WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to 25 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:12.840 kill your dog? 26 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.040 My dog. 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.159 We're flying through there over the tree. I don't know 28 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.439 how it did it? Okay, damn, I'm really confused. All 29 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.239 I saw was my dog coming over the fence and 30 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.400 they would dead once you hit the grill. I didn't 31 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.319 see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 32 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:46.959 over the fence. Sat what are you reporting? We got 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:57.640 some wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.519 see what it was? It was enough out here? Look 35 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.359 him new to window now and I don't need anything. 36 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.879 I don't want to go outside. He is point. 37 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:08.840 Or hello? 38 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.120 Hit somebody out here? What quin on the olt's thought 39 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.639 of a bit of about sixty nine? I don't know 40 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.240 you see him out there? Yeah, I'm right head oh. 41 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:20.759 Andy, greetings, his fread and a lot of those good 42 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:22.599 thanks for joining me what I wanted to share with 43 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.759 you today. If you're an animal lover, you may not 44 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.240 like this. Just be warned. And if you have kids 45 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:31.599 that love animals, they may not want to hear it either. 46 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:36.479 That being said, Jonah had a sled dog team that 47 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.560 he ran when he was a kid over forty five 48 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.479 years ago. He asked me to leave the village out 49 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.439 of it, so just pick a spot on them. Happen. 50 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:50.000 He was running supplies between two villages, a larger village 51 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.360 in his home village, which was roughly one hundred people 52 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.560 year round. He depended on his sled dog team. He 53 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:00.400 incorporated six dogs. He would use his lead dog to 54 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.159 train the other ones as they came up and so on. 55 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.280 This particular lead dog he had he put in the 56 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.719 lead because there was two younger ones directly behind this 57 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.080 lead dog that he wanted to train up on the trail. 58 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:16.759 Figured getting supplies, perfect time to have a bigger team, 59 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.879 larger sled To get all the supplies on this particular trail, 60 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:25.439 you got to understand some of Alaska's geography. You can 61 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:28.199 easily be going across flat Muskeg and then be into 62 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.599 some thick hills with thick timbers in no time. That's 63 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:33.599 just how it is. This particular place didn't have a 64 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.960 whole lot of trees, but it had a whole lot 65 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.479 of brush, and when it snowed, it made trail riding 66 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.400 and trail breaking, especially with a dog sled team, extremely difficult. 67 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.080 A lot of his time for the first portion of 68 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.560 his trip was spent breaking trail with dogs. He admitted 69 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.719 it was a lot of hard work. Of course, he 70 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.439 had a rifle for moose. That was about all the 71 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.919 protection he had outside all those dogs as an early 72 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.319 warning system the trail, he knew he was going to 73 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.680 have a hard time with the heavier load coming back 74 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.599 with supplies, he decided to go back and forth on 75 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.680 it quite a few times. It being winter time, he 76 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:12.159 knew his time when the light was going to be tricky, 77 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.719 so he pre planned to stay the night at this 78 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.319 other village where he got the supply so he had 79 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.399 daylight to travel by the next day to get the 80 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.199 supplies home. On his final trip back through from packing 81 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.079 down this particular part of the trail, there's like a 82 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.879 dog leg in the trail, and as he was going 83 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.399 around it, all of a sudden he sees his tree 84 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.759 just come down on the trail really hard. He said, 85 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.879 he felt it in his feet, hurt it yet, and 86 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.480 just dead silence, and the rest of the dogs were 87 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.639 trying to pull away this thing. It hit the dog 88 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:48.120 so hard it impacted its body into the snow and 89 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.399 basically made a snow anchor while the other dogs are 90 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:54.480 trying to back away. It happened just out of his sight, 91 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.519 just as the dog broke that corner wet. It happened. 92 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.680 He didn't know what the hell was going on at first. 93 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.720 He has heard a really quick and in dead silence. 94 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.199 The other dogs weren't making a noise. They were all 95 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.959 wetting themselves and trying to back away. The lead dog 96 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.360 is pinned in like an anchor, so they're trying to 97 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.639 pull away but really can't. He grabs his moose rifle. 98 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.439 He goes trotting up there try to see what the 99 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.399 hell was going on. And as he gets into view 100 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:25.519 of this tree impacted into the ground and saw what 101 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.360 was going on. He was being shocked, but off to 102 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:31.720 his left hand side, behind the brush, he sees dark movement. Immediately, 103 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.079 he shoulders the rifle, takes a couple of shots. Hears 104 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.120 some screaming off in the distance. He said he threw up. 105 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:43.160 He said he felt so oppressed with the air. He 106 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.120 said the air felt like it was suffocating him, and 107 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.600 the reality of what was going on. He threw up 108 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.000 went over after he was done throwing up, made sure 109 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.399 he put a couple more rounds in the rifle. He 110 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.759 goes over and cuts that lead line so the other 111 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:02.360 dogs could back away, because the dog team was freaking 112 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.879 out after he shot and the screams and all that. 113 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.160 So he writes the sled because with the dog's backing 114 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:11.959 up and everything rolled off to the side of the 115 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.680 trail that he had just been packing, and so he's 116 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.879 trying to figure out what the hell he's gonna do. 117 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.480 He knows that he'll get the dogs there, that's not 118 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.600 the issue. He doesn't know why this happened, What was 119 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.800 the purpose? He had been there probably a good couple hours, 120 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.639 going back and forth on this trail. Why hit my dog? 121 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.480 Why do that? He still doesn't have an answer for it. 122 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.160 If I asked him, how'd you feel after the shock 123 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.040 wore up, after you threw up and all that, he 124 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.439 said he felt like there was a thousand eyes staring 125 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.360 at him, and he kept looking around. There was some 126 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.079 brush and everything, but not a whole lot of hiding places, 127 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.959 as he put it. So he gathers himself together. He 128 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:55.360 guesstimated that the weight of the branch that impacted the 129 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.639 dog into The trail was probably about three hundred and 130 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.959 fifty four hundred pounds because he just grabbed the one 131 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.319 end and moved it over. It was beetlekill spruce. It 132 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.560 was larger than what was available in his immediate area. 133 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.000 He knew further up from where he lived, there's the 134 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:16.439 bigger spruce trees. He's just boggled, just trying to figure 135 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.759 out what the hell just happened, really, because I mean, 136 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.680 he was in shock. So he moves the log. He 137 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.040 gets it clear enough for the dogs to get by. 138 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.839 Now he goes and grabs one of his utility blankets 139 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.120 that he uses to cover the sled and whatnot, and 140 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.399 strap down when he has a load on it and 141 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.639 rolls his dog up in that. The dog bills ugly, 142 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.279 so he rolls the dog up, puts it in the sled. 143 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.240 It's going to be dark soon, and he's closer to 144 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.639 the village. He's heading two versus turning around and going back. 145 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.439 So he continues on now. And when he was going 146 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.160 past this spot, he was riding his dog sled with 147 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.480 his rifle cradled in his arms. He was doing this number. 148 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.519 He was trying to get the dogs encourage him past 149 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.160 that point, but they were They kept sniffing the air, 150 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.279 and they didn't want to go further down the trail. 151 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.360 Eventually he coaxed me and got them going, and once 152 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.120 they passed the spot, the dogs were just hauling ass 153 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.439 down this trail. They needed no encouragement. That day, he 154 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.120 gets about a quarter mile to between a quarter mile 155 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.839 and a half mile, because he's estimating because he wasn't 156 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.160 in his right frame of mind. Once he clears in 157 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.279 this particular brushy area, there's a little stretch of flats 158 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.160 and as he's going across it, the snow's a little 159 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.839 lighter in that area because with the wind blowing through, 160 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.080 it may snow a lot, but then the wind blows 161 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.360 and then it's eight twelve inches or whatever. So it 162 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:37.039 was good running for the dog. He's going to cross 163 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.879 that and as he's approaching the other side to where 164 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.840 the muskeg ends and there's more black spruce and willows 165 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.759 and alders and whatnot, he noticed in the trees this 166 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.720 thing moving. Now he didn't get a clear description either 167 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.279 time he saw it. It was just a big, dark 168 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.480 figure moving through the trees. Right, So immediately he stops 169 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.559 the dogs. Now this isn't that far from where this 170 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:04.039 shit just went down. So the dogs are sketchy. They're 171 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.159 trying to turn around, and he's trying to keep eyes 172 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:09.840 on this thing moving through the trees because it's literally 173 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.960 in front of him. He said about maybe sixty yards tops, 174 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.360 and it was moving along through the trees, but it 175 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.720 wasn't moving away. It was going from his left to 176 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.240 his right. So he decides, I'm gonna teach this thing 177 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.960 a lesson, and I'm going to shoot this damn thing. 178 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.159 He gets his rifle and just as he's looking for 179 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.039 this thing to get a beat on it and put 180 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.440 some shots down range, his dogs really start acting up, 181 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:38.480 really acting squarely. They've gotten themselves tangled up. He was 182 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:40.840 getting no sight of this thing in the trees, so 183 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.200 he stops what he's doing, puts his rifle on safety, 184 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.440 leans it against the sled, and is trying to get 185 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.399 his dog straightened out. So he slings his rifle because 186 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:51.000 he didn't want to leave it in the snow and 187 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.559 it potentially getting lost or put it in the sled, 188 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.320 and the dogs take off and he's got no gun 189 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.080 with them, so he slung it over his shoulder, so 190 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.679 he gets off the sled and he commences to untaggling 191 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.159 a couple of the lead dogs. The front two got 192 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.080 hooked up behind the back one somehow. So he's this 193 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.759 untangling stuff meanwhile keeping his head on the wibble. Now, 194 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:12.600 as he gets them cleared and he pulls them back 195 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.840 on the trail to the direction, he knows he needs 196 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.879 to go the same direction he just saw this same 197 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:21.200 moments ago. He encouraged him, got them moving the closer 198 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.000 he got, which the dogs weren't moving all that fast. 199 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.799 They were not keen on going through this area, but 200 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.679 they were doing as they're told. He just starts breaking 201 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:31.759 into the tree line, and that's when he heard the 202 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.799 first scream. Now, when he hears the scream, he saw nothing, 203 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.919 but he said it sounded like it was standing over him. 204 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.679 He said it reverberated through his body. He threw up 205 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.840 again from the stress. He had heard of stories of 206 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.480 the hairy Man. He's had uncles and all sorts of 207 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:51.000 relatives that have experienced just this type of thing. He 208 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.919 just hadn't himself up until that point. Now, when the 209 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.559 scream happened and he pulled himself together, he said, about 210 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.000 twenty five feet up off the trail. He saw something 211 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.759 dark next to the trees. Now it's getting on into 212 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.720 twilight in the winter. It's called alpnglow. I don't know 213 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.879 if anyone's ever seen it. Look it up. Gorgeous. He's 214 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.679 got this creamsickle colored rose colored shoe on everything. From 215 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:19.960 the sun starting to set. He's got this pristine beauty 216 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.080 with this terror in the trees right over there. He said, 217 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.240 it felt like that moment lasted an hour, even though 218 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.720 it was microseconds. It was just happening really fast. So 219 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.840 he unslings the rifle. The dogs stopped moving. It says 220 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.240 that scream happened. The dogs parked it, wetting themselves again, 221 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:39.919 just standing there like what the hell. He puts a 222 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.840 bead on the dark spot, pulls a trigger. Boom, nothing happens. 223 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.679 He thought it was weird, puts another round in the chamber, 224 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:51.600 takes a better look, realizes it was just a part 225 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.480 of a broken black spruce tree. So he just shot 226 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.200 a tree. But in context with the scream and everything, 227 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.480 I don't blame me. I would have shot anything moving, honestly, 228 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.240 So he composes himself, looks around. There's nothing. The gunshot 229 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.039 broke the dogs out of their little stupor. He encourages 230 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.279 them to go, so they take off again down the trail. 231 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.759 Now he makes it through this particular part of the trail, 232 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.679 no other noises, no other sounds. As soon as he 233 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:21.759 gets this sinking feeling, he said it must have been 234 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.960 the last one hundred and fifty yards of treed trail 235 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:28.039 before he broke out in the more Muskeg. He said 236 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.799 he felt watched. So he was looking off to his 237 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:32.960 left and off to his right, and all this right, 238 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.320 and the dogs are really moving now, they are shulling ass. 239 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.480 It dawned on him when he was about fifty sixty 240 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:44.559 yard from clearing the brush, and the black spruce looked 241 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.639 behind him. So he turns around and looks this thing 242 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.519 is literally within twenty five feet behind him, keeping pace 243 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.399 with him. He said he couldn't tell if it was 244 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.559 breathing hard or if it was truly smiling, because he 245 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.080 said it like it had a big, wide smile on 246 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:05.759 his face. His words, I'm just saying, I would like 247 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:07.639 to think it was breathing hard to catch up and 248 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:13.159 not smiling in that that's just malevolene. So immediately he's 249 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.000 freaking out. He's encouraging the dogs go. It occurs to 250 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.720 him as he's encouraging the dogs, this thing could snatch 251 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.480 map at any time. So he decides he's not going 252 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.559 to look back because he's freaking out. He said, just 253 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:27.679 in his mind's eye, he could just picture this thing 254 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.480 breathing on the back of his neck. I asked him 255 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:33.200 what it looked like. He said, very light complexed hue 256 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:37.240 of gray, real light gray, not super dark. Said that 257 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.399 it was very wrinkly around the eyes, flat nose, big 258 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.440 old white jaw, appeared to be about nine foot tall, 259 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:47.960 ten foot tall, something like that. He's guestimating that because 260 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.799 the trees by where he had looked back, he knew 261 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.360 they were eight to ten feet tall, and this thing 262 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.559 was about with him. But one of the things he 263 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.600 did mention is this thing's feet were sinking into the snow. 264 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:02.120 There is a disc and on accounted for there. Regardless, 265 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.399 it was big. When he clears and he's out on 266 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.120 the tundra and he gets a little ways away, he 267 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.840 feels the pressure, the fear alleviating rather quickly. He started 268 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.120 getting mad because he glanced down at his tarp, his 269 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.840 canvas tarp that his lee dog that he had for 270 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.080 eight nine years is rolled up in right. He tries 271 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.120 to encourage the dogs to stop because he wanted to 272 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.759 try to get a shot on this thing, because when 273 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.679 he looked back, he didn't see it. It had stopped 274 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.440 following him, so he was trying to get the dogs 275 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.039 to stop, and once he did, he said he was 276 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.120 about two hundred yards from that tree line when they 277 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.919 finally stop. So he turns around and he's looking and 278 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.919 he's trying to see where it may be. Off to 279 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.759 his right hand side, off to the side of the 280 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.000 continued tree line that kind of wrapped around where he 281 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.679 was at. He saw it running across there, so he 282 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.000 takes a shot at it and realizes that it was 283 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.519 moving way too fast and he wasn't going to waste 284 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.679 his amma. 285 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.240 And stay tuned for more sasquatch. Honestly, right back after these. 286 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:10.279 Messages, continues on gets his supplies. It had snowed overnight. 287 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:15.039 He's VHF radio to give a warning to his family 288 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.679 to be safe outside. Didn't say anything over the radio. 289 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.960 He just wanted to make sure that he let his 290 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.120 family know he made it their safe, that they need 291 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.600 to be aware outside and take precautions. Left it at that, 292 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.279 so the next day because it had snowed. When he 293 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.960 went back through, there was no sign of anything, no 294 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.679 sign of the tracks in the snow, a very little 295 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.840 sign of anything. He said, it snowed so much he 296 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.120 was down there breaking trail again. But instead of going 297 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.879 back and forth this time he left it alone and 298 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.440 just broke on through and went on home. I'm gonna 299 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.480 think Jonah not his own name, for sharing that, because 300 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.879 it's something that traumatized him from almost fifty years ago. Okay, 301 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.559 it didn't stop him from doing his stuff, but like 302 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:02.720 I mentioned, his passion for everything outdoors was just alleviated. 303 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.679 It turned into work, whether it be ice, fishing, cutting firewood, 304 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.679 whatever it was, it killed his passion. Gosh, it really 305 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.919 sucks when things like that happen. I know the feeling. 306 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.159 I'm no martyr or anything like that, but I get it. 307 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.519 There's a lot of people out there. It would be 308 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:24.000 foolish to discount what these people share, especially like my experience. 309 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.720 But what happened with me is not unique, not even 310 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.279 a little bit. There are so many others out there 311 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.639 that have had just terrifying things happen, but not every 312 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.480 single one is terrifying. It's the randomness of it, Like 313 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.639 why will some just shake and break a tree and 314 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.679 make themselves aware and that's it, while others will come 315 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.919 right up to someone's cabin, almost like toying with them. 316 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.039 I don't know, just a lot of unanswered questions I 317 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.279 wanted to share with you today. It comes from call 318 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.960 him Doug. He is an equipment operator that has worked 319 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.080 for several mining outfits. I've been talking to him a 320 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.639 few times and he just at first was just inquisitive 321 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.639 and asked few questions. I thought it was out of curiosity. 322 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.440 A little while back he reached out again. He had 323 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:09.240 just quit his mining job with this one outfit in 324 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.640 the last season. He was torn about sharing at first, 325 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:14.359 and I told him, Hey, we don't have to share 326 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.519 on the channel, and he goes, not, I don't mind sharing, it, 327 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.480 just not my name because he's still in the industry 328 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.319 and he didn't want any stigma, which I totally understand. 329 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:28.200 So what happened is this last season. Over the years, 330 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.160 explained that he had heard a bunch of different weird stuff, 331 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.319 saw different weird things moving in his peripherals, but never 332 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.680 really chalked it up. This last season was the last 333 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:39.880 year they were going to be in this particular area, 334 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:41.799 so they had a bunch of access stuff to do 335 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:46.000 as far as prepping to move camp. Now, from what 336 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:49.799 he said, he chose to instead of help move the camp, 337 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.359 he was going to stick around him and one other guy. 338 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.720 He was going to feed the station by the trauma, 339 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.440 and the other guy was going to feed the trauma 340 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.519 and continue producing goal as the outfits packing enough to 341 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.119 go now, it had been freezing up in the mornings, 342 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.759 but they were able to work mid morning. They were 343 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.720 able to get to it and not have too many issues. 344 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:15.759 This particular outfit will just say they operated somewhere off 345 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.960 the Yukon River. There's several, so we'll just leave a generic. 346 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.240 One morning, it was the morning everyone took off and 347 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.240 removing stuff. They were packing stuff. Him and this other 348 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.400 guy went down into the pit placer mining. He was 349 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:32.039 running the loader. It was getting on into full blown daylight, 350 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:34.960 a little bit of dark shadow still in the trees. 351 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.680 Doug wears glasses, and he told me he's plorrible at 352 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.160 keeping him clean. So as he was firing up the 353 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.880 loader and was dumping the banging icing and cried out 354 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.839 of the bucket. He thought he saw something dark moving, 355 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.920 and instead of looking at what was moving darkness, he 356 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:54.759 figured it was on his glasses, so he wiped him 357 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:56.720 off and then looked in the direction and didn't see 358 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.680 anything and chalked it up to dirty glasses. Does a 359 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.160 cook loads over the seed the guy at the trauma. 360 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.359 The guy at the trauma was a little getting there, 361 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.240 but it didn't matter because he had to stack up 362 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.119 material for the guy to even start running, so he 363 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.119 was basically there by himself for that period of time. Now, 364 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.319 on his third run back and forth, he saw this 365 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.799 black dot again out of his peripheral, but this time 366 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.839 the dot was moving. He's looking to the inside of 367 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.039 his little cabin the loader to look for a bug 368 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.920 or something. He wasn't at the time connecting it's up 369 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.279 here in the grass, just before the tree line, until 370 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:32.920 he started looking harder and then seeing it moving along, 371 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.920 and then it ducked into the trees. At the distance 372 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.880 he was he couldn't make it out immediately. He just 373 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:40.720 chucked it up to maybe a black bear or something 374 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:42.880 like that, because there was always something moving through, moose 375 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.079 or whatever. He just wasn't really overly concerned. So they 376 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.880 go throughout the whole shift he's running and the other 377 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.559 guy had some issues with the trauma. It broke down 378 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:54.960 or whatever, so he went up took a lunch. As 379 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:58.400 he was eating his lunch, sitting out in this little 380 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.839 smoking area that Dalfit had had set up, he heard 381 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.799 a weird screaming kind of howl and it sounded like 382 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.039 it was coming from the pit area. He thought his 383 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.440 coworker dealing with the traumble issue or whatever, may have 384 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:14.079 hurt himself, so immediately he jumps on the four wheeler. Boo, 385 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:16.720 he's back down in the pit. When he gets back 386 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:19.119 down in the pit, the guy's just working on it 387 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.480 and sees him pulling up on the four wheelers. The 388 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:23.559 guy jumps up and goes, hey, did you hear that? 389 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:25.480 And he goes, yeah, I heard it way back at camp. 390 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:28.079 And the guy says, I was working. I couldn't see it, 391 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:30.000 but it sounded like it was behind the trumble, but 392 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.920 when I looked, there was nothing, so, you know, Doug said, Okay, 393 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.880 I'm going to look around now. They had a policy 394 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:41.359 of always having firearms just because moose Bear. A couple 395 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.519 of the guys a year before were stuck in a 396 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.559 piece of equipment because of an aggressive brown bear, grizzly bear, 397 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:49.960 what everyone want to call it, was trying to actively 398 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:54.319 stalk them even with the equipment running. It was a 399 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:58.640 fluke thing. Bear was hungry, obviously, but because of things 400 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:01.519 like that over the years, policy always have a firearm. 401 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.319