WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:03.919 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:05.839 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.359 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.480 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.720 my interest in cryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.199 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:21.679 I've personally become involved with The Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.320 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.399 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.159 and more. 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It's free subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.439 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.959 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.319 Now on your reporting, I got a stream going on here, 24 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.840 something just because of my dog. Something killed your dog, 25 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.840 my dog. We're flying through there over the tree. I 26 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:21.120 don't know how it did it. Okay, damn, I'm really confused. 27 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:23.200 All I saw was my dog coming over the fence, 28 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:24.879 and the name was dead once you hit the ground. 29 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:26.760 I didn't have seen any cars. All I saw was 30 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:46.680 my dog coming over the fence. Are you reporting? We 31 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:57.599 got some wonder or something frowling around out here? Did 32 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.120 you see what it was? It was seeing enough. I'm 33 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:01.560 out here looking them near the window now and I 34 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.120 don't need anything. I don't want to go outside. Indeed, 35 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:11.520 it's quite you Cara, New York. Hello, get somebody out here. 36 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:12.719 What's going on out there? 37 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:13.759 That's got up a bit of. 38 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.199 About second nine? I don't know easy out there. Yeah, 39 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.199 I'm woking right head. 40 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:22.120 Oh hey, greetings, I'm back. Found a much quieter place, 41 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.400 cold as hell out here, a little warmer where I'm 42 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:29.120 at now. It's twenty three degrees. Check the website Subarctic 43 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.919 Alaska sasquatch dot com. So what I wanted to share 44 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.960 with you guys. Spencer and Max shared with me they 45 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.199 had been going to this place. This particular place is 46 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:43.199 north of here. It's just as you're getting up towards 47 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.439 Danale National Park. They didn't say exactly where, they just 48 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.599 said up that way. Been going there since they were 49 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.039 little kids. They're in their sixties now. Their first time 50 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.039 going there was back in the seventies. Where they went, 51 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.680 it opens up into the Muskeg and swampy areas in tundra. 52 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.439 There's not a whole lot of big trees up that way. 53 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.400 There's more scrub brush and things of this nature. There's 54 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.680 a few pockets of the black spruce like I've showed 55 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.439 you guys in the Muskegon. Where they were going. It 56 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.919 opens up. The way the marsh flows is like in 57 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.039 a big extended Z kind of shape. Right on their 58 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.120 left hand side going in was this ridge. Now. Their 59 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.159 first experiences back in the seventies, they've seen shadows up 60 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.800 on this ridge. When they were going back checking this 61 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.879 area out. It was new to them and they were exploring, 62 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.960 and they were trying to find a place no man 63 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.560 had been, you know, which isn't all that hard to 64 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.400 do in Alaska. You can go into a lot of 65 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.879 places where no one's been. When they get back to 66 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.759 the farthest point of this kind of Z shaped muskeg area, 67 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.319 the ridge only runs about half of it and then 68 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.159 it drops back down and then it opens back up 69 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.199 to other trees and brush up at the end where 70 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:55.080 they were going. When they get there, they found camping equipment. 71 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.360 The camping equipment seemed fresh. Everything was there, so they decided, oh, 72 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.199 maybe that the shadow we saw was whoever's camping here 73 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:03.599 is just keeping an eye on us to make sure 74 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.879 we don't steal the stuff. So they screamed out, hey, 75 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.080 we're just here, We're just hiking. We're trying to be 76 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.439 the only ones here or whatever. So they turn around 77 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.680 and they go back. On the right hand side is 78 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.360 where this ridge is. Now. As they're coming up to it, 79 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.639 Max notices that dark shadow again. They thought it was 80 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.879 a black dog because all they saw was just this 81 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.439 little bit of black would show itself, so they assumed 82 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.800 at the distance it was a dog jumping a black 83 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.639 lab or something of that nature. So they were trying 84 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.920 to whistle for it. They stopped, they waved, they screamed 85 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.199 out again, hey, we're just hiking. Through, we didn't touch 86 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.759 your stuff, that type of thing, because they still assumed 87 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.399 it was whoever was hanging out in the tent. They said, 88 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:45.800 the campsite was empty and it looked fairly recent like 89 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.639 someone was there. So you know, they kept their distance 90 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:52.600 and they're hollering out and they keep whistling trying to 91 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.560 get the attention of the dog. Now they decided to 92 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.360 continue walking because they started getting a creepy feeling. The 93 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:04.279 whistles Max did were imitated back almost identically moments later. 94 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.639 As they continue down along where the Muskeg meets where 95 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.800 those rise starts. It's basically right at the tree line, 96 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.800 and there's a little bit of black spruce and whatnot 97 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.240 and similar things you see here going up the side 98 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.399 of this ridge. As they're talking, they keep hearing this 99 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.959 almost identical whistle that Max was doing. It was just 100 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.000 a short, little two chirp whistle, but it was being 101 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.839 mimicked back to them. They thought, Okay, the camper is 102 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.480 teasing us, trying to scare us out of here. So 103 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.439 they kept their cool and they kept on walking, and 104 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.639 they finally got back to the beginning of the z 105 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.040 and then the trail that they took would lead back 106 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.240 over to the road where they had parked, and they 107 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.879 can go on about their way as they're about half 108 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.959 the distance from where the big Z of the Muskeg 109 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.600 and everything ended back on this trail to get to 110 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:55.560 where they parked their truck. It was actually Max's dad's 111 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:57.199 truck they were using. They were a lot younger at 112 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:02.319 the time. They hear almost an imitation of a conversation. 113 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.839 They said it sounded made up like gibberish. Basically, I 114 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.079 asked him, was it similar to any of that samurai 115 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:11.680 chatter or whatever? And they said, but it was just 116 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.360 too far. We couldn't make it out. We thought the 117 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.639 campers were getting a good laugh at Oh yeah, those idiots. 118 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.680 They're scared they're not coming back, and they were. They 119 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.720 got a little freaked out, but they were unfazed by 120 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.360 that jump ahead ten years they stopped going to that 121 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.160 particular place because of the camper. Let me preface that 122 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.800 by saying the first couple times they went to this spot, 123 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.959 they didn't make the full Z because in reality, it's 124 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.319 good three miles to make this whole journey on the 125 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.959 Z shaped area of Muskeg. Right now, ten years later, 126 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.560 they decide Hey, let's see if anyone has been regularly 127 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.560 going back to that spot. Spencer had a child on 128 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.480 the way, Max, who's still single, dude or whatever. Their 129 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.399 first trip, they didn't bring any guns this trip. Spencer 130 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:03.480 wasn't going unarmed. Max is going along with his buddy. 131 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.480 He wasn't gonna go unarmed either, So they each had 132 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.680 a shotgun. Each Spencer had a forty four on his hip. 133 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.439 So this being in the eighties, they decided, hey, well 134 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.480 ride you could ride on the Spencer ride on the back. 135 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.639 Max would drive the three wheeler. They would make better 136 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.839 time getting back in there, and they had assume by 137 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.199 now it would be a well used place. They get 138 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.000 back in there and they cut across the trail that 139 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.199 kind of went up to the beginning of this reverse 140 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.399 Z shape. Things were a little bit different with the 141 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.079 brush was a little more, There was a little it 142 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.000 was a little denser in areas, it was a little 143 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.639 swampier in others. So they were just making note of 144 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:39.680 how it changed and just chopping it up. They hadn't 145 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:41.879 even loaded their shotguns. They just had them, and they 146 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.199 had a couple of rounds each in their pockets. The 147 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.839 only thing fully loaded was the forty four on Spencer's hip. 148 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.600 He's riding on the back rack of this three wheeler 149 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.319 facing towards the back while Max is riding it in 150 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.680 the front. They stopped having this conversation. They continue on 151 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.319 because they had stopped because Spencer had nudged him and 152 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.600 was pointing out a sinkhole and some other things that 153 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.480 he was noticing as they were chopping it up. They 154 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.759 continue on three wheelers, when you're on the back and 155 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.319 you got the muffle right underneath you, the fumes can 156 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:10.959 be a bit much when you get bogged down and 157 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.120 you're going slower. If you move him fast enough, it 158 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.480 doesn't phaze you. But sometimes when you slow down, those 159 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.439 vapors get you right in the face. So Spencer was 160 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.360 getting just he couldn't deal with the exhaust. So he 161 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.600 has Max to let him off, you know. So he stopped. 162 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:24.439 He hopped off, and he goes, go ahead and take 163 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:26.959 the trail, you know, make a trail or whatever, and 164 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.439 I'm gonna catch my breath, get some fresh air, get 165 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.399 that exhaust off my lungs, and continue on. Max was 166 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.799 like cool because he's been wanting to open up with 167 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.559 this little Honda three wheeler. Really play around in the muskeg. 168 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.080 So Max takes off. He didn't need a second chance 169 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:45.879 to even reconsider he was gone. As Spencer's walking along, 170 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:49.720 he's just catching his breath, just reacquainting himself with the 171 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.919 area and just looking around and looking off in the 172 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.480 distance across the muskeg and everything. Max had made it 173 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.200 around the bend that bends around to the left on 174 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.519 this reverse z right now, remember this is a beginning 175 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.000 to end. It's roughly about three miles, so it's a 176 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.840 nice decent, big open area. Spencer's walking along and he 177 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.120 starts getting the ebgb's and he's listening to the motor 178 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.440 and Max hangs to the left. Just as Max is 179 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.600 out of sight is when the real hebgb's just really 180 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.080 kicked up hard. So he's this twelve gage and he 181 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.679 puts in some but loads That's all he had was 182 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.000 buckshot and a couple bird shots something like that, some 183 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.519 random stuff, and he loads it up. He slings it 184 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.759 back over his shoulder and he double checks his forty four, 185 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.360 and he's trying to shake this feeling of just the creeps, 186 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.320 and so he stops. He turns around. He's looking all 187 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.519 up and down this ridge, and there's this shadow up 188 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.440 on this ridge, and it's moving back and forth, at 189 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.919 first in between a couple of trees and in the bushes, 190 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.279 and then it continues moving on. He notices that how 191 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.720 fast it'd be really hard to be moving that fast 192 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.480 through that thick a brush. He's trying to wrap his 193 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.240 mind around how is that dark thing moving so fast 194 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:59.840 without making any noise. All of a sudden, it's just 195 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.080 on out of his view. So he was like, that 196 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:03.720 must have been while I was getting the creeps. I 197 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.080 wonder if that's a hermit that's living back over there 198 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.559 where they saw the tent ten years before. Maybe the 199 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.399 guy scattered the area and now he's got a permanent 200 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.320 camp back there because it's not unheard of. So now 201 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.240 he's really intriguing and worried about Max. Because Max is 202 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.159 out of his view and he no longer hears the 203 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.759 motor running, he immediately starts trotting. Now, understand, Muskeg is 204 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.679 just basically like a moss waterbed. You got marsh underneath, 205 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.440 you got all this thick tough of just growth and vegetation. 206 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.519 That's basically like a big waterbed. He's at the edge 207 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.279 of it, so it's still pretty firm, but he's still 208 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:40.639 running in moss, which it absorbs all your impacts, so 209 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.320 you put a lot of effort into moving, like walking 210 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.919 through sand. So he starts moving along faster to get 211 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.519 up to see why he's not hearing Max. This movement 212 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:54.799 was going that same direction. Now, Max was a good 213 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.240 two hundred and fifty yards before he had to turn. 214 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.639 At this point, Spencer realizes he's got a good little 215 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.200 distance to get there to check on his buddy. He's thinking, crap, 216 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.679 he didn't load his shotgun either, and I don't hear 217 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.360 the machine. I hope he's okay. I hope someone didn't 218 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.039 put out a wire to stop people from ripping, because 219 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.440 that's not unheard of, either people running fishing line or 220 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.120 hooks or something across trails to keep kids or anyone 221 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.360 from riding through an area they consider there. So he 222 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.639 was thinking about these things as he was like, oh, man, 223 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:26.360 I hope it's not like that. I hope Max is 224 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.919 all right. So he's definitely picking up the pace and 225 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.480 as he's just about to come and get Max in 226 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.919 the view, he hears three shots from a shotka kaboom, kaboom, 227 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.440 and he hears, and so he gets in the view 228 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.080 of Max and he starts yelling, Hey, what are you 229 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:42.720 shooting at? What are you shooting at? And Max is 230 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.519 pointing up the ridge because it's like an L shape 231 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.559 where they're at, and remember it goes down where the 232 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.879 direction they were heading and then it opens back up, 233 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.759 so basically he was shooting back up the ridge. Max 234 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.840 keeps pointing up and he's at a distance about seventy 235 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.440 five yards where he still can't hear what Max is saying. 236 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.159 Max is frantic. He's trying to kick start this three 237 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.840 wheeler and it's not starting. It's flooded out. Spencer's telling 238 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.840 him from a distance it's flooded. It's flooded because you 239 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.399 could hear it when he was trying to crank on it. 240 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.679 And Max is freaking. He's worried about why these shots 241 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.360 are up there. He's wondering, is probably a bear he's 242 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.320 trotting up there now. Spencer's winded. He's always been a 243 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.480 heavy set guy. He's super winning. He's trying to catch 244 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.639 his breath. Max's I'm out of amial it's right up there, 245 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.480 standing by that brush up there, and Spencer's what are 246 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.440 you talking about. He looks up. There's this dark spot 247 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:32.919 just like the one he saw just back around the corner, 248 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.919 up on that same ridge. The black spot moves off 249 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.399 real fast, real quiet. It just moves off. Not a 250 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.919 clear view. It was just dark shadow, you know. I mean, 251 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:44.320 like a pitch black shadow up on the ridge. So 252 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:46.440 Max's freaked. Is like it was a bigfoot. It was 253 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.320 a bigfoot, but it was right over there. It stood 254 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.480 up and then it squatted down when I shot at it, 255 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.120 And Spencer's did you shoot it? And he goes, no, 256 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.639 I shot at I shot up that way to try 257 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:57.240 to scare it off, and all I did was squat 258 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.759 down and keep looking at me. It's still looking at us. 259 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.440 Spencer starts looking around really hard. Up on this ridge. 260 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.120 He guestimated it was probably a sixty foot height difference, 261 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.279 So he said he could be over exaggerating that by 262 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.480 a smidge, so he said probably forty five to sixty 263 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.600 foot tall. Little ridge is basically a small hill rise 264 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.039 that went up sharp on the one side. As he's 265 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.240 looking around and everything, he can't focus his mind. He 266 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.200 keeps starting his eyes back and forth. Meanwhile, Max is 267 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.000 still kicking on that three wheeler. And asking him if 268 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:29.919 he has any more shells in his pocket. As he's 269 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.720 looking around, he searches two more rounds, hands it to him, says, 270 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:36.759 don't just fire in discriminately. Let's get the wheeler started 271 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:39.360 and we'll ride out of here. Calm down. He goes, no, 272 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:42.600 you don't understand, Spencer. It was a bigfoot. It was 273 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.440 standing when I shot, and then it squatted down to 274 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.840 a quarter. Aout what size it was and he goes 275 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.720 a quarter? How does that get down to a quarter 276 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.080 of his size? He look, I don't know, but that 277 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.559 dark spot you saw was about a quarter the size 278 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.440 it was when it was standing up. So Spencer's kind 279 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.600 of confused. He's not seeing anything. I think that Max saw. 280 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:04.559 He saw the dark movement, but he didn't see all that. 281 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.240 He's freaked out along with Max, just because of how 282 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.559 terrified his buddy is. They've known each other since they 283 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.720 were little. He bleeded Max. It was just he was 284 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:17.559 thrown off by how intensely fearful Max was. And usually 285 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.840 Max is the adventurer, the take chances kind of guy. 286 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.960 So as he's hands in the rounds and he's focusing 287 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.120 back up on this hill, he notices the dark shadow 288 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.799 again way at the top, almost out of you, almost 289 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.559 like ten years before when they thought they saw a 290 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:35.120 black lab. He saw a black movement, a black shadow 291 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.039 just bouncing along up at the top. And at this 292 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.000 point in the day it was silhouetted, so it seemed 293 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.440 to be a little darker than it was before as 294 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:47.799 far as the silhouette. Now. Max got the three wheeler running, 295 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:51.080 did a small U turn, pulled up and was trying 296 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.519 to tell him again. As I was riding along, I 297 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.200 was looking up the hill because I kept hearing something 298 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.120 over the sound of the motor. Spencer's like that had 299 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.200 to have been allowed, because I heard you a couple 300 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:04.480 hundred yards way back around the corner there, and he goes, yeah, 301 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.320 it was a growl I felt above and beyond the 302 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.399 vibration of riding in the tundra. He said, he felt 303 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.120 this growl travel through him. That's what caught his attention. 304 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:18.919 He turned and looked, stalled out the three wheeler, loaded 305 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.559 what rounds he had, and shot up the hill. It 306 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.200 squatted down. Spencer comes around the corner a moment later. 307 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.159 He's trying to start the wheeler. So they talk it 308 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.679 out for a minute. Max tells him, look, it's moving again, 309 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.600 and Spencer looks in the direction he was looking before, 310 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.559 and the Max had to point out, no, right up 311 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.879 there behind us, the way this place sloped down, where 312 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.639 the ridge was ending, there was a bunch of brush there. 313 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.759 What Max was pointing to was that dark shadow seemed 314 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.639 to be down at the bottom in the brush, just 315 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.639 poking his head up. As Spencer saw that, and he 316 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.159 said that every hair on his body try to run 317 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:55.519 away from his skin. He said it was just wire 318 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:01.000 hard standing on end. Everything changed and asked him was 319 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:02.799 it a change in the air, and he goes, no, 320 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.080 it was a change in me. I understood, I can't 321 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.080 be here. I was like, I asked him. I was 322 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.399 like some people speak. He said, no, I knew. I 323 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.840 just knew. No voices in my head, but I just 324 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.399 knew I couldn't be there. It was in me. I 325 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.080 knew it. I can't argue that I understand what he's saying. 326 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:24.799 So what ends up happening is this dark shadow starts 327 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:26.879 moving in the brush. Every time it pops its head up, 328 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:31.200 it's a little closer. It's still at about fifty sixty yards, 329 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:33.639 but each time it pops up, it looks to be 330 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.639 about ten feet closer. Roughly, they're both freaking out. Max 331 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.240 stall's the three wheeler again. Now he had the two 332 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.440 fifty R, which, if anyone remembers, those three wheelers had 333 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.159 clutch five speed. It was made for racing, not boggy. 334 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.000 So he stalled out again. Before he started cranking on 335 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.720 it again, Spencer said, don't flood it again. This thing 336 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.559 is still coming. So Spencer on holsters is forty four 337 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:02.240 and shoots at the brush passed it, just trying to 338 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.039 make noise to scare this thing. Shoots two times, boom, boom. 339 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.559 This thing stops moving and tears off up the hill. 340 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.680 So instead of coming forward, it just it was gone. 341 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.279 They heard it crack with boom, just breaking through everything 342 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.759 on its way. They barely saw it through the brush 343 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.240 and it was gone. He said. His feeling of fear 344 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.119 left with it once it cleared the rise, and Max 345 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.039 restarts it and they go on. Now, the direction it 346 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:31.559 was going was the direction they had to turn and go, 347 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.200 but at a little bit of a different angle. So 348 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:38.519 Spencer was hoping. And once they got back around where 349 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:42.519 this little reverse z ended in the trail back over 350 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:46.000 to the truck was that it wasn't going in an intercept, 351 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.279 that it was going in a different direction. He was 352 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.480 fairly certain they were clear of each other's paths. Out 353 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.599 of there, they go around the corner and they get 354 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.160 back about to where Spencer initially jumped off. Now, when 355 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.680 it got to that point where he had pointed out 356 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.599 where there was a mushy spot of water welling up 357 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:06.720 and whatnot, they noticed in that spot, which wasn't there 358 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.880 just half hour forty minutes before. However long it was 359 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.559 not a whole huge amount of time, one of the trees, 360 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.400 one of the small black spruce, had been ripped out 361 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.920 of the ground and turned upside down in that, he said. 362 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.200 When they came up to that point, they both looked 363 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.880 at it. They both almost simultaneously looked at each other 364 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.920 and said, we got to go now. They didn't understand 365 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.680 what it meant, but they felt that someone was off 366 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.680 very bad, so they caulled us out of there. As 367 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.799 they're about half three quarters away back to the truck. 368 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.400 On this trail. At that time it was open. There 369 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:45.440 was a lot of dead grass and stuff, so all 370 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.319 the green vegetations like now there's a lot less green 371 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.359 vegetation has just skeletal trees and whatnot, especially the brush, 372 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:56.559 the smaller stuff. He notices in front of them, between 373 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:00.359 them and the truck, there's a dark shadow moving off trail, 374 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.480 real load to the ground, almost pitch black, tearing off 375 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.799 away off to their right. So immediately the way, he's 376 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.640 sitting kind of side saddle on this three wheeler. When 377 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.559 he notices this, he grabs Max's shoulder, and Max said, 378 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.400 I saw it. I saw it. It's moving, it's moving. 379 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.200 As they go up the trail, they notice some tracks. 380 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.920 The tracks were from one side to the other side. 381 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.839 He said it was approximately six foot wide. There the 382 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:32.319 ground was still partially moist from some previous reigns the 383 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.799 week before. He said, it looked like two huge footprints, 384 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.519 one on one side and one on the opposing side. 385 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.480 But the distance was six feet you know, looking at 386 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:43.519 that's not a great distance because each side was on 387 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.240 a rise, so someone jumping from one side to the other. 388 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.440 I could see that happening, you know, So that doesn't 389 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:54.119 necessarily say anything. However, everything together, he assumed it was 390 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:57.279 the bigfoot tracks. They looked at him briefly finished going 391 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:58.880 up the trail. When they got to the they were 392 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.720 looking off to see if they can see any movement 393 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.279 or whatever, because they wanted to get the wheeler loaded 394 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.079 up and get the hell out of there because Max 395 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.400 wasn't gonna leave it. So as they're pulling out their 396 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:10.599 little makeshift ramp to get it loaded up in the truck, 397 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.279 they get it dropped. When it hit the gravel, it 398 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:16.480 made this whoosh sound like anything heavy hit and gravel. 399 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.680 Immediately after that, they heard a very similar sound from 400 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:23.640 just off the gravel pad where they parked down in 401 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:25.839