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Speaker 2: kill your dog?
Speaker 3: My dog.
Speaker 2: We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know
Speaker 2: how it did it? Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All
Speaker 2: I saw was my dog coming over the fence and
Speaker 2: name was dead once you hit the grill. I didn't
Speaker 2: see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming
Speaker 2: over the fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got
Speaker 2: some wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you
Speaker 2: see what it was? It was enough out here looking
Speaker 2: M new to window now and I don't see anything.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go outside this point. You're Kara,
Speaker 2: New York. Hello, hit somebody out here? What que I'm
Speaker 2: out there. It's thought of a bit of about sixty
Speaker 2: ft nine. I don't know easy, I'm out there. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks for joining me today. What I wanted to
Speaker 3: share with you cous from Jonah. Jonah shared this with
Speaker 3: me last year. He didn't want I shared publicly, but
Speaker 3: he reached out touch base with me, re shared the
Speaker 3: story with me, gave me a permission to share it
Speaker 3: with y'all, So that's what I'm gonna do. Jonah just
Speaker 3: retired at sixty three years old. This was his uncle's
Speaker 3: story that he heard several times as a kid and
Speaker 3: has been to this cabin. It's outside of Prince Will's
Speaker 3: Island on another little remote island. This particular cabin his
Speaker 3: uncle built. He built it in stages. The first part
Speaker 3: was just a very small shanty shack just big enough
Speaker 3: for an old drum, converted into a wood stove, basically
Speaker 3: just dried in enclosure. As he built onto it, it
Speaker 3: ended up having slab wood on the outside. What slab
Speaker 3: wood is how it sounds slabs of wood. When you
Speaker 3: have one of those portable sawmills and you've cut them
Speaker 3: into the dimensional lumber, you get pieces of slab and
Speaker 3: what ends up happening is you stack them like this,
Speaker 3: and then you stack other ones to fill the gaps.
Speaker 3: He's been at the place going on fifteen years, spending
Speaker 3: a lot of time except winters. Winters he would go
Speaker 3: out of state for his regular job, work that regular job,
Speaker 3: and just spend the rest of the time back up
Speaker 3: here in Alaska. It was approximately in his tenth year there,
Speaker 3: that strange thing started happening. He noticed that when he
Speaker 3: would get there in the early spring in the mornings,
Speaker 3: he was greeted by these scream type howls off in
Speaker 3: the distance, and he just thought it was odd, and
Speaker 3: he was like, I've never quite heard that before. It's
Speaker 3: probably just some random animal cut in a trap. It's
Speaker 3: mating call at spring or something. He was just excusing
Speaker 3: me away. So Joanah's uncle just continued like that for
Speaker 3: the next couple of years. After a couple of years
Speaker 3: of that, he'd hear those screams in the spring and
Speaker 3: then again in the fall, just before he was getting
Speaker 3: ready to head back out of state for his regular job.
Speaker 3: His uncle was an independent contractor. He didn't get into what,
Speaker 3: but that's how he made his money working independently out
Speaker 3: of state. After about two or three years of that,
Speaker 3: his uncle said, the way he set up his cabin,
Speaker 3: it was a little bit l shaped, and what I
Speaker 3: mean by that is it stattered. He said. It was
Speaker 3: fourteen foot wide twenty two foot long, and then if
Speaker 3: you're facing the front door, off to the left hand side,
Speaker 3: on the back side was an addition made as a bedroom.
Speaker 3: So that's why it had an L shaped to it.
Speaker 3: Over the years of building on it, from starting one
Speaker 3: size and then expanding out, and then expanding some more,
Speaker 3: he ended up with a few nine inch window panes
Speaker 3: here and there to allow light in little windows, simple ones.
Speaker 3: One of these particular windows ended up being in a
Speaker 3: spot where he ended up putting a wood stove, so
Speaker 3: the window was partially obscured by the stovepipe going out
Speaker 3: through the roof. From what he was telling me, his
Speaker 3: uncle where he would sit at this little table. So
Speaker 3: if you go inside the door, first, you had to
Speaker 3: go up about six steps up onto a very small deck,
Speaker 3: a big enough for a launch air type chair and
Speaker 3: a tiny car table for setting drinks down or whatever.
Speaker 3: Very small. So you get up, you go inside the door,
Speaker 3: which was centered. There was two of those nine inch
Speaker 3: windows on the front side. When you go outside, there
Speaker 3: was a table immediately to your left, a sink to
Speaker 3: your right that just drained straight out into the floor
Speaker 3: onto the ground. Straight ahead would be that wood stove,
Speaker 3: some cabinets on the right, and that little doorway on
Speaker 3: that left to that little bedroom of his. Behind that
Speaker 3: wood stove was one of those nine inch windows. He said,
Speaker 3: his uncle had a spot where he would sit at
Speaker 3: that table and eat his meal. Now, outside of the
Speaker 3: nine inch windows, there was a bigger window in the
Speaker 3: bedroom and a bigger window on the right hand side
Speaker 3: just past the little sink area, but before the back corner.
Speaker 3: The other windows were just two foot by two foot,
Speaker 3: not very big. His uncle had curtains over each and
Speaker 3: every one except the nine inch window behind the woodstove
Speaker 3: because it was obscured all the time. There was no need.
Speaker 3: Plus he was so isolated he didn't have neighbors at
Speaker 3: the time. He had no neighbors. Jones said. His uncle
Speaker 3: would tell the story that his uncle's eating he's hearing
Speaker 3: a weird almost like rain dropping on us one spot,
Speaker 3: just but just like a weird drip noise. He's confused
Speaker 3: by it, and he's just looking around. What's leaking? I
Speaker 3: took my time doing the roof. I know the roof
Speaker 3: is good. What's leaking? So he gets up and he
Speaker 3: starts looking around. Now it's just before dark as this
Speaker 3: is going on. As he's gone around looking around, he's
Speaker 3: trying to figure out where's this leak coming from. He
Speaker 3: passes by the window on the right hand side, just
Speaker 3: past the sink. He's crossing the cab and going back
Speaker 3: into the bedroom area to look for this league. As
Speaker 3: he's gone by, he passes right in front of that
Speaker 3: woodstove and out the corner of his eye he notices
Speaker 3: something move out of that nine inch window space. So
Speaker 3: immediately he startled. He jumps back, is trying to look
Speaker 3: out the wind or what the hell was at trying
Speaker 3: to look to see if maybe it was a tree,
Speaker 3: and just by his movement made it look like something
Speaker 3: was moving, but there was nothing there. It was just
Speaker 3: part of a little hill that was just back behind
Speaker 3: the cabin. So his uncle immediately armed himself, went out
Speaker 3: down the little steps, went round the back of the
Speaker 3: cabin looking for whatever was in the window, seeing nothing,
Speaker 3: hearing nothing off in the distance or moving around, just
Speaker 3: irreally quiet. He comes back inside, looks out each window again,
Speaker 3: it just shrugs it off and continues to eat. The
Speaker 3: dripping sound stopped after he's done eating and he puts
Speaker 3: his stuff into the sink. His uncle told him that
Speaker 3: he kept feeling like he was being watched, and he
Speaker 3: got hyper paranoid about that little window in the back
Speaker 3: behind that little stove fight because that's where he saw
Speaker 3: the movement and that's where the feeling of being watched
Speaker 3: was coming from. But every time he'd look, he wouldn't
Speaker 3: see anything there. So he decides on to get one
Speaker 3: of these old dish rags, one of these hand towels,
Speaker 3: and pin it up over the window as getting in
Speaker 3: the dark. At this point. It was early spring when
Speaker 3: this happened, so it wasn't quite landed the midnight sun
Speaker 3: yet it was working towards it. We were gaining daylight
Speaker 3: during those times. As he's tacking up this hand towel,
Speaker 3: he started hearing that dripping noise again, and he could
Speaker 3: hear it coming from his left off into that little
Speaker 3: bedroom area. Because of what he dealt with earlier. With
Speaker 3: that dripping sound and there's something moving, he was putting
Speaker 3: two and two together. It started feeling like he's being
Speaker 3: toyed with krittish tacking up the little hand towel, turned around,
Speaker 3: walked into that bedroom. He said his uncle used to
Speaker 3: always pause for a long time when he was telling
Speaker 3: this portion of it because he walks into the bedroom
Speaker 3: immediately it was overcome by fear and dread. Knelt down,
Speaker 3: squatted down and was leaning in the doorway against the doorframe. Now,
Speaker 3: remember the only exterior walls. All they are is some
Speaker 3: old rough cut lumber, dimensional timbers, first studs, these slabs
Speaker 3: nailed to it. But that's all it is outside of
Speaker 3: the main living area where there was some plywood underneath.
Speaker 3: But the rest of it was built with the slab
Speaker 3: wood because he had brought a little portable dimensional lumber
Speaker 3: saw that ran on a track. He had bought it,
Speaker 3: used and used it up until it died. Used those
Speaker 3: pieces of slab to make the exterior for that little cabin.
Speaker 3: So as he's sitting there and feeling sick, just this
Speaker 3: hillacious banging starts just below the window. The window he
Speaker 3: had in that room, this two foot by two foot
Speaker 3: was above the bed. That banging was just below it. Now,
Speaker 3: that portion of the cabin is pretty close to ground
Speaker 3: level at the flour it was elevated a little bit
Speaker 3: just because down to southeast there a lot of the
Speaker 3: properties there immediately goes from beach to elevation Instantly. He
Speaker 3: happened to have a place that had a little less
Speaker 3: of the feord like steepness, but enough to where it
Speaker 3: was still on the pilings in the front like little
Speaker 3: stilts in the front for the very front of it,
Speaker 3: the first ten feet of it or so. The rest
Speaker 3: of it was right back on this type of landing
Speaker 3: like a little step shelf. And as he's leaning against
Speaker 3: that doorway, the banging started. Every time it was banging,
Speaker 3: his uncle would say, he got scared. Finally he crippled
Speaker 3: from fear for a moment. He snapped out of it,
Speaker 3: got a shotgun, went out the door, stepped onto the
Speaker 3: little deck, knocking over his little chair and card table
Speaker 3: to get to the edge of the deck to see
Speaker 3: around the corner towards that little space from the outside,
Speaker 3: he just started pumping rounds into the air. Boom, boom,
Speaker 3: went right back inside, shut the door. His uncle would say,
Speaker 3: he couldn't stop shaking. He sat at that table and
Speaker 3: was just shaking and didn't understand why, just couldn't understand
Speaker 3: something was oppressive towards him. He gets calmed down after
Speaker 3: a little while. It's on in the dark, and he
Speaker 3: knows he needs to light his lantern so he can
Speaker 3: have some light to see. He gets up, crosses the
Speaker 3: little room and grabs the lantern off the sink area.
Speaker 3: He lights the lantern, sets it on the table, sits
Speaker 3: it there for a minute as he's trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what he's doing. His uncle was confused at the time.
Speaker 3: According to what his uncle was saying, he felt like
Speaker 3: he had ten things to do but couldn't figure out
Speaker 3: what they were. It was the type of confusion he
Speaker 3: was dealing with. He realized, I just ran rounds to
Speaker 3: my shotgun. I should reload it. So he starts looking
Speaker 3: around for a shotgun shelves. His shotgun shells were right
Speaker 3: on the table on a bowl in front of him. However,
Speaker 3: being in this confused state, was wandering around the cabin
Speaker 3: looking at all these obscure places where the AMMO would
Speaker 3: never be. After doing that for a little bit, it
Speaker 3: dawns on him it's right on the table in front
Speaker 3: of where you were sitting. So he sits back down.
Speaker 3: He calms himself down and reloads the shotgun, attempts to
Speaker 3: go back into his room, and again, as soon as
Speaker 3: he crosses into that little doorway, he's immediately gripped by fear.
Speaker 3: He's like, something mat right, So he backs out, goes,
Speaker 3: sits back at the table, and he's contemplating why is
Speaker 3: this happening, just going through it in his mind what
Speaker 3: is this? Is this some kind did I eat something bad?
Speaker 3: Am I having hallucinations from bad food? Some kind of
Speaker 3: food poisoning. Up till this point, he's only assumed he
Speaker 3: saw something move in front of a window. There's banging
Speaker 3: going on, and he's basically freaked out. He has nothing
Speaker 3: seriously tangible outside of potential hallucinations because he's second guessing
Speaker 3: everything going on in his world at that moment. According
Speaker 3: to what Jonah was saying, his uncle stayed like that
Speaker 3: for at least today, sitting at that table. The lamp
Speaker 3: eventually went out. He just sat there in the dark
Speaker 3: in a confused state. After that evening had passed, about
Speaker 3: midday the next day, he is finally coming back into
Speaker 3: his arm senses. As he was doing so, he got
Speaker 3: that overwhelming sense of fear again. He stands up, he
Speaker 3: looks around. He's not saying anything. So it being light outside,
Speaker 3: he started flipping the curtains over, which were just old
Speaker 3: towels and old pieces of cloth that were just tacked
Speaker 3: over the window. So he was just taking them and
Speaker 3: tucking them over the top so light could shine in.
Speaker 3: He goes and opens them all up right. As he's
Speaker 3: doing so, he keeps noticing after he passes each window,
Speaker 3: almost like a dark shadow was moving as well, but
Speaker 3: he just chopped it up as you're just paranoid from
Speaker 3: what's been going on. There's nothing following you around this
Speaker 3: cabin to each window that you're opening to make a
Speaker 3: shadow right after you pass it. Very confusing to him,
Speaker 3: so he ends up back in his bedroom no fear
Speaker 3: this time. When he gets through the threshold, goes over,
Speaker 3: opens that window up, is just looking at it for
Speaker 3: a moment instead of turning and walking off like he
Speaker 3: had done all the other previous windows. He'd stood there
Speaker 3: just looking out. As he's doing so, this figure comes
Speaker 3: in front of him and then immediately cuts back out.
Speaker 3: According to what his uncle said, the figure was so
Speaker 3: large that it took up all the window, and he
Speaker 3: only saw hair and then no hair. It was so big.
Speaker 3: He stumbles back, falls down, scurries out of the little room,
Speaker 3: grabs a shotgun and runs outside to go and get
Speaker 3: this whatever he was assuming he was probably a bear
Speaker 3: stalking him to heat him, and that's why he was
Speaker 3: so scared. He gets outside, nothing around. As he gets
Speaker 3: up to the backside to where that little extended room is,
Speaker 3: he hears thrashing through the trees going off and up
Speaker 3: the mountain, but he calms down a little bid goes, Okay,
Speaker 3: the bear knows I'm willing to defend myself, it'll probably
Speaker 3: stay away, and then to him in his own mind,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. There's a big bear, big predator around
Speaker 3: the one a. I'm feeling antsy. I'm used to seeing him,
Speaker 3: and I don't feel his antsy. But I guess me
Speaker 3: not seeing it and just sensing the predator is what
Speaker 3: made me scared. So he chalked it up when inside
Speaker 3: felt a lot better. Was a lot Calmer continued on
Speaker 3: with this day, doing his stuff and.
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Speaker 3: After these messages, kept aware that bear could be out
Speaker 3: there and would listen every once a while before he'd
Speaker 3: go out into the yard and tend to the outboard
Speaker 3: and do some other stuff on his old skiff. That
Speaker 3: day passes in a couple more pass with no incident whatsoever,
Speaker 3: to where his uncle is calm, just being out in
Speaker 3: the woods. He's back to his norm, calm himself, enjoying,
Speaker 3: just loving being there in the isolation and his own area.
Speaker 3: He ends up down at the beach down below his cabin.
Speaker 3: He's basically beachcombing, and periodically they'd come across the glass
Speaker 3: balls from the Korean fishing boats with the brailer mesh
Speaker 3: over him and stuff like that. Sometimes he'd fine washed
Speaker 3: up dead marine life. He was enjoying the whole reason
Speaker 3: he had built a cabin there. He's going about this happy,
Speaker 3: go lucky, no issues, no feelings, a dread. He always
Speaker 3: had a shotgun with him. He gets about one hundred
Speaker 3: yards down the beach, tid's starting to come in, so
Speaker 3: he knows he's got about twenty minutes to get past
Speaker 3: a certain group of rocks to where the shoreline cuts
Speaker 3: up in further where the tide doesn't quite reach. So
Speaker 3: he has safe walking as he's going back towards this spot.
Speaker 3: These rocks that are the marker for him to know that, Hey,
Speaker 3: once I get past these rocks to my left, I
Speaker 3: will be above high tide mark and I won't have
Speaker 3: to worry about getting caught out in the tide. Half
Speaker 3: in the hike through all this dense crap, a lot
Speaker 3: of devils clubs and some other stuff in the area.
Speaker 3: As he comes and cuts back around these rocks. The bank,
Speaker 3: it's got a cut edge where it's dug underneath, and
Speaker 3: some of the vegetations hanging over, and there's some trees
Speaker 3: leaning out and stuff like that he had cut off,
Speaker 3: and there's just some stumps and stuff there. As it
Speaker 3: comes around the rocks, he notices a bigger stump. Then
Speaker 3: he knows is there, so he stops. He notices it
Speaker 3: out of the car of eye and slowly turns and looks.
Speaker 3: He said the stump was very large. It was a
Speaker 3: cinnamon brownish color. It was very large. It had the
Speaker 3: appearance of a tree stump. At the distance, which was
Speaker 3: less than fifty yards. He hesitated for a moment and
Speaker 3: just continued walking, thinking, Okay, bears don't look like tree stumps.
Speaker 3: Bears will just sit there and look at you. They
Speaker 3: don't try to mask themselves in any way. Bears aren't
Speaker 3: that cunning. So he walks down and he knows he's
Speaker 3: got roughly one hundred yards or so before the trail
Speaker 3: that cuts back up to his cabin, getting more and
Speaker 3: more paranoid by the step and getting more and more
Speaker 3: fear amplified. He's walking along out of the corner of
Speaker 3: his eye everyone saw this glance and not fully turning
Speaker 3: his head, but just glancing off. At one point he
Speaker 3: glanced over he saw this thing in the tree line
Speaker 3: walking along, not stripe for stride, because it was far
Speaker 3: larger than him. It was keeping pace with him, just
Speaker 3: offset behind him a little waist. So he makes it
Speaker 3: up to the trail and he knows this thing is there.
Speaker 3: So when he comes around the little corner of brush
Speaker 3: and stuff to get up on the truck, because he
Speaker 3: had to climb the bank a little bit, he had
Speaker 3: put some old drickwood stuff up against that little part
Speaker 3: of the bank to make like a stair way. Wasn't
Speaker 3: the best, but it worked for what it was. He's
Speaker 3: negotiating that going up. He gets up it. He knows
Speaker 3: this thing's going to be right off to his left.
Speaker 3: So when he gets up to the top, he's pointing
Speaker 3: the shot in that direction. Nothing there, absolutely nothing, because
Speaker 3: once you break past that initial thick brush at the
Speaker 3: shore line, it opens up a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3: So once he got past that point he had the
Speaker 3: shotgun ready, nothing there, no sign of anything. So he's,
Speaker 3: holy crap, I'm driving myself crazy with this crap. Kaya
Speaker 3: chuckles to himself. I'm imagining stuff I need to I
Speaker 3: just need to take a break. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: visit relatives Prince Well's Island. I'll go over there and
Speaker 3: go visit for a little while and clear my mind
Speaker 3: of this stuff. So he walks up to the cabin,
Speaker 3: gathers up a bunch of stuff. He made a short list,
Speaker 3: grab some of the containers he'd need for the gas
Speaker 3: and stuff with the lantern fluid and all this kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. So he's making his list. He's doing his thing.
Speaker 3: He's at the table, gathering everything up, going through the checklist,
Speaker 3: make sure he has everything. He sees dark shadow on
Speaker 3: the floor from the two foot by two foot window
Speaker 3: next to the sink. He's looking and doing his thing.
Speaker 3: He noticed it's like a man, silhouetted, moving back and forth,
Speaker 3: doing this little sway. The shadow sway on the floor.
Speaker 3: He just thought it was the oddest thing. Again, he
Speaker 3: amped up, immediately scared. However, he kept his cool to
Speaker 3: try to make sure he was saying what he was
Speaker 3: seeing and not just seeing things. He gingerly reaches down,
Speaker 3: grabs a barrel of the shotgun that was leaning against
Speaker 3: his little table, pulls it up keeping it obscured from
Speaker 3: whatever is in the window, because it was still swaying
Speaker 3: back and forth. The shadow was. As he's getting the
Speaker 3: shotgun in the position to turn around and point out
Speaker 3: the window, the shadow disappears just as he was getting
Speaker 3: ready to turn. All of a sudden, the shadow was gone.
Speaker 3: As he turned around, there was nothing there. He's motivated.
Speaker 3: He grabs his stuff. He loads it up into the
Speaker 3: old army duffel bag style, slings it over his shoulder,
Speaker 3: has a shotgun, and goes on down to the beach. Now,
Speaker 3: he had some outbore trouble, so his outboard wasn't attached
Speaker 3: to his skiff. He had worked on a little bit
Speaker 3: and it was up in a barrel on a little
Speaker 3: stand to where he can operate it and make sure
Speaker 3: it was functioning. And he had fixed it, he just
Speaker 3: hadn't transferred it from the barrel back onto the skiff.
Speaker 3: It was just a little twenty five horse motor. It
Speaker 3: wasn't super heavy or anything, but he had to use
Speaker 3: both arms to take it down to the skiff, and
Speaker 3: he wanted to keep it upright. Being very hyper paranoid
Speaker 3: at the time, he's looking all around. He's not seeing anything,
Speaker 3: so he loosened up the little cleats that dig in.
Speaker 3: He lifts it out. Now he's got his bag and
Speaker 3: the shotgun slung over his shoulder, and he's carrying this outboard.
Speaker 3: He gets down to the shoreline and all his shoes,
Speaker 3: climbs down that old driftwood dunnage that he made a
Speaker 3: little stairway out of, and gets down onto the beach.
Speaker 3: Is just set the outboard leaning against the skiff to
Speaker 3: attach it, to push it out to watch it. Basically,
Speaker 3: he's packing a heavy Duffel bag a shotgun around his neck.
Speaker 3: Basically he's taking stuff off to make it a little
Speaker 3: more comfortable to do what he has to do with
Speaker 3: the outboard. According to what he told Jon Night, at
Speaker 3: that point, when he leaned the outboard against there and
Speaker 3: unslung the shotgun first, then was in the middle of
Speaker 3: taking the duffel bag off. As soon as the duffel
Speaker 3: bag gets cleared, his uncle got hit in the back
Speaker 3: of the head with a rock a little bigger than
Speaker 3: an eggcorn, and he said it hurt bad. Didn't understand
Speaker 3: what the hell. He turns around and looks and sees nothing,
Speaker 3: grabs a shotgun, shoots a couple of rounds up into
Speaker 3: the trees, like quit throwing stuff kind of thing, because
Speaker 3: he didn't know what was going on. Just confusing as hell.
Speaker 3: He reloads it. Immediately after he shoots those two shots.
Speaker 3: He throws a duffel bag into the skiff. He's having
Speaker 3: a very hard time reattaching the twenty five horse, which
Speaker 3: there's a couple of cleats on the back that hook
Speaker 3: onto the transom, and then you have these little dials
Speaker 3: that he turned down tighten it down right. So he
Speaker 3: gets it on there and he's tightening him down, but
Speaker 3: he can't focus fully on that because he keeps looking
Speaker 3: behind him because he was just hitting the head with
Speaker 3: the rock. Now, according to what was said, he got
Speaker 3: it fully attached and was getting ready to attach the
Speaker 3: gas line from the fuel can to the outboard so
Speaker 3: he could fire it up once he launched it. So
Speaker 3: as soon as he gets this gas line hooked up,
Speaker 3: there's a loud scream from behind him. The way Jonah expresses,
Speaker 3: his uncle's eyes would get really big and he would
Speaker 3: imitate his chest vibrating from this growl scream thing that
Speaker 3: was going on. It sounded like directly behind him. He said,
Speaker 3: his uncle turned around, scared of shit, saw nothing. Whatever
Speaker 3: made the noise wasn't as close as it sounded. It
Speaker 3: was in the tree line. Still. His uncle suspected because
Speaker 3: he had been popping shots anytime something got super crazy,
Speaker 3: wrong or indifferent. That's just what was going on. Scared
Speaker 3: to death. Make sure everything's attached, make sure the outboard's
Speaker 3: tightened down to the transom. Starts to launch this gish.
Speaker 3: It was about twenty five feet from the tie where
Speaker 3: the water was at that point, but he starts pushing it.
Speaker 3: He had already dropped the anchor line, so once he
Speaker 3: launched it would go out, catch that anchor and then
Speaker 3: swing the ass in around and he'd pull it back
Speaker 3: in to where the outboards in the deeper water and
Speaker 3: he could drop it, start it, get the bottle line,
Speaker 3: and get out of there. So he gets it launched.
Speaker 3: The whole time it was really hard because he kept
Speaker 3: getting distracted by what's going on around him. He could
Speaker 3: hear thrashing at this point, he could hear weird noises
Speaker 3: he can't account for. Once he's got it launched, got
Speaker 3: it turned around and everything, he pulls it back up
Speaker 3: the shore. There was about ten feet of this rope
Speaker 3: that he had a bowl and tied to another bowlin.
Speaker 3: Because he kept one anchor on shore veried deep the
Speaker 3: other one. He would just tie a bowlin just to
Speaker 3: keep it so he didn't have to pull in eighty
Speaker 3: feet of line every time he was coming in going
Speaker 3: He could easily do it from in the water. He
Speaker 3: can untie it, bring it back out, and not be
Speaker 3: worried about keeping track of all this line. As he
Speaker 3: gets in the skiffs, he hasn't dropped the kicker down
Speaker 3: into the water yet because he hadn't had a chance.
Speaker 3: He just launched it. He makes everything's good. It was
Speaker 3: a nice slack tide, so he didn't have waves pushing
Speaker 3: the boat sideways onto shore or anything like that. It
Speaker 3: was just sitting nice and steady where it was at.
Speaker 3: He unties that line and throws it and goes back
Speaker 3: and drops the kicker down and starts pulling on it.
Speaker 3: Anyone who's been around an outboard knows exactly what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about doing that. Every time he pulled it, he heard
Speaker 3: what he thought was an echo of that from the shorelines.
Speaker 3: He was assuming because it was so quiet, he was
Speaker 3: able to hear an echo from pull starting this two
Speaker 3: stroke right blah blah blah blah, and then he would
Speaker 3: hear blah blah blah blah. It was identical to the
Speaker 3: noise the outboard was making. The third pull, it sputtered
Speaker 3: a little bit and then stalled out. There was no echo.
Speaker 3: So he stopped, and he's like, that's weird. So he
Speaker 3: turned and look at where the trio comes down and
Speaker 3: meets the beach, and where that driftwood dunnage was that
Speaker 3: he made in a kind of like a stairway. There's
Speaker 3: this thing squat down looking right at him. He said
Speaker 3: he felt like he was having heart palpitations, like he
Speaker 3: was going to have a heart attack. He couldn't believe
Speaker 3: what he was saying. He said this thing was squatted
Speaker 3: down and was still taller than him. Couldn't make out
Speaker 3: the face because of the way the sun was hitting everything.
Speaker 3: This thing and part of the trail was obscured, silhouetted.
Speaker 3: It was light out. This thing was in silhouette, and
Speaker 3: he only saw part of the hand in clear daylight.
Speaker 3: The hair was that cinnamon kind of brownish orange color.
Speaker 3: He said. The hand was huge. However, the thumb was
Speaker 3: further set down, very similar, but not the same as
Speaker 3: a human hand, and said they just looked monstrously large.
Speaker 3: He went up and down this trail so many times
Speaker 3: over the years. He knows the width of the trail
Speaker 3: is three and a half foot wide. The brush starts
Speaker 3: another ten foot on each side from that, and he
Speaker 3: said this thing was filling a good portion of that area.
Speaker 3: Squatted down looking right at him, he redoubles efforts to
Speaker 3: start at the kicker. One thing he didn't do was
Speaker 3: prime the little ball on the gas line. He basically
Speaker 3: got in, dropped it and started pulling. Because of the
Speaker 3: weirdness going on, he totally space priming it. He pulls
Speaker 3: the choke and then it dawns on him, oh, I
Speaker 3: need to prime it. But he turns around and starts
Speaker 3: squeezing a little priming ball right as he's doing so,
Speaker 3: he's trying to ignore what he just saw up on
Speaker 3: the beach. Just he's trying to deny the existence of
Speaker 3: what's going on over here so he can start the
Speaker 3: boat and get out of there. He's priming the ball
Speaker 3: and start throwing little tubbles at him. In a weird case,
Speaker 3: it would be one two one two, so it was
Speaker 3: like throwing two pausing, throwing two more, and he can
Speaker 3: catch the motion and not the exact everything going on.
Speaker 3: But he was catching the motion out of his peripheral
Speaker 3: vision of this going on, and it almost felt like
Speaker 3: this thing, he said, was playing a game with him,
Speaker 3: a game of let me scare you. Of course, it's
Speaker 3: all subjective. It's what he felt at the time, so
Speaker 3: we're just by that. He prims it, starts the out board,
Speaker 3: puts it in reverse, and backs away from shore. Its
Speaker 3: stalled out because it hadn't warmed up, so he put
Speaker 3: it back in neutral, started it back up, fired right up.
Speaker 3: He let it idle a little bit and says he
Speaker 3: gost some distance from shore. He felt more comfortable looking
Speaker 3: back at this thing because after the initial notice in
Speaker 3: it looking at him and whatnot, and noticing the hand
Speaker 3: and all that, he immediately averted his eyes. He felt
Speaker 3: like he didn't want to engage it in eye to
Speaker 3: eye contact. As he backed away. He gets back up
Speaker 3: to the bow of the skiff where his shotgun was
Speaker 3: and picks up the shotgun and is holding it looking back.
Speaker 3: This thing wasn't exactly where it was. It had backed
Speaker 3: up the trail a little wayste to where it was
Speaker 3: more obscured in silhouette of the shadows of the trees
Speaker 3: and stuff, the way the sunshine was coming down. He
Speaker 3: yells out, leave me alone. Now, after he does that,
Speaker 3: it's dead quiet. It's still there, but dead quiet. Then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he hears his voice come back
Speaker 3: at him, leave me alone. So this thing imitated his voice.
Speaker 3: He said it sounded like himself, like he was listening
Speaker 3: to a recording of himself. He said, it was the
Speaker 3: oddest shit. He's already offshore, the kicker's warming up. He
Speaker 3: just dozening to hear and heads back to see family.
Speaker 3: He had since long ago sold this property. Couldn't go
Speaker 3: back to it. Went back twice after this incident, just
Speaker 3: more of the same high strangeness. No more visual sightings,
Speaker 3: but slapping of the walls, all sorts of stuff. The
Speaker 3: last trip there. You remember, I was telling you that
Speaker 3: he used a slab wood siding at about the ten
Speaker 3: foot level off the ground. It was like every two
Speaker 3: feet something came through and just punched a hole through
Speaker 3: that slab, which takes a lot of force. He said,
Speaker 3: it looked like a small wrecking ball was just boom
Speaker 3: every two feet, boom, all the way around that place,
Speaker 3: and that was his last trip there. His trip was
Speaker 3: very short that trip because when he got there he
Speaker 3: noticed the damage immediately when he got up there, looked
Speaker 3: at it and said no, and just walked out. Didn't
Speaker 3: grab any more of his stuff. He had not of
Speaker 3: real value. He was just going to go through and
Speaker 3: double check on that trip before selling the property. He
Speaker 3: lets people know there's some craziness going on over there.
Speaker 3: Just know what you're buying. Whoever ended up buying didn't
Speaker 3: seem to give a flying rats but about what he
Speaker 3: was talking about probably didn't believe him. I'm going to
Speaker 3: thank Jonah for reaching out initially last year to share
Speaker 3: that I wanted to share with you today cuts from.
Speaker 3: His name is Jack. He used to work for the
Speaker 3: Geological Survey. They were up in the Brooks Range. They
Speaker 3: were doing some kind of sampling. He didn't get off
Speaker 3: into that. He just wanted to share what they dealt
Speaker 3: with their middle base camp where they were camping out
Speaker 3: of which he asked me to leave that anonymous because
Speaker 3: there's still work going on there. So what happened with them?
Speaker 3: It was Jack and four others. One of the people
Speaker 3: was a designated camp person at stay in camp. Well,
Speaker 3: they went out, they were collecting samples, doing their thing.
Speaker 3: When they came back.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see we'll be
Speaker 1: right back after the ease messages.
Speaker 3: It was on the third day. They were going to
Speaker 3: be out there for a few weeks quite a while.
Speaker 3: They'd planned on rotating out and back in or something
Speaker 3: along those lines. Now, this was roughly a decade ago,
Speaker 3: about third day from his recollection. When they came back
Speaker 3: from collecting their samples and doing what they were doing,
Speaker 3: they couldn't find the camp person. They kept shouting out
Speaker 3: looking for this person, and well and behold, this person
Speaker 3: was underneath their little cot in the tent, because they
Speaker 3: had some big campus tents they were working out of,
Speaker 3: tucked up under their hiding with the shotgun. They had
Speaker 3: a shotgun around camp. They actually had three of them
Speaker 3: for bears. Grizzly bears up in that area can be
Speaker 3: aggressive at times, especially when food sources low and so on.
Speaker 3: They coaxed the person out because at first this person
Speaker 3: was just wielding shotgun from underneath that petrified. They got
Speaker 3: the person calmed down. He came out in the mid
Speaker 3: twenties began to explain to him once he calmed down
Speaker 3: that as he was prepping the meal, he had set
Speaker 3: out some pork. He had to go where they had
Speaker 3: their food cash away from bear safety. They were going
Speaker 3: by all the rules. He came back with some pork.
Speaker 3: He was going to make some kind of pork meal,
Speaker 3: like a sturfry or something for the people, just trying
Speaker 3: to be creative in the bush. Had set his pork
Speaker 3: down on the end of one table where he had
Speaker 3: his little kitchen area set up. This worker as he
Speaker 3: was prepping other stuff because the court with you know,
Speaker 3: the pork would cook a lot faster than what he
Speaker 3: was making with it. Or there was like some roasted
Speaker 3: potatoes or something along those lines. As he was doing
Speaker 3: all the prep work for the other stuff, the pork
Speaker 3: was laying out. But he always kept the shatkun nearby
Speaker 3: because there's always bear sidings. So they saw about four
Speaker 3: different bears over the course of that three days, all
Speaker 3: off at a distance, but still to be aware, be
Speaker 3: ready for any potential bear coming into camper whatever. As
Speaker 3: this poor guy was getting the potatoes wrapped up in
Speaker 3: foil and putting them by the fire, had all that done,
Speaker 3: had a whole bunch of the prep work done. Was
Speaker 3: in the middle of dison up some onions and stuff. Hey,
Speaker 3: here's a grunt. This grunt came from small patch of
Speaker 3: trees not too far away where they had their food cash.
Speaker 3: Immediately is all crap. A bear is getting into our
Speaker 3: food cast. So he grabs a shotgun. Also some bear
Speaker 3: spray heads off to the cash to run the bear off.
Speaker 3: He figured, shotgun in case I need it, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna bear spray this thing, run it off and teach
Speaker 3: it a lesson. That was his initial plan. So according
Speaker 3: to what this kid said, he went down this trail
Speaker 3: which you know, their food cash was about roughly seventy
Speaker 3: yards away from camp, good safe distance, give or take.
Speaker 3: As he gets closer, he notices big brown movement. The
Speaker 3: wind was in his favor, so he figured, okay, I'm
Speaker 3: going to spray from here and that bear's going to
Speaker 3: get a whiff of it and take off. So he
Speaker 3: just burst this big cloud of bear spray, and anyone
Speaker 3: who's ever used those canisters, they bought out a big cloud.
Speaker 3: He burst the cloud, the wind blowing hooks, it takes
Speaker 3: a right in that direction. All of a sudden, this
Speaker 3: thing takes off through the woods, so he assumes, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: it worked, We're good. Nothing was touched, heard the thrashing
Speaker 3: moving away. Okay, good, did my job on going back,
Speaker 3: The kid gets back over there, his table was overturned.
Speaker 3: There's some strange tracks on the ground, and the pork
Speaker 3: was missing. Says shit. I chased his bear off, but
Speaker 3: a circle back. It took my pork. At least the
Speaker 3: food stash is safe. Hopefully it learned a lesson and
Speaker 3: is not going to view it as oh, I'll just
Speaker 3: come back and eat again. As he was explaining how
Speaker 3: when he was cleaning up the mess basically starting a
Speaker 3: different meal, he was really nervous and couldn't focus. He
Speaker 3: kept feeling like he was being watched from that path
Speaker 3: that led to the cash, so he kept looking over periodically.
Speaker 3: Nothing was happening. He had to get another of meat
Speaker 3: from their stash, which they had a very limited stash
Speaker 3: that was only going to be for so long because
Speaker 3: you can only keep meat good for so long in
Speaker 3: the bush, and then you got to have the freeze
Speaker 3: dried stuff and all that. But they had it lined
Speaker 3: out to have some good meals for the first few
Speaker 3: days and there was still some stuff frozen that it
Speaker 3: would thaw over it. So he goes back and retrieves
Speaker 3: some burger meat because it would thaw quickly. He could
Speaker 3: cook it as it thought that kind of thing, So
Speaker 3: he figured he would dice up those potatoes, mix in
Speaker 3: the meat on just make like whatever a skillet basically
Speaker 3: shotgun bear spray goes back towards that cash. He gets
Speaker 3: about halfway down the trail and was overcome with fear
Speaker 3: as he was gaining his composure because he was just like, okay,
Speaker 3: you're just nervous because of the bear incident. It had
Speaker 3: some meat, it's gone, there's no noise. This kid goes up,
Speaker 3: drops their thing from the little stilts a head it
Speaker 3: up on it, but he lowers it down. He gets
Speaker 3: the burger meat out, raises everything back up and heads
Speaker 3: back to camp. So when it gets back to camp
Speaker 3: this time, nothing was turned over. Everything is as it was,
Speaker 3: but there was a very weird smell and some more
Speaker 3: weird tracks he couldn't make out. So his crap, I'm
Speaker 3: being stalked by this bare ice berge as he's doing
Speaker 3: his cooking thing. He's trying to stay focused on that,
Speaker 3: but he kept feeling like he was being watched in
Speaker 3: front of his little cook area. It was about forty
Speaker 3: to fifty feet before the small shrubs and stuff started.
Speaker 3: It liked black spruce. It wasn't very big trees, but
Speaker 3: there was trees around, but they were in a nice
Speaker 3: open area. So his focus kept going to the tree line,
Speaker 3: back behind his little cooking station he had set up.
Speaker 3: He's trying to ignore it. He's trying to get things
Speaker 3: done because he knows the people, the surveyors are stuff
Speaker 3: to be back in an hour or two something along
Speaker 3: those lines, so he wanted to have something done for
Speaker 3: them because you know they're going to be hungry. As
Speaker 3: he's focusing on what he's doing, he keeps seeing movement
Speaker 3: off to his left him facing straight. Was noon, it
Speaker 3: would roughly be off at the ten o'clock position where
Speaker 3: this movement was going on, approximately forty fifty feet away
Speaker 3: in the tree line. So he's noticing it and he
Speaker 3: goes in his mind the kids saying, Okay, it must
Speaker 3: be a bear. This bear is going to circle around
Speaker 3: because the wind's blowing that way. He's going to circle
Speaker 3: to where I won't smell him. But he's going to
Speaker 3: come in on me. Smart kid, realizing that something was
Speaker 3: circling or whatever. So he stopped what he's doing and
Speaker 3: calmly grabs his shotgun and goes, okay, I'm going to
Speaker 3: stand my ground. Automatically, he knew he sprayed this thing.
Speaker 3: It ran offs, it came back. Obviously it's going to
Speaker 3: be an issue. I'm going to have to do something.
Speaker 3: He checks the shotgun, takes out the round he had
Speaker 3: in the chamber, and puts in one of those little
Speaker 3: bar rounds bare bomb rounds they look like little five
Speaker 3: hundred pound bombs or whatever. Puts one of those rubber
Speaker 3: slugs in there, commences to take a few steps away
Speaker 3: from his station to get a better look because they
Speaker 3: had tarps and other things hanging there and stuff. He
Speaker 3: wanted a clear view of the tree so he could
Speaker 3: see where it was moving. Now, this is middle of
Speaker 3: the day. This is not at night, at dusk or
Speaker 3: any of that. It's middle of the day, late spring
Speaker 3: beginnings this summer. Roughly in that timeframe. Jack couldn't recall
Speaker 3: exactly when because he had made so many trips that
Speaker 3: it all bled together. So again he's watching this tree
Speaker 3: line looking for the movement. He hears nothing until about
Speaker 3: two minutes later, he keeps feeling like he's being watched.
Speaker 3: He turns around to go back to what he's doing
Speaker 3: because there's no sound, no movement. He figured okay, it
Speaker 3: lost interest and backed off again. But he went back
Speaker 3: to what he was doing, and he planned on letting
Speaker 3: everyone when they got back, Hey, we need to run
Speaker 3: this bear op. That was his initial plan. He gets
Speaker 3: back to what he was doing, he notices this big,
Speaker 3: dark thing off to his right hand side. He noticed
Speaker 3: it when he turned around and sets a shotgun down
Speaker 3: because it wasn't moving and it was really big. He
Speaker 3: dis dissumed it was a group of trees. He gets
Speaker 3: back to what he's doing. As soon as he sat
Speaker 3: down the shotgun and started stirring the stuff and doing
Speaker 3: what he was doing, this thing started moving from his
Speaker 3: right to his left. According to what Jack said the kid,
Speaker 3: his eyes were biggest saucers when he was saying it
Speaker 3: was huge. He's under a tarp that's about seven foot
Speaker 3: off the ground, with enough room to where with the
Speaker 3: heat from the little camp stove he had little Coleman stove,
Speaker 3: the heat wouldn't melt the tarp and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So he had seven foot roughly of visibility immediately seven
Speaker 3: foot height. This thing was bigger than that. It was
Speaker 3: at a distance, and this thing walked from his right
Speaker 3: to his left. He couldn't see the face. He could
Speaker 3: only see up to just the beginning of the shoulder
Speaker 3: from his vantage point. So seven foot tarp. His vantage
Speaker 3: point is looking up and he can only see the shoulder.
Speaker 3: So this thing eleven twelve foot maybe more. And it moves,
Speaker 3: He said that it moved methodically, slowly, purposefully, slowly across
Speaker 3: his field of view, roughly half the distance between his
Speaker 3: little station and the tree line. Once it hit the
Speaker 3: tree line off to his left, because he froze. He
Speaker 3: just was in shock of what the hell is this?
Speaker 3: He was basically frozen in fear. But watching this scene,
Speaker 3: gets over to the tree line, and he's just so
Speaker 3: scared to term, but he forces himself to term. And
Speaker 3: it's actually two of them, one smaller one and a
Speaker 3: big one. And all he saw was the backside of
Speaker 3: the bigger one, and the smaller one was kind of
Speaker 3: running a half moon behind it as they both moved
Speaker 3: off into the trees. He grabs a shotgun ended up
Speaker 3: under that cot. That's where they found him. They hear
Speaker 3: him out, they call him down. They're running to every scenario.
Speaker 3: Sure wasn't a bear for this reason or a bear
Speaker 3: for that reason. One of the people in the group
Speaker 3: he was I believe Jack said he was a UAA student,
Speaker 3: was from one of the villages. This guy commences to
Speaker 3: tell him, that's the hairy man. We should probably move camp.
Speaker 3: Let's move camp a mile away from here. We got
Speaker 3: to be doing studies down over here. Anyway, Let's move
Speaker 3: it a mile Everyone agrees, So they decide in the morning,
Speaker 3: we'll move camp a mile down. We got to do
Speaker 3: survey over here as well, so it's no big deal
Speaker 3: that we move camp. They all agree. They don't know
Speaker 3: what to make of it. They're all still kind of
Speaker 3: Oh the kid's freaking out, still still holding the shotgun,
Speaker 3: won't give it up to anybody. Told them they need
Speaker 3: to arm themselves. He was very adamant about someone else
Speaker 3: needs to help me keep an eye out for these things,
Speaker 3: because I can't do it alone. I don't know what
Speaker 3: they are. They left it at that for the moment.
Speaker 3: Uneventful evening, first thing in the morning, everyone was up
Speaker 3: very early. He said the kid probably didn't sleep because
Speaker 3: he looked exhausted and worn out. The kid was percolating
Speaker 3: the coffee for everyone. When everyone was standing around, they
Speaker 3: heard this scream sounding about a half mile off. He said.
Speaker 3: It wasn't immediately honest, but it was loud. It reverberated
Speaker 3: to everything. Everyone who's wide awake doing their thing to
Speaker 3: get things packed. As they're packing, the coffee gets done,
Speaker 3: everyone was nervously trying to sip off coffee. Coffee gets
Speaker 3: cold pretty quick if you don't have a thermal mug,
Speaker 3: and no one happened to have one, and they had
Speaker 3: a thermos, but their cups were those little aluminum ones,
Speaker 3: so everyone was able to drink their coffee pretty quick,
Speaker 3: and no one was hungry. They just wanted to get
Speaker 3: everything moving. They get everything broken down. There's five of them.
Speaker 3: They have to work in a team because they have
Speaker 3: big canvas tents. They had two big campus tents and
Speaker 3: the other smaller stuff and this little fold table. They
Speaker 3: gather it all up. They create a sled with one
Speaker 3: of the smaller tents that they were using to drag.
Speaker 3: He didn't say why. They were just trying to make
Speaker 3: it as quick as possible. They get moving as fast
Speaker 3: as they can. Some of the stuff was falling off
Speaker 3: the tent as they're going along. They were picking it
Speaker 3: back up. Everyone was working together, one solid unit. This
Speaker 3: particular clearing they were in, and once you get out
Speaker 3: of that, the trail led off to the right of
Speaker 3: this little camp area. They go down this trail, he said,
Speaker 3: it's approximately three hundred yards roughly before they're out of
Speaker 3: the black spruce and stuff, and then there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of open muskeg runs down a length to the
Speaker 3: bottom of this basically foothill to the Brooks Range, and
Speaker 3: they skirted it. They skirted the marsh, and they were
Speaker 3: dragging it along. He said. It took a good couple
Speaker 3: hours for them to make it to their destination. But
Speaker 3: once they got to that far side of that initial muskeg,
Speaker 3: the scream happened again. This time it sounded like it
Speaker 3: was coming from where they had just left their camp.
Speaker 3: They were motivated. They kept moving along to people with
Speaker 3: shotguns were in the rear to cover their retreat. Basically,
Speaker 3: they find another area. They went a little further than
Speaker 3: that one mile, just because they were scared of shit.
Speaker 3: As they were doing that, You got to remember ten
Speaker 3: years ago, SAT phones were not in their infancy, but
Speaker 3: you had to have the paid service, and it was
Speaker 3: a little bit of a getting used to using them
Speaker 3: type of thing. What are the people in the group
Speaker 3: Once that scream happened that morning, they had steadily been
Speaker 3: trying to get this phone to work rag and it
Speaker 3: continued the whole time. This person would periodically trying to
Speaker 3: It wasn't a matter of signal. It was a matter
Speaker 3: of something to do with the numbers they were dialing.
Speaker 3: They had them all written down, but it didn't seem
Speaker 3: to be working at that time. So once they get
Speaker 3: to this further place, finally the person got through to
Speaker 3: their people to let them know, hey, there's some strange activity.
Speaker 3: We're not sure if we need to get out of here,
Speaker 3: but you know, be aware this stuff is going on.
Speaker 3: That's where that portion ended because Jack ended up going
Speaker 3: with one of the other people to stand guard on
Speaker 3: their back trail to make sure they weren't being followed.
Speaker 3: Because they went back a good half mile to make
Speaker 3: sure that nothing was following them. They get back over
Speaker 3: the camp. When they get back, just as they were
Speaker 3: clearing this little trail to get into this other little clearing.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the group started screaming and yelling.
Speaker 3: As they're screaming and yelling, they come running over to
Speaker 3: see what's going on. This thing was approximately one hundred
Speaker 3: yards away. It was peeking out from behind trees doing
Speaker 3: the saying, and it was bigger in the tree, so
Speaker 3: it was hunched over and just doing this little peaky
Speaker 3: thing like you can't see me type of deal. They're
Speaker 3: all freaking out. They get back on that sat phone
Speaker 3: because the person had figured out what they were doing wrong.
Speaker 3: Initially they were able to get through ended up calling
Speaker 3: in to say, hey, we need to get going. The
Speaker 3: person on the other side, I guess from what Jack
Speaker 3: was saying, was like, no one's going to come on
Speaker 3: us as a medical emergency. We have a set time.
Speaker 3: If it's not a nine one one emergency, we cannot
Speaker 3: make this retreat happen or whatever. One of the people
Speaker 3: straight lied, So I think I'm having a pinacitis. I've
Speaker 3: been throwing out. My gut's hurt. It's off to the
Speaker 3: right hand side, YadA, YadA, YadA. So basically they had
Speaker 3: to lie to whoever they were calling to get the
Speaker 3: cavalry to come and pick them up. See, they had
Speaker 3: to do it in a couple of trips because the
Speaker 3: first people to come were basically a life flight crew
Speaker 3: to pick up this person who had lied about the penasitis,
Speaker 3: and the rest of the group along with Jack was
Speaker 3: telling them, hey, we got these things around. One of
Speaker 3: the pilots in that initial trupper that came in for
Speaker 3: the metavac noticed something big off in the distance, but
Speaker 3: chocked it up to a large grizzly bear and.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see, we'll be
Speaker 1: right back.
Speaker 3: After these messages, the pilot closer a grizzly They ran
Speaker 3: with that. The life flight left with the appendicitis victim.
Speaker 3: Another flight came in later non emergency to retrieve the
Speaker 3: rest of them. That's how they were able to get
Speaker 3: out of there. Jack is still in the field, just
Speaker 3: not appear. I'm gonna thank him for reaching out calling.
Speaker 3: Thirty plus year heavy equipment operator has been around all
Speaker 3: the mines around the US doing his thing. What happened
Speaker 3: to him happened about fifteen years ago. This particular outfit
Speaker 3: he was working for had just moved their camp from
Speaker 3: one area to a different area. Where they're doing placer mining.
Speaker 3: The tank farm for fuel was approximately a mile and
Speaker 3: a quarter away from their current operation and only a
Speaker 3: quarter mile away from their former operation. So there was
Speaker 3: a transfer truck that they would use. But this transfer
Speaker 3: truck broke down. They used the fuel in it, but
Speaker 3: it being broke down, they weren't able to refill it
Speaker 3: and come down. He would have to watch his gauge
Speaker 3: go get fuel before he ran out and then come
Speaker 3: back and continue his job with the loader and all that.
Speaker 3: He was approximately two and a half months into his contract.
Speaker 3: There was a nice bonus for those who stuck around
Speaker 3: the whole season. He wanted to get his bonus. He's
Speaker 3: a hard worker. They worked twelve hour days, sometimes fourteen
Speaker 3: hour days. He just loved his work. He's out in
Speaker 3: remote Alaska. He doesn't want this place put on blast.
Speaker 3: It's off the Yukon River. We'll leave it at that.
Speaker 3: So this one particular morning he got down to his loader.
Speaker 3: They had started an overnight shift and the overnight ship
Speaker 3: was just running material. So what they would do is
Speaker 3: during the day they would stockpile a bunch of extra
Speaker 3: paydirts near the tromel and the night crew would just
Speaker 3: slowly feed the tromol. So that way it was always
Speaker 3: maximizing production. Calling gets up in the morning. The guy
Speaker 3: that he relieved didn't refuel the loaders, so it was
Speaker 3: red light on. He had to go a mile and
Speaker 3: a quarter to fill up his loader to get his
Speaker 3: day started. Everyone else headed down to the pit. He
Speaker 3: went towards the take farm. Now this is in the
Speaker 3: wee hours of the morning. It was the beginning of
Speaker 3: August ish. He gets up to the tank farm. He
Speaker 3: just starts sputtering out of fuel. Shit, good thing, I
Speaker 3: just got hit. So he gets out. He goes over
Speaker 3: he realizes, oh shit, I don't have the key to
Speaker 3: unlock the little thing. He left it back at Kim,
Speaker 3: So he has a mile and a quarter walk to
Speaker 3: go retrieve the key come back. There had been bear sightings.
Speaker 3: Smart guys. Everyone had some form of protection, whether it
Speaker 3: be bear spray, pistol or a rifle. He had a
Speaker 3: forty four magnum pistol in the cab of the loader,
Speaker 3: and he went and retrieved it for the walk. He
Speaker 3: gets roughly a quarter mile away from the tank farm,
Speaker 3: and from the way he explained it to me, this
Speaker 3: road is an elevated high crownd it's about six foot
Speaker 3: elevation because they just packed in the gravel and just
Speaker 3: kept building on it. Because they're running big, heavy equipment
Speaker 3: on this thing. They needed it really well built, he says.
Speaker 3: It snakes through and it cuts through a bunch of
Speaker 3: trees at about the quarter mile mark, and then once
Speaker 3: you break through the trees, then it opens back up
Speaker 3: down towards where they were doing their mining. He gets
Speaker 3: almost to that tree line as he's walking down the
Speaker 3: center of the road, and he can hear the equipment
Speaker 3: going off in the distance, and he's like, crap, they're
Speaker 3: going to be so pissed. I'm running late. So he
Speaker 3: starts trotting. He starts jogging. He's just about to get
Speaker 3: to the tree line. He sees something big and dark
Speaker 3: go across the road, and immediately he's, ah, shit, bear okay,
Speaker 3: so he slows down. He starts assessing, all right, that
Speaker 3: was a pretty big bear. It looked like a black
Speaker 3: bear because it was really dark. So he's, man, do
Speaker 3: I want to continue going and risk it, or do
Speaker 3: I want to retreat back to the loader wait for
Speaker 3: someone to realize I'm not there and come find me.
Speaker 3: So he decides, you know what, a bear attack is
Speaker 3: not worth I'd rather be late than attacked by a bear.
Speaker 3: He only had six shots in his forty four. He
Speaker 3: didn't have any extra ammal with them. He decides, I'll
Speaker 3: just go wait back at the loader. The foreman's bound
Speaker 3: to realize I'm not there and come look for me.
Speaker 3: He retreats. As he's jogging walking fast back towards the
Speaker 3: tank farm where his loader's sitting, he hears thrashing back
Speaker 3: behind him off to his left. He says it was
Speaker 3: getting louder. It sounded like it was almost making a
Speaker 3: bee line towards him. So, being paranoid, he starts screaming, hey, bearon,
Speaker 3: let's a shot, fly boom, just up in the air.
Speaker 3: That happens, it goes dead quiet. He's got a ringing
Speaker 3: in his ear. Now. He decides, I'm going to book
Speaker 3: it to the loader now, calling amts. He's a little
Speaker 3: heavier around the midsection than he had liked to ben
Speaker 3: because of the years of sitting in a loader and
Speaker 3: just not really getting all that much exercise. He just
Speaker 3: exercising his arms with the levers on the loader, not
Speaker 3: much else. He's winded pretty quick according to what he
Speaker 3: was saying. As he gets back to the loader, he's
Speaker 3: looking back because the sounds continued. A few moments later,
Speaker 3: after he made it about another fifty yards, he heard
Speaker 3: the movement continued. Now that they're out more in the
Speaker 3: open and it's just brush, he was noticing movement, but
Speaker 3: it was always so fast he couldn't make it out.
Speaker 3: So he said that once he got back to the loader,
Speaker 3: which was quite an ordeal because he was out of breath,
Speaker 3: just out of shade. Life sucked at that moment for him.
Speaker 3: So he gets into the loader and he's sitting there
Speaker 3: and he doesn't know what to do. He's just got
Speaker 3: to wait and hope that when the farming finds out
Speaker 3: he's missing and taking too long, he comes and looks
Speaker 3: for him. So as he's sitting there, he's looking out
Speaker 3: the windows of this loader. He's got a little higher
Speaker 3: elevation there he sees this black thing stand up and
Speaker 3: he's thrown off because he thinks it's a black bear
Speaker 3: trying to put eyes on him and just standing up
Speaker 3: at a distance. But this thing turns and is walking
Speaker 3: from his left to his right at about fifty yards
Speaker 3: out clears the brush's just out in the open. Then
Speaker 3: he realizes what he's looking at. He's looking at a
Speaker 3: sasquatx harry Man. He was shaking uncontrollably in the cab
Speaker 3: of that loader. He said it wasn't acting aggressive. He
Speaker 3: saw it and it was moving. It crosses his field
Speaker 3: of view and back behind the tank farm there's another
Speaker 3: batch of trees. Now there's three tanks on this tank farm,
Speaker 3: two laying down on the ground, and then one vertical tank.
Speaker 3: The vertical tank had a ladder on it. It was
Speaker 3: the tank that everyone drew from to load up their
Speaker 3: heavy equipment. There was a hose that came from it
Speaker 3: up to a little what you would call a register
Speaker 3: or a pump station. He watches this thing and it
Speaker 3: crossed and goes into the trees back behind the tank.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know what to do. There's a handheld radio
Speaker 3: in the cab of that loader, but no one ever
Speaker 3: uses them, so the batteries were dead. He tried to
Speaker 3: turn it all and try to look at this fair
Speaker 3: batteries nothing dead. Great idea, but unless you keep up
Speaker 3: on it, useless. He sits there twenty minutes passes or so.
Speaker 3: In Mother Nature's callings. He's got a tinkle. He's looking
Speaker 3: all around, no sign, no, nothing, doesn't hear nothing, opens
Speaker 3: the little door, climbs out, gets on the ground, starts
Speaker 3: relieving himself on the tire. He hears this low, rumbling
Speaker 3: growl kind of sound, and he said it sounded like
Speaker 3: it was on the other side of his loader. He
Speaker 3: freaks out. He's stumbling around, tinkled on himself a little bit,
Speaker 3: trying to get re zipped. He left a pistol up
Speaker 3: in this little cab with the loader. As he's trying
Speaker 3: to get up into the loader, he slipped, banged his knee,
Speaker 3: heard it. He gets up in there, grabs a pistol,
Speaker 3: comes out. He wants to chase this thing off. He
Speaker 3: felt like he was stuck right this poor guy. He's
Speaker 3: about a half hour into this whole ordeal from getting
Speaker 3: back from his little attempted walk, about a half hour
Speaker 3: forty minutes in this loader and the tinkling situation. So
Speaker 3: he's looking around. He sees nothing. From what he was saying,
Speaker 3: he walked around to where he thought the noise was
Speaker 3: coming from, and there was nothing. He's looking up into
Speaker 3: the brush. He sees absolutely nothing. So he turns around
Speaker 3: and looks back at the tank from the vertical tank
Speaker 3: to the two laying down. He sees something move. However,
Speaker 3: his vettage point he couldn't fully make it out because
Speaker 3: the trees were dark behind this thing, and he couldn't
Speaker 3: make out a full sell of what he just saw.
Speaker 3: Two legs moves over the two other tanks. He climbs
Speaker 3: back up into the loader, shuts the door, and he's
Speaker 3: sitting there and he doesn't know what to do. He
Speaker 3: doesn't have enough fuel to go anywhere. He was sputtering out.
Speaker 3: He knows that if he runs it dry, he's gonna
Speaker 3: have problems restarting it. There's issues with this particular loader
Speaker 3: because out there in the field they run these things
Speaker 3: to death. They will beat the ever living shit out
Speaker 3: of them. Parts are few and far between, so he
Speaker 3: didn't want to risk any further kind of issues running
Speaker 3: the gear down. He's sitting there and he's watching. He
Speaker 3: opens one of the slide windows and starts smoking a
Speaker 3: cigarette to cal him down. He's drinking coffee out of
Speaker 3: his thermis. He's trying to separate himself from what's going
Speaker 3: on around him, and he starts hearing weird noises, squirrel chatter,
Speaker 3: different types of imitations of ravens and other stuff. And
Speaker 3: he knew right where it was coming from. It was
Speaker 3: coming from back behind him, off to his right, by
Speaker 3: those two laying down tanks. So he's just ignoring it.
Speaker 3: He's smoking a cigarette, drinking his coffee out of his thermos.
Speaker 3: They have big mirrors up to the side. After a
Speaker 3: few minutes, he notices something dark in his mirror going
Speaker 3: behind his rig. He flings his cigarette out, shuts the window,
Speaker 3: sets the thermist down. He's guy's pistol. He's sitting up
Speaker 3: on his knees in the chair, looking back behind, looking
Speaker 3: at this stable. Where is this thing? As he's watching,
Speaker 3: looking around, he notices it by the tire, between the
Speaker 3: tire and the body of the loader, literally just below him,
Speaker 3: squatted down, looking up at him, just giving him in
Speaker 3: this real inquisitive look. He said he didn't feel it
Speaker 3: was aggressive. He felt it was very curious. He starts yelling,
Speaker 3: get out of here, get out of here. I'll shoot you,
Speaker 3: I'll shoot you. This thing stands up and is almost
Speaker 3: eye level with him, about four feet from him, just
Speaker 3: outside the cab of this loader. He didn't know what
Speaker 3: to do. He froze up. He was stuck. This thing
Speaker 3: starts showing his teeth at him because he's holding a gun.
Speaker 3: He's not pointing it directly, but he's holding his gun
Speaker 3: and showing his teeth at him. He said at one
Speaker 3: point it smacked the side of the loader. That's when
Speaker 3: it got aggressive gun in hand. Twenty twenty hindsight, he
Speaker 3: said it was more likely because of the gun in hand.
Speaker 3: It didn't get aggressive until it saw the gun, and
Speaker 3: that's when its whole demeanor changed. Smacked the side of
Speaker 3: the loader, started pushing on it a little bit, started
Speaker 3: maneuvering like it was going to come tear him out
Speaker 3: of that little cap. So he's freaking out. He slides
Speaker 3: that window open and he shoots three times out the window. Bam,
Speaker 3: bam bam. Take off just directly straight away from him,
Speaker 3: away from the tanks, and everything takes off running basically
Speaker 3: back down the road, went off towards his left a
Speaker 3: little bit. This thing just went straight away and was
Speaker 3: canting away from the road. He was like, I feel
Speaker 3: trapped in here. So what he does is he gets out,
Speaker 3: brings his thermos, goes and climbs up that tank. The
Speaker 3: tall vertical that's about twenty foot off the ground or so.
Speaker 3: One of the attributes of this thing is it has
Speaker 3: a fold down ladder with this little draw thing, so
Speaker 3: you could climb up it and pull the ladder. The
Speaker 3: bottom of the ladder will swing up and click into
Speaker 3: place on this little click thing. So he does it.
Speaker 3: Took everything he had to get up there because he
Speaker 3: was shaking so hard, he was so nervous. He makes
Speaker 3: it up there, pulls up the ladder. He sits there
Speaker 3: and he's looking down the road hoping someone comes, because
Speaker 3: now he's shot four of his six bullets. He has
Speaker 3: two left. So he's sitting there and sitting there, it's quiet.
Speaker 3: He's hearing movement, but every time he gets up to
Speaker 3: look for it, he's moving a little too slow to
Speaker 3: what's moving around him. He said, about almost an hour
Speaker 3: gone by from it standing up smacking the loader to
Speaker 3: him getting up to the top of the tank before
Speaker 3: he heard side by side coming from camp and he
Speaker 3: knew it was his foreman's and he knew rescue was
Speaker 3: on its way. Someone's on their way. He's sitting up
Speaker 3: on top of this tank. He can't see the movement.
Speaker 3: He's hearing. All he could do is hear it. The
Speaker 3: foreman comes down the road, and as the foreman gets closer,
Speaker 3: the foreman stops almost one hundred yards out and starts waving.
Speaker 3: He could see Colin on the top of the tank
Speaker 3: and he's waving at him. Hey, and he's pointing, and
Speaker 3: he can't make out what his foreman is trying to say,
Speaker 3: but his foreman's pointing off to the side of the tank.
Speaker 3: Colin starts looking. He can't see shit. The foreman's pointing,
Speaker 3: gets back in the side by side and leaves. Pear
Speaker 3: starts hauling us back towards Camp Collins like, oh, great, great.
Speaker 3: Unbeknownst to him, the foreman didn't bring his rifle. He
Speaker 3: went to retrieving. I'll get to that man. Foreman comes
Speaker 3: back about fifteen twenty minutes later, hauling ass down the road,
Speaker 3: gets a lot closer this time, just back behind the loader,
Speaker 3: and stops and hops out, and he's pointing his rifle
Speaker 3: off to the side of the take right, and Colin's
Speaker 3: looking down at his foreman, and his foreman's pointing off
Speaker 3: to his right hand side. But he's up on this
Speaker 3: big tank. He can't see shit, and he says. The
Speaker 3: foreman's yelling and yelling get out of here, get out
Speaker 3: of here, yeah yeah, and then fires around. He hears
Speaker 3: movement thrashing off towards the trees, back behind this tank fart,
Speaker 3: and the foreman starts yelling at Colin, get your ass
Speaker 3: down here, hurry up, get down here. So Colin has
Speaker 3: to climb down as quickly as he can. He left
Speaker 3: his thermos up there, has climbed down, hit this little
Speaker 3: clickfing that drops the lower part of the ladder, not
Speaker 3: get tangled up in the little pool string, and then
Speaker 3: climbs down. They get in the side by side. They're
Speaker 3: both looking back and he hands calling the rifle and says,
Speaker 3: look out, it was right over there. Colin asked him,
Speaker 3: did you see what I saw? He goes, all I
Speaker 3: saw was the biggest black bear I've ever seen in
Speaker 3: my life. It was standing up looking at me, shot
Speaker 3: over its head, dropped down on all fours again and
Speaker 3: ran off. His foreman only saw what he wanted to see, basically,
Speaker 3: because Colin said, there was no mistaking when he saw
Speaker 3: this thing. It was a lot lighter at that time.
Speaker 3: When his foreman came, there was no mistaking what he saw.
Speaker 3: He thinks his foreman was just it was a BlackBerry.
Speaker 3: It was big as shit. Let's go, Colins holden rifle.
Speaker 3: They turn around start heading back towards camp and calls, hey,
Speaker 3: I got to fill up the loader. He goes, Now,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go get a couple more of the guys
Speaker 3: and we're going to make sure that bears run off.
Speaker 3: They get back to camp. One of the guys that
Speaker 3: worked with them a real old timer. He was one
Speaker 3: of their unsite mechanics. They were telling everyone what had happened,
Speaker 3: and Colin's shaking still his foreman is shaking, so obviously
Speaker 3: the guys there initially chuckled, but then it dawned on him,
Speaker 3: Oh crap, these guys are freaking out. The old timer
Speaker 3: tells them, do not go We can go up retrieve
Speaker 3: the loader. Everyone get back to work. Do not chase
Speaker 3: this thing, do not follow it, and commits us to
Speaker 3: telling them what an old native I told him about
Speaker 3: the area, to not chase him into the woods and
Speaker 3: follow them. And they kept ask what's them, and he said,
Speaker 3: harry Man.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: After these messages.
Speaker 3: Sasquatch, and everyone just what and this old timer was
Speaker 3: dead serious, and everyone else there was just okay, we
Speaker 3: don't get it. But of course Colin understood because he
Speaker 3: looked at this thing. He stared at it, and then
Speaker 3: it smacked his loader. Colin was very clear on what
Speaker 3: the old man was talking about, very clear. Everyone calms down,
Speaker 3: and Colin said that the next season was going to
Speaker 3: be the next move that they made as far as
Speaker 3: where they were going to be mining or whatever. So
Speaker 3: they're about three weeks shy of shutting everything down. Production
Speaker 3: went to a crawl because once everything settled down later
Speaker 3: on that morning midday, everyone took off until lunch and
Speaker 3: just hung around camp and was just talking to each
Speaker 3: other freaking out. Colin said that at midday, when everyone
Speaker 3: was getting ready to fire back up, they kept hearing
Speaker 3: noises just off in the trees, and rocks started hitting
Speaker 3: their base camp, little structured little atchos. Everyone stayed inside
Speaker 3: after that for about three days and everything went quiet again,
Speaker 3: and then they forced themselves to pick up production. He
Speaker 3: ended up making his bonus. Everyone did. But what happened
Speaker 3: in that short brief few days of just utter basically
Speaker 3: locked down and freaking out. Everyone kept to themselves because
Speaker 3: the owner of the mine would have fired all of
Speaker 3: them for not continuing production. So they all just agreed that, hey,
Speaker 3: this is beyond the scope of our job. We need
Speaker 3: to be safe. They left it at that colin after
Speaker 3: the end of that season. This was again about fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago, off the Yukon River. He quit that job.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been back to Alaska. He's currently working in
Speaker 3: a mining outfit down Lower forty eight. Much happier there.
Speaker 3: He loves it up here, but he just can't reconcile
Speaker 3: what happened to him at the loader and remote Alaska
Speaker 3: for any period of time. He can see pictures of
Speaker 3: it just fine, but he knows within himself that if
Speaker 3: he was up here, he would not be able to
Speaker 3: focus on his work, because he freely admits after that
Speaker 3: stretch where everyone stayed in camp, he was hyper vigilant.
Speaker 3: His production went to shit because he could not focus.
Speaker 3: He was constantly looking for the next rock to be thrown,
Speaker 3: the next screen, because over the course of the day
Speaker 3: these couple days were everything laid low. There was screaming,
Speaker 3: there was rock throwing, there was all sorts of stuff
Speaker 3: going on. That was freaking everyone out. They didn't know
Speaker 3: what to do. No one got a clear shot on
Speaker 3: this thing. There was multiple sightings of this thing during
Speaker 3: those few days until it went quiet. I want to
Speaker 3: thank Colin for sharing. I couldn't imagine what it felt
Speaker 3: like sitting up on that tank farm. I don't laugh
Speaker 3: because it's funny. I laugh because it's like the holy shit,
Speaker 3: can you put yourself in his feet? Jeez, are looking
Speaker 3: right at it and it smacks the loader you're in.
Speaker 3: That's another thing, he said. When it smacked and pushed
Speaker 3: the loader, he said, he felt like it could tip
Speaker 3: it over. He said, when it pushed on it, it
Speaker 3: looked effortless the way it was shaking it. I want
Speaker 3: to thank Colin. I appreciate you being patient, especially with
Speaker 3: the stuff going on in the background. I've been busy
Speaker 3: for days dealing with native allotment land stuff and some
Speaker 3: other family related stuff. So I want to thank Colin
Speaker 3: for being patient. I wanted to share with you today
Speaker 3: comes from some very pickers. What they were doing was
Speaker 3: they were setting their net for whitefish. They were picking berries,
Speaker 3: and they were gonna pick up the net on the
Speaker 3: way back where they parked their skiff was on the
Speaker 3: cusca Corn River. They were on a smaller tributary. It's
Speaker 3: real close to their village. They just asked that I
Speaker 3: keep it simple, so I'll just say if the cusco
Speaker 3: Quinn River. They parked their skiff. They found themselves a
Speaker 3: little spot to pull up after they set their net
Speaker 3: on this smaller tributary. As they were cutting back through
Speaker 3: the woods and the tundra, they broke the black spruce line.
Speaker 3: Got back behind there and there's some tundra back there,
Speaker 3: and they were going after salmon berry's. This was third
Speaker 3: week of August, they said. This year, there was three
Speaker 3: of them, two women, one guy. The guy that was
Speaker 3: accompanying them decided he was going to stand watch and
Speaker 3: let them pick berries. Basically he had the rifle. So
Speaker 3: these two ladies, I'm just going to call them the ladies.
Speaker 3: They didn't want their name shared. They go to picking berries.
Speaker 3: As the guy is watching, he said, way off across
Speaker 3: the tundra, it looked like it had to have been
Speaker 3: a mile away, he saw like a black speck of
Speaker 3: pepper just moving across the tundrad, fast as shit. He
Speaker 3: said he had never seen a black bear move that fast.
Speaker 3: So it immediately caught his attention. He's watching this thing
Speaker 3: just hauling ask After a minute, he realized it was
Speaker 3: doing an arcing kind of slow turn coming around towards them,
Speaker 3: so he got the ladies' attention. As he got their attention,
Speaker 3: they all started paying attention into this thing moving. One
Speaker 3: of the ladies, the younger of the two, really started
Speaker 3: freaking out. She never seen anything moving that fast. They
Speaker 3: were aware of the harry Man. It had just been
Speaker 3: many years since they heard any stories from the area
Speaker 3: of any villagers running across one or anything like that,
Speaker 3: so they were really taking aback for a minute. As
Speaker 3: it got closer, they said it was pitch black and
Speaker 3: it was on all fours, moving super super fast. As
Speaker 3: it got closer with then he said, about three hundred yards,
Speaker 3: he started yelling out, hey, hey, waving his arms. He
Speaker 3: checked to make sure he had a round in the
Speaker 3: chamber on the rifle, and he had the ladies get
Speaker 3: behind him because this thing was moving. He didn't want
Speaker 3: to run because it was moving so fast. He thought
Speaker 3: it would overtake them before they could get back to
Speaker 3: the skiff. They were a few hundred yards from the skiff.
Speaker 3: They had to traverse through the trail back up into
Speaker 3: the berry patch. He just didn't feel confident that they
Speaker 3: would make it back in time before it caught up.
Speaker 3: So they got back to the black spruce and they
Speaker 3: all huddled down and squatted down. He had the two
Speaker 3: of them behind him, and he was a little over them,
Speaker 3: but still get squatted down, trying to not hide but
Speaker 3: make their footprint smaller. And you know by the trees.
Speaker 3: By the time they got to the black spruce and
Speaker 3: did that, this thing was maybe fifty sixty yards way
Speaker 3: and it had stopped, so imagine this thing was all black,
Speaker 3: and it stopped about fifty sixty yards away and got
Speaker 3: real low to the tundra and was in this little
Speaker 3: bit of a depression and kept peeking up over at him.
Speaker 3: He said that the third or fourth time it peaked,
Speaker 3: it was getting more and more brave. It was standing
Speaker 3: taller and taller each time it get peaked up. But
Speaker 3: he could tell it looked like he was doing push ups.
Speaker 3: He was pushing his head up. He couldn't make out
Speaker 3: features at that distance. It was all black. He said
Speaker 3: that he contemplated shooting around over it, but he had
Speaker 3: about three rounds in his rifle, and he didn't want
Speaker 3: to not have enough, he decided to just sit there
Speaker 3: and continue screaming, get out of here, get out of here.
Speaker 3: This thing to paid no attention to that. He was
Speaker 3: not intimidated at all, and he said, they sat there
Speaker 3: it seemed like for a good while it made a
Speaker 3: weird noise. He couldn't imitate it. When I asked him to,
Speaker 3: he just he couldn't. So it was just a very
Speaker 3: weird kind of sound that it made, almost like a
Speaker 3: pigeon cooing, but much louder. As he was trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what the hell to do, because he felt
Speaker 3: it was obviously watching him, It was obviously right there.
Speaker 3: He was scared to turn his back on it, so
Speaker 3: he told the girls, I'm going to keep an eye
Speaker 3: on it. You guys, head back to the skiffs, and
Speaker 3: when you get back to the skiff, bang the oar
Speaker 3: against the skiff and I'll know you're there. Then he
Speaker 3: was going to retreat from there. So as they're formulating
Speaker 3: this little plan, this thing is still making that weird
Speaker 3: like pigeon cooing sound real loud. He said. It was
Speaker 3: low toned but loud. There was nothing high pitched about it.
Speaker 3: And just as the girls were getting ready to head
Speaker 3: back down the path while he covered them, they heard
Speaker 3: a similar kind of noise, almost identical, a little higher
Speaker 3: pitched back behind them, on the other side of the
Speaker 3: small tributary, basically on the other side of the skiff
Speaker 3: from where they were. Once they heard that, he did
Speaker 3: not want to risk them going alone, he decides, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go. You guys, go a few steps. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna come right behind you. So they basically just stare
Speaker 3: stepped their way back to the skiff. Meanwhile, this one
Speaker 3: that they had eyes on wasn't moving, It wasn't coming
Speaker 3: towards him anymore more or less, was crouched down at
Speaker 3: this point and just looking at them. It swayed a
Speaker 3: couple times, he said, but for the most part it
Speaker 3: was just like almost went statuesque. It just stood still
Speaker 3: or squatted still and was just staring at him. His
Speaker 3: hair was standing on the back of his neck. The
Speaker 3: girls were really freaking out. They wanted no part of
Speaker 3: that crap. And as they stare stepped back, just leapfrogging
Speaker 3: each other. He wanted to make sure that the girls
Speaker 3: weren't walking into some kind of ambush by another one.
Speaker 3: They make it back to the skiff. They heard movement
Speaker 3: once they cleared the black spruce, but they couldn't see
Speaker 3: this thing because it was fairly dense. But they could
Speaker 3: hear it moving and it was clanking around to their left.
Speaker 3: He decided, okay, we'll break out into a run. Since
Speaker 3: we have no direct eye contact, we have a better
Speaker 3: advantage of making more distance faster. They make it back
Speaker 3: to the skiff, he has the ladies get in. He
Speaker 3: has one of the ladies cover him while he unties
Speaker 3: the skiff from the brush. They had a tie too,
Speaker 3: he said. When he got in the skiff and pushed
Speaker 3: off directly across this small tributary to the Cuscoquim, he said,
Speaker 3: at that point it was about thirty five yards across.
Speaker 3: It was only about four foot deeps roughly in the
Speaker 3: main part of the channel, he said, directly up across
Speaker 3: from where they were. As he pushed off and got
Speaker 3: into the skiff, this other one stood up. He said.
Speaker 3: It looked, by guestimation, real young, because it was only
Speaker 3: about seven foot tall, real skinny looking, fiery, and it
Speaker 3: was pitch black as well, and it started making that
Speaker 3: cooing sound. The younger girl was damn near having a meltdown.
Speaker 3: She was freaking out because she said, it's trying to
Speaker 3: get me. It's trying to get me, and he was like,
Speaker 3: it's over there, we're safe, and he's firing up to
Speaker 3: kick her as he's doing so she's down at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the boat crying, freaking out a little bit,
Speaker 3: not knowing what to do because she kept saying it's
Speaker 3: trying to get me, it's trying to get me. Kickers
Speaker 3: fired up. He backs out of there and they scoot
Speaker 3: on back down to the Cusca Quimen continue on back
Speaker 3: down to where they set their net to retrieve it
Speaker 3: and go home. During the ride, once they cleared the area,
Speaker 3: she calmed down. He asked her, what do you mean
Speaker 3: it was trying to get you? It was over there,
Speaker 3: It wasn't trying to get you. He was speaking logically,
Speaker 3: and she said, no, it said it wanted me. So
Speaker 3: I guess this thing told her in her mind that
Speaker 3: it wanted her. It's cooing, she said, was making her
Speaker 3: very sleepy. That's creepy stuff, man. I'm going to thank
Speaker 3: them for sharing. That's a really creepy thought to think
Speaker 3: that they possess the ability to make weird noises that
Speaker 3: we can't necessarily fully hear and either hypnotize or put
Speaker 3: people to sleep. That's just who I'm glad I've never
Speaker 3: experienced that. I want to thank them. You got to
Speaker 3: understand when it comes to natives in the village sharing,
Speaker 3: it's really difficult. It's just the culture. There's a superstition
Speaker 3: involved where they don't want to speak its name and
Speaker 3: invoke some kind of bad omen because of it. Again,
Speaker 3: in times past, the elders would say, if you speak
Speaker 3: about it, or your fish could come missing, or something
Speaker 3: bad could happen to a loved one. It was superstition
Speaker 3: on that level. But it all stems from somewhere right Again,
Speaker 3: I want to thank them for reaching out.
Speaker 4: They say, you don't have a go, but you can't
Speaker 4: stay O world.
Speaker 5: It happens said, step stays, step.
Speaker 4: Child, this child, that child, everything. Come you ride back
Speaker 4: right back for joy from me, enjoy staying right.
Speaker 1: You come in right.
Speaker 5: Away, stay.
Speaker 4: Still, stay.
Speaker 1: Says ssssstabouts
Speaker 2: SASSTSSSSSSST used thess