speaker 3: it was that was just over there. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: he noticed the movement and he follows it right. He's
Speaker 3: watching and the way it's moving is pretty fast, but
Speaker 3: it's quiet. So he's trying to keep up with it
Speaker 3: and figure out what the hell he's seeing. As he's
Speaker 3: doing so, he's just noticing this reddish brown He was like, oh, crap, bear.
Speaker 3: So what he does is he turns around. He goes
Speaker 3: back around the backside, not the same direction this thing
Speaker 3: was moving. Goes around the backside and gets back into
Speaker 3: the RB and he was like, it was a bear.
Speaker 3: I just saw a bear over there. Riley's a calm down,
Speaker 3: Calm down, it's Alaska. There's bears. We have bear spray somewhere.
Speaker 3: Let's just make sure we have it handy. Maybe it
Speaker 3: came in because this smelled our food. We cleaned up,
Speaker 3: but still the food smell is gonna ling her. And
Speaker 3: so they're explaining this away as they're doing so, this
Speaker 3: particular RV was open all the way into the front
Speaker 3: where you can se see out the front window. There
Speaker 3: was this little partition thing that he could slight close
Speaker 3: or what have you for privacy or whatever. It wasn't closed.
Speaker 3: They didn't close it before they went to sleep. They're
Speaker 3: sitting there talking and explaining away this bear. The way
Speaker 3: Blake was standing, he was facing towards the front of
Speaker 3: the RV. Riley's in front of him, sitting down on
Speaker 3: that little bed thing, and they're talking about this bear.
Speaker 3: He had turned off the headlamp, but he still had
Speaker 3: it on. As they're talking, going back and forth or whatever,
Speaker 3: he glances towards the front and he notices something odd
Speaker 3: outside of the window. He sat there for a second,
Speaker 3: look back at Riley, continued the conversation, but then was
Speaker 3: drawn back again because he saw a movement. So he
Speaker 3: clicked on the light, the interior light where she had
Speaker 3: the little lantern going the little led lantern. It didn't
Speaker 3: have enough candela power, enough light power basically to fully
Speaker 3: see what movement he saw, because again they're thinking bear.
Speaker 3: He was half expecting a bear to be looking in
Speaker 3: the window, but when he turned on the headlamp with
Speaker 3: the more focused beam of light, it wasn't a bear.
Speaker 3: He said, this thing looked like a caveman. It looked
Speaker 3: like it was very curious. It had its hands on
Speaker 3: the hood of the RV and was leaning and looking.
Speaker 3: And when he turned on the lamp and saw it,
Speaker 3: tried to avert its eyes and stuff. He said, it
Speaker 3: put its hands up and its hand was massive, and
Speaker 3: he said he freaked out. And that's when Riley turned.
Speaker 3: She saw it and screamed, All of a sudden, this
Speaker 3: thing disappears out of you. He was like, it was
Speaker 3: a cave man. What did you see? What did you see?
Speaker 3: She's on the verge of needing some medication to calm
Speaker 3: him down. Blake tells her, hey, I saw it. It
Speaker 3: looked like a caveman. Other than that, I don't know.
Speaker 3: So they're discussing it at this point, they're talking in
Speaker 3: hush tones. Blake said that he started shaking, had to
Speaker 3: sit down next to his wife. He's sitting there. He
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know what the hell a caveman
Speaker 3: is doing. But that was a cave man. That was
Speaker 3: not a suit. That couldn't have been a cost to
Speaker 3: I saw its eyes. Its eyes had a little bit
Speaker 3: of a red eyeshine, and the way it moved, it
Speaker 3: wasn't someone in a suit. In those moments, Riley was
Speaker 3: trying to explain it away, maybe if someone playing a prank,
Speaker 3: and he was like, no, it wasn't a bear. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a prank. Whatever it was alive, it wasn't a suit.
Speaker 3: So they're discussing what to do. They got stuff outside,
Speaker 3: They got the little slide out open, they got the
Speaker 3: generator that needs to be closed up, and the thing
Speaker 3: of it is that they knew without the slide out
Speaker 3: going in and the other stuff that the RV wouldn't
Speaker 3: go into gear. They start brainstorming what they're going to do,
Speaker 3: and immediately Riley's up. She's moving everything she has to
Speaker 3: to bring in the slide in. She does that Blake,
Speaker 3: we got that generator, we need to close it and
Speaker 3: shut the panel. She goes, don't worry about that right now,
Speaker 3: let's just go and he goes, hold on the awning.
Speaker 3: We got attended the awning. There's those jacks that drop
Speaker 3: down to help level the thing. We got to adjust those.
Speaker 3: There are certain things we have to do in order
Speaker 3: to not have to pay out a whole lot of
Speaker 3: money or basically buy this thing. So they take a
Speaker 3: little bit calm down. They find that canister bear spray.
Speaker 3: He has Riley shine out the window. He has on
Speaker 3: the headlamp. She's holding up that lantern at the window
Speaker 3: for whatever reason. I think sometimes when people go in
Speaker 3: the shot. Because I had a conversation with Blake briefly
Speaker 3: about this, I was like, what was the purpose of
Speaker 3: having her hold the lantern up in the window because
Speaker 3: it's not going to cast all that much light. He
Speaker 3: honestly didn't know. He wanted her to feel like she
Speaker 3: was part of her keep her eyes out on him
Speaker 3: to make sure he was safe. Whatever it worked out
Speaker 3: to be, he wasn't quite sure. It was just what
Speaker 3: came out. So he goes out. He's got the bear spray.
Speaker 3: He tends to the one jack just outside the door
Speaker 3: back behind the back tire, tends to that, goes around,
Speaker 3: shuts the generator in, shuts the panel, takes care of
Speaker 3: the jack that's right underneath that area, and then he
Speaker 3: goes up to the front. They only use the outside
Speaker 3: one up front. At this point, Riley's on the inside.
Speaker 3: She's up at the front inside the cab, up in
Speaker 3: the windshield and stuff holding up the lamp. He reached
Speaker 3: down and he's doing what he has to do with
Speaker 3: this little thing, little handle. He gets set taken care of.
Speaker 3: He comes around and he has a headlamp on. He
Speaker 3: glances up because he heard a booth sound. He looks
Speaker 3: across the road and then the brush across the road.
Speaker 3: There's this thing standing there watching him. He freezes. Now
Speaker 3: where he stops, he's back around basically at the driver's
Speaker 3: side door. Almost when he's here's the sound and looks across.
Speaker 3: So he's frozen, right, He's trying to assess again what
Speaker 3: he's seeing because he's just so thrown off, he said
Speaker 3: by the appearance of this thing. He said, it was
Speaker 3: every bit of nine foot tall, if not taller, but
Speaker 3: at least nine foot tall, very wide. While he's stuck
Speaker 3: staring the overwhelming fear he had, not making a noise
Speaker 3: or anything, just you know, like full of indecision, do
Speaker 3: I move, will let attack? You know, he was basically
Speaker 3: stuck in fear as he's snapping out of it. He
Speaker 3: turns as he's going back towards the door, he starts
Speaker 3: yelling out, get out of here. Stay tuned for more
Speaker 3: sasquatch out to see will be right back after these
Speaker 3: messages something along those lines. There are some explicitives in there.
Speaker 3: As he's getting back to the door, all of a
Speaker 3: sudden it lies open and there's Riley. She had found
Speaker 3: one of their other flashlights that they had stored away somewhere,
Speaker 3: and it was one of those old maglights, right, it
Speaker 3: was like a four D cell battery, one one of
Speaker 3: those big old law enforcement looking types. And she had
Speaker 3: that on it and saw it and it started yelling
Speaker 3: get out of here. But what Blake did not notice
Speaker 3: is she had that bear spray in her hand, right,
Speaker 3: He didn't even notice because everything going on. Then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden he sees her raise her hand and
Speaker 3: yell at it and start spraying this bear spray. Now,
Speaker 3: it came out in a huge plume. It was evident
Speaker 3: in the light because his head lamp and her with
Speaker 3: the flashlight. This cloud just enveloped across the street. Again,
Speaker 3: the road is a very wide. It considered a primitive
Speaker 3: broke just gravel. As this cloud surrounded this thing across
Speaker 3: the road. All of a sudden they hear this hillacious noise.
Speaker 3: It was like a hack, sneeze, cough all at once.
Speaker 3: Then the loudest, most thunderous scream. It was grouse scream,
Speaker 3: all of it mixed in one. They heard it thrashing
Speaker 3: it through the brush. It sounded like it was coming
Speaker 3: at him, So they rushed inside, shut the door. No
Speaker 3: sooner in the door shut they feel the back end again.
Speaker 3: Bam hard, real hard. At that point, that's where Blake
Speaker 3: was concerned that the ass end might be so far
Speaker 3: off on the soft part of the shoulder that they
Speaker 3: might not be able to drive out of there. So
Speaker 3: he immediately runs up to the front. The keys that
Speaker 3: they had sitting in the center little area had knocked
Speaker 3: off from where they were, so he's looking around. He
Speaker 3: finds the keys. He starts up the vehicle. He said,
Speaker 3: when he put it in drive, when he initially gave
Speaker 3: a gas, it peeled out a little bit, so he
Speaker 3: gunned it. It caught enough traction to just work itself
Speaker 3: up and off down the road. The whole time he
Speaker 3: was driving down the road, Riley was screaming, don't stop,
Speaker 3: don't stop. She was at the very back. In the
Speaker 3: very back, there was this little small window in the middle.
Speaker 3: When she looked at it, there was half of it
Speaker 3: was obscured by the ladder that led up to the
Speaker 3: top of the RV. But she was looking out the back.
Speaker 3: She saw it almost keeping up with the RV, and
Speaker 3: it broke off its chasing and went off in the tundra.
Speaker 3: She went over the other window. By then it had
Speaker 3: disappeared into the night. He said. They drove all away
Speaker 3: from where they were to somewhere here in Wasilla. He
Speaker 3: doesn't know exactly where was some electrical place and the
Speaker 3: way he was describing it, I assume Brown's Electric over
Speaker 3: near Main Street. But they made it to their in
Speaker 3: part before they felt comfortable enough to rest. I want
Speaker 3: to thank them for reaching out. For a lot of
Speaker 3: people they investigate go down the rabbit the hole, so
Speaker 3: to speak, after they had an experience that they can't explain.
Speaker 3: Feel was very similar for Blake and Riley. They went
Speaker 3: looking for answers of any kind. They'd let it go
Speaker 3: for a while and then started looking back into it.
Speaker 3: When they started their Google search or whatever. They found
Speaker 3: the channel and reached out. I appreciate them reaching out.
Speaker 3: I appreciate them being patient with the time it took
Speaker 3: to connect and hear their story again. That area. I
Speaker 3: don't know how many encounters there's been over there. There's
Speaker 3: been some right near Monahan Flats there, Swede Lake Trail,
Speaker 3: Golkana River south of there. I wanted to share with
Speaker 3: you today. This comes from we'll name him Tyler. Tyler
Speaker 3: is an elder. He's getting up on there in age.
Speaker 3: He's in a Native Copper River valley up north. This
Speaker 3: is something that his dad has always shared with them.
Speaker 3: As he was growing up, whenever he would be going
Speaker 3: out in the woods, his dad would always sit him
Speaker 3: down and tell him about this encounter. Now, years back,
Speaker 3: late eighteen hundred's the Taylor Highway area. That area, like
Speaker 3: eighteen eighty, there was a little gold rush and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of mines back up in that valley that
Speaker 3: cuts up back through there. It started off as a
Speaker 3: bunch of trails from locals coming from Eagle Chicken all
Speaker 3: these places they're going up to do their mining. Now,
Speaker 3: the Taylor Highway proper was actually not built until the
Speaker 3: winter from forty five to forty six, and it was
Speaker 3: completed in nineteen fifty one. This is going back. His dad,
Speaker 3: Tyler Senior, told him ever since he was young, many
Speaker 3: times over the course of his life about this area,
Speaker 3: which I guess the closest reference we would have would
Speaker 3: be Taylor Highway at Mosquito Creek. There's a family that
Speaker 3: had saw these creatures with tails, So this is the
Speaker 3: area we're talking about. It was during this construction process.
Speaker 3: It was after the winter of forty six. It was
Speaker 3: later on into the spring. Tyler Senior told him that
Speaker 3: during this time they were still doing so prospecting up
Speaker 3: in the area. As the highway is being built. It's
Speaker 3: labeled a highway now, but back then it was nothing
Speaker 3: better than a cat road cut in with the dozer.
Speaker 3: Don't get the impression that it was some modern kind
Speaker 3: of road. Is not the case. As any remote road
Speaker 3: up here. It is primitive. So he always told them
Speaker 3: that in the spring they were extra careful when they
Speaker 3: were going back up in there due to the bushman,
Speaker 3: because the bushmen would wait until you were unsuspecting an attack.
Speaker 3: So Tyler would always ask, what do you mean. His
Speaker 3: dad would tell him that they would wait until the
Speaker 3: people in the area would kind of get complacent, if
Speaker 3: you will. Let's just get into what actually happened with
Speaker 3: Tyler Senior. It was spring in nineteen forty six. The
Speaker 3: runoff and the breakup was most of the way done with.
Speaker 3: And as they were going up in there, it was
Speaker 3: called forty Mile at the time, him and two of
Speaker 3: his cousins, they had a small claim it was producing gold.
Speaker 3: They were up in there, they were doing their thing.
Speaker 3: They had been there about four days in this particular area.
Speaker 3: They were doing a little bit of panning and going
Speaker 3: through some tailings that they had from the previous season,
Speaker 3: and just making sure they were accounting for every little
Speaker 3: morsel of gold they could find. Tyler Senior told him
Speaker 3: that he remembers it clearly. They had been there four days.
Speaker 3: Not a breath of any kind of wildlife in this
Speaker 3: particular area. It was odd because usually that's when animals
Speaker 3: were stirring. Bearris would coming out of hibernation. They would
Speaker 3: usually at least see a handful of bears every season, regardless,
Speaker 3: moving out of the valley heading down towards a copper river.
Speaker 3: So not seeing them it was odd. It was very odd.
Speaker 3: He said that night on the fourth day, as they
Speaker 3: were just finishing up dinner, they were on the river bank.
Speaker 3: The river was still a little swollen, but it wasn't
Speaker 3: very deep in that area. The way it sloped up
Speaker 3: away from the river was a lot of gravel and sand,
Speaker 3: was a little bit of a bank, and then the
Speaker 3: trees started, and then there's trees cutting back up, and
Speaker 3: then it went up to the mountain. And he said
Speaker 3: that night, just as they were finishing dinner, they started
Speaker 3: hearing noises up on that side, which would be to
Speaker 3: their east if you're facing north, it was to their east.
Speaker 3: They became suspect because of the bushmen. Now these three
Speaker 3: people had dealt with it a few times in the past,
Speaker 3: so they were aware, but the severity of which things
Speaker 3: were gonna go was realized until this night. So as
Speaker 3: they were sitting there, they started talking. All the bushmen's
Speaker 3: back I was up there. They could hear making noises,
Speaker 3: weird noises that they hadn't heard before. Cooing like a pigeon,
Speaker 3: but very loud, very powerful whoops, short sharp whistles. It
Speaker 3: would go on, but it was never coming out of
Speaker 3: the tree line. It was staying within the trees a
Speaker 3: little rocks being thrown at the camp, chunks and clumps
Speaker 3: of grass. Sometimes a piece of broken log would be
Speaker 3: rolled their way. Nothing large enough to really make them
Speaker 3: feel like it was trying to kill them or get
Speaker 3: them right. So he said they were on edge that
Speaker 3: night because something was off about that as well. It
Speaker 3: was a different tone to everything. Someone might ask why
Speaker 3: would they go back? You got to understand how people
Speaker 3: are from that generation. If you don't know, look into it.
Speaker 3: These are the kind of people that we learned from.
Speaker 3: This world's gotten real soft. I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 3: They had a hard time sleeping because this noise continued
Speaker 3: through the night up until dawn the next day. Tyler
Speaker 3: Senior told them that when they got up the next morning,
Speaker 3: they had noticed that they could see where something had
Speaker 3: circled them a few times during the night, which really
Speaker 3: made the hairstand on their necks because it was noticed
Speaker 3: that these tracks stayed about fifteen feet away from the
Speaker 3: entire camp, which was a couple of wall tents set
Speaker 3: up the way it was laid out. It stayed approximately
Speaker 3: fifteen feet away, circled around multiple times as they were
Speaker 3: going on with the morning. They never had it come
Speaker 3: out of the trees, but always stayed up in the trees,
Speaker 3: stayed out of view, made the noises and through stuff.
Speaker 3: So they were concerned that it's something's going on. It
Speaker 3: it's over here. So during the course of that day,
Speaker 3: there was some other miners that had come through just
Speaker 3: stopped by. There's some people they knew. They were heading
Speaker 3: a little further north to their claim to get things
Speaker 3: started for the season. They made mentioned to them, Hey,
Speaker 3: we had some noises going on here, rocks being thrown.
Speaker 3: If you guys be aware. It kind of showed them
Speaker 3: a little bit of the trackway of the way this
Speaker 3: thing circled the room. The two guys that were heading
Speaker 3: up further north to their claim to start working it,
Speaker 3: they immediately were like, yeah, we've dealt with it at
Speaker 3: our camp the past few years. They had a little
Speaker 3: short discussion about it being aggressive. The other two had
Speaker 3: stated that they had two dogs a few years back
Speaker 3: that they brought with them and this particular thing killed
Speaker 3: their dogs. So they took note, took it serious. The
Speaker 3: guys continued on. Understand, these guys were heavily armed, armed
Speaker 3: for bear. They were not playing games. They weren't just
Speaker 3: having some thirty thirties or anything like that. They had
Speaker 3: the old school forty five seventies, crazy powerful guns. The
Speaker 3: day continues on into the night. At dusk, they got
Speaker 3: nothing done that day. They were constantly listening. It wasn't
Speaker 3: until dusk that the noises started. Rocks started being thrown,
Speaker 3: But the difference was the rocks were bigger. There was
Speaker 3: three rocks thrown initially that started everything off. Before the noise.
Speaker 3: Each of those rocks thrown hit each one of the
Speaker 3: individuals in the lake. It had hurt enough to cruple
Speaker 3: a grown man to the ground. The rocks were roughly
Speaker 3: about half size of a baseball. These are river rocks.
Speaker 3: You got understand when you get into those river valleys.
Speaker 3: A lot of the rocks they're not jagged, they're smoothed over.
Speaker 3: They're rounded over from all the water and stuff. After
Speaker 3: this happened, they were inclined to start yelling up in
Speaker 3: the trees. One of the individuals, not Tyler senior, but
Speaker 3: one of his cousins, fired a couple rounds up at
Speaker 3: a tree that was closest to the edge where the
Speaker 3: river line in the bank stop. Shot a couple shots
Speaker 3: over that way, and about twenty minutes later, they were
Speaker 3: all sitting there wondering what the hell was going to happen,
Speaker 3: because they had never been directly hit by these rocks before.
Speaker 3: It was mainly harassment before that little pebbles, little things
Speaker 3: coming near, hitting the fire, things like that. So to
Speaker 3: be directly hit each of them in the leg and
Speaker 3: it was between the knee and the foot, so right
Speaker 3: in the side of the cast. They're getting hit by
Speaker 3: these rocks, very accurate. They were very concerned because it
Speaker 3: had ticked up a notch, going along with what their
Speaker 3: friends said earlier that day that were continuing up to
Speaker 3: their claim it was an ominous feeling. What to expect
Speaker 3: because they killed their dogs. It stalked us last night
Speaker 3: when we were sleeping. Now it's hitting us with rocks.
Speaker 3: As they were having a discussion on what they should
Speaker 3: do of whether they should take watch, maybe to keep
Speaker 3: watch one keep watch, they were debating back and forth
Speaker 3: what would be the most optimal thing because they didn't
Speaker 3: want to be caught off guard like they may have
Speaker 3: been the night before. From what Tyler Senior said. As
Speaker 3: they were having this discussion, it was dusk, but they
Speaker 3: were just getting their fire builped up. During the course
Speaker 3: of that day. Since they were all on edge, they
Speaker 3: collected extra firewood in case they needed a larger fire.
Speaker 3: They're getting this fire larger and larger, and they hear
Speaker 3: something downstream of them. It startled them. The guns ready,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden they hear, don't fire. It
Speaker 3: was a person. Now, this particular person had a claim
Speaker 3: that they were heading to and they got a late start.
Speaker 3: This person comes and joins them in camp. They knew
Speaker 3: the person. He had a claim further on up. He
Speaker 3: was basically running late that day and asked him, Hey,
Speaker 3: I can't put to you guys here tonight because it's dusk.
Speaker 3: I'm running out of daylight and I don't want to
Speaker 3: move in these damn woods in the dark. And they said,
Speaker 3: not a problem. Tyler Senior had a wall tent basically
Speaker 3: for himself and his two cousins shared the other one.
Speaker 3: So Tyler Senior was like, you can throw your gear
Speaker 3: in my tent there and you can both there. He
Speaker 3: drops his stuff inside the tent. He noticed everyone armed,
Speaker 3: so he made sure he brought his rifle back out
Speaker 3: and said, you guys having bare problems? They said, no,
Speaker 3: we're not. It's a bushman the man got concerned and
Speaker 3: he told them, Hey, I had a dog last year
Speaker 3: that went missing. I think the bushmen took it. But
Speaker 3: they're like, yeah, we heard over there. They're dogs a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago went missing as well. They're all
Speaker 3: having this talk about this stuff happening. It wasn't like
Speaker 3: nowadays there's a lot of hush toes. People want to
Speaker 3: whisper about it. But these guys in that element, they
Speaker 3: had to be honest with each other and tell them
Speaker 3: what was going on. And so the guy that came
Speaker 3: up to him that startled him coming from a downriver
Speaker 3: told him that he heard from somebody that this particular
Speaker 3: bushman in that area at the time hated people because
Speaker 3: it had been shot a handful of years prior. He
Speaker 3: told whatever that instance was. And as they were having
Speaker 3: this discussion, they hear a scream come from couldn't have
Speaker 3: been more than one hundred yards away, but it was
Speaker 3: just inside that tree line. I was off to the
Speaker 3: east of them. From what Tyler Senior expressed to Junior
Speaker 3: was it was very powerful and very menacing. It had
Speaker 3: a very menacing tone to it, not like the stuff
Speaker 3: they had heard prior, which was just noises. So as
Speaker 3: they were standing there, they all stood up and they're
Speaker 3: trying to focus on the direction that the sound came from.
Speaker 3: As that's going on, all of a sudden they hear
Speaker 3: something was thrown. But it landed like half the distance
Speaker 3: from the bank line the gravel and sand and stuff.
Speaker 3: It landed about half distance. It landed with the weird sound.
Speaker 3: It was obviously not a rock. What it ended up
Speaker 3: being was a caribou had the antleans had been broken off.
Speaker 3: It was the head and part of the neck, and
Speaker 3: it looked like it had been wrung off of the body.
Speaker 3: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll
Speaker 3: be right back. After these messages, the two cousins they
Speaker 3: went over, retrieved it, brought it back, and they were
Speaker 3: looking at it near the campfire. The guy that had
Speaker 3: just joined them that evening, he got really creeped out.
Speaker 3: He goes, this is a message. This is a message.
Speaker 3: It's telling us we're going to face this kind of fate.
Speaker 3: And they're like, calm down, calm down, we have our guns.
Speaker 3: It's just a bushman. They dismissed it right So as
Speaker 3: they're sitting there talking, sure enough, they hear crashing, just
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of chaotic noises coming from that tree line,
Speaker 3: and it sounded like it was coming at them. But
Speaker 3: they all got their guns up and they're waiting to
Speaker 3: see what happened. Now, understand, at dusk in the spring,
Speaker 3: during that time, anytime in Alaska, it gets dark and
Speaker 3: silhouetted in the trees, but the sky stays pretty light.
Speaker 3: Unless you've experienced it, it's kind of hard to put
Speaker 3: into context. So even though it wasn't fully dark like
Speaker 3: pitch black, it was dark in the trees in very
Speaker 3: low light conditions. Right, So they're anticipating this and coming out,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, noises stopped. They start hearing
Speaker 3: this weird noise. It sounded like something flying through the air.
Speaker 3: They're scattered a little bit, like anticipating another rock or
Speaker 3: a stick or something aimed for them. It wasn't. It
Speaker 3: was a hind quarter that had been stripped down to
Speaker 3: the bone of that. They assumed the same caribou because
Speaker 3: it flung and landed and everyone started looking at it.
Speaker 3: The guy that joined them that evening again said it's
Speaker 3: threatening us. It's threatening us. Maybe we should leave, Maybe
Speaker 3: we should leave. I want to leave, but I don't
Speaker 3: want to leave alone and end up like that again.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, it's just trying to scare us off,
Speaker 3: basically dismissive yet again, Tyler Sr. Told the group, we
Speaker 3: need to keep an eye on. We'll keep watch. We'll
Speaker 3: do two keeping an eye out while two others rest.
Speaker 3: Let's do it one from each tent. So one of
Speaker 3: the cousins and I will start first, and then we'll
Speaker 3: let you know the other two rest, and then we'll
Speaker 3: trade out halfway through the night, so they get that
Speaker 3: squared away. I'd have a hard time sleeping too. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't really be able to get much rest in those
Speaker 3: kind of conditions. However, Tyler Senior and his cousin taking
Speaker 3: the first watch. The other two retired into the tents.
Speaker 3: A little while later. As the night went on, it
Speaker 3: was just about an hour before they were going to
Speaker 3: swap out. Tyler Senior said he was sitting there sipping
Speaker 3: on some coffee. They weren't looking at the fire. They
Speaker 3: kept the fire going pretty good size, but they would
Speaker 3: keep their eyesight off away from the fire, so they
Speaker 3: weren't tainting whatever night vision they would have. He said.
Speaker 3: He kept feeling like there was a dark shadow just
Speaker 3: right over there, just outside of the trees, moving back
Speaker 3: and forth, when he couldn't shake the thought, but he
Speaker 3: wasn't hearing anything, so he thought maybe his nerves and
Speaker 3: everything were working on him. He said, every hair on
Speaker 3: his body stood up. He knew, without knowing for sure,
Speaker 3: that whatever that dark shadow was, it was the bushman
Speaker 3: over there, the Harryman moving back and forth. So he
Speaker 3: got his cousin's attention and was getting him, and his
Speaker 3: cousin gave the thumbs up, Yeah, I see it too,
Speaker 3: So they start whispering. Tyler Senior tells his cousin, I've
Speaker 3: been noticing that for a minute now. I didn't want
Speaker 3: to be over paranoid or what have you. His cousin said, no,
Speaker 3: it's been going on for a little while. I've noticed it,
Speaker 3: but I didn't want to say nothing either because I
Speaker 3: couldn't be sure. As they're having this discussion, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, they hear it was by pedal running coming
Speaker 3: towards them. Immediately they stood up, they raised their rifles,
Speaker 3: and they both fire in the direction that this noise
Speaker 3: is coming, hollacious, scream loud. It shook him to their core.
Speaker 3: As they're chambering another round and going to shoot again.
Speaker 3: This thing moves so fast that it basically before they
Speaker 3: could even chamber another round, it had cleared the distance,
Speaker 3: basically ran through their fire in between the two tents,
Speaker 3: and back across to the other side, which was the
Speaker 3: higher side of the river bank where you go a
Speaker 3: little further and there would be the cut road, so
Speaker 3: it went that direction. It barreled through their camp, basically
Speaker 3: scattered their fire into a bunch of embers half burning logs,
Speaker 3: So they were startled. The other two people in the tent,
Speaker 3: they come rushing out one of the cousins tent. One
Speaker 3: of the logs had rolled up next to it and
Speaker 3: tried to catch it on fire, but luckily it wasn't
Speaker 3: able to. They got to it in time and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, so they quickly clicked what they
Speaker 3: can of the embers and the fire and they get
Speaker 3: it going again. They build it up, and now they
Speaker 3: got all four of them out there, they could hear
Speaker 3: this thing come back down stay just out of the light.
Speaker 3: It was literally stomping in the rocks and the gravel,
Speaker 3: making its presence known, but staying just outside of the firelight.
Speaker 3: According to what Tyler Junior said his dad would express
Speaker 3: was that it was a dark shadow, blacker than black,
Speaker 3: that was just out of firelight. So it was hard
Speaker 3: to see if you were getting a good beat on
Speaker 3: it when you're going to take a shot. Because these
Speaker 3: guys weren't fucking around. As soon as they said dark shadow,
Speaker 3: dark shape, everyone started taking shots at this thing. The
Speaker 3: first time. They lobbed avalli of shots that way. They
Speaker 3: heard it take off running after they shot, it ran
Speaker 3: back up the direction it initially came from. It was
Speaker 3: very loud when it took off. They said it sounded
Speaker 3: like it just kept going, like it didn't stop. It
Speaker 3: just faded out in the distance. They thought, maybe, okay,
Speaker 3: it retreated, it's had enough and it's going on about
Speaker 3: its way. At that point everyone calmed down a little bit.
Speaker 3: One of the cousins retrieved the caribou leg and started
Speaker 3: getting better look at it near the fire. It was
Speaker 3: the upper part of the hind quarter leg bones was
Speaker 3: basically broken. They were looking at it and they were
Speaker 3: noticing teeth marks on it where this thing had been
Speaker 3: chewing the flesh off the bone where it was broken.
Speaker 3: There was a broken piece of stick down in the
Speaker 3: cavity where this thing was using the stick to pull
Speaker 3: the marrow out, So they were contrigued by that. As
Speaker 3: that's going on, one of them gets everyone's attention and
Speaker 3: stands up and raises his rifle in that same direction.
Speaker 3: Because as they we're having this discussion very quietly, without
Speaker 3: a peep, this thing was back and it was just
Speaker 3: fairly inside the glow of the firelight, looking at them.
Speaker 3: To say it startled them would be an understatement. Can
Speaker 3: you just imagine you're sitting there, You're already freaked out,
Speaker 3: the craziness is happening, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: this thing is so quiet. It's right over there, just
Speaker 3: eyeballing the group, right, So they all jump up, they
Speaker 3: got their guns. This thing just looked at him. It
Speaker 3: was squatted down. Tyler Senior said that he had taken
Speaker 3: the lead and said, hold your fire away till everyone
Speaker 3: can confirm they got a good shot. Let's shoot it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna shoot it, but let's shoot it together. So
Speaker 3: as everyone standing, they moved out of the way of
Speaker 3: the firelight. So the firelight was illuminating this thing as
Speaker 3: best as it could at that point, right there was
Speaker 3: two on one side, two on the other of the
Speaker 3: fire facing the direction of where this thing was squatted.
Speaker 3: As they were aiming and talking about getting a beat
Speaker 3: on this thing, this thing started swaying back and forth
Speaker 3: faster and faster. It stood up, and when it stood up,
Speaker 3: it really freaked them out because everything else had been
Speaker 3: shadows quit running by or whatever. They actually got to
Speaker 3: gauge how tall it was, and it was like twelve
Speaker 3: foot tall, about four foot wide, kind of lanky, but
Speaker 3: very big, and so when it stood up, they said,
Speaker 3: holy crap, and get your aim ready, and then they
Speaker 3: all fired. I am from what he shared with Jor,
Speaker 3: this thing tumbled back, squirmed around a little bit, jumped up,
Speaker 3: ran towards him, and as it was coming again. They
Speaker 3: had rechambered at this point, and they're getting ready to fire,
Speaker 3: and just as they're getting ready to fire, it was gone.
Speaker 3: It just disappeared. They all fired again. It may have disappeared,
Speaker 3: but they were ready to shoot anyway, whether it was
Speaker 3: a reflex fire or sympathetic shooting, whatever you want to
Speaker 3: call it. So those shots go off, echoes around and everything.
Speaker 3: They were all stunne They're looking around, they're trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what the hell's going on now, very low
Speaker 3: light conditions, high strangeness. Everyone there was shaking at this point.
Speaker 3: Tyler Senior would tell Tyler Junior, you never want to
Speaker 3: engage with the Bushman's You always want to leave. If
Speaker 3: you don't leave, these things continue. That was the running
Speaker 3: game of the warnings the rest of that night, and
Speaker 3: the night was only halfway through. It would happen repeatedly.
Speaker 3: This saying would all of a sudden be right over
Speaker 3: somewhere around them. Sometimes they would hear it on the
Speaker 3: opposite side of the tent, and when they would go
Speaker 3: to investigate, they would hear it run off or move around.
Speaker 3: It always seemed to want to show itself in a way.
Speaker 3: It would always make itself known, almost like a threat,
Speaker 3: because what Senior would tell Junior is that every time
Speaker 3: they would notice it, it would be just at the
Speaker 3: edge of the firelight and doing the same things it
Speaker 3: was staring at them, and it would start swaying back
Speaker 3: and forth faster and faster outside of that, initially disappearing
Speaker 3: running at them when they would fire at it. After that,
Speaker 3: it would just all of a sudden not be there anymore.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't necessarily see it run off, but with all
Speaker 3: the activity, they couldn't tell if it just disappeared or
Speaker 3: what had happened. That's basically what happened for the rest
Speaker 3: of the night up until morning. Tyler Senior said. In
Speaker 3: the morning, just before the sun was getting ready to rise,
Speaker 3: they would hear multiple long air raid siren type screams,
Speaker 3: yells that would start low and wind up to a
Speaker 3: super high pitched. When it ended, they heard the first one,
Speaker 3: and the second one was heard further up the valley.
Speaker 3: Then there was another one heard. They couldn't tell because
Speaker 3: everything was echoing, but there was no less than four
Speaker 3: responses to the first screen. Everyone packed their stuff. The
Speaker 3: guy that had stayed the night because of the time
Speaker 3: and everything, he left with them. That's the day that
Speaker 3: they actually stopped their little mining operation there. Again, it
Speaker 3: was known as forty Mile Road, I think in nineteen
Speaker 3: fifty one it was named the Taylor Highway. Again. This
Speaker 3: area was all a bunch of trails for gold miners.
Speaker 3: There's things to be said about gold mines and harry
Speaker 3: Man encounters because historically speaking, there's quite a few. I
Speaker 3: don't know what there is to it, but it seems
Speaker 3: like something about it. I want to thank Tyler Junior
Speaker 3: and Atna elder for reaching out and sharing that. I
Speaker 3: want to thank the younger generation who have been bringing
Speaker 3: videos of mind to the elders, encouraging them to share,
Speaker 3: because again, this is about our safety out here. Man.
Speaker 3: It's crazy just to thought of shooting something in a
Speaker 3: disappearing because it's not the first time I've heard that.
Speaker 3: It's not more than a couple of handfuls of times.
Speaker 3: There is definitely something beyond we can even grasp. Rest
Speaker 3: in peace to Tyler Senior, that generation marev crazy. Thank
Speaker 3: you guys for joining me. Lots more to come. Have
Speaker 3: a good day.
Speaker 4: They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
Speaker 2: Out, stay inside, step stays stasie child, this child, that
Speaker 2: child everything? Can you ride back right back? Joy for me?
Speaker 2: Joy staying right you come it right away side Still stay,
Speaker 2: says says States to Stutt, talking about the names Stillssts
Speaker 2: and Thames used to these things.