WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.200 on here, something. 3 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:04.879 Just because my dog. 4 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:06.120 Something killed your dog. 5 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:07.320 My dog. 6 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:09.320 We're flying through the air over the tree. I don't 7 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:14.400 know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. 8 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:15.880 All I saw was my dog. 9 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:17.160 Coming over the fence and he was dead. 10 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:18.920 And once you hit the ground like, I didn't see 11 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:20.879 any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over 12 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:40.439 the fence. Sat, what are you putting? We got some 13 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:51.200 wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you see 14 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:52.240 what it was or was it was? 15 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:52.840 Standing enough? 16 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:54.799 I'm out here looking through the window now and I 17 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.600 don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus 18 00:00:58.719 --> 00:00:59.520 quice you bick. 19 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:06.079 Hello, hit somebody out here, quin, I'm out there. 20 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.599 I thought of a bitch about tick forty nine. I 21 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.560 don't know easy out there. Yeah, I'm bulking right. Hey. 22 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.920 Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back 23 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.040 with another encounter from deep in the back country. Make 24 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:20.879 sure you click the link right here in the show 25 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.319 notes and check out Fred's channel and show him some 26 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:27.840 love by watching some videos, hitting that like button and subscribing. 27 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.920 Before we get into this story, He's about to share. 28 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:33.400 I want to take a moment and just be upfront 29 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:37.480 with you. This one's heavy. This encounter involves a man 30 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.959 and his dog, and the dog is killed in a 31 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.640 very violent way right in front of him. That's hard 32 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.799 to say out loud, and it's hard to listen to. 33 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.439 There's no way around it. I'm a dog owner, I'm 34 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.480 a dog lover. Earlier this month, we had to put 35 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.319 one of our dogs down. I'm still carrying that with 36 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.480 me and I'm still working through it. So hearing this 37 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.000 account it hit me in a way I wasn't expecting. 38 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:04.040 There's a real sense of lass here, and I don't 39 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.159 want to gloss over that. So I just want to 40 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.599 offer a sincere warning before we go any further. If 41 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.520 stories involving harm to animals are too much for you 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.400 right now, or if you've got little ones riding along 43 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.879 while you're listening, you might want to come back to 44 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.199 this one at another time. Take care of yourself first. 45 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.560 This episode will be here when you're ready. But that's said. 46 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:27.639 If you're still with me, let's go ahead and get 47 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:28.120 into it. 48 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.400 Greeting is from Alaska. Everyone. This is Fred Rohle, Career 49 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.439 and Travel council member from dialing him. What I'm going 50 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.919 to share with you today is that something that Don 51 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.800 has been sharing with me over the course of about 52 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.439 three or four phone calls. It is very emotional about it. 53 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:45.520 And you'll hear why. Don lives in Aurora, Illinois. Now, 54 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:51.560 he was a lifelong Alaskan resident until this situation happened. 55 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.919 He worked on the pipeline years ago, and he liked 56 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.680 it so much he stayed, which a lot of people do. 57 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.719 It's beautiful and understandable. Don had it to where he 58 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:05.000 was squirreling away money. It was a single guy. He 59 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:06.960 got him a nice little misty because he wanted to 60 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.439 buy some property and do a little homestead type deal. 61 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.240 Not homesteading like they have the channels for now, but 62 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:17.360 legit Chichaco style homesteading. So he does this thing. He works, 63 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:19.199 He ends up getting married, and he puts off his 64 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.280 dream for about five six years until that didn't work out. 65 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.080 She'd been like Alaska, he did. So he finally finds 66 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:29.080 a piece of property he really likes. This particular piece 67 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:32.800 of property is we'll say north of Trapper Creek. Okay, 68 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.840 I won't give specifics because he just sold the place anyway, 69 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.120 that's their business. He made the owner of the new 70 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.439 buyer aware of exactly what I'm gonna share right now, 71 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.240 and they didn't care. So he gets his piece of 72 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.800 property and he builds himself a little elevated cabin, skrewted 73 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:52.199 it up, just a single shell cabin, single room. He 74 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.199 had lived there a decade, no problems, no issues whatsoever, 75 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:59.240 not even a bear coming through his yard. He would 76 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.680 hear wolves off in the distance sometimes, so he would 77 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:03.719 have a rifle stationed if he had heard him the 78 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.680 night before. But he never had an issue ever. He 79 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.319 got up in here in the seventies, and this incident 80 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.599 occurred two or three years ago. He's building this place up. 81 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.919 He's got a couple of little outbuildings, and he's got 82 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.399 himself his own little garden, so he's really digging it. 83 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.240 About three years into this, he decides he's going to 84 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:24.680 invest in a good quality dog, so he buys himself 85 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:31.000 a cinnamon Doberman pincher. He named the cinnamon Doverman pincher Rebel. Okay, 86 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.240 Rebel was a great dog. He had all the time 87 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.040 in the world. Retired, had a nast day. He was 88 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:39.639 just living his own dream. So he had time to 89 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.920 train the dog daily. Moving forward, great relationship. Dog goes 90 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.399 everywhere with Don right seven years into the dog's life. 91 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.839 A week before he decided to sell his property. This 92 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:53.920 is what went down. One night. He was sitting there. 93 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.959 It was early fall, the sun had just gone down 94 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.720 on the horizon, so Rebel was sitting by feet and 95 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.160 he squatted down. He was doing something with some kindling 96 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.800 for woodpile or something like that, and Rebel takes off 97 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.120 runs down a trail they go down every day. What 98 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.480 Don would do is have different fetch toys for the dog, 99 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.279 so as they're walking, he would just randomly throw the 100 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.839 ball or a stick or whatever it is off into 101 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.040 the tundra or off into the trees for the dog 102 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.439 to just have something to do while he was doing 103 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.959 his thing. So the dog taken off, he figured, oh, 104 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.399 he's going to get his chewi and he'll be right back. 105 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.120 No harm, no foul. It's nothing uncommon for this dog 106 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.040 to do that, so he does it. But just a 107 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.040 moment later, after the dog disappeared into the darkness of 108 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.519 the shrubs and stuff and down the trail, he heard 109 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.040 this yelp. He thought maybe the dog got into a porcupine. 110 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:45.519 It had happened a couple of years before, so he 111 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.800 was like, oh, crap, rebel, you should know better than 112 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.040 damn porcupine. So he was anticipating dog coming back with 113 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.079 clothes and the muzzle and that type of thing. Dog 114 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.920 comes back, but he's gimped up on the front pof 115 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.560 somehow he had twisted his paw. So as he's looking 116 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.240 at his oh, the dog is trying to get inside. 117 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.360 The dog wants nothing to do with outside. He's obviously hurt, 118 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.120 but didn't give a shit and was trying to get 119 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:08.879 the hell out of Dodge. And he was trying to 120 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.639 make sense because none of it made sense. But as 121 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.720 he's doing that at the tree lined about approximately not 122 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:19.480 even thirty feet away, he hears the scream. He said, 123 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.000 This scream hurt his ears. He literally had to cover 124 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.639 his ears it was so loud. As soon as that 125 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.160 scream ended, he watched a dark figure he couldn't fully 126 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.120 make out, grabbed the small birch tree, which was about 127 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.959 three inches in diameter or so roughly, and just snap 128 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.800 it off and rip it off, and it tried to 129 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.600 throw the upper portion at him. This thing still had 130 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.639 leaves on it or whatever, but he was already Once 131 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.759 the scream hit and the scream stopped, he had picked 132 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.160 up Broblin was heading inside when this thing chucked the 133 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.480 top of the tree. Now it wasn't some huge piece 134 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.519 of a tree, it was simply just the top. It 135 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.399 was probably about ten foot long, with a bunch of 136 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.879 branches and so whatever leaves were left on. He gets 137 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.160 inside and he shuts and locks the door, and he's 138 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.120 sitting on his knees. He's literally in shock. He was 139 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.399 crying when he was telling me that he had never 140 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.560 been so fearful. He literally sat on his knees holding 141 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.000 his dog, trying to help his dog's pock because it 142 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.639 was twisted around. He wasn't sure if it was just 143 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.519 dislocated or what. So he was trying to hold it 144 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.279 together and help his dog. And while he's doing it 145 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.639 and sobbing because nothing was making sense, and I get it. 146 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:33.240 He's sobbing, contemplating what the hell's going on. Then he 147 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.199 hears this tapping on the window, and he's just not 148 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.000 fully there because he's basically in shock. So he looks up, 149 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.639 looking at him in the eye. He said it came 150 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.439 up to just above halfway in his window, and he's 151 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.560 got four foot windows two foot off the floor, so 152 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.920 we're looking at approximately four or five foot of this 153 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:57.600 thing visible in the window, but the floor itself stood 154 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.000 at least four feet off the ground, so it was 155 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.920 also pilings and it was skirted off underneath this cabin. 156 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.240 So this thing was nine to ten feet tall, roughly, 157 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.079 give or take. And he's just stuck staring at this thing. 158 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:15.680 He said it had a milky gray, it looked blotchy. 159 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.240 It had a skin condition or something, flat, broad nose, 160 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.720 similar to a Native American, but he said that the 161 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.279 hair had a little bit of a widow's peak wrapped 162 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.879 around and then came back down under the nose like that, 163 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.399 and it was real sparsely around here, and it was 164 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.519 like almost reminded him of mutton chops, but it came 165 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:38.360 down to a beard. He said, he couldn't figure out 166 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.759 what the hell he was looking at. And so he's 167 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.200 sitting there in shock. This thing's tapping and then it 168 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.279 starts circling around the cabin and starts banging against the wall, 169 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.919 and he hasn't moved. He has a weapon there, but 170 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.559 he forgot about that gun. He told me He couldn't 171 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.559 even wrap his mind around what was happening, let alone 172 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:59.960 his digital camera, his digital canquorder, his gun, none of that, 173 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.960 None of it even popped into his head. He was 174 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.279 too traumatized in the moment. So as he's trying to 175 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.879 emotionally cope with what's going on outside, he's got the 176 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.159 dog on the inside just going ape shit. Now, this 177 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:17.919 dog following around with a potentially broken paw, going crazy 178 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.840 snarl and slobbery, and car just following this thing as 179 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.720 it moved around the outside of the cabin. Picture it rebels, 180 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.320 just barking at the wall. He sensed where it was. 181 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.720 This thing circled around once or twice. He was in trauma, 182 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.879 so he don't remember exactly how many times it had circled. 183 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.759 But they came up to the door and he said, 184 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.200 this place only had three windows, walk on each side, 185 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.240 one in the back next to his bed, and the 186 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.200 door had a small square window in it right a 187 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.519 steel door, of course, But one of the things he 188 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.080 had built into his cabin was this little lean tube 189 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.759 board that leans down underneath the handle of the door, 190 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.799 so in case the bear was trying to get in, 191 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.000 it had support right at the doorknob, so midway on 192 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.279 the door. It had reinforcement, so there was no way 193 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.960 to get play moving to easily pop it. So he 194 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.279 turns around and he puts that into place. It was 195 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.080 on the hinge. All he had to do was just 196 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.679 standing up and it fell right against the door, and 197 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:14.559 if the door tried to open, it would catch on 198 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.759 the knob and keep it shut. Pretty ingenious actually, So 199 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.440 he flings it up. He can't make anything out, and 200 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.039 he tried looking out the window, the little square window 201 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:26.720 in the door, but it was pitch black. So he 202 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:27.960 was like, it was dark out. I'm not going to 203 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.519 see anything. So he turns around and grabs a flashlight, 204 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:32.840 comes back over to look out the door because he's 205 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.559 still hearing noise, and when he turns on the flashlight 206 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.200 he catches a single eyes shone looking at him through 207 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.759 the window. He said it was a blaze orange red. 208 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.960 It blanked and it moved away. Rebels and we're doing 209 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.840 this thing, so he said it was chaos, trauma, terror, 210 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.399 things calm down. It appears at that moment the thing 211 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.240 was gone. He peeked out the windows nothing and got 212 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.399 the drapes shut, not really because they scrambled to do it. 213 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.879 So at this point he bandages Rebel splints at the 214 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.840 best he can, and he's emotionally drained and wiped out, 215 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:10.000 so he goes lays on his bed crashes out. He 216 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.559 wakes up to Rebel licking his face, and as he's 217 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.679 coming to and snapping out of it and realizing, oh, 218 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.399 what happened last night kind of thing. Along with the licking, 219 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.799 he's feeling this weird tapping, don't It feels like it's 220 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.039 coming from the floor, And he was like, the whole 221 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.759 place is skirted, and he's like, did this thing get 222 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.399 under my cabin? Which I would be worried about that 223 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.919 shit too, But what was going on is this thing 224 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.080 was just down on the opposite side of the wall 225 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.399 from his bed, and where it was hitting the wall, 226 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:43.559 it was hitting his bed frame, and it felt like 227 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.799 it was originating from the floor, but it was actually 228 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.039 originating right next to him, and he didn't realize it 229 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.600 because he was coming out of the fog for a 230 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.600 way to wake up. He sits up, he's listening to 231 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.559 this tapping and he's trying to make out okay, And 232 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.360 at this point he's contemplate shooting to the damn wall. 233 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.679 And I don't blame I would have already been shooting anyway. 234 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.399 No judgment, Dawn, I understand that shock. It's very good. 235 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.720 God Man, good God. So he sits up and he's 236 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.840 coming to and he's trying to figure out what's going on. 237 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.200 It's tapping is continuing in the corner of his eye 238 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.440 on the window that's on the same side of his bed. 239 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.480 He's got the one window next to him, a window 240 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:27.120 about eight feet away on his left hand side, and 241 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.759 then the other one's mirrors it on the opposite side 242 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:32.360 on that side, and then the little square window in 243 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:36.120 the door just at the edge. He could see out 244 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.120 that window to his left, about that much of it, 245 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.480 because that at the angle he was he only had 246 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.639 about this much view at that angle out that window. 247 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.919 But he noticed movement, so he looks over, he leans 248 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.600 forward to get a better look, and it's one of 249 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.519 these things looking at him, looking right at him, wouldn't 250 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.000 take its eyes off him, just doing this slow motion thing. 251 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.960 So as that's happening, it dawns on him the tapping 252 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.799 is still going, so that one that he's looking at 253 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.519 isn't doing the tapping. There's a second one. At that moment, 254 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.759 he was like, what the screw this noise goes for 255 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.399 his gun. At that moment, it was fight or fight, 256 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.360 and he had nowhere to run, So he's gonna fight. 257 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.639 He wasn't going to have none of it, and just 258 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.399 click within him. He's gonna put up his fight. He 259 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.440 thought they were there to get him and who knows 260 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.399 this speculation. So grabs a gun as soon as the 261 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.279 one by the window sees that gun. All of a sudden, 262 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.399 they're gone, poof, They just bail out of there. So 263 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:32.080 he's okay, they know what a gun is good because 264 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:34.279 this is all I'm going to have for him from 265 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.639 now on. It is a gun. They hurt my dog, 266 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:41.159 they're terroriting me. I'm over it. The morning continues, nothing happens. 267 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:45.399 It's just dead quiet outside. He doesn't want to go outside. 268 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.240 He just basically holds up in his cabin, keeping a lookout. 269 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:51.240 Every once in a while he cooks for him. It 270 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.360 feeds his dog. And it's getting on into getting later 271 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.279 in the day and it don's on a Rebel hasn't 272 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.559 been out once yet, so he wants Rebel to use 273 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.720 the facil so to speak, to go pee on a 274 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.799 tree or whatever real quick before it gets dark, because 275 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.000 with what's going on, and they had already heard his 276 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.960 dog once, he didn't want to risk it. Understandable one 277 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:14.080 hundred percent. So he lets Rubble out. Rubble just goes 278 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.320 to the bottom of the stairs, lifts the leg does 279 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:19.039 this thing comes right back inside. No sooner than he 280 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.240 gets to the door shut. And he's shutting this little thing, 281 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.519 he feels pressure pushed against the door and there's that 282 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.919 thing in the little square windows. So he puts his 283 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.200 little makeshift door brace up because the window was so 284 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.919 small and his head was so big, it would just 285 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.440 had the one eye looking in at him. He runs 286 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:37.039 over grabs a rifle. When he turns around, there's nothing 287 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.960 in the window. Right at this point, it's to the 288 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.720 point where he put it in his mind and the 289 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.000 next time I see one of these prick things, I'm 290 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.559 just going to start shooting. I'm not going to guess 291 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.879 there's something going on. And they're trying to do something. 292 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:52.759 And he couldn't put it together because he was still 293 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.120 in a fog of trauma. One of these things coming 294 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:56.919 at you, and the next thing, they're tapping on the 295 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.559 place and looking in the windows. It's not where you 296 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:01.120 would want to be, that's for sure. 297 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.000 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll 298 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:06.919 be right back after these messages. 299 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:12.840 Two of the windows never had a curtain. One did, 300 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.200 the one next to his bed, but he's trying to 301 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.320 get old blankets and stuff and make these makeshift curtains 302 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:21.559 to block their view in because at this point, after 303 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.039 it left the door, he was seeing movement outside the windows. 304 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.759 It was silhouettes. It was still wide out in the sky, 305 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.639 but he couldn't make out any features of who and 306 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.480 what was moving around, right, But he knew he didn't 307 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.039 want them to be able to look in at him. 308 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.600 So he's doing his thing, and as he's going to 309 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.879 the one window to hang up an afghan, which everyone 310 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:44.360 knows it has a bunch of holes in it, but 311 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.879 it peace of mind and some kind of visual barrier. 312 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.799 He's hanging it up, and he's banging some nails into 313 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:51.879 the wall real quick to hang the afghan on because 314 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.919 he had notebooks for curtains. And as he's doing this, 315 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.200 every tap he did directly behind him on the wall, 316 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.559 a mimicking tap, and he just kept doing what he 317 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.159 was doing. He was over, he wasn't going to react 318 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.600 to anything. He had made up his mind. It's time. 319 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:11.000 Something's got to give, because where he's at his truck 320 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.679 to get the hell out of Dodge is almost a 321 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.240 quarter of a mile back to where the road ended 322 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.039 and his property begare, and he had no driveway cut 323 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.799 into his plates. Logistically, it would take a butt trying 324 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.600 of gravel to get a good base layer to even 325 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.919 make anything worthwhile. That's just how it's worked for him 326 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.919 for ten years. At this point now, as he's mentally 327 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.840 thinking about his truck getting this Afghan hung and all that, 328 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.480 he decides he's going to ignore it because he felt 329 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.600 like he was going to have a narroorism or heart attack. 330 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:47.080 He felt his blood pressure way too high, and he's 331 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.679 not a spring chicken. He's in his mid sixties when 332 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.720 this occurred, and he just knew it was taking a 333 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.480 toll on hare and his body and especially his heart 334 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:59.440 because he could feel like palpitations or something happening, or anxiety, 335 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.240 a panic to whatever you want to call it. And rightfully, 336 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.359 he wasn't under siege. They weren't actively trying to break in, 337 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.759 but they had him freaking surrounded and he's clearless. He 338 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:11.079 has no idea what to do about it. He starts 339 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.480 cooking something to eat. He's gonna do something normal to 340 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.279 break his mindset. Let me focus on making some spam 341 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.359 and eggs. So he's frying up his spam and eggs, 342 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.880 and just as he was cracking the eggs to put 343 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.000 into the pair, boom, something hit really hard behind his 344 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.680 little cooking stove, little counter area, and it hit so 345 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.960 hard his little Coleman stove slid forward. He had to 346 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.559 catch it, burn his hand a little bit. Slid it back, 347 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.799 you must have. So he runs and grabs a rifle 348 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.559 and he shoots through the wall right where it happened 349 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:43.119 to have banged against it the last time, hoping it 350 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.599 was still standing there. And it was this osb rough 351 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.519 staring on the outside, and typical drywall on the inside, 352 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.519 two by six kind of framework or whatever, basically like 353 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.200 a house wall. But we call them cabins because it's 354 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.519 in the woods. I don't know me a cabin's a 355 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.799 log cabin anyway, but his so he shoots through the wall. 356 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.920 He shoots once and there's not a sound. He shoots 357 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:07.599 the second time between where he first shot and where 358 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.079 that window is boom, here's the scream. But the scream 359 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.480 came from the opposite side of the cabin. There was 360 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.400 nothing tangible, is why he shot out this one and 361 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.720 his scream's over here unless that one was startled by 362 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:24.640 the shot and he was speculating. So nothing happens. It 363 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:28.559 goes dead quiet. And after he finished tending to his 364 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:30.960 dinner shaking. He was so upset he couldn't even eat, 365 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.319 but he was hungry, so he was you've ever been 366 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.039 so stressed? You just forcing food down to tastes like shit, 367 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.920 even though normally you like it. He was so stressed 368 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:40.440 he knew he had to get something on his stomach 369 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.039 because he could feel the bile. I feel for you, Doc, 370 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.720 So he's dealing with that now. He just shot a 371 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.039 couple of times. He said his ears were ringing from 372 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.400 the shots. I'd asked him. I was like, did you 373 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.000 fulfill any weird pressure or anything like that? He goes, no, 374 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:57.160 not that night. I didn't feel that. He does later though, 375 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.359 So the night goes on. Periodically there'll be a thump, 376 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.480 a bearing dog, growl. Dog would run chiaraoctally, jump off 377 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.119 the bed, run over, grow by the door, running back 378 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:08.279 over by a window, growl by the window. So the 379 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:13.039 dog is basically running around and he's gauging, okay, he's 380 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:16.000 actively barking over here, immediately running here than back over here. 381 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.079 He's counting in his mind at least three of these 382 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.720 things right. For the life of them, he can't figure 383 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.359 out why after a decade this is happening here. Never 384 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.640 once had a bear come through his yard, heard wolves 385 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:29.960 in the distance. The most he ever had come to 386 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.319 his yard was a porcupine a few years earlier when 387 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:36.119 Rebel got closing his mouth. That's the extent of the wildlife. 388 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.160 There was more wildlife a little further down, but in 389 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.839 his particular area, he was pretty close to a muskang, 390 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:43.839 so there wasn't a whole lot of activity outside of 391 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:45.960 the air of porcupying and made probably some Martin in 392 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.160 the woods that he was unaware of. So he's sitting 393 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:50.680 there and he's trying his best to ignore everything going on. 394 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.480 But remember rebels periodically running around doing this, so it's 395 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:57.880 really hard for him to forget about it because it's 396 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.400 in his space. He can't avoid it. It goes like 397 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.640 that all night. He finally falls asleep just as he 398 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.640 could see light on the horizon, and he sleeps and 399 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.480 he's walking up approximately midday, Rebel looking at him again, 400 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:16.039 gets up immediately. He's looking out the windows. There's no tapping. 401 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:19.720