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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me fred in Alaska. What I wanted
Speaker 2: to share with you today comes from Rodolfo, originally from
Speaker 2: the Philippines. Doesn't live in Alaska anymore, not just due
Speaker 2: to this situation, but different opportunities as far as his
Speaker 2: job was concerned. What ended up happening about thirty years
Speaker 2: ago is when Rodolpho came from the Philippines, he worked
Speaker 2: country jobs down Dutch Harbor or various other places outside
Speaker 2: of Togyak. It basically factory trollers working in a factory life,
Speaker 2: just processing fish. After five years of that, he had
Speaker 2: been saving his money decided I'm going to live in Anchorage.
Speaker 2: He was doing well for himself. He had went to
Speaker 2: a trade school. One of his good friends was an
Speaker 2: Alaska Native guy that he met at trade school. His
Speaker 2: buddy was always talking about Bush, Alaska. His friend happened
Speaker 2: to be from the Yukon River area. His friend told
Speaker 2: him one time, this is about twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: He said, Hey, my cousin just got his pilot's license.
Speaker 2: He's itching to go a flight seeing. Maybe we can
Speaker 2: do hey, moose hunting trips. Since you've never been hunting,
Speaker 2: I'll take you moose hunting up in my home stomping grounds.
Speaker 2: We'll make a goul of it. Since my friend's willing
Speaker 2: to fly stare for free. All we need to worry
Speaker 2: about is our own provisions. Radolpho was like, yeah, but yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: What is up happening is they leave Anchorage. They had
Speaker 2: to make a couple of pit stops for fuel along
Speaker 2: the way. Their last pit stop was an aviic. They
Speaker 2: got fuel, his friend took off. They started heading north
Speaker 2: on the Yukon River. It worked out that as they
Speaker 2: were going north, they noticed this little valley running parallel.
Speaker 2: It was Grayling Creek. They've seen that and they're just
Speaker 2: like Rodolpho's friend was like, yeah, let's go, let's go
Speaker 2: down there. There's big moose in that area. Let's go,
Speaker 2: We'll go there. His friend did thing on the plotter,
Speaker 2: made sure he knew where he was going to have
Speaker 2: to go to get them back, because his friend had
Speaker 2: other stuff to do. He had just gotten his license.
Speaker 2: He was itching to do his own working for an outfitter.
Speaker 2: He was going to be transporting people. He was anxious
Speaker 2: to make money. He had just gotten his license. Takes
Speaker 2: them to the spot, the landing location, Rodolfo. He was
Speaker 2: not familiar with the area. It's an approximate whether camp
Speaker 2: is around the bend, a couple miles away up Grayling Creek. Well,
Speaker 2: once they get back up in there, that's when they realized, hey,
Speaker 2: we're at the bottom of its relatively steep. It's not
Speaker 2: like super high mountains or anything, but it's relatively steep.
Speaker 2: Coming down into this little valley may not be the
Speaker 2: best for moose. They gave it a couple days. Way
Speaker 2: back up in there, they went further than three miles
Speaker 2: to camp out. For the first night, they weren't feeling it.
Speaker 2: It was really quiet. There wasn't much wildlife sign. As
Speaker 2: they were coming back down the creek towards their landing area,
Speaker 2: there were still a couple miles away from it, they
Speaker 2: started seeing fresh moose sign. Rodolpho's friend was like, Hey,
Speaker 2: this would be the good spot. We'll pick a camping
Speaker 2: spot near here. We'll go glass. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: thick vegetation. They literally spent half a day too, because
Speaker 2: the first half was packing up their original camp and
Speaker 2: moving down and setting up camp second time. But they
Speaker 2: had to hack down a whole bunch of stuff just
Speaker 2: to have a place that wasn't directly on the creek.
Speaker 2: From what was told to me, the creek bed was
Speaker 2: relatively dry. There was water moving through there, but very little.
Speaker 2: They didn't want to be down there because obviously there
Speaker 2: there's no vegetation growing in there's obviously it was an
Speaker 2: area for rainwater runoff, snow melt runoff. It just wasn't
Speaker 2: a place where his friend wanted to be. Rodolfo honestly
Speaker 2: didn't know better at the time. He wasn't well versed
Speaker 2: at hunting at all. I had to borrow a rifle
Speaker 2: from his friend all that stuff. Anyway, at the end
Speaker 2: of day too, they had camp set up. It was
Speaker 2: roughly thirty five feet above the creek bottom. As they
Speaker 2: were camping, they had a fire set up. His friend
Speaker 2: made something to do with cariboo. There was a little
Speaker 2: bit of loss in translation, but it was cariboo.
Speaker 3: Meet.
Speaker 2: Rodolfo was enjoying that with his friend. This is early
Speaker 2: faul it's hunting seasons. I had to have been at
Speaker 2: least August twentieth, because Rodolfo couldn't remember the exact day.
Speaker 2: We'll say end of August twenty five years. Back from
Speaker 2: their camp spot, there's vegetation kind of blocking their view
Speaker 2: of the creek, except when they're facing the creek from
Speaker 2: the hillside. Off a little bit, there's a little alley
Speaker 2: way that they had gouged out made their way up.
Speaker 2: That was their only line of sight down to the
Speaker 2: creek bottom. It gets on in the darkness. They got
Speaker 2: this fire going. They got lucky there was some dead spruce,
Speaker 2: some other dead vegetation really nearby. They were lucky to
Speaker 2: have a good amount of firewood. From what Rodolpho said,
Speaker 2: it was just after it got completely dark, no light
Speaker 2: over the horizon, couldn't see the top of the mountains
Speaker 2: around him or anything. That's when they started hearing a
Speaker 2: weird whistling sound coming down from the creek. They keep
Speaker 2: looking around. His friend would turn on a spotlight every
Speaker 2: once in a while, looking for whatever is making this whistle,
Speaker 2: because at night typically you don't hear a bunch of
Speaker 2: birds whistling stuff. It was really odd. They listened to this,
Speaker 2: he said, for about three four hours because his native
Speaker 2: friend was unsettled. Rodolfo didn't understand at the time. You
Speaker 2: got to remember, he's less than six years away from
Speaker 2: the Philippines, where he's still really heavily speaking broken English.
Speaker 2: He's not understanding a lot of the stuff because of
Speaker 2: that cultural clash. It wasn't bad, he just didn't fully
Speaker 2: understand his native buddies distress. His friend said, wait here,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go down there with the flashlight take
Speaker 2: a look around to see if I could see this thing.
Speaker 2: Rodolfo didn't know any better. He didn't put up any
Speaker 2: kind of argument to it. He was like, okay, I'll
Speaker 2: wait here. His friend reiterates, Hey, that's the safety on
Speaker 2: the gun. Rodolfo understood firearms. He never used a bolt
Speaker 2: action rifle, but he understood the mechanism safety. He wasn't
Speaker 2: an idiot by any means. His friend goes down the
Speaker 2: path Ridolfo was watching. He's just seeing the light. That's
Speaker 2: all he's seeing is the light what he's shining on.
Speaker 2: Just as his friend gets down to the bottom of
Speaker 2: this there are thirty five feet aboves had to have
Speaker 2: been at least seventy feet eighty feet to the creek bottom.
Speaker 2: He's watching him, watching the flashlight going back forth. He's
Speaker 2: just standing there watching. When his friend gets down to
Speaker 2: the bottom at the creek, he sees the spotlight go
Speaker 2: out of view, but he could see his vegetation lit
Speaker 2: up across the way from his friend. Going back forth,
Speaker 2: he saw a huge shadow. He was thrown off because
Speaker 2: it was quick. His friend was swinging the light. He
Speaker 2: saw a shadow on the vegetation from whatever his friend
Speaker 2: just beamed. All of a sudden, his friend comes scrambling
Speaker 2: up the hill and the light's just bouncing around. From
Speaker 2: Rodolph's perspective, all he's seen is the flashlight coming back
Speaker 2: at him. Was like, whoa, he's this standing there no
Speaker 2: cause for alarm at this moment. His friend was coming
Speaker 2: up real fast. He knew nothing about what the big
Speaker 2: shadow was until afterwards his friend gets back up to camp.
Speaker 2: Rodolfo said his friend was in tears, panicking like he'd
Speaker 2: never seen. He had known this guy through the trade school.
Speaker 2: He had known this guy really well. He never seen
Speaker 2: him this freaked out. It made him concerned. Where he
Speaker 2: was clutching the rifle. He was looking around. He was like,
Speaker 2: what's going on? What's going on? His friend kept saying,
Speaker 2: the Harryman's down there, the harryman. Rodolpho didn't understand what
Speaker 2: the hell is a harryman because in his mind's eye,
Speaker 2: he's just thinking like a mountain man, big beard, that
Speaker 2: kind of thing. That's what he had envision and goes no,
Speaker 2: like a bigfoot, starts asking questions, what's the bigfoot? What's this?
Speaker 2: What's that? His friend gets a little annoyed because he
Speaker 2: just beamed this thing with a flashlight. He told radolphel
Speaker 2: when he got down to the bottom of the hill
Speaker 2: where Rodolphul couldn't see, but when he saw that old
Speaker 2: shadow in the beam of light, the shadow that was
Speaker 2: cast from the light, his friend said, when he got
Speaker 2: down to the bottom, he heard a grunt off to
Speaker 2: his left. He turned immediately started flashed around, didn't see
Speaker 2: anything at first, and then this thing stepped out, looked
Speaker 2: at him. Said when it looked at him, it looked
Speaker 2: really angry. That's when his friend retreated back up. They're
Speaker 2: both standing up by this fire. His friend's loading up
Speaker 2: the fire, warning him, Hey, don't stare at the light
Speaker 2: the firelight too much because you'll lose your night vision.
Speaker 2: We need to keep an eye out for this thing
Speaker 2: because it's just down there. The last place they saw
Speaker 2: it was just below them. He was too focused on
Speaker 2: what the hell is going on down below because they
Speaker 2: were hearing movement. They would hear brush move his friend
Speaker 2: would hit the flashlight shine. They weren't seeing anything, but
Speaker 2: they heard movement. Because of where they were elevated above
Speaker 2: the creek bed, it was harder for them to determine
Speaker 2: pinpoint where the sounds was because any cracking brush or
Speaker 2: whatever would also echo from across the other side of
Speaker 2: vegetation back at them. Even though it was muted, it
Speaker 2: was still obscuring the sound. They couldn't pinpoint. His friend
Speaker 2: was hyper vigilant with flashlight trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2: He said it must have gone another hour of that
Speaker 2: going on. Rodolfo was getting tired. He didn't understand fully
Speaker 2: what was going on. It just wasn't in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: After about an hour that he told his friend, I'm tired,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lay down. You let me know if you
Speaker 2: need help or whatever. But he didn't realize the potential
Speaker 2: danger there. His friend was just like, yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 2: I'll let you know. Rodolpho said he crawls into a
Speaker 2: sleeping bag and had the rifle down by his feet,
Speaker 2: though pop up tid he falls asleep. He said he
Speaker 2: didn't know how long he had been sleeping, but when
Speaker 2: he woke up to gunshots, there was light on the horizon.
Speaker 2: He could see the upper ridge by the mountain they
Speaker 2: were on. All of a sudden, he woke up to
Speaker 2: three gunshots, bamm and screaming, go get out of here,
Speaker 2: get out of here. He thought his friend was yelling
Speaker 2: at him to get out here. He was saying get
Speaker 2: out of here. In those moments, being freaked out, he
Speaker 2: thought his friend was calling him out of the tent.
Speaker 2: He rushes out with the gun and he's trying to
Speaker 2: open his eyes figure out what was going on. Rodolfo
Speaker 2: said his friend was in tears. He could see the
Speaker 2: tears streaking down his cheeks because he was just freaking out.
Speaker 2: He was like, what happened? What happened? He's got the rifle,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't know what to do. He's just there.
Speaker 2: He's an extra set of hands holding the gun. At
Speaker 2: this point, his friend tells him it was just next
Speaker 2: to me. I didn't see it. It was next to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it. That confused Rodolpho. He goes, what
Speaker 2: do you mean you didn't see it? If it's there,
Speaker 2: how you not see it? What it was doing was
Speaker 2: looking from the brush just outside of the area they
Speaker 2: cleared for their camp, less than ten feet away. This
Speaker 2: thing was slowly part in the brush, staring at his friend,
Speaker 2: who was not even looking damn near at his feet
Speaker 2: in the brush. He was trying to beam down towards
Speaker 2: a creek bed. He's literally overlooking this thing until when
Speaker 2: he was bringing his flashlight down. At one point, cut eyeshine,
Speaker 2: big eyeshine looking at him just feet away. That's when
Speaker 2: he freaked out, started shooting and brought Rodolpho out. From
Speaker 2: what Ridolpho said, his friend told him that once he
Speaker 2: started shooting, out of being just sheer startled, this thing
Speaker 2: just nonchalantly walked away, got onto the trail they had
Speaker 2: just busted coming up, and walked down to the creek bed,
Speaker 2: he said. For the rest of that morning they sat there.
Speaker 2: His friend was just shivering, not from the cold, but
Speaker 2: from just the adrenaline. He said. Once it got fully daylight,
Speaker 2: because they sat there quite as church mice, just listening
Speaker 2: as the sun was getting ready to come up, the
Speaker 2: scream just echoed up down the valley, real loud. Ridolfo
Speaker 2: based had to cover his ears because it was reverberating everywhere,
Speaker 2: he said. After that, his friend was really spooked. They
Speaker 2: had a handheld VHF little runabout radio the rover. He
Speaker 2: turned it on starts trying to radio for any local
Speaker 2: air traffic because his friend wasn't going to be due
Speaker 2: back for at least a couple more days according to
Speaker 2: their game plan, weather permitting. He knew they were a
Speaker 2: couple miles from the landing area, where his friend said
Speaker 2: that he would come and meet them when it comes
Speaker 2: time to be out there. They could signal each other
Speaker 2: or whatever, but there are a couple of days before
Speaker 2: this is supposed to happen. Regardless, his buddy gets on
Speaker 2: the handheld, starts radio for local air traffic. Not a peep,
Speaker 2: nothing going on. It gets a little lighter. His friend
Speaker 2: goes let's pack up. We got to go to the
Speaker 2: landing area. Ridolf's not arguing. His friend's telling him there's
Speaker 2: this monster. All Rodolfo is seen at this point is
Speaker 2: a big shadow cast gun shots, his friend telling him
Speaker 2: what happened. He didn't see the eye shine, but he's
Speaker 2: just literally a participant in this. He says, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll pack it, we'll go. They get everything packed up.
Speaker 2: When they get down to the bottom of the creek
Speaker 2: that he left because he said it reminded him of
Speaker 2: the pink panther. Don't looking around doing all this kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. Rodolfo is kind of holding his rifle, just
Speaker 2: what are we doing? Because he wasn't as freaked out
Speaker 2: as his friend because he hadn't seen anything. He wasn't
Speaker 2: mocking him. He just said it was comical. The way
Speaker 2: his friend was moving was this hyper vigilant when the
Speaker 2: wind would blow Russell leaves. His friend was just heam
Speaker 2: and the gun. He said. Going down this creek, it's
Speaker 2: a low grade going downhill and it hooks off to
Speaker 2: their left coming from their camp. He said. When they
Speaker 2: were just coming up to the point to where they
Speaker 2: were going to have to curve around, he said, his
Speaker 2: friend stops dropped down to one knee. It's pointing the
Speaker 2: rifle just straight ahead because the creek curves. But he's
Speaker 2: pointing into the brush. Rodolfo's not seeing anything. His friend's saying,
Speaker 2: it's standing there. It's standing there. Rodolfo doesn't see anything.
Speaker 2: Then he sees this sing move. The color brown, some
Speaker 2: of the sandy looking color in the dirt, like a
Speaker 2: carmel kind of brown, and little darker hues along with
Speaker 2: the boulder stuff. And once this thing moved, then he
Speaker 2: was able to see it because when it moved from
Speaker 2: where it was squatted down, it stood up and he
Speaker 2: could see the green behind it. He could see the
Speaker 2: silhouette a little better, but it was still a couple
Speaker 2: hundred yards away.
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Speaker 2: Rudolpho said, he got really scared really fast. I asked him.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, did it act aggressive it? Dolfho
Speaker 2: was like, no, it just stood there for a moment.
Speaker 2: It did this moving back and forth thing. Then it
Speaker 2: walked off up into the brush and he sat there
Speaker 2: and watched the brush move because it was out of sight,
Speaker 2: but they saw the brush move as it went up.
Speaker 2: He said, it kept going, kept going until they couldn't
Speaker 2: find the movement anymore because the wind picked up a
Speaker 2: little bit, all the brushers moving. They continue on down
Speaker 2: very slowly. According to what Rudolpho said, his friend was
Speaker 2: really shaken again, didn't know what to do. Kept saying,
Speaker 2: there's no shortcuts. We got to take the creek bed
Speaker 2: because we can't cut through the vegetation, and Ridolfo's agreeing
Speaker 2: with him, yes we can't. Let's just go. He wasn't
Speaker 2: as freaked out as his friend. I asked him. I
Speaker 2: was like, it was it because you didn't know what
Speaker 2: to expect? Or was it just what caused you to
Speaker 2: not be as freaked out? He goes, I only saw
Speaker 2: it way way far away. I didn't see it staring
Speaker 2: at me less than ten feet away or whatever. I
Speaker 2: was like, hey, fair enough, that's your feeling on it,
Speaker 2: that's you know what it is. But he said, once
Speaker 2: they got down around that bend, his friend started walking
Speaker 2: behind him, always turning around looking back up in the
Speaker 2: direction which would be directly in front of him. At
Speaker 2: this point, when they turned around looking up the hillside,
Speaker 2: the mountain side there whether saying had walked off. They
Speaker 2: got back to the general area of where the plane landed,
Speaker 2: basically set up camp. He said. For the first night
Speaker 2: his friend didn't sleep at all. There was no more noises,
Speaker 2: not even birds. They were in an open area, literally
Speaker 2: on the creek bed. As he went to bed, his
Speaker 2: friend was still up. He had to relieve himself. Halfway
Speaker 2: through that night, got up. The campfire was dying down.
Speaker 2: His friend had fallen asleep sitting up next to this
Speaker 2: little backpack some other stuff that he made a lean
Speaker 2: two chair to sit on the ground, lean against next
Speaker 2: to the fire. He didn't want to disturb his friend,
Speaker 2: but his friend was holding the gun. He wanted his
Speaker 2: friend to know, Hey, I'm stepping over here to relieve myself.
Speaker 2: Didn't want to accidentally get shot. Wakes his friend up,
Speaker 2: lets him know. His friend startled a little bit. God
Speaker 2: starts stoking the fire as Rodolfo relieves himself. Rodolfo said,
Speaker 2: when he came back to the tent to crawl back in,
Speaker 2: as the fire was rebuilding, putting off more light, he
Speaker 2: was having a short conversation with his friend about, Hey,
Speaker 2: you need to get some rest. Buddy, you're tired. We
Speaker 2: got another day or whatever for the plane's supposed to
Speaker 2: be back. Maybe get some rest. His friend was just like, no, man,
Speaker 2: it's still out here. Freaked out, Rodolpho said, just as
Speaker 2: he was getting ready to crawl back into the tent,
Speaker 2: the fire there was real dry branches that lit up
Speaker 2: real fast. Lit it up brighter than it was when
Speaker 2: he came out, because it was not smoldering yet. But
Speaker 2: it was a real small fire at that point when
Speaker 2: he first came out, short conversation, those branches caught it
Speaker 2: lit up more. Off to his left, he noticed eye
Speaker 2: shine right. I asked him about how far. He said,
Speaker 2: twenty feet maybe it was just a short distance away
Speaker 2: in the brush. About halfway up the brush which from
Speaker 2: the creek bed there was a little bit of a
Speaker 2: rise to the edge of the creek bank and the
Speaker 2: vegetation started. He said it was probably ten feet high.
Speaker 2: Where he saw the eye shine. Immediately was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I pointed at it. His friend had seen it almost
Speaker 2: the same time he did. Stands up, grabs a rifle,
Speaker 2: starts pointing and saying, get out of here, Get out
Speaker 2: of here. Rodolfo retrieves a rifle from the tent that
Speaker 2: he had next to sleeping bag, steps out beside him,
Speaker 2: is just holding it. He didn't want to point a rifle.
Speaker 2: He didn't know what was going on. He was just
Speaker 2: standing there in case something bad happened. From what Rodolfo said,
Speaker 2: as he's standing behind his friend, just off to his
Speaker 2: friend's shoulder, about maybe five feet this thing stepped out
Speaker 2: onto the creek bed. They're sitting there. He sees the
Speaker 2: eye shine. His friend stands up, starts yelling, get out
Speaker 2: of here, get out of here. This thing steps out,
Speaker 2: he guess makes it Roudolpho says it's about ten foot tall.
Speaker 2: Scared him. Scared Rodolpho very badly because when it stepped
Speaker 2: out onto the creek bed, it starts showing its teeth.
Speaker 2: It was making gestures using the back of its hand,
Speaker 2: brushing dirt on the ground. It would squat down, do
Speaker 2: that and stand up, putting on a display. He said
Speaker 2: it looked like it was trying to show dominance. No
Speaker 2: one was arguing with this thing about who is dominant.
Speaker 2: He said. It only lasted brief moments. Then it stood
Speaker 2: up screamed at him, not very long, not super loud,
Speaker 2: because it was basically standing over him. He said it
Speaker 2: was about maybe twenty feet away doing this, turned around,
Speaker 2: walked off into the darkness. His friend. Obviously neither one
Speaker 2: of them slept, built up the fire real big. Basically,
Speaker 2: they stayed there until a little bit later on in
Speaker 2: the morning. His buddy with the plane was supposed to
Speaker 2: be back that day or the following day, but either way,
Speaker 2: he said, his friend was on the handheld calling. Any
Speaker 2: time you'd hear a plane buzzing anywhere nearby, he would
Speaker 2: get on handheld relayed a message to his friend because
Speaker 2: the one plane he tried to get a hold of
Speaker 2: that was nearby said he was busy, he was doing
Speaker 2: a run for someone who needed to go to the
Speaker 2: hospital or something. But through relay, his friend was gotten
Speaker 2: a hold of let him know that they needed to
Speaker 2: be picked up by the end of that day, the
Speaker 2: morning after or later on in the day from this
Speaker 2: thing stepping out doing this display, his friend ended up
Speaker 2: coming in and getting them out of there. I want
Speaker 2: to thank Ridolfo for reaching out. There was a little
Speaker 2: bit of misunderstanding it times talking to him, because he
Speaker 2: still has a very heavy Filipino accident. Some of the
Speaker 2: words were hard for me. To understand. He totally understood.
Speaker 2: He wasn't like, you know, thinking I was trying to
Speaker 2: be a jerk. He lost track of his friend some
Speaker 2: years back. He's not sure where his friend is. He
Speaker 2: gave me his friend's name where he's from. I would
Speaker 2: have loved to have gotten hold of him. But the
Speaker 2: inroads I made trying to reach out back channel wise
Speaker 2: what not. Nothing came of it. Couldn't find a guy
Speaker 2: anywhere on Facebook or anything like that. I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear his side of it, because from what Rudolfo shared,
Speaker 2: it seemed like the display was more get out of
Speaker 2: here versus I'm going to get you, which, hey me,
Speaker 2: I'm biased. I don't trust him. But if they're not attacking,
Speaker 2: they're not attacking. It is what it is. He was
Speaker 2: pretty sure it was just showing itself to be the
Speaker 2: one in charge that they had to leave or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's super cold out the last couple of days up
Speaker 2: here minus twenty six. It's just misery. What I want
Speaker 2: to share with you today comes from Marcus Davy, former
Speaker 2: military many deployments to the Sandbox. As Marcus puts it,
Speaker 2: it works out that Davy was actually one of his underlings.
Speaker 2: Marcus was in a leadership role. Davy was one of
Speaker 2: his squad members. They deployed the different spots over a
Speaker 2: number of years that got split up, but eventually came back.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and nine, Marcus started getting out of the military,
Speaker 2: which I guess is a process I wouldn't know military
Speaker 2: guys would. During this time, he had some leave. He
Speaker 2: took a vacation to Montana and learned how to flyfish.
Speaker 2: Loved it really therapeutic form. When he came back, Davy
Speaker 2: was getting out too. They ran into each other. He
Speaker 2: told them, Hey, you should check out fly fishing. It
Speaker 2: really helped me. Davey went with Marcus to Wyoming. They
Speaker 2: did some flyfishing there. They digged it, loved it a lot.
Speaker 2: They go back to their perspective places. Because they're still
Speaker 2: getting out of the military, it had to find different housing.
Speaker 2: Shit like that. Marcus reaches out to one of his
Speaker 2: buddies that had gotten out a few years before, said
Speaker 2: he was going to Alaska to look him up. He
Speaker 2: tracked him down. He happened to be doing some work
Speaker 2: out at Connakinack Hospital when Marcus got a hold of him.
Speaker 2: His friend had been living in Dillingham a couple of
Speaker 2: years acquired eighteen foot lund, a thirty horse outboard. His
Speaker 2: friend was like, if fly fishing fishing in general is
Speaker 2: what you like, dude, I'm in Bristol Bay, the largest
Speaker 2: semon return in the world. You need to be up here.
Speaker 2: Marcus gets stoked, you know. He reached out to Davy.
Speaker 2: Davy was like, sure, I'll go to Alaska with you.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah. They end up getting up here. Meeting with
Speaker 2: Marcus's friend in Dillingham in twenty eleven. It was early June,
Speaker 2: lots of mosquitoes, lots of daylight. There was a lot
Speaker 2: of activity on the bay, but that was for commercial fishing.
Speaker 2: Of course, the lodges on the river. They got it
Speaker 2: all figured out. They used his lund. Marcus had learned
Speaker 2: how to read channels when he was in Montana. His
Speaker 2: buddy felt comfortable enough to let Marcus, He's a responsible guy,
Speaker 2: take his skiff. They went way up the New Sheigak.
Speaker 2: They looked for the furthest cabin they could find, which
Speaker 2: works out to be off the Newshigak River, off the
Speaker 2: Chichitnok River. It's way up the Nushagak River. Now, from
Speaker 2: what Marcus said, it was a journey. I had to
Speaker 2: stop grab fuel in New Studia Hawk to make sure
Speaker 2: they had enough fuel because they still had a good
Speaker 2: ways to go. They got a guy to guide them
Speaker 2: because in that particular spot, if you look on Google
Speaker 2: Earth around Klignik, there's all sorts of different It's like
Speaker 2: a maze. It's easy if you don't know the area,
Speaker 2: it's easy to get mixed up. Just go in circles.
Speaker 2: This guy showed them, got them to a point to
Speaker 2: where they're pretty much full proof, sent them on their way.
Speaker 2: Marcus avy when they get to this cabin. They get
Speaker 2: up to this cabin, on the way up, they would
Speaker 2: periodically throw the anchor fly fish. That's why they were there.
Speaker 2: They're having a great time. Marcus said, the closer they
Speaker 2: got to this cabin, the energy was different up there.
Speaker 2: It was way different. It was beautiful, but he said
Speaker 2: the energy made him feel like they were getting ready
Speaker 2: to clear a small village looking for Taliban fighters, which
Speaker 2: I can only imagine that kind of ominous. What are
Speaker 2: we going to be in for? But he said it
Speaker 2: was really weird to feel that in the wilds of Alaska.
Speaker 2: They get to the cab and he said, when we're unloading.
Speaker 2: First they got out of the skiff, went checked the
Speaker 2: cab and make sure it was usable, all this kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. As they're looking, they were armed. They each
Speaker 2: had an AR platform five five six rifle also deve.
Speaker 2: Marcus's friend sent them with his forty five seventy elever
Speaker 2: gun with plenty of AMMO. For the forty five seventy,
Speaker 2: he goes, look, you don't know about bears. He broke
Speaker 2: down some things. This a you want something with some thump.
Speaker 2: Your ars are great, but that's not going to stop
Speaker 2: a charging bear. It's going to really piss it off
Speaker 2: before it gets to you. He took his advice. They
Speaker 2: went to the shooting range. He got it on point
Speaker 2: to where he was very comfortable with the forty five
Speaker 2: seventy before this trip. They get up there, he has
Speaker 2: the forty five seventy with them, baby has his AR.
Speaker 2: As they go inspect the cab and stuff. Just a shell.
Speaker 2: It's a dried in cabin, a survival shelter basically, no
Speaker 2: wood stove, nothing like that. Just a shelf, a door.
Speaker 2: There's a window next to the door, a window. As
Speaker 2: you're going into this little cabin, the cabin faces towards
Speaker 2: the Chichitnok River. If you're standing at the front door
Speaker 2: looking out towards the river, actually it's a little askew.
Speaker 2: It's a little cattywompus. It's actually facing it due north
Speaker 2: the doorway. If you're at the door, the window will
Speaker 2: be over here on your left. They inspect around, make
Speaker 2: sure there was no bear hanging out and there stuff.
Speaker 2: They're chuckling because for some reason they felt really nervous
Speaker 2: about what the hell. It's as weird. They gather up
Speaker 2: their stuff, they're making trips. They're being very vigilant on
Speaker 2: looking around. This is their first time in the wilds
Speaker 2: of Alaska. Sit it is drastically different than Montana. Some
Speaker 2: similarities the Wyoming and Montana, but just the sheer isolation
Speaker 2: and of everything. As they're unloading, Marcus said that it
Speaker 2: was their last trip to the skiff. At that point,
Speaker 2: they were relaxed on packing the guns. He had a
Speaker 2: nine milimeter pistol on his hip Davy's side arm. He
Speaker 2: had a forty five, but it was still packed away.
Speaker 2: They were getting the last of the stuff. They were
Speaker 2: coming back up to the cabin. There's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a dog leg on the trail, because you got
Speaker 2: to understand, it's a brushy river bank where they were.
Speaker 2: When they got up there, they had to clear a
Speaker 2: little bit of an area. There's an obvious game trail,
Speaker 2: and I used it to where the trail was because
Speaker 2: this cabin, it appeared to them, hadn't been used in
Speaker 2: quite a while, but it was still standing. It was
Speaker 2: dried in. On their way back, they reached that dog
Speaker 2: leg that cuts back over towards seeing the cabin straight on,
Speaker 2: they heard a whooping scream off to their He said,
Speaker 2: if twelve o'clock was the direction he was facing, would
Speaker 2: be at his two o'clock, just off the corner of
Speaker 2: the cabin back behind. Whooping scream, thrashing moving away, freak
Speaker 2: them out. He draws his gun. Davy breaks into the
Speaker 2: cabin right us in there to grab his gun, comes
Speaker 2: back out. They're listening. They hear noise just breaking away,
Speaker 2: just thrashing, and this weird noise they never heard before.
Speaker 2: They were trying to rationalize it away. But it must
Speaker 2: have been a bear in heat or mating season for bears,
Speaker 2: or something new to Alaska. They didn't know. As they
Speaker 2: get back into the cabin. They're looking out that window.
Speaker 2: They're trying to assess what the hell is at Well,
Speaker 2: this sounded really big. They could hear the breaking thrashing
Speaker 2: as it moved away. They just assumed it must be
Speaker 2: a huge bear. The first couple of days they stayed
Speaker 2: near this cabin, just around just casting from shore. They
Speaker 2: went out in the skiff down on the Nisgak a
Speaker 2: little ways once or twice just for the first three
Speaker 2: days or they were just sticking near the cabin. On
Speaker 2: day four, the morning of at four am, Marcus was
Speaker 2: woken up by Davy. Davy had a little harder go
Speaker 2: of it during his time in the service. He would
Speaker 2: periodically have nightmares. It was something Marcus was aware of
Speaker 2: because they had dealt with it on deployment in the past.
Speaker 2: He was well aware of this issue that Davy was
Speaker 2: dealing with. But what was weird is at four am
Speaker 2: when he was woken up by Davy, sitting up, he's
Speaker 2: yelling at the window that's directly off to his left.
Speaker 2: He's yelling at it. You're not going to intimidate me.
Speaker 2: I'm not scared to you. You're not going to intimidate me.
Speaker 2: I'm not scared to you. Marcus is, hey, you're okay, buddy,
Speaker 2: You're okay, You're safe, and he notices dark movement by
Speaker 2: the freaking window. He's holy shit. He jumps up. He's
Speaker 2: scrambling and grabs something. He gets a hold of his
Speaker 2: pistol because it's not pits black in there, but it's
Speaker 2: dark enough to where everything isn't easily visible. But he
Speaker 2: happened to bump his pistol and grab the hold of it.
Speaker 2: He points it out the window as this dark figure
Speaker 2: moves away. Now it's land of the midnight sun. Let's
Speaker 2: not fully dark outside, it would be along the lines
Speaker 2: of the sun. Was actually up pointing the pistol at this,
Speaker 2: saying Davy's still screaming, I ain't fucking scared of you.
Speaker 2: You're just yelling. Marcus is like, hey, he puts his
Speaker 2: hand on his shoulder. He goes, I'm with you, buddy,
Speaker 2: and he's still pointing the gun at the window. The
Speaker 2: figure's gone. He can't make it out. He's looking around.
Speaker 2: Davy gets up that thing all night was trying to
Speaker 2: talk to me, and Marcus is disturbed by this because
Speaker 2: he's wait a minute, but wake up, wake up, Davy
Speaker 2: looks at. He goes, I'm gonna wait, dude, I've been
Speaker 2: awake for hours. This thing has been trying to get
Speaker 2: me outside.
Speaker 1: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: After these messages.
Speaker 2: Marcus is like, why didn't you wake me up? He goes,
Speaker 2: I was busy arguing with this thing. Marcus is blown
Speaker 2: away by this. He saw the thing. Otherwise he would
Speaker 2: be thinking, his Buddi's just lost it. He goes, calm down,
Speaker 2: tell me what happened. He goes. A couple hours ago,
Speaker 2: I kept feeling a thump in the floor. Davy was
Speaker 2: having a hard time sleeping out in the walls of
Speaker 2: Alaska new environment. The sheer remoteness, that weird feeling. They
Speaker 2: got the whoop from a couple of days before. He
Speaker 2: was hyper paranoid, but he said this thing was gradually
Speaker 2: showing itself just in shadow for out the window, silhouette
Speaker 2: motioning him outside. Marcus asked them, Davy, what do you
Speaker 2: mean motioning? He goes, I could see it holding up
Speaker 2: a big hand, motioning come outside. Davy said that he
Speaker 2: was whispering at first, go away, I ain't coming outside.
Speaker 2: Screw you. You're not going to intimidate me. I'm not
Speaker 2: scared of you. It gradually got loud to where it
Speaker 2: woke Marcus up. Marcus saw Davy sitting up, and that's
Speaker 2: how that went down. He felt out of place in
Speaker 2: his own skin when this was happening, because his rifle
Speaker 2: was over by the door, which was approximately ten feet away.
Speaker 2: This thing was there. It was massive. He wasn't going
Speaker 2: to be intimidated by it. But he didn't feel safe
Speaker 2: enough to go for the rifle because he would basically
Speaker 2: have to go past this thing to get to the rifle.
Speaker 2: He's felt he needed to stand his ground. They calmed down.
Speaker 2: They kept looking out the window, they kept looking around,
Speaker 2: They kept trying to figure out where this thing go.
Speaker 2: Davy said, screw this, I ain't gonna be intimidated. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell that thing was, but it
Speaker 2: had a big ass hand. They start debating what is it?
Speaker 2: After a little while, going back and forth, it wasn't
Speaker 2: a fair The trail took him to bigfoot. They figured, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is a bigfoot. What the hell do we do?
Speaker 2: Do we know anything about a big foot? As they're
Speaker 2: debating that, on the side of the cabin on the
Speaker 2: far back where there's no windows or anything. Bam. The
Speaker 2: whole place shakes. It was hit real hard. Bam. They
Speaker 2: immediately looking out windows. They both say, you know what,
Speaker 2: we're not going to be intimidated. Let's deal with this
Speaker 2: train tactical. Marcus said he was in the lead because
Speaker 2: he had the larger gun. Davy was behind him, one
Speaker 2: hand on his shoulder. He had his car being in
Speaker 2: his hand. They come around, They come down the stairs
Speaker 2: and they come around the side of the cabin that
Speaker 2: has the window on us. If you're facing the cabin
Speaker 2: directly at the door, because there was a well used
Speaker 2: game trail on that side versus more brush on the
Speaker 2: other sides, pat the least resistance. They come out. They
Speaker 2: tactically go around. They're not seeing anything. They get around
Speaker 2: to the back, he said, on the back wall, there
Speaker 2: was a huge, muddy looking handprint, five fingers, just massive,
Speaker 2: but the thumb was further set back on the hand.
Speaker 2: It was big. He said. He touched it because there
Speaker 2: was a weird smell. It was real greasy feeling. It
Speaker 2: wasn't mud, it was this greasy type substance. He smelled
Speaker 2: it a little bit and it was just god awful
Speaker 2: in the stench. He wiped his finger off on the
Speaker 2: wood to try to get it, and he was sticking
Speaker 2: his fingers in the dirt to get that smell off
Speaker 2: because it was pretty pungent. Marcus said, after he was
Speaker 2: knelt down, getting the dirt on his fingers, rubbing it
Speaker 2: around stuff. He wasn't focused on his surroundings, but Davy was.
Speaker 2: Davey started tapping him on the shoulder, saying twelve o'clock,
Speaker 2: twelve o'clock. Immediately, Marcus jumps up, grabs the forty five seventy,
Speaker 2: swings around, gets it up in the position, and he's looking.
Speaker 2: He said, what did you see? What you see at
Speaker 2: av points to some shrubs off in the distance. There's
Speaker 2: this real dark figure in there. Marcus starts yelling out,
Speaker 2: commands show yourself for I'm going to fire, not as pete,
Speaker 2: not a sound. He fires a shot, not directly at
Speaker 2: this thing, but to where it would get its attention.
Speaker 2: It did. He fired the forty five to seventy into
Speaker 2: the brush. This thing immediately stands up. They're now looking
Speaker 2: up at this thing. They were just at the distance
Speaker 2: where he guess maybe forty feet because it's still not
Speaker 2: full on. It's daylight, but their impartial covered canopies, it's dark.
Speaker 2: He said. This thing stood up. They're looking up at it.
Speaker 2: It let out this god awful scream and took off running.
Speaker 2: All this happens real fast. He shoots it, pops up,
Speaker 2: gives this god awful scream. They're startled by it. This
Speaker 2: thing takes off, it starts making that weird whooping sound again.
Speaker 2: They're befuddled. They look at each other. They said, let's
Speaker 2: get back inside. They retreat back into the cabin. That's
Speaker 2: when the conversation of getting out of their starts. So
Speaker 2: it's approximately five going on six at this time. Because
Speaker 2: they weren't keeping track of time, they were just dealing
Speaker 2: with the shit. Marcus confides to Davey that he doesn't
Speaker 2: feel they have enough anything a gun or otherwise to
Speaker 2: deal with this thing. Even though the forty five seventy
Speaker 2: was a very large caliber, big ol'd lipstick grounds, big old, long,
Speaker 2: heavy bullet, he didn't feel confident with it just by
Speaker 2: the sheer size. He said. It had to have been
Speaker 2: every bit between ten to twelve feet tall at least.
Speaker 2: This is a rough estimation, at forty feet massive, just massive,
Speaker 2: because all they basically got out of it was silhouette.
Speaker 2: Scream startled them, it took off. They're back in the
Speaker 2: cabin discussing this. Davies, I want to know a part
Speaker 2: of this shit. I love Alaska. Alaska's beautiful buff Let's go.
Speaker 2: Marcus can't argue that he wanted to know part of
Speaker 2: it either, because just it was obvious something was off
Speaker 2: with the whole situation. It wasn't curious. It was actively
Speaker 2: stalking them. It was actively doing things to lure them out,
Speaker 2: what have you. Even though it was just Davy at
Speaker 2: that point, it was still ill, actively trying to get
Speaker 2: him outside. I asked, I was like, do you think
Speaker 2: it was curious trying to be friendly? Davy said no.
Speaker 2: He said it felt more like a bully calling out
Speaker 2: a kid to the school yard. He's like, yeah, come
Speaker 2: out to recess. I got you, come on out. That
Speaker 2: was the feeling he got. That was his analogy, not mine.
Speaker 2: A bully at recess. I was like, Okay, in my
Speaker 2: mind's I'm thinking territorial kind of thing. Especially if the
Speaker 2: cabin hadn't been used in a long time, it totally
Speaker 2: makes sense what they end up doing.
Speaker 1: Is.
Speaker 2: They sit there quiet for a while. They want to
Speaker 2: observe see if this thing is going to come back.
Speaker 2: From what Marcus said, after a couple hours of watching,
Speaker 2: the energy felt lighter. It felt a lot lighter, and
Speaker 2: it didn't feel as ominous. They ventured outside. Little by little,
Speaker 2: Davy smokes. Davy stepped outside, was sitting on the bottom step,
Speaker 2: ar on his lap, smoking a cigarette. Any kind of noise,
Speaker 2: they said. The bird noises started again, even birds chirping.
Speaker 2: Davy was on point, was grabbing at his rifle times,
Speaker 2: just shaking his head because Marcus is standing in the
Speaker 2: doorway watching him, looking around at the same time. Finally,
Speaker 2: after a few minutes of that, Davy smoked like three
Speaker 2: cigarettes in a row. Marcus says, hey, but let's gather
Speaker 2: up our stuff, Let's cut our losses. Let's just slowly
Speaker 2: drift back down the river. We can fish on the way.
Speaker 2: Let's just get the hell out of this area. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's do that. They take turns. One was keeping guard
Speaker 2: while the other was helping move stuff back to the skiff,
Speaker 2: getting all their stuff out of there. At the same time,
Speaker 2: when they went in to get their stuff together, all
Speaker 2: the extra mags all the extra ammo all that stuff.
Speaker 2: They turn their fishing vests into tactical vests with extra
Speaker 2: mags in it, extra ammo, loose ammo in the pouches.
Speaker 2: They both did that because they had those little breast
Speaker 2: kind of holders for fly fishing where you could just
Speaker 2: open a compartment and got different flies to pick from.
Speaker 2: Similar to that, they just made do mcguibrid that shit
Speaker 2: into a tactical vest for holding extra mags. They start
Speaker 2: moving the stuff. They couldn't quite get it all in
Speaker 2: one trip. They tried the first trip. They were both
Speaker 2: loaded down. But still, these are military guys. They were
Speaker 2: used to eighty plus pound rucksacks hiking from miles. They
Speaker 2: were well ready for packing a bunch of shit. From
Speaker 2: what they said, awkward because a couple of them were
Speaker 2: double bags backpack this kind of stuff. They stuffed a
Speaker 2: couple handfuls of MRIs into one of the backpacks. They
Speaker 2: had a tote that was completely full of MRIs. They
Speaker 2: left that there. They get to the last they just
Speaker 2: had one more thing or two more things to grab
Speaker 2: from inside the cab. Davy's watched my six, I'll grab
Speaker 2: that stuff. They were always on point. One would be
Speaker 2: focusing on the surroundings as the other one was loading
Speaker 2: up the skiff, because they don't know what this thing
Speaker 2: is really trying to do at this point. So far,
Speaker 2: it's just been real weird shit happening. It's runoff each time.
Speaker 2: When they get back up, Davy goes into the cab
Speaker 2: and Marcus was leaning down getting a low looking underneath
Speaker 2: the tree line because the way the spruit s bouse hanging,
Speaker 2: if you get low enough you can see that. In
Speaker 2: a little further he saw two legs and moving to
Speaker 2: his left, going towards like the back side of the cabin.
Speaker 2: He yells, hey, I got movement. I got movement. Davy
Speaker 2: is immediately out. He has the other items, He's got
Speaker 2: his ar. He comes out, gets off the steps, turns
Speaker 2: around his walking backwards, checking his back trail to make
Speaker 2: sure he's not going to trip. He's keeping an eye.
Speaker 2: When Davy gets back to him, he touches his back.
Speaker 2: He knows he's behind him. He steps off to the side,
Speaker 2: lets Davy continue back because he has a heavier rifle.
Speaker 2: Marcus is facing directly at the cabin. He said, this
Speaker 2: thing came out off to the left, which was really
Speaker 2: obscured hard to see it, but he could see it
Speaker 2: leaning out, just getting a view of it. Because it
Speaker 2: was big, he could pick it out easily above the
Speaker 2: brush stuff and it went back. He's staying on point.
Speaker 2: He's waiting for Davy to get stuff loaded before it
Speaker 2: poked out. He told Davy to fire up the engine.
Speaker 2: He hears outboard fire up, but he starts backing up slowly.
Speaker 2: He reaches a dog la point of the trail, stands
Speaker 2: there a moment. He doesn't want to turn his back.
Speaker 2: Something I's telling him, don't turn your back. He has
Speaker 2: to step to his left to continue down off this
Speaker 2: dog leg path. At the apex of the dog leg
Speaker 2: is where it starts going down downgrading towards the river
Speaker 2: into the thicker brush where they had to hack it
Speaker 2: back to get the skiff in there. It wasn't far.
Speaker 2: Maybe thirty five feet from off to his left is
Speaker 2: where Davy's got the outboard now running, saying up, we're good,
Speaker 2: is warming up. He takes a step to his left.
Speaker 2: Just as he steps to his left, scream happens directly
Speaker 2: at his three o'clock. He said, this scream, he said,
Speaker 2: was powerful. It startled him because his focus was at
Speaker 2: the cabin. All of a sudden, this scream comes. He said.
Speaker 2: It was about twenty five feet away. There was a
Speaker 2: smaller one down on all fours looking at him, doing
Speaker 2: that word spider kind of crawl. It freaked him out.
Speaker 2: He said. The back legs were moving like this along
Speaker 2: with the front ones, but it was like a back
Speaker 2: one in the front one, back one in the front one.
Speaker 2: But he said, immediately he turned, put a beat on
Speaker 2: this thing, popped a shot at it. He said he
Speaker 2: wasn't sure if he hit it or not because he
Speaker 2: was just making basically noise, but he was attempting to
Speaker 2: hit it. Wasn't sure if he did because as soon
Speaker 2: as he fired, this thing took off. It went away
Speaker 2: off to his left, was making a weird noise. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden heard thrashing coming from behind the cabin.
Speaker 2: He turned his attention to getting closer to down where
Speaker 2: Davy was. He said, he got maybe three steps, was
Speaker 2: knocked forward by basically eight foot black spruce tree, knocked
Speaker 2: him down to the ground, knocked the wind out of him.
Speaker 2: That's when Davey opened fire backed this thing off. Because
Speaker 2: from what Davy said, when Marcus got hit by that
Speaker 2: black spruce tree got knocked to the ground when he
Speaker 2: looked up because it was confusing seeing the tree hit
Speaker 2: his friend. His friend go down. Once the obstacle of
Speaker 2: his view being Marcus in the tree got out of sight.
Speaker 2: He saw this thing behind coming, he said. The way
Speaker 2: it walked was very weird, almost like an Old West
Speaker 2: movie when the guy's walking with swagger, like real cocky
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Davy said, he just started putting rounds
Speaker 2: on it. He said, the first ten rounds. He's guessing
Speaker 2: this thing was just like it was getting buzzed by
Speaker 2: bees or something. They turned around, ran off. Marcus is
Speaker 2: getting up at this time, is turning around looking He's
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what just knocked him down. Catching
Speaker 2: his breath, Marcus said, he untied the boat, put the
Speaker 2: rifle end of the bow pushed off. As Davy made
Speaker 2: his way to the back. Davy fired, puts it in reverse,
Speaker 2: backs up. Now. Davy only ran the skip a couple times,
Speaker 2: wasn't proficient. Knew the general operation, but wasn't proficients. When
Speaker 2: they were coming out onto the Nushigak River, Davy was
Speaker 2: still focused back freaked out. He grounded out a little
Speaker 2: bit on this little gravel bar, which, as Marcus put it,
Speaker 2: they bang into it. They both lurched forward. They immediately
Speaker 2: crecked themselves. They're yelling at each other, watch what you're doing,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, high stress. They immediately calmed down
Speaker 2: because they recognize they were getting really worked up. Marcus
Speaker 2: jumps out, pushes him back out. They switch positions. Now.
Speaker 2: They were only at this spot briefly and just long
Speaker 2: enough to share a couple choice words with each other.
Speaker 2: Check themselves. Marcus jumped out, pushed off, He took over
Speaker 2: running the skiff. He had to back up a little
Speaker 2: ways into the deeper channel. He hears Davy open up,
Speaker 2: just dumping rounds. He's immediately looking checking direction of fire.
Speaker 2: As they're facing down the Newshigek River just in the
Speaker 2: brush line. The big one as they called it, was
Speaker 2: just squatted down. Given this look, Davy at that point
Speaker 2: said he was going to shoot one of these things,
Speaker 2: regardless if they were throwing shit or not. They've already
Speaker 2: showed enough aggression that Davy figured it's on site. He's
Speaker 2: dumping rounds. Marcus just opens it up, gets him on step.
Speaker 2: Now when Davey starts shooting. Davy said this thing backed
Speaker 2: up a little ways as Mark getting the skiff up
Speaker 2: on the step heading down river, that's when the rocks
Speaker 2: started throwing in. He wasn't sure where they initially started
Speaker 2: coming from, but after they got up on step, they
Speaker 2: got hit a couple times in the skiff with these rocks.
Speaker 2: He said, they ranged from baseball sized to about softball size.
Speaker 2: They were just getting winged in. A couple of them
Speaker 2: dented the skiff, but Davy kept shooting just to shoot.
Speaker 2: They were just seeing the rocks coming in. They weren't
Speaker 2: seeing these figures in the trees. He said that for
Speaker 2: a good two miles full on step, they could hear
Speaker 2: thrashing in the trees. Periodically rocks would become raining in.
Speaker 2: He said they would always rain in at about three
Speaker 2: or four for two miles going down the river. He
Speaker 2: said these things were making god awful noises. They sounded
Speaker 2: like goblins, like demons whoops at times.
Speaker 1: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back after these messages.
Speaker 2: Just a whole plethora of sounds they were making. At times,
Speaker 2: they heard the weird gibbers sounds really loud he said.
Speaker 2: Once all that stopped, he said, it took at least
Speaker 2: go ten miles down river for them to like fully
Speaker 2: calm down. They were both shaken like leaves. Once they
Speaker 2: got north of Koalignick they had stopped. They had to
Speaker 2: calm down because he was shaken, as it was hard
Speaker 2: for him to keep controlling the boat. That's how worked
Speaker 2: up he was. He said, his whole body was trembling hard.
Speaker 2: He slowed down. They found an wide open area. They stopped.
Speaker 2: They dropped the anchor for a minute, he said, he
Speaker 2: left the motor running. He was paranoid. They hadn't heard
Speaker 2: nuting or had any rocks for miles. They felt relatively safe.
Speaker 2: They heard songbirds. They calmed down. Davy must have smoked
Speaker 2: a whole pack of cigarettes, sitting there, asking what did
Speaker 2: we do? What caused this? They were just trying to
Speaker 2: talk it out. Finally, after they calmed down, they get
Speaker 2: out of there. They grabbed more fuel in Kalignik. They
Speaker 2: were both real quiet. They didn't talk a lot to
Speaker 2: the locals. The one guy that was running the take
Speaker 2: farm actually was the one that had guided him when
Speaker 2: he came to help grab the empty gas cans to
Speaker 2: refill him. He was on a four wheeler with the
Speaker 2: little trailer, and he asked him. He goes, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: look a little pale. You know what happened? I thought
Speaker 2: you guys were going to be up there for a
Speaker 2: while with all your provisions. They both told him we
Speaker 2: had beare issues. Left it at that with the guy
Speaker 2: in Klignik. The guy in Klignick was like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: got big bears. Just went along with the baar thing.
Speaker 2: He didn't know any different at the time. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they're well aware of the harry Man there. They grab fuel,
Speaker 2: they make it back to Dillingham. They share with Marcus's
Speaker 2: friend exactly what happened, because they had to count for
Speaker 2: these dings in the boat. His friend was just blown away,
Speaker 2: like wow, he had no reason. These guys aren't liars
Speaker 2: to each other. They shared you know, lost blood in
Speaker 2: the military, you know what I mean. They trusted what
Speaker 2: each other was telling him. He was just like, wow,
Speaker 2: that's basically the gist of what happened with them. I
Speaker 2: really want to thank Marcus for his effort. Marcus was
Speaker 2: led to me via an interview I did somewhere else
Speaker 2: last year. It took him roughly almost six months before.
Speaker 2: He initially reached out then ghosted me when I reached
Speaker 2: back out to him, but he was moving lost track
Speaker 2: of my contact and no big deal. But he got
Speaker 2: back a hold of me. We talked every few weeks,
Speaker 2: just a little bits because he was basically feeling me
Speaker 2: out and watching some of my videos and stuff. But
Speaker 2: I appreciate him coming forward to share. When I talked
Speaker 2: to Davy, he reiterated, he goes, I love Alaska, It's beautiful,
Speaker 2: but fuck that place fair enough, especially with what they
Speaker 2: dealt with. Can you imagine being woken up to something
Speaker 2: outside the window a couple of feet away, motioning you outside,
Speaker 2: we'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker 3: They say, you don't have a go, but you can't stay.
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Speaker 3: Siste trying this joy, that chart everything, call me ride back,
Speaker 3: riding back joy for me, joy staying right.
Speaker 4: Came it right away. Still still stays.
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