Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here, something.
Speaker 2: Just because my dog.
Speaker 1: Something killed your dog, My dog. We're flying through the
Speaker 1: air over the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn,
Speaker 1: I'm really confused.
Speaker 2: All I saw was my dog.
Speaker 1: Coming over the fence and he was dead. And once
Speaker 1: you hit the.
Speaker 2: Ground like, I didn't see any cars.
Speaker 1: All I saw was my dog coming over the fence.
Speaker 2: Sat, what are you putting?
Speaker 1: We got some wonder or something crawling around out here?
Speaker 1: Did you see what it was?
Speaker 2: Or was it was?
Speaker 1: Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now
Speaker 1: and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Speaker 2: Jesus Quice, you better.
Speaker 1: Hello, get somebody out here. What quent on out there?
Speaker 1: I thought of a bit is about sixty forty nine.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Easy him out there, yeah.
Speaker 2: IM righty Oh.
Speaker 1: What I wanted to share with you today comes from Rick.
Speaker 1: Rick is his real name, but his buddy we'll call
Speaker 1: him Ernie because it's an open missing person investigation. Can't
Speaker 1: find any information. It's tragic, really. Rick is an oil
Speaker 1: field worker. Retired, he bought a ten acre lot of
Speaker 1: land down the Kenai Peninsula years before he retired back
Speaker 1: in eighty seven is when he first made inroads into
Speaker 1: developing this ten acre plot. So he goes in there
Speaker 1: but clears a bunch of the trees, puts in a
Speaker 1: small little gravel pad road and a little pad at
Speaker 1: the end there just for his little parking area. As
Speaker 1: he decided what he was going to build, whether it
Speaker 1: be a cab in Kwanza hut, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: So that first years not much happened. He marked a
Speaker 1: bunch of trees that he wanted to cut the next
Speaker 1: time he was there because he was working in the
Speaker 1: oil fields. As he's plotting on the developing and what
Speaker 1: he's going to do, he had a buddy a rostabout
Speaker 1: in the oil field name we'll call him Ernie. Ernie
Speaker 1: was a good dude, hard working younger guy. Rick hires
Speaker 1: him to come with them the following season. He's planned
Speaker 1: on taking time off and developing the property and getting
Speaker 1: as much done in a short amount of time. As
Speaker 1: he's plotting on what he's going to do. Just happenstance
Speaker 1: he gets injured rotator cuff injury up on the oil field.
Speaker 1: So he's forced to take time off and it's just
Speaker 1: as the snow is starting to melt. In nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: it's okay, since I can't do nothing, definitely going to
Speaker 1: have to hire Ernie to beat hands because he was
Speaker 1: limited with the rotator cuff injury. So according to what
Speaker 1: Rick was saying, it took about a month to get
Speaker 1: things worked out medically to where he's not just going
Speaker 1: back and forth for MRIs and shit like that. Because
Speaker 1: he was injured on the job. He had to jump
Speaker 1: to hoops. The insurance companies have got a right to
Speaker 1: know if you're frauding them or not. But anyway, well,
Speaker 1: he was doing his thing. As he gets done with
Speaker 1: all his medical stuff, he just basically has to recoup.
Speaker 1: He brings Ernie in. Ernie is getting paid well for
Speaker 1: his time. They go back into his property. He didn't
Speaker 1: want me to give specifics. Ernie comes into be his hands.
Speaker 1: Rick is pondering whether or not he's going to buy
Speaker 1: this portable sawmill and mill his own stuff, and just
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of logistical stuff that Rick was working on.
Speaker 1: He sent Ernie in to cut down the trees that
Speaker 1: he had previously marked out. He wanted to drop down
Speaker 1: out of the way just so he had an open
Speaker 1: field of view around his cabin that he's going to build,
Speaker 1: so Ernie's in there by himself. One day, Rick had
Speaker 1: an old f three point fifty pickup truck with a
Speaker 1: camper in the back. He parked it there for Ernie
Speaker 1: to use. So what ends up happening is that he
Speaker 1: gets it parked at and Ernie's staying in it three
Speaker 1: or four days. Ernie goes through and he's not just
Speaker 1: dropping the trees, he's limbing them, moving the brush from
Speaker 1: the limb piles and burning nose and bucking up the
Speaker 1: wood for firewood for future use. So he's doing a
Speaker 1: lot of work. Just dropping trees ain't nothing, but once
Speaker 1: you start processing it takes some time. That's about three
Speaker 1: or four days eating up with that, and Rick finally
Speaker 1: makes it in to join him. One of the issues
Speaker 1: that Ernie immediately pointed out to him is that there's
Speaker 1: screaming coming from across a little creek on the back
Speaker 1: side of the property that led up into the mountains.
Speaker 1: Ernie tells him, hey, look, this scream sounded like a
Speaker 1: woman being murdered. But when I went to investigate last night,
Speaker 1: all I heard was a deep growl when I got
Speaker 1: down by this creek. So Rick was like, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: report it. I don't know what will come of it.
Speaker 1: As the days go on, Ernie's again every other morning
Speaker 1: saw him, Hey, that screaming is continuing. Man, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to feel uncomfortable here. Rick was like, I want to
Speaker 1: hear it myself. I believe you, but I want to
Speaker 1: hear it myself. So I will stay the night here
Speaker 1: a couple of nights and try to help you figure
Speaker 1: out what this screaming is. So Rick, you know, reluctantly
Speaker 1: because he's not feeling good. He's got a rotator cuff injury.
Speaker 1: It's a hard for him to get comfortable at home,
Speaker 1: let alone in this camper. They're sharing the camper. The
Speaker 1: first night it was dead quiet. Rick said it was
Speaker 1: so quiet it was eerie. Made him feel a certain
Speaker 1: way inside he couldn't express. So I was like, fair enough.
Speaker 1: The following night, Rick leaves. In the morning, Ernie continues
Speaker 1: his work clearing a land. They had a little bobcat
Speaker 1: in there, and Ernie was pushing some of the bresh
Speaker 1: and stuff back, just creating a perimeter. Basically. Rick comes
Speaker 1: back that night to stay again. Because he was real
Speaker 1: curious about the screaming, because of how serious Ernie was
Speaker 1: about it, the look in his eye, he knew Ernie
Speaker 1: wasn't bullshit. And we're trying to play games. Rick is
Speaker 1: back and Ernie is making himself something eat me off
Speaker 1: for some of Rick, and Rick accepts the offer. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's hungry. So as Ernie's cooking. Getting into land of
Speaker 1: the midnight sun that time of year, it doesn't get
Speaker 1: overly dark at night. The sky stays like lighter twilight.
Speaker 1: Where they're at the base of mountain, it gets a
Speaker 1: little darker because the sun goes behind the mountain. At
Speaker 1: that time of year, it gets a certain level of darkness.
Speaker 1: With that in mind, it's basically twilight. All the tree
Speaker 1: lined is just silhouetted dark. The sky is light, but
Speaker 1: every thing at tree level and below is dark. They're
Speaker 1: sitting there, they get to eating. As they're eating, Ernie
Speaker 1: hears something that Rick doesn't. He goes, do you hear
Speaker 1: that growling? Listen real close, and then Rick starts listening
Speaker 1: and he realizes he's feeling the growling inside the bed
Speaker 1: of the truck camper right these cab over campers. Oh
Speaker 1: that must be a really big bear. So Rick grabs
Speaker 1: the flashlight and starts banging on stuff coming out of
Speaker 1: the camper to scare off any bear. So he gets out.
Speaker 1: He's beaming around with the flashlight, doesn't see much, goes
Speaker 1: to his truck and retrieves the shotgun. All he's got
Speaker 1: in at is bird shot because the last time he
Speaker 1: used it was for a duck hunting or a goose
Speaker 1: hunting or something. He brings it in. All he has
Speaker 1: is those goose loads. Basically, he looks around before going
Speaker 1: inside in the camper with the shotgun, and Ernie's kind
Speaker 1: of standing out there with them looking around nothing. They
Speaker 1: see nothing, hear nothing. They decide they're gonna just eat,
Speaker 1: call it a night, and not worry about this bear.
Speaker 1: They're settling in for the night. Rick had brought the
Speaker 1: shotgun in and they the growl and we're just chalking
Speaker 1: it up to a bear. Rick was just giving him
Speaker 1: bear advice. Ernie was from the village, well versed in
Speaker 1: bears and starts laughing at Rick and told him, look,
Speaker 1: I know what a damn bear is. So they went
Speaker 1: back and forth with a butt bears. Just as things
Speaker 1: are quieting down inside the camper. There's a thump, but
Speaker 1: it's not a thump against the camper's a thump against.
Speaker 1: It sounded like one of the front tires got bumped
Speaker 1: real hard, and they both thought it was odd. So
Speaker 1: Rick wanting to potentially chase off anyone who's playing games,
Speaker 1: because there was neighbors that were developing property adjacent to
Speaker 1: him that had some younger teenage guys. But initially he
Speaker 1: thought maybe kids were playing games just being bored going
Speaker 1: into summer. They got nothing better to do, so he figured, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out. Ernie was still sitting up kind
Speaker 1: of reading by headlamp light. This is eighty eight. They
Speaker 1: don't have cell phones and shit like that. Rick had
Speaker 1: one of those polaroid cameras, so he figures, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use the flash on this damn thing and I'm
Speaker 1: just scare the shit out of these kids, teach him
Speaker 1: a lesson. He had no film in the damn thing.
Speaker 1: He just had the little flash cube or whatever on
Speaker 1: there that was super bright. He goes outside. His flashlight
Speaker 1: wasn't doing much. As he's looking around, he hears movement
Speaker 1: off in the tree line and starts yelling hey, you
Speaker 1: staff my property and all that kind of stuff. Not
Speaker 1: a soundback. It's dead quiet outside. He's just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out why in the hell and who in the
Speaker 1: hell is messing with us. As he's turning around because
Speaker 1: he's at the front of the truck at this time.
Speaker 1: As he turns around the head back to the back
Speaker 1: of the camper to get back in and go to sleep,
Speaker 1: he hears the growling again, and he said it sounded
Speaker 1: like it was on top of him. He gets back
Speaker 1: inside the camper. Rick gets back into camper basically is
Speaker 1: trying to sort out what he had been hearing, the
Speaker 1: noises and stuff and the yelling, and he's telling Ernie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead that shotgun with you because obviously something's
Speaker 1: going on here. Don't kill any innocent kids. Scare him
Speaker 1: off if you can. Tomorrow I'll get better rounds ford
Speaker 1: in case it is a bear, because you don't want
Speaker 1: to be shooting bears with bird shot. So Ernie's you know,
Speaker 1: reassaring him. Yeah, well versed with bears. Just you know,
Speaker 1: do whatever. I'll continue working. So a couple more days
Speaker 1: pass Rick was gone. Brought them back some slugs and
Speaker 1: some double lot buck for the shotgun, and also his
Speaker 1: little old Colt forty five. So Rick is basically in
Speaker 1: and out of the property and he's hearing these things
Speaker 1: from Ernie. So from Ernie's perspective, over the next week,
Speaker 1: things were being thrown at this camper. He had been
Speaker 1: screamed at a couple times that night when he came
Speaker 1: outside to relieve himself. All of this stuff that he
Speaker 1: shared with Rick. Rick is just taking with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt, like, man, there's got to be something to this.
Speaker 1: And then Ernie brings up the Harry Man. Rick had
Speaker 1: never was never accustomed to hearing about it, had heard
Speaker 1: old stories from old natives, but shocked it up to
Speaker 1: folklore in what have used he listens to Ernie, hears
Speaker 1: him out, basically tells Ernie that sounds like a load
Speaker 1: of shit. Just watch yourself. If you don't want to
Speaker 1: be here, let me know. I got to go, dude.
Speaker 1: And so Rick admits he starts crying about having to
Speaker 1: hire someone else and please just work and don't worry
Speaker 1: about the excess shit. He's not experiencing what Ernie is,
Speaker 1: and Ernie is being screamed at, He's having things thrown
Speaker 1: at him, so he's not in the most pleasant of
Speaker 1: moods with Rick and is on the verge of quitting
Speaker 1: when he says, look, because over the course of that week,
Speaker 1: more and more stuff has been happening, more things being
Speaker 1: thrown at the camp, or more grunts, screams, just a
Speaker 1: litany of shit, right, and Ernie's at his wits end
Speaker 1: because he's not sleeping. The past couple of nights he
Speaker 1: hadn't slept. So when Rick comes to bring some supplies,
Speaker 1: Ernie's you need to experience some of the shit because
Speaker 1: it is getting too much for me to even be here.
Speaker 1: Rick says, all right, I'll have free time in a
Speaker 1: couple of days. I got a doctor's appointment, so when
Speaker 1: I'm done and anchorage and all that, i'll come back.
Speaker 1: I'll stay a few nights and I'll see if I
Speaker 1: could pick up what you're putting down again. Rick was
Speaker 1: so skeptical. By time he comes back, the whole camper
Speaker 1: had been shaken a couple of times, so much so
Speaker 1: that Ernie didn't have the keys to move this camper.
Speaker 1: He was basically there to work. Rick had the keys
Speaker 1: with him, but the camper, the rear end of it
Speaker 1: had been pushed. You could see the drag marks of
Speaker 1: the tires. This thing was pushed about five feet from
Speaker 1: the tailgates side. The Bobcat was no longer there. That
Speaker 1: was a rental. So he knows that Ernie wasn't using
Speaker 1: the bobcat to pull it over. So, hey, look what's
Speaker 1: happening that kind of shit. Rick is perplexed. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know what to do. Ernie's I'm done. Look, dude, I'm done.
Speaker 1: I quit pay me for my time. Good luck, I'm done.
Speaker 1: He has to gives Ernie a ride to anchorage, and
Speaker 1: Ernie goes off and whatnot, and now it's just Rick
Speaker 1: and Rick can't find anybody because all his friends are
Speaker 1: out playing fishing. Theyin't got time to help him. He's
Speaker 1: having to do what he can when he can. Over
Speaker 1: the course of that summer, he'd come in do a
Speaker 1: little bit of cutting when his shoulders feeling up to it.
Speaker 1: He can only do about twenty minutes at a time,
Speaker 1: and then you know, he was basically spent because his
Speaker 1: shoulder was killing him and he's still trying to heal,
Speaker 1: so it's not helping. And so it goes on like that,
Speaker 1: and so the fall he get virtually gets nothing accomplished.
Speaker 1: He reaches out to Ernie again because Ernie was a
Speaker 1: hard worker. He was getting shit done and couldn't find him.
Speaker 1: Couldn't find Ernie, so he ends up hiring another young kid.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, I keep hearing something on it's
Speaker 1: reverberating up over here. I wonder if it's back around
Speaker 1: the corner. Maybe someone might be running machinery around the corner.
Speaker 1: But it's like I'm hearing bear grunts from over my shoulder.
Speaker 1: I'm going to face this way, all right. So he
Speaker 1: keeps looking for help, someone to pitch in, be a
Speaker 1: hard worker for him and what have you. Right, So
Speaker 1: he's not having the best of luck. So he finally
Speaker 1: gets this kid. He's about eighteen. It's the kid's first
Speaker 1: real job, like outside of I think he worked at
Speaker 1: McDonald's before that or something, but first manual labor job
Speaker 1: with expectations, because Rick had a high level of expectation
Speaker 1: because he's trying to get shit done. So he's teaching
Speaker 1: the kid how to use a chain saw, how to
Speaker 1: buck up. Would basically classes in session for this kid.
Speaker 1: And it's getting into flo and Rick knows he's not
Speaker 1: going to get his cabin built that year. As he's
Speaker 1: trying to figure things out and find some real help
Speaker 1: because all his buddies that he knew were carpenters, they're
Speaker 1: in the swing of building homes, they're in mid contracts.
Speaker 1: They can't just break away and do his project. So
Speaker 1: he's feeling a little better with the rotator cuff injury,
Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent, so he's pitching in more
Speaker 1: and more, trying to get as much done as possible.
Speaker 1: He ends up staying a couple nights because the kid
Speaker 1: was giving him reports of weird screams, weird moaning sounds.
Speaker 1: So Rick is, all right, there, there's got to be
Speaker 1: something to this if two different people are saying the
Speaker 1: same shit. I heard some weird stuff, but I could
Speaker 1: chalk that up to a bear. I have nothing definitive.
Speaker 1: As he's staying that first night with the new kid,
Speaker 1: the place is shook again, violently shook in just as
Speaker 1: he was about to be dozing off the whole. He
Speaker 1: thought it was maybe an earthquake at first, then the
Speaker 1: younger kid is hearing this growling, and Rick started hearing
Speaker 1: it as well. Rick said, it was so low you
Speaker 1: felt it more than hurt it. So he's like, man,
Speaker 1: this is odd, so he grabs a shotgun. He's got
Speaker 1: some new flashlights and stuff because it's getting in the fall.
Speaker 1: It's dark at night, so he jumps out. He's yelling,
Speaker 1: damn it, bears, get out of here, bears. But he's
Speaker 1: yelling at the bears. As he's beaming the trees, looking
Speaker 1: for this bear in where it could have gone, and
Speaker 1: looking for any signs of this bear, he notices eye
Speaker 1: shine real load of the ground, but the width between
Speaker 1: the two eyes is bit much for a bear, so
Speaker 1: he's concerned about what this thing could be just because
Speaker 1: of its sheer size. And as he's watching it, he's yelling,
Speaker 1: get out of here, bear, Get out of here bear,
Speaker 1: because that's his only frame of reference. At this point,
Speaker 1: the whole hairy man thing was out of his mind.
Speaker 1: Lasting he said he didn't believe any of the hairyman stuff.
Speaker 1: He said it was hokey business. Up till that point,
Speaker 1: it was all hokey business. It was all someone's imagination
Speaker 1: run wild, old folklore, blah blah blah. As he's watching
Speaker 1: this eye shine, the kid comes out from behind him
Speaker 1: from the camper and is beaming his flashlight over as well,
Speaker 1: and the kids is like, hey, what the hell is that?
Speaker 1: The eye shine was red, And as the kids asking
Speaker 1: him this, the eye shine starts to raise up. He
Speaker 1: said it must have went from two to three feet
Speaker 1: off the ground. That he could, you know, guesstimate because
Speaker 1: it was dark out and it was under flashlight, and
Speaker 1: he didn't have any visual references right next to it
Speaker 1: at the time. He was guessing it was about two
Speaker 1: or three feet off the ground. It had to have
Speaker 1: gone up to almost ten feet off the ground. And
Speaker 1: then it screamed at them. He said, when they were beaming,
Speaker 1: all they saw was an eye shine because it was
Speaker 1: just back far enough out of the power of the
Speaker 1: flashlight to fully illuminate it, but the eyes were giving
Speaker 1: back the eye shine. He said, it screamed at them.
Speaker 1: He said he felt it in his chest. It scared
Speaker 1: him so much he dropped the shotgun and the flashlight.
Speaker 1: They both broke for Rick's other truck. He said, he
Speaker 1: got in the truck and realized he left his keys
Speaker 1: and wallet in the camp or so he had to
Speaker 1: without a gun or a flashlight. He pulled the little
Speaker 1: pull handle the old school headlights, little dial thing turned
Speaker 1: on the headlights and the eyeshine was gone, but he
Speaker 1: runs over, jumps into the camp for grabs. The keys
Speaker 1: comes back, starts up the rig, and they get the
Speaker 1: hell out of Dodge on the way to more civilized surroundings.
Speaker 1: He decides we'll just stay at a hotel and go
Speaker 1: back in the morning in the light comes back, the
Speaker 1: kid quit. The following morning was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell that was. It was huge. It was
Speaker 1: weird stuff happening before I'm done. So Rick has lost
Speaker 1: two people. He's at a loss. He doesn't know what
Speaker 1: to do. He basically calls it because they went. He
Speaker 1: had to go back himself, pick up the shot in
Speaker 1: the flashlight closed down basically his little work area. He
Speaker 1: leaves for the season. Now during that later on that fall,
Speaker 1: going in the winter, he found out that Ernie was
Speaker 1: killed in a car accident. He finds out through a
Speaker 1: friend of a friend that Ernie was supposedly killed in
Speaker 1: his car accident. So he was like, that's weird. So
Speaker 1: he reached out to the family to send his condolences
Speaker 1: and whatnot, see what he could do to help. But
Speaker 1: any burial costs or whatever it may be, come to
Speaker 1: find out he wasn't killed in a car accident. His
Speaker 1: car was found abandoned and he was missing. Just gone,
Speaker 1: just disappeared. No explanation for it, no answers, just poof gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do with that? There was
Speaker 1: no trail to follow. So Rick ends up back next
Speaker 1: season at his cab in site trying to get a
Speaker 1: piece together and whatnot. As it's middle of the day,
Speaker 1: it's early in the spring. There still patches the snow
Speaker 1: here and there, but he's getting a bunch of SNA
Speaker 1: tubes ready to pour. Basically at the beginnings of his foundation,
Speaker 1: he's going to have it elevated off the ground. So
Speaker 1: he's got the sona tubes, he's got a bunch of
Speaker 1: them laid out, and he's doing his thing middle of
Speaker 1: the day. All of a sudden, out of his peripheral
Speaker 1: view from going from his right to his left, this
Speaker 1: thing walks out. He said. It was strawberry blonde, approximately
Speaker 1: seven and a half eight foot tall, appeared to be
Speaker 1: a female, scraggly looking hair, but not totally unkempt. Just
Speaker 1: looked like he said, you could see the skin through
Speaker 1: the hair, so it wasn't really dense hair. It was
Speaker 1: a kind of light, said. This thing looked over at
Speaker 1: him as he was sizing up his measurements and stuff,
Speaker 1: making sure he was square on his layout. This thing
Speaker 1: walked by, looked over at him, showed teeth and gave
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a snarl, and he was
Speaker 1: in shock. He knows he's seen eyeshine the year before,
Speaker 1: had put that out of his mind, but this one
Speaker 1: walking by just freaked him out. He sat there, he
Speaker 1: was out in the middle of this pad. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to run and cause any kind of chase reflex
Speaker 1: from this animal, creature or whatever he was trying to
Speaker 1: determine at the time, so he just sits there. He
Speaker 1: watches it walk off to his left, goes into the trees. Basically,
Speaker 1: no other sound made. Didn't even hear it walking, and
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of brush and stuff. He said
Speaker 1: he should have heard it walking. He didn't hear a thing.
Speaker 1: So as he pulls himself together, he backs away once
Speaker 1: it's clear and gets over to his truck and he
Speaker 1: sits in it, and he starts thinking about everything Ernie
Speaker 1: had said. Everything Ernie had told him, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden had a whole different light shined on it. So
Speaker 1: Rick gets out of there. He's gone for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, comes back. When he comes back, he damn
Speaker 1: near had given up, just decided, damn here to put
Speaker 1: this property up for sale. He gets back, all the
Speaker 1: sun of tubes that he had laid out are just missing.
Speaker 1: They could have blown away or whatever. He's basically ready
Speaker 1: to give up on this property, and so he really
Speaker 1: doesn't want to, but he's at his wits end. He
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do about what's been going on.
Speaker 1: He ends up talking to a buddy of his, and
Speaker 1: his buddy agrees that, hey, I'll buy the property from you.
Speaker 1: I'll pay you a little extra for what you've developed
Speaker 1: so far and get you out of it. After a
Speaker 1: little bit of deliberation, he tells us fro him, I
Speaker 1: got to tell you, and lays out everything that happened,
Speaker 1: and the guy he's selling to just laughs and goes whatever,
Speaker 1: like it was no big deal. Like he didn't believe
Speaker 1: one else of what Rick was starting to tell him.
Speaker 1: So Rick was like, okay, if you want to buy it,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a premium over what I did
Speaker 1: for what I've invested. Done deal, sells it to the guy.
Speaker 1: As they're in the course of making the sale or whatever,
Speaker 1: Rick backs out. It was damn near last minute. He
Speaker 1: backs out, says, no, I'm gonna stay here. Nothing else
Speaker 1: happens over the course the next few years of him
Speaker 1: finally getting the place built. So this was in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight ish where he almost sells it and then
Speaker 1: backs out, and then over the next few years up
Speaker 1: until ninety three, it took him to complete it with
Speaker 1: everything complete, just because of his slope work and coming
Speaker 1: back and forth. He's been there since. He since retired,
Speaker 1: and the only reason he reached out to share this
Speaker 1: story is nothing happened since. He said he had last
Speaker 1: heard a scream around ninety five, and it was often
Speaker 1: the distance crossed that creek back up into the mountains there.
Speaker 1: So he's basically it's been quiet up until last year.
Speaker 1: Once the scream started again and he saw one cross
Speaker 1: the property last fall, that's when he made up his
Speaker 1: mind to share it. He's reached out to some other
Speaker 1: people and they blew him off. He finally reached out
Speaker 1: to me earlier. I think it was just after Easter
Speaker 1: or whatever. Rick, thanks for your patience man, and I
Speaker 1: understand your schedule and our schedules was hard to get
Speaker 1: the experience out. He knows of other people and he's
Speaker 1: going to reach out to them about things that have
Speaker 1: occurred over a long period of time. People just coping
Speaker 1: with it. Rick's still there to this day, outside of
Speaker 1: the scream crossing of his property last season. He said,
Speaker 1: it's been relatively quiet, but he wants more people to
Speaker 1: take it serious. He also wanted me to dedicate this
Speaker 1: to Ernie, who's missing. He still feels bad to this
Speaker 1: day for mocking the guy. Obviously, Ernie wasn't bullshitting. We'll
Speaker 1: dedicate this to Ernie, rest in peace wherever you are.
Speaker 1: Not his real name, but we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Rick, and again dedicated to Ernie. All
Speaker 1: those people out there who aren't believed, and stay tuned
Speaker 1: for more Sasquatch out to sea. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: after these messages. Jeanette and Tracy, they still go to
Speaker 1: this place, so they ask me not to be too specific,
Speaker 1: but it's a state cabin that you can basically make
Speaker 1: reservations for stay at them for I think they limit
Speaker 1: the amount of time or whatever they go to their
Speaker 1: favorite place. They've been there many times, fifteen years total,
Speaker 1: off and on every other year as they got time
Speaker 1: because they had families and children attend to and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So they're at this cabin. They're going to be there
Speaker 1: for five nights. The very first night, they're around the
Speaker 1: campfire and they hear a scream of how the air
Speaker 1: raids are and way off in the distance up this
Speaker 1: particular valley that it is like it boxes out at
Speaker 1: the end, and Tracy was immediately shook by it. Jeanette
Speaker 1: was like, it's just a weird noise. It was probably
Speaker 1: a wolf howl or something, just a sick wolf. Tracy
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling that assessment, so she went got the shotgun
Speaker 1: her husband sends with her every time she goes. She
Speaker 1: loaded it up, got it ready, and Jeanette was a
Speaker 1: little perturbed because it took away from the mellow vibe
Speaker 1: around the campfire. Right, Tracy is something off about that,
Speaker 1: and if it is a wolf for sick wolf, we
Speaker 1: may need the shotgun. So they sat around and Jeanette
Speaker 1: says it was about two hours. Tracy, who was paying
Speaker 1: more attention, says it was about an hour, a little
Speaker 1: over an hour maybe before the second howl screen. After
Speaker 1: the second one, it was closer a lot louder. It
Speaker 1: just unnerved them both to where they retreated into the
Speaker 1: cabin to be indoors with something around them. They're inside
Speaker 1: for a couple hours and landed the midnight sun. It
Speaker 1: wasn't overly dark. It was twilight in the sky dark
Speaker 1: in the tree line. There was about fifty yards circumference
Speaker 1: around this particular cabin. Tracy periodically would go and look out.
Speaker 1: There was two windows, one on either side of the entryway,
Speaker 1: which was in the center of the wall. Tracy was
Speaker 1: standing in the left window looking out, and Jeanette was
Speaker 1: at a table at the biggest window off to the
Speaker 1: right hand side. If you're inside this little cabin, which
Speaker 1: is a simple a frame style little loft upstairs for
Speaker 1: a sleeping area, dingy bench, there is a little like
Speaker 1: a log book so people can write so and so
Speaker 1: from so and so visited on this date or whatever,
Speaker 1: just a little log journal thing off the side of
Speaker 1: the door or whatever. On the inside, we're facing the
Speaker 1: door on the way out, real small deck about four
Speaker 1: or five steps down window on either side, and then
Speaker 1: a big window by this table that was set over
Speaker 1: off to the side, so Jeanette sitting at the table
Speaker 1: and Tracy over at the window on the left. Tracy says,
Speaker 1: do you hear that at that moment Tracy was hearing
Speaker 1: She said it was bipedal steps don't, don't, don't, and
Speaker 1: she said it was at a regular cadence, but it
Speaker 1: sounded like it was coming from the side where Jeanette
Speaker 1: was sitting by the table looking out the window. Says,
Speaker 1: there's nothing out here. You're being paranoid. You're getting me
Speaker 1: sketched out. I wish you would calm down, and she goes, look,
Speaker 1: Tracey Dells would be. Screams are not normal and we
Speaker 1: need to be aware because we don't know. So Jeanette's look,
Speaker 1: we've been coming here for this long. We've heard similar stuff.
Speaker 1: And Tracy is thinking back on once or twice we
Speaker 1: heard something off in the distance, but it wasn't like this.
Speaker 1: There was no comparison. So Tracy was sketched about it,
Speaker 1: and Jeanette was just laxadaisical or whatever. You're being overly paranoid.
Speaker 1: Don't bring down the whole good vibe of this trip.
Speaker 1: Tracy just wasn't gonna have it because she felt something
Speaker 1: wrong within herself, and she keeps periodically hearing this noise.
Speaker 1: So she's looking out this left window that she'd walk
Speaker 1: over to the right hand side one to get a
Speaker 1: look off to the further off to the left, because
Speaker 1: when she was standing in the left window she had
Speaker 1: limited vision because of a bush that was near the
Speaker 1: window on the outside, so she would go to the
Speaker 1: right window to look out to see past that bush.
Speaker 1: And she kept hearing this noise, and she said it
Speaker 1: sounded like footsteps. And Jeanette got tired of dealing with
Speaker 1: the stress of it or whatever, and said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go lay down. Let me know if you find out
Speaker 1: whatever is going on. So as Jeanette's going up the stairs,
Speaker 1: it's just a little ladder basically up to this little loft.
Speaker 1: As she's going up it, she stops and lets out
Speaker 1: a scream. There was no lanterns on in this cabin.
Speaker 1: It landed the midnight sun. There was enough ambient light
Speaker 1: outside to where it lit up indoors enough to where
Speaker 1: they didn't need a light, a lantern or any of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It was approximately two thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning, according to what they said. She lets out
Speaker 1: a scream and yells monster and hauls us up into
Speaker 1: this loft. Tracy immediately turns around, sees something dark by
Speaker 1: that big window and it moves out of view. Immediately.
Speaker 1: Tracy goes right up that loft along with Jeanette. She
Speaker 1: was sitting up there. She had the shotgun with her,
Speaker 1: and they basically laid on their bellies looking down from
Speaker 1: this little off area, which is only maybe eight feet
Speaker 1: off of the ground inside of the floor of the cabin.
Speaker 1: They could see all three windows from their little vantage
Speaker 1: point and they're all looking They see nothing in the
Speaker 1: big window, and they're continually looking back and forth, whispering
Speaker 1: to each other, what did you see? And Jeanette said
Speaker 1: it was big and it looked at me, and Tracy
Speaker 1: was like, what did you see? What did it look like?
Speaker 1: Was it a bear? And Jeanette said, no, it's not
Speaker 1: a bear. I couldn't make out a whole lot because
Speaker 1: it was all dark, but it was looking at me,
Speaker 1: and she said, what did it look like? She was
Speaker 1: losing her patience because she wanted to know what the hell.
Speaker 1: As Jeanette's trying to explain it, she starts pointing because
Speaker 1: Tracy's focused on Jeanette, and Jeanette's kind of still looking
Speaker 1: around as she's talking, and Jeanette starts pointing over into
Speaker 1: that right hand side window. Tracy looks over real quick
Speaker 1: and sees what Jeannette's seeing. This thing is swinging back
Speaker 1: and forth in that window, looking up at him, swaying
Speaker 1: back and forth, almost like he was sizing them up.
Speaker 1: Tracy said that the front of that cabin, it backed
Speaker 1: into a small hillside, and the front side was higher
Speaker 1: off the ground than the backside because it was on
Speaker 1: these pilings right and she said that when she would
Speaker 1: be outside, she's five foot seven, she would have to
Speaker 1: reach up to grab the bottom of that window. This
Speaker 1: thing was tall enough to almost be to the top
Speaker 1: of the inside of that window. She gets made a
Speaker 1: ten foot tall. It swaying back and forth looking at them.
Speaker 1: Jeanette lets out a scream that totally makes Tracy like
Speaker 1: loose focus on what she was stereo because it was
Speaker 1: so blood curdling. This thing just continues swaying, and after
Speaker 1: the scream, Jeanette led out. Tracy said, this thing banged
Speaker 1: against the above the window boom, and the whole place shirk,
Speaker 1: and then it went out of view. Of the window.
Speaker 1: They're freaked out because the whole place shook and they
Speaker 1: realized just how powerful this thing was. Tracy said that
Speaker 1: she couldn't sit still. She was laying down, sitting up,
Speaker 1: checking to make sure the gun was loaded. She lost
Speaker 1: all self control to a certain extent. She couldn't sit still.
Speaker 1: Her angst was way over the top. Jeanette had basically
Speaker 1: curled up in a ball, saying, we need to get
Speaker 1: out of here. We need to get out of here.
Speaker 1: Tracy agreed, but they weren't going to do it in
Speaker 1: the dark because this thing is obviously outside, so it's
Speaker 1: quiet for a while. They don't hear anything, they don't
Speaker 1: see anything. So Tracy gets the courage, comes down the
Speaker 1: little ladder way, goes over to that left hand side
Speaker 1: window and is looking out it, and she's looking at
Speaker 1: it and nothing. So she goes over to the right window.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile glancing over at that bigger window off by the
Speaker 1: little table there. She said, when she was looking out
Speaker 1: the got over the right window, looking out the direction
Speaker 1: where that bush was, past the bush by the window
Speaker 1: on the left, she said, this thing stood up because
Speaker 1: it looked like it had been crouching down stood up
Speaker 1: and then walked off, walked off across out of her
Speaker 1: view into the trees. She said it felt peaceful like
Speaker 1: when it walked away. She don't know why she felt
Speaker 1: there was a piece to it, but that's what she
Speaker 1: said she felt, so I'm just sharing what she said.
Speaker 1: So she tells Jeanette, hey, it left. So as they're
Speaker 1: sitting there, they wait till first light, but they're packed up.
Speaker 1: They got their stuff. Come first light where they could
Speaker 1: actually see the car easily and surroundings very easily. They left.
Speaker 1: They got in the car and as they were turning
Speaker 1: around the furthest distance was about fifty yards to the
Speaker 1: tree line. As they were turning around and Tracy was driving,
Speaker 1: she said she looked over, just scanning the trees because
Speaker 1: they're paranoid, trying to get the hell out of there,
Speaker 1: and she said she saw it still in the tree line,
Speaker 1: moving back and just moving back off into the woods,
Speaker 1: and she gunned it out of there. This happened in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one around June, and again they go to
Speaker 1: this place still, although they look at it differently, so
Speaker 1: they asked me not to be too specific. So it's
Speaker 1: on the Kenai Peninsula, it's a state cabin knew nothing
Speaker 1: about the Hairy Man or Big They heard about it,
Speaker 1: but they didn't buy into it. There are several people
Speaker 1: that have had that same experience where they just thought
Speaker 1: it was all hogwash it and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here it is walking in front of them. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Tracy and Jeannette for being patient for me
Speaker 1: to get back a hold of him. We'll catch you
Speaker 1: guys on the next one.
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