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 --> 00:00:08.160 Something killed your dog, My dog. We're flying through the 5 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:13.359 air over the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, 6 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:14.400 I'm really confused. 7 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:15.880 All I saw was my dog. 8 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:17.519 Coming over the fence and he was dead. And once 9 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:18.000 you hit the. 10 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.359 Ground like, I didn't see any cars. 11 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.320 All I saw was my dog coming over the fence. 12 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:38.960 Sat, what are you putting? 13 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.759 We got some wonder or something crawling around out here? 14 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:51.920 Did you see what it was? 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:52.240 Or was it was? 16 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.719 Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now 17 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.479 and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. 18 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.560 Jesus Quice, you better. 19 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:06.040 Hello, get somebody out here. What quent on out there? 20 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.480 I thought of a bit is about sixty forty nine. 21 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:08.959 I don't know. 22 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:10.640 Easy him out there, yeah. 23 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:11.920 IM righty Oh. 24 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.120 What I wanted to share with you today comes from Rick. 25 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.480 Rick is his real name, but his buddy we'll call 26 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:24.280 him Ernie because it's an open missing person investigation. Can't 27 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.239 find any information. It's tragic, really. Rick is an oil 28 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:31.599 field worker. Retired, he bought a ten acre lot of 29 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:35.599 land down the Kenai Peninsula years before he retired back 30 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:39.400 in eighty seven is when he first made inroads into 31 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.840 developing this ten acre plot. So he goes in there 32 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.480 but clears a bunch of the trees, puts in a 33 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.120 small little gravel pad road and a little pad at 34 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.719 the end there just for his little parking area. As 35 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:52.799 he decided what he was going to build, whether it 36 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.599 be a cab in Kwanza hut, whatever it may be. 37 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.519 So that first years not much happened. He marked a 38 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:00.519 bunch of trees that he wanted to cut the next 39 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.719 time he was there because he was working in the 40 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.680 oil fields. As he's plotting on the developing and what 41 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.159 he's going to do, he had a buddy a rostabout 42 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.680 in the oil field name we'll call him Ernie. Ernie 43 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.879 was a good dude, hard working younger guy. Rick hires 44 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.199 him to come with them the following season. He's planned 45 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.280 on taking time off and developing the property and getting 46 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.439 as much done in a short amount of time. As 47 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.599 he's plotting on what he's going to do. Just happenstance 48 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:32.280 he gets injured rotator cuff injury up on the oil field. 49 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.680 So he's forced to take time off and it's just 50 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.000 as the snow is starting to melt. In nineteen eighty eight, 51 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.840 it's okay, since I can't do nothing, definitely going to 52 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.240 have to hire Ernie to beat hands because he was 53 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.159 limited with the rotator cuff injury. So according to what 54 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:47.960 Rick was saying, it took about a month to get 55 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.159 things worked out medically to where he's not just going 56 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.240 back and forth for MRIs and shit like that. Because 57 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.520 he was injured on the job. He had to jump 58 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.680 to hoops. The insurance companies have got a right to 59 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.879 know if you're frauding them or not. But anyway, well, 60 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.280 he was doing his thing. As he gets done with 61 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.919 all his medical stuff, he just basically has to recoup. 62 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.639 He brings Ernie in. Ernie is getting paid well for 63 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.919 his time. They go back into his property. He didn't 64 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.719 want me to give specifics. Ernie comes into be his hands. 65 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.800 Rick is pondering whether or not he's going to buy 66 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.120 this portable sawmill and mill his own stuff, and just 67 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.879 a whole bunch of logistical stuff that Rick was working on. 68 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:28.680 He sent Ernie in to cut down the trees that 69 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:30.800 he had previously marked out. He wanted to drop down 70 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.800 out of the way just so he had an open 71 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.000 field of view around his cabin that he's going to build, 72 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.199 so Ernie's in there by himself. One day, Rick had 73 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.840 an old f three point fifty pickup truck with a 74 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.000 camper in the back. He parked it there for Ernie 75 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.719 to use. So what ends up happening is that he 76 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:48.120 gets it parked at and Ernie's staying in it three 77 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.759 or four days. Ernie goes through and he's not just 78 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.680 dropping the trees, he's limbing them, moving the brush from 79 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.759 the limb piles and burning nose and bucking up the 80 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.400 wood for firewood for future use. So he's doing a 81 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.560 lot of work. Just dropping trees ain't nothing, but once 82 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.960 you start processing it takes some time. That's about three 83 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.000 or four days eating up with that, and Rick finally 84 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.560 makes it in to join him. One of the issues 85 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.800 that Ernie immediately pointed out to him is that there's 86 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.879 screaming coming from across a little creek on the back 87 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.639 side of the property that led up into the mountains. 88 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.279 Ernie tells him, hey, look, this scream sounded like a 89 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.959 woman being murdered. But when I went to investigate last night, 90 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.319 all I heard was a deep growl when I got 91 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.079 down by this creek. So Rick was like, okay, I'll 92 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.319 report it. I don't know what will come of it. 93 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.399 As the days go on, Ernie's again every other morning 94 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.920 saw him, Hey, that screaming is continuing. Man, I'm starting 95 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.639 to feel uncomfortable here. Rick was like, I want to 96 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.480 hear it myself. I believe you, but I want to 97 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.240 hear it myself. So I will stay the night here 98 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.839 a couple of nights and try to help you figure 99 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.000 out what this screaming is. So Rick, you know, reluctantly 100 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.279 because he's not feeling good. He's got a rotator cuff injury. 101 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:55.040 It's a hard for him to get comfortable at home, 102 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.120 let alone in this camper. They're sharing the camper. The 103 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.199 first night it was dead quiet. Rick said it was 104 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.040 so quiet it was eerie. Made him feel a certain 105 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.720 way inside he couldn't express. So I was like, fair enough. 106 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.040 The following night, Rick leaves. In the morning, Ernie continues 107 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.800 his work clearing a land. They had a little bobcat 108 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.680 in there, and Ernie was pushing some of the bresh 109 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.680 and stuff back, just creating a perimeter. Basically. Rick comes 110 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.199 back that night to stay again. Because he was real 111 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:24.920 curious about the screaming, because of how serious Ernie was 112 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:26.920 about it, the look in his eye, he knew Ernie 113 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.759 wasn't bullshit. And we're trying to play games. Rick is 114 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:33.120 back and Ernie is making himself something eat me off 115 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.480 for some of Rick, and Rick accepts the offer. Of course, 116 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.839 he's hungry. So as Ernie's cooking. Getting into land of 117 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.959 the midnight sun that time of year, it doesn't get 118 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.639 overly dark at night. The sky stays like lighter twilight. 119 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.040 Where they're at the base of mountain, it gets a 120 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.360 little darker because the sun goes behind the mountain. At 121 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.639 that time of year, it gets a certain level of darkness. 122 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:55.480 With that in mind, it's basically twilight. All the tree 123 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.519 lined is just silhouetted dark. The sky is light, but 124 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.920 every thing at tree level and below is dark. They're 125 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.000 sitting there, they get to eating. As they're eating, Ernie 126 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.240 hears something that Rick doesn't. He goes, do you hear 127 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.399 that growling? Listen real close, and then Rick starts listening 128 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.519 and he realizes he's feeling the growling inside the bed 129 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.959 of the truck camper right these cab over campers. Oh 130 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.519 that must be a really big bear. So Rick grabs 131 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:26.319 the flashlight and starts banging on stuff coming out of 132 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.240 the camper to scare off any bear. So he gets out. 133 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.160 He's beaming around with the flashlight, doesn't see much, goes 134 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:34.920 to his truck and retrieves the shotgun. All he's got 135 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.519 in at is bird shot because the last time he 136 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.360 used it was for a duck hunting or a goose 137 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.600 hunting or something. He brings it in. All he has 138 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:44.600 is those goose loads. Basically, he looks around before going 139 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.000 inside in the camper with the shotgun, and Ernie's kind 140 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.480 of standing out there with them looking around nothing. They 141 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.879 see nothing, hear nothing. They decide they're gonna just eat, 142 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.480 call it a night, and not worry about this bear. 143 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.160 They're settling in for the night. Rick had brought the 144 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.240 shotgun in and they the growl and we're just chalking 145 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.720 it up to a bear. Rick was just giving him 146 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.600 bear advice. Ernie was from the village, well versed in 147 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.879 bears and starts laughing at Rick and told him, look, 148 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.360 I know what a damn bear is. So they went 149 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:14.800 back and forth with a butt bears. Just as things 150 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.439 are quieting down inside the camper. There's a thump, but 151 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.040 it's not a thump against the camper's a thump against. 152 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.839 It sounded like one of the front tires got bumped 153 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.639 real hard, and they both thought it was odd. So 154 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:31.079 Rick wanting to potentially chase off anyone who's playing games, 155 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.319 because there was neighbors that were developing property adjacent to 156 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:37.839 him that had some younger teenage guys. But initially he 157 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:41.480 thought maybe kids were playing games just being bored going 158 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.240 into summer. They got nothing better to do, so he figured, okay, 159 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.519 I'm gonna get out. Ernie was still sitting up kind 160 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.839 of reading by headlamp light. This is eighty eight. They 161 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.759 don't have cell phones and shit like that. Rick had 162 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.480 one of those polaroid cameras, so he figures, okay, I'm 163 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.680 gonna use the flash on this damn thing and I'm 164 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:03.160 just scare the shit out of these kids, teach him 165 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.279 a lesson. He had no film in the damn thing. 166 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.439 He just had the little flash cube or whatever on 167 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.040 there that was super bright. He goes outside. His flashlight 168 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.439 wasn't doing much. As he's looking around, he hears movement 169 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.439 off in the tree line and starts yelling hey, you 170 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.319 staff my property and all that kind of stuff. Not 171 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.519 a soundback. It's dead quiet outside. He's just trying to 172 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.000 figure out why in the hell and who in the 173 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.920 hell is messing with us. As he's turning around because 174 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:29.360 he's at the front of the truck at this time. 175 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.480 As he turns around the head back to the back 176 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.559 of the camper to get back in and go to sleep, 177 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.759 he hears the growling again, and he said it sounded 178 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.240 like it was on top of him. He gets back 179 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.159 inside the camper. Rick gets back into camper basically is 180 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.000 trying to sort out what he had been hearing, the 181 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.320 noises and stuff and the yelling, and he's telling Ernie, 182 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.000 I'm gonna lead that shotgun with you because obviously something's 183 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.440 going on here. Don't kill any innocent kids. Scare him 184 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.000 off if you can. Tomorrow I'll get better rounds ford 185 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.600 in case it is a bear, because you don't want 186 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.080 to be shooting bears with bird shot. So Ernie's you know, 187 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.480 reassaring him. Yeah, well versed with bears. Just you know, 188 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.759 do whatever. I'll continue working. So a couple more days 189 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.720 pass Rick was gone. Brought them back some slugs and 190 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.120 some double lot buck for the shotgun, and also his 191 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:19.159 little old Colt forty five. So Rick is basically in 192 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.480 and out of the property and he's hearing these things 193 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:25.840 from Ernie. So from Ernie's perspective, over the next week, 194 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.039 things were being thrown at this camper. He had been 195 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.320 screamed at a couple times that night when he came 196 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.840 outside to relieve himself. All of this stuff that he 197 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.200 shared with Rick. Rick is just taking with a grain 198 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.960 of salt, like, man, there's got to be something to this. 199 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.039 And then Ernie brings up the Harry Man. Rick had 200 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.039 never was never accustomed to hearing about it, had heard 201 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.960 old stories from old natives, but shocked it up to 202 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.679 folklore in what have used he listens to Ernie, hears 203 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.559 him out, basically tells Ernie that sounds like a load 204 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.480 of shit. Just watch yourself. If you don't want to 205 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.240 be here, let me know. I got to go, dude. 206 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.759 And so Rick admits he starts crying about having to 207 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.279 hire someone else and please just work and don't worry 208 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.919 about the excess shit. He's not experiencing what Ernie is, 209 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.840 and Ernie is being screamed at, He's having things thrown 210 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.840 at him, so he's not in the most pleasant of 211 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.399 moods with Rick and is on the verge of quitting 212 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.320 when he says, look, because over the course of that week, 213 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.720 more and more stuff has been happening, more things being 214 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.879 thrown at the camp, or more grunts, screams, just a 215 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.600 litany of shit, right, and Ernie's at his wits end 216 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:31.639 because he's not sleeping. The past couple of nights he 217 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.840 hadn't slept. So when Rick comes to bring some supplies, 218 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.240 Ernie's you need to experience some of the shit because 219 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.320 it is getting too much for me to even be here. 220 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.159 Rick says, all right, I'll have free time in a 221 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:44.240 couple of days. I got a doctor's appointment, so when 222 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.440 I'm done and anchorage and all that, i'll come back. 223 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.000 I'll stay a few nights and I'll see if I 224 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.240 could pick up what you're putting down again. Rick was 225 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.279 so skeptical. By time he comes back, the whole camper 226 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.279 had been shaken a couple of times, so much so 227 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.080 that Ernie didn't have the keys to move this camper. 228 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.159 He was basically there to work. Rick had the keys 229 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.120 with him, but the camper, the rear end of it 230 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.600 had been pushed. You could see the drag marks of 231 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.840 the tires. This thing was pushed about five feet from 232 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.080 the tailgates side. The Bobcat was no longer there. That 233 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.879 was a rental. So he knows that Ernie wasn't using 234 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:20.879 the bobcat to pull it over. So, hey, look what's 235 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.759 happening that kind of shit. Rick is perplexed. He doesn't 236 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.879 know what to do. Ernie's I'm done. Look, dude, I'm done. 237 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.840 I quit pay me for my time. Good luck, I'm done. 238 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.919 He has to gives Ernie a ride to anchorage, and 239 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:36.960 Ernie goes off and whatnot, and now it's just Rick 240 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.799 and Rick can't find anybody because all his friends are 241 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.480 out playing fishing. Theyin't got time to help him. He's 242 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.720 having to do what he can when he can. Over 243 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.559 the course of that summer, he'd come in do a 244 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.919 little bit of cutting when his shoulders feeling up to it. 245 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:52.879 He can only do about twenty minutes at a time, 246 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.600 and then you know, he was basically spent because his 247 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.000 shoulder was killing him and he's still trying to heal, 248 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.720 so it's not helping. And so it goes on like that, 249 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.879 and so the fall he get virtually gets nothing accomplished. 250 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.200 He reaches out to Ernie again because Ernie was a 251 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.679 hard worker. He was getting shit done and couldn't find him. 252 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:12.320 Couldn't find Ernie, so he ends up hiring another young kid. 253 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:16.200 Hold on a second, I keep hearing something on it's 254 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:18.600 reverberating up over here. I wonder if it's back around 255 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.200 the corner. Maybe someone might be running machinery around the corner. 256 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.759 But it's like I'm hearing bear grunts from over my shoulder. 257 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.080 I'm going to face this way, all right. So he 258 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.679 keeps looking for help, someone to pitch in, be a 259 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.960 hard worker for him and what have you. Right, So 260 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.159 he's not having the best of luck. So he finally 261 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.279 gets this kid. He's about eighteen. It's the kid's first 262 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.679 real job, like outside of I think he worked at 263 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.320 McDonald's before that or something, but first manual labor job 264 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.440 with expectations, because Rick had a high level of expectation 265 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.559 because he's trying to get shit done. So he's teaching 266 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.080 the kid how to use a chain saw, how to 267 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:59.159 buck up. Would basically classes in session for this kid. 268 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.279 And it's getting into flo and Rick knows he's not 269 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.360 going to get his cabin built that year. As he's 270 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.320 trying to figure things out and find some real help 271 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.200 because all his buddies that he knew were carpenters, they're 272 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.679 in the swing of building homes, they're in mid contracts. 273 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:15.240 They can't just break away and do his project. So 274 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:17.559 he's feeling a little better with the rotator cuff injury, 275 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.600 he's not one hundred percent, so he's pitching in more 276 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.639 and more, trying to get as much done as possible. 277 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.320 He ends up staying a couple nights because the kid 278 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.519 was giving him reports of weird screams, weird moaning sounds. 279 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.200 So Rick is, all right, there, there's got to be 280 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:34.120 something to this if two different people are saying the 281 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.120 same shit. I heard some weird stuff, but I could 282 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.360 chalk that up to a bear. I have nothing definitive. 283 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.000 As he's staying that first night with the new kid, 284 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.679 the place is shook again, violently shook in just as 285 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.000 he was about to be dozing off the whole. He 286 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.759 thought it was maybe an earthquake at first, then the 287 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.159 younger kid is hearing this growling, and Rick started hearing 288 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.840 it as well. Rick said, it was so low you 289 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.559 felt it more than hurt it. So he's like, man, 290 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.879 this is odd, so he grabs a shotgun. He's got 291 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.519 some new flashlights and stuff because it's getting in the fall. 292 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:08.759 It's dark at night, so he jumps out. He's yelling, 293 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:10.679 damn it, bears, get out of here, bears. But he's 294 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.480 yelling at the bears. As he's beaming the trees, looking 295 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.399 for this bear in where it could have gone, and 296 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.919 looking for any signs of this bear, he notices eye 297 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.440 shine real load of the ground, but the width between 298 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:25.840 the two eyes is bit much for a bear, so 299 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.240 he's concerned about what this thing could be just because 300 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:32.440 of its sheer size. And as he's watching it, he's yelling, 301 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.120 get out of here, bear, Get out of here bear, 302 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.320 because that's his only frame of reference. At this point, 303 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.559 the whole hairy man thing was out of his mind. 304 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.399 Lasting he said he didn't believe any of the hairyman stuff. 305 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.879 He said it was hokey business. Up till that point, 306 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:48.519 it was all hokey business. It was all someone's imagination 307 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.320 run wild, old folklore, blah blah blah. As he's watching 308 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.559 this eye shine, the kid comes out from behind him 309 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.720 from the camper and is beaming his flashlight over as well, 310 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.320 and the kids is like, hey, what the hell is that? 311 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.320 The eye shine was red, And as the kids asking 312 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.799 him this, the eye shine starts to raise up. He 313 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:10.679 said it must have went from two to three feet 314 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:15.480 off the ground. That he could, you know, guesstimate because 315 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.799 it was dark out and it was under flashlight, and 316 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.480 he didn't have any visual references right next to it 317 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.080 at the time. He was guessing it was about two 318 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.360 or three feet off the ground. It had to have 319 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.960 gone up to almost ten feet off the ground. And 320 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.720 then it screamed at them. He said, when they were beaming, 321 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.480 all they saw was an eye shine because it was 322 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:33.720 just back far enough out of the power of the 323 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.679 flashlight to fully illuminate it, but the eyes were giving 324 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.360 back the eye shine. He said, it screamed at them. 325 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.879 He said he felt it in his chest. It scared 326 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.440 him so much he dropped the shotgun and the flashlight. 327 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.759 They both broke for Rick's other truck. He said, he 328 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.919 got in the truck and realized he left his keys 329 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.759 and wallet in the camp or so he had to 330 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.759 without a gun or a flashlight. He pulled the little 331 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.840 pull handle the old school headlights, little dial thing turned 332 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.559 on the headlights and the eyeshine was gone, but he 333 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.679 runs over, jumps into the camp for grabs. The keys 334 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.200 comes back, starts up the rig, and they get the 335 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.120 hell out of Dodge on the way to more civilized surroundings. 336 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.960 He decides we'll just stay at a hotel and go 337 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.879 back in the morning in the light comes back, the 338 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.519 kid quit. The following morning was like, I don't know 339 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.080 what the hell that was. It was huge. It was 340 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.000 weird stuff happening before I'm done. So Rick has lost 341 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.559 two people. He's at a loss. He doesn't know what 342 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.840 to do. He basically calls it because they went. He 343 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.879 had to go back himself, pick up the shot in 344 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:36.480 the flashlight closed down basically his little work area. He 345 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:40.799 leaves for the season. Now during that later on that fall, 346 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.879 going in the winter, he found out that Ernie was 347 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.320 killed in a car accident. He finds out through a 348 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.399 friend of a friend that Ernie was supposedly killed in 349 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.399 his car accident. So he was like, that's weird. So 350 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.200 he reached out to the family to send his condolences 351 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.200 and whatnot, see what he could do to help. But 352 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.279 any burial costs or whatever it may be, come to 353 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.879 find out he wasn't killed in a car accident. His 354 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.279 car was found abandoned and he was missing. Just gone, 355 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.799 just disappeared. No explanation for it, no answers, just poof gone. 356 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:15.599 I mean, what do you do with that? There was 357 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.160 no trail to follow. So Rick ends up back next 358 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.480 season at his cab in site trying to get a 359 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.599 piece together and whatnot. As it's middle of the day, 360 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.759 it's early in the spring. There still patches the snow 361 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:29.880 here and there, but he's getting a bunch of SNA 362 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:35.359 tubes ready to pour. Basically at the beginnings of his foundation, 363 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.759 he's going to have it elevated off the ground. So 364 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:39.599 he's got the sona tubes, he's got a bunch of 365 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.680 them laid out, and he's doing his thing middle of 366 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.799 the day. All of a sudden, out of his peripheral 367 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.359 view from going from his right to his left, this 368 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:53.680 thing walks out. He said. It was strawberry blonde, approximately 369 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.279 seven and a half eight foot tall, appeared to be 370 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.920 a female, scraggly looking hair, but not totally unkempt. Just 371 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.799 looked like he said, you could see the skin through 372 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.920 the hair, so it wasn't really dense hair. It was 373 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.039 a kind of light, said. This thing looked over at 374 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.920 him as he was sizing up his measurements and stuff, 375 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.640 making sure he was square on his layout. This thing 376 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.759 walked by, looked over at him, showed teeth and gave 377 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.160 like a little bit of a snarl, and he was 378 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.480 in shock. He knows he's seen eyeshine the year before, 379 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.559 had put that out of his mind, but this one 380 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:32.279 walking by just freaked him out. He sat there, he 381 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.480 was out in the middle of this pad. He didn't 382 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:37.079 want to run and cause any kind of chase reflex 383 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.079 from this animal, creature or whatever he was trying to 384 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.799 determine at the time, so he just sits there. He 385 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.119 watches it walk off to his left, goes into the trees. Basically, 386 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:51.559 no other sound made. Didn't even hear it walking, and 387 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.200 there was a bunch of brush and stuff. He said 388 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:55.160 he should have heard it walking. He didn't hear a thing. 389 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.079 So as he pulls himself together, he backs away once 390 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.519 it's clear and gets over to his truck and he 391 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:04.039 sits in it, and he starts thinking about everything Ernie 392 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:07.240 had said. Everything Ernie had told him, all of a 393 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.319 sudden had a whole different light shined on it. So 394 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.480 Rick gets out of there. He's gone for a couple 395 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:17.000 of weeks, comes back. When he comes back, he damn 396 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.559 near had given up, just decided, damn here to put 397 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.359 this property up for sale. He gets back, all the 398 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:24.720 sun of tubes that he had laid out are just missing. 399 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.720 They could have blown away or whatever. He's basically ready 400 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.079 to give up on this property, and so he really 401 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:34.039