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Speaker 3: And on what are your reporting? I got a screen
Speaker 3: going on here. Something just kid, my dog, something killed
Speaker 3: your dog? My dog? We're flying through the or over
Speaker 3: the tree.
Speaker 4: I don't know how it did it?
Speaker 3: Okay, damn it. I'm really confused. All I saw was
Speaker 3: my dog coming over the fence and they was dead.
Speaker 3: And once he hit the grill, I didn't see any cars.
Speaker 3: All I saw was my dog coming over the fence.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 1: What are you reporting?
Speaker 3: We got some wond or something crawling.
Speaker 4: Around out here?
Speaker 3: Did you see what it was?
Speaker 1: Was? It was?
Speaker 3: Stand enough. I'm out here looking through the window now
Speaker 3: and I don't see anything.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go outside.
Speaker 3: Point sure up? Hello, hit the boddy out here? What
Speaker 3: quent on out there's thought of a bit about text
Speaker 3: forty nine? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Easy am out there?
Speaker 3: Oh? The greeting sanks for joining me. Is friend Alaska.
Speaker 3: What I wanted to share with you today comes from
Speaker 3: We'll call him Vincent. He is a doctor in Anchorage.
Speaker 3: It was really difficult for him to come forward and
Speaker 3: share because he was astonished and taken aback by the
Speaker 3: reality of some of the things that happened in remote
Speaker 3: Alaska many years ago. A very good doctor friend of his.
Speaker 3: He would fly with his buddy to get over his
Speaker 3: fear of heights. His doctor friend who had the plane.
Speaker 3: Over the course of a few years kept talking about
Speaker 3: this little cabin that he was envisioning building at this
Speaker 3: place called Moose Lake. There's several Moose Lakes, probably a
Speaker 3: thousand depending on who you ask. For privacy reasons, we'll
Speaker 3: leave that aspect out of it now. Over the course
Speaker 3: of time, over the years, his doctor friend started saying, Ah,
Speaker 3: I'm just not going to have time. I'm getting ready
Speaker 3: to be moving out of state in a few years,
Speaker 3: and I would just hate to invest all this time
Speaker 3: and energy. Vincent, would you be interested in this property.
Speaker 3: I could take you there and there's already a platform.
Speaker 3: You just have to finish the bill basically, and Vincent's like,
Speaker 3: let's check it out. So a few years back, his
Speaker 3: buddy takes him out there and immediately Vincent's sold. What
Speaker 3: he want is sold. It was a little four acre plot.
Speaker 3: He makes the arrangements over the course of about three years.
Speaker 3: He would spend one week every month of the summer,
Speaker 3: so he would put in three weeks of work every season,
Speaker 3: basically June, July and August. Three years goes by. Now.
Speaker 3: One of the things Vincent noticed is how quiet it
Speaker 3: would get in the evening after midday, throughout the even
Speaker 3: dead quiet, no songbirds. He noticed that immediately, but he
Speaker 3: wasn't a well versed hunter. He always went well armed,
Speaker 3: of course, because his doctor buddy told him, Hey, I've
Speaker 3: seen bears in the area. Be aware. There's large moose
Speaker 3: around there as well. Be aware. So he was given
Speaker 3: the lay of the land. They'd fly around and stuff,
Speaker 3: so he knew the layout of the land. Over the
Speaker 3: course of building this place, there would be strange things
Speaker 3: that would happen. He would hear weird, mournful, sorrowful moaning.
Speaker 3: But the moaning was so long and so drawn out
Speaker 3: and loud, he couldn't find it. He actually went searching
Speaker 3: at one point for where this sound was coming from.
Speaker 3: Where this particular lake laid was at the base of
Speaker 3: some smaller mountains ish compared to other places, it would
Speaker 3: be huge, but it is Alaska. He went looking at
Speaker 3: one point and didn't find anything. He's walking along with
Speaker 3: the three hundred wind mag looking around. He had a
Speaker 3: pistol on his hip, he had a forty four. He
Speaker 3: was looking help this mournful, sorrowful person. Maybe they were lost,
Speaker 3: maybe they were hurt. Being a doctor, he wanted to
Speaker 3: go and check it out. Couldn't find nothing. Now on
Speaker 3: this particular trip where he went out looking for this
Speaker 3: sound to help the person. When he got back to
Speaker 3: where he was building the cabin, he noticed things had
Speaker 3: been moved around a little bit, his cooler that had
Speaker 3: been strung up. Basically, his doctor friend had made this
Speaker 3: huge tripod out of pine trees that he had flown
Speaker 3: in and made a tripod to raise your food up on,
Speaker 3: get it up off the ground and away from the
Speaker 3: critters as best as possible, because there was no real
Speaker 3: big trees to do it at. Right when he got there,
Speaker 3: he noticed that the cooler was on the ground, had
Speaker 3: been untied, not cut, not chewed, not ripped, untied from
Speaker 3: where it had been tied off at the base, lowered
Speaker 3: to the ground. The lid was open, and all of
Speaker 3: his meats that he had in there were on. He said.
Speaker 3: The package of hot dogs was left, which I guess,
Speaker 3: so you can always account for taste. So as he's
Speaker 3: assessing who nell's here, he's looking around, and of course
Speaker 3: here in Alaska we got this spongy stuff, so it's
Speaker 3: hard to make out imprints. But he was noticing big
Speaker 3: block like footprints, and he's like, gosh, it must be
Speaker 3: a really big bear, So he got really concerned and
Speaker 3: then he started assessing because he's a doctor. As he
Speaker 3: was telling me, he got real quiet and I was like,
Speaker 3: you're right, and he goes no. He would have these
Speaker 3: flashbacks of how did this happen? How did a bear
Speaker 3: do this? So as he was doing the assessment in
Speaker 3: real time, at the point when this happened, he got
Speaker 3: this overwhelming sense of being watched. And at this point
Speaker 3: he was putting the roof up on the cabin. At
Speaker 3: the end of the day, nothing else happened, no more
Speaker 3: mournful sounds or none of that stuff. So he continues
Speaker 3: with his bill, just chalked it up till something happened
Speaker 3: and whatever gets out of there. Just strange stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So that brings us up to last season. Now it
Speaker 3: was the very last trip of the season, so it
Speaker 3: was last August. As soon as he landed and the
Speaker 3: plane took off, he was going to be there for
Speaker 3: the week. He had all his provisions, his cabins complete.
Speaker 3: He's got a couple of windows in nice little pot
Speaker 3: belly stove, just perfect for what he wanted, just to retreat,
Speaker 3: a place to go moose hunt, maybe find a caribou,
Speaker 3: if the woodland caribou were around or whatever. So he
Speaker 3: was basically at peace for the first couple of nights.
Speaker 3: He said it was quiet as hell, but it was
Speaker 3: the most peaceful he had felt in a long time.
Speaker 3: He had a lot of pressure at work and stuff,
Speaker 3: so being a doctor, I could only imagine people dying
Speaker 3: on you, and just I could just imagine. So as
Speaker 3: he was decompressing these two days, he really felt invigorated.
Speaker 3: So on the third morning, he got up and he figured,
Speaker 3: this lake is a bit cold, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: try to take a swim real quick, maybe do a
Speaker 3: cold water challenge or whatever. He just dives in, immediately
Speaker 3: regrets it, gets right the hell back out. So he
Speaker 3: goes in and he's shivering. He starts up the fire
Speaker 3: while the fire is starting to warm up. When he
Speaker 3: got the chills and stopped shaking from the heat of
Speaker 3: the fire, he goes outside and decides he's going to
Speaker 3: fire up the generator and just watch movies the rest
Speaker 3: of the day and just rewarm up. He didn't want
Speaker 3: to get hypothermic, and being a doctor, he's very cautious
Speaker 3: about things like that because he knows he's still got
Speaker 3: days there bad things could happen if he did. So
Speaker 3: he goes out, fires up this little generator, little Honda
Speaker 3: little twenty two hundred, which I think this is about
Speaker 3: the fourth to fifth time someone has shared that Honda
Speaker 3: must be making a mint off these little bastards. I
Speaker 3: might have to check one of them out. He goes out,
Speaker 3: fires it up. He's got it on a little platform
Speaker 3: out back away from the house enough to where the
Speaker 3: sound doesn't interfere with the little TV and DVD player
Speaker 3: he has where he watches his favorite movies and seasons
Speaker 3: of shows or whatever. So since he was going to
Speaker 3: be inside all day doing that, he fired it up
Speaker 3: and he's got it going now. As the day progress,
Speaker 3: he got warmer. Of course, he was changed out and everything.
Speaker 3: So he goes outside for a little while and it's
Speaker 3: getting on into dusk, and he kept getting the creepy
Speaker 3: feeling like he was being watched. He had heard some
Speaker 3: weird noises, but again he wasn't a woodsman, so he
Speaker 3: couldn't pinpoint what he was hearing, so he just chalked
Speaker 3: it up to a moose maybe or whatever. As he
Speaker 3: was going inside, it was dark enough off in the
Speaker 3: distance to where he could notice that there was something
Speaker 3: dark over not quite across the lake, but about a
Speaker 3: quarter away around, because it was a pretty round lake.
Speaker 3: About a quarter of the way around across from him,
Speaker 3: there was this dark object. So he goes inside and
Speaker 3: gets his flashlight and he beams across there and he sees,
Speaker 3: I shine, Oh, that must be a moose because it
Speaker 3: seemed pretty low to the ground. So he just okay,
Speaker 3: that's it was just a moose, no big deal, because
Speaker 3: he had seen moose in the area before, so it
Speaker 3: was like, eh, he just chalked it up right, goes inside.
Speaker 3: He watches movies for a little while. It's getting on
Speaker 3: into pretty dark, and he knows that there's only so
Speaker 3: much fuel left in the gym narrator, so he wants
Speaker 3: to go top it off so he could fall asleep
Speaker 3: watching his movies. So he goes out, He tops it off,
Speaker 3: fires it back up. Everything's fine, He's got his flashlight,
Speaker 3: he's got plenty of slack in his cable and all
Speaker 3: that goes back inside, and no sooner than he settles down,
Speaker 3: gets his gear off from being outside, his boots and
Speaker 3: his coat and stuff, all of a sudden, power goes
Speaker 3: out and He's like, what the hell you know that
Speaker 3: is weird? And he goes, I just topped it off.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it had a little pocketed air in
Speaker 3: the line. So I'm going to go out bleed the
Speaker 3: system real quick, no harm, no foul, fire it back up.
Speaker 3: So he goes out, and the first thing he knows
Speaker 3: is when he comes around the back corner of his cabin.
Speaker 3: Because this is only a ten x twelve little cabin.
Speaker 3: It was two by six construction, plywood sided, insulated, but
Speaker 3: he didn't have any dry wall. It was just vapor
Speaker 3: barrier on the inside. At this point, now, when he
Speaker 3: goes out, goes around the corner, he just looking at
Speaker 3: the trail. First thing you want to do is check
Speaker 3: to make sure the plug didn't fall out. But he
Speaker 3: noticed the line was taunt was slacked just a little
Speaker 3: bit ago. So what he does is, I was weird.
Speaker 3: Maybe my platform vibrated. Because this is what's going on
Speaker 3: in his head at the time. Vincent was very methodical
Speaker 3: when he was sharing this stuff. He just figured the
Speaker 3: little platform he built for the thing, he just used
Speaker 3: old dunnage underneath, and he figured it vibrated. The little
Speaker 3: generator vibrated and little thing collaps pulled away, right, makes sense,
Speaker 3: So he goes back over there and he notices there's
Speaker 3: no generator none. So he's what the immediately, hair stands
Speaker 3: up on the back of his neck. He's feeling watched.
Speaker 3: He's looking around. He's doing this kind of one eighty
Speaker 3: just going around, looking around the immediate area. He doesn't
Speaker 3: notice anything. And then he moves his flashlight up. Now
Speaker 3: where his little generator set was just a little bit
Speaker 3: around the corner of this little I call him islands
Speaker 3: of black spruce. There was about five or six black
Speaker 3: spruce all in a little group, and he had the
Speaker 3: platform just around to where it pushes the sound out
Speaker 3: away from the cabin. So he looks up. Now this
Speaker 3: is fifteen feet away. He looks up and beams into
Speaker 3: that little cluster of trees. Now from where he was
Speaker 3: just around a little corner, he's almost facing back towards
Speaker 3: his cabin. Okay, And when he beams and looks, there's
Speaker 3: eye shine. He said, the eye shine was roughly about
Speaker 3: a foot apart. This thing was towering almost to the
Speaker 3: tops of these trees. And he estimated those trees to
Speaker 3: be at least twelve foot tall. And this eye shine
Speaker 3: was right there, and this thing gruffed, ooh, let out
Speaker 3: this low, bellowing growl. He said he felt it in
Speaker 3: the ground and in his chest. He was out there
Speaker 3: without his gun. He was just out there to fix
Speaker 3: the generator. So immediately he hunkers down and is trying
Speaker 3: to figure out what the hell is going on here,
Speaker 3: because he said he was in shock instantly. He just
Speaker 3: couldn't accept what was going on. It wasn't making sense
Speaker 3: in his mind. So he said, as he was sitting there,
Speaker 3: just stuck and flabbergasted, he found himself whirling around, and
Speaker 3: he said he didn't even realize he was running until
Speaker 3: he was inside the cabin. So his fight or flight
Speaker 3: kicked in, and while he's trying to assess what's going on,
Speaker 3: his body says, screw you, we're out of here, right,
Speaker 3: Because he was gone, He doesn't remember going from staring
Speaker 3: at this thing to being inside. From that point to
Speaker 3: inside was all a blur. He still doesn't know. He
Speaker 3: remembers a weird noise. He chalked it up to maybe
Speaker 3: a scream, but he was so panic stricken it was
Speaker 3: all a blur, right, So he gets inside, he slams
Speaker 3: the door. He's doing everything he can. It's dark inside right.
Speaker 3: All he has is this flashlight. So once he's got
Speaker 3: the door shut, he had already built a little gun racked,
Speaker 3: so he puts that up there is basically his locking
Speaker 3: system in case of bear was trying to enter at
Speaker 3: some point, but he said he was on the floor shaking,
Speaker 3: like what the hell, What the hell? He said, he
Speaker 3: gathered up his guns. The generator was gone, so he
Speaker 3: doesn't know what the hell to do. He's sitting there,
Speaker 3: squirming around on the floor a little ways, he said,
Speaker 3: He's not sure how much time had passed, but just
Speaker 3: as he was pulling himself together, all of a sudden wham,
Speaker 3: the whole place just shakes and it was a whoa.
Speaker 3: The backside of the wall where whatever hit. He turned
Speaker 3: and pointed, and the wall was pushed in a little bit,
Speaker 3: had a weird shape to it in the corner of
Speaker 3: a box, kind of looked to it because it was
Speaker 3: pushed in really good. He was like, what the hell.
Speaker 3: He ended up staying up all night, not being able
Speaker 3: to sleep because of what's going on. Wee hours of
Speaker 3: the morning when this light out, it's quiet, He's looking
Speaker 3: out the windows. He doesn't see anything. He's got his gun,
Speaker 3: so he's going to go and inspect. His curiosity is
Speaker 3: getting him. He's freaked out. He doesn't know what this
Speaker 3: freaking huge thing was behind the tree. He goes out
Speaker 3: behind the cabin there and there's the little Honda generator smashed.
Speaker 3: This thing had thrown the generator into the back wall
Speaker 3: of the cabin so hard, basically left a huge impression
Speaker 3: of the generator in the back wall. It didn't compromise
Speaker 3: the building, but it cracks some of the studs. I
Speaker 3: build homes, Trust me, there's certain forces involved for them
Speaker 3: to get their rating and whatnot. And for that impact
Speaker 3: you're talking about a lot of force. Well over three
Speaker 3: thousand foot pounds are better, especially with it being skinned.
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Speaker 3: And the generator, of course is cooked. It is cooked.
Speaker 3: So once he sees that he's crap, I got three
Speaker 3: more whole days. Hopefully the weather's good and the plane
Speaker 3: makes and back to give me so he's assessing. He
Speaker 3: goes back inside and he is literally petrified to go outside.
Speaker 3: The sing growled at him through the generator at his cabin.
Speaker 3: He's inside, He's trying to lie everything out, he said.
Speaker 3: He sat there and argued with himself. We had a
Speaker 3: little chuckle about it because I understand that self argument.
Speaker 3: So as he was going through trying to like, what
Speaker 3: the hell is this shit. As he's doing that, one
Speaker 3: of the windows drapes was open behind him, and so
Speaker 3: he was facing a small table and he was looking
Speaker 3: at a map. For whatever reason. He was trying to
Speaker 3: figure out if I have to leave on foot sooner,
Speaker 3: is there a route? Basically said, he was going over
Speaker 3: so many different scenarios. He was just panic, he said.
Speaker 3: As he was looking at this map, he's using the
Speaker 3: natural daylight of the open window behind him, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, it gets dark. So he was like,
Speaker 3: what the hell. He turns around and this thing is
Speaker 3: leaning down looking in the window at him. Freaked him
Speaker 3: the hell out. Man. He immediately grabbed the pistol off
Speaker 3: the table, turned around and started firing through his own window.
Speaker 3: This thing was gone. He fired through the window as
Speaker 3: it was moving out of the way of the window.
Speaker 3: He's freaking out. He doesn't know what to do, which
Speaker 3: I totally understand, totally understand. So what he ends up
Speaker 3: doing is backing up into the farthest corner, sat there,
Speaker 3: got a hold of the rifle, lit the stove, wanted
Speaker 3: to keep the stove going. He thought maybe the smoke
Speaker 3: coming out of the chimney would drive it away. He
Speaker 3: was spitballing. He didn't really have any idea whether it
Speaker 3: work or not. It's just smoke coming out of a stack.
Speaker 3: But in that moment, he was so freaked out he
Speaker 3: was reaching for anything. He had gotten his bare spray out.
Speaker 3: He said. He was basically set back into the corner,
Speaker 3: rifle across his lap pistol. On top of that, He
Speaker 3: said he sat there and was petrified for at least
Speaker 3: a day and a half. He said it was about
Speaker 3: midday when he came out of his panic fright, his fog,
Speaker 3: as he called it. He said it was a severe
Speaker 3: brain fog. He comes out of it and decides, you
Speaker 3: know what, I gotta make sure I'm okay. I'm going
Speaker 3: to make a stand. I got a rifle, I got
Speaker 3: a pistol. I gotta make sure I stand my ground
Speaker 3: with whatever this is. Otherwise I'm done. So as he
Speaker 3: goes out the door, he said he would take a
Speaker 3: step and then half step back, a step and a
Speaker 3: half step back because he's panic stricken. He said he
Speaker 3: wasn't right. He shouldn't have been carrying guns at that point,
Speaker 3: but he had to defend himself. He was assessing himself,
Speaker 3: as you're in a panic state, you're probably a liability
Speaker 3: to yourself. He goes around that little trail he had
Speaker 3: packed down over the last few years to where the
Speaker 3: generator stuff is, because that's basically where it opens up,
Speaker 3: and he can see a little further. He gets around
Speaker 3: back there and he's peaking around the corner, peeking around
Speaker 3: the corner and across the lake in this lake is
Speaker 3: probably he guessed Tomate's about half mile long. It's almost
Speaker 3: a big circle. He said. It had also been referred
Speaker 3: to as like a frying pan lake, and moose Lake
Speaker 3: and whatever lake. People have their own names for these
Speaker 3: lakes up here. As he's looking around, the screen comes
Speaker 3: from way across the lake. He said, he damn near
Speaker 3: went fetal position because he was hyperventilating. He was not
Speaker 3: doing good, so he pulls himself together and realize, I
Speaker 3: need to get back inside. This thing is still mad
Speaker 3: about whatever. I need to get back inside before it
Speaker 3: gets over here. So he goes back inside. Now remember
Speaker 3: this is midday. So he gets inside and he's got
Speaker 3: both drapes open on the head opposing windows, one on
Speaker 3: one side, one on the other. One was larger and
Speaker 3: the one he shot through was a little smaller. So
Speaker 3: as he was sitting there, he realized that window's compromised.
Speaker 3: I need to do something about that window. And he
Speaker 3: knew just outside the door he had some plywood and
Speaker 3: stuff that he would put onto the outside, and so
Speaker 3: he figures, Okay, you know what I'll do. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: grab the board that belongs on the outside to keep
Speaker 3: bears out. I'm going to go and attach it while
Speaker 3: I still can, while it's daylight, it's open view, and
Speaker 3: I know it's way over there. So he just grabs
Speaker 3: his pistol, puts it in the holster, and goes out
Speaker 3: the door and gets his board, goes around and as
Speaker 3: he's attaching it. He just gets done attaching it, and
Speaker 3: a wet slump of grassy stuff from the edge of
Speaker 3: the lake just smacks and hits so hard it kind
Speaker 3: of sticks there for a minute before gravity and the
Speaker 3: weight of it just falls to his feet. And so
Speaker 3: he turns around and looks, and off to his right
Speaker 3: in some brush, he said, it is about one hundred
Speaker 3: yards away. The thing was standing there behind some brush
Speaker 3: looking at him. He couldn't make out facial features at
Speaker 3: that distance. He could just tell it was staring a
Speaker 3: hole through him. Right. He was thankful that he had
Speaker 3: gotten that board up. He ran back inside. Now that
Speaker 3: window is the only one that was facing that direction,
Speaker 3: so now he has no eyes on this thing. When
Speaker 3: he gets back inside, he said he regretted putting the
Speaker 3: board up just momentarily, until a moment later. He said
Speaker 3: it seemed like his focus was at the door and
Speaker 3: that where he put that board up to see if
Speaker 3: anything else was going to hit it, and the window
Speaker 3: behind him. It got dark again. He said, his blood
Speaker 3: went cold, and he slowly turned around because he had
Speaker 3: just set the pistol done. He had no guns in
Speaker 3: his hand, and the guns were actually right near the
Speaker 3: base of this window, on this little table. So when
Speaker 3: he turns around and looks, there's this thing again. But
Speaker 3: it's so silhouetted and dark. He can't make out any
Speaker 3: facial features. He said, he felt like he was being studied,
Speaker 3: like he was behind a little aquarium glass and someone
Speaker 3: was visiting the zoo. That those are his words. He said.
Speaker 3: This thing stood there. He could slightly see movement of
Speaker 3: the face every once in a while, but he was
Speaker 3: in shock looking at this thing. I asked him. I
Speaker 3: was like, is there anything defining a color or anything,
Speaker 3: and he said, nah, it was all dark. It was
Speaker 3: a silhouette. He said. A couple times when it moved,
Speaker 3: he caught a little glint of eyeshine from just the daylight,
Speaker 3: but not like a glowing eye shine with a flashlight,
Speaker 3: but just a glint of light off the eye. That's
Speaker 3: the best description he could give. He said. He stood there.
Speaker 3: That thing would go from peeking in to moving fully
Speaker 3: in front, to peeking in from the other side. He said,
Speaker 3: it looked like it was examining the inside of the cabin,
Speaker 3: and he just happened to be there. That's how he felt.
Speaker 3: He felt like this thing sweated him, not and it
Speaker 3: was this more almost this little hairless thing, just doing
Speaker 3: that number and going from side to side of this window.
Speaker 3: He said, he doesn't know how long it did that.
Speaker 3: He said he sat down Indian style, and at one
Speaker 3: point when it was moving across, he leaned forward, grabbed
Speaker 3: his rifle, slid it over and just had it near him.
Speaker 3: He said, the sheer size of this thing, because the
Speaker 3: window was a four foot wide, and I think he
Speaker 3: said it was five foot tall, so this thing, when
Speaker 3: it would go in front of the window, it would
Speaker 3: eclipse it, so it was at least four foot wide.
Speaker 3: He's assessing the mass and all this stuff, right, and
Speaker 3: he's sitting here and shot doing all this, just trying
Speaker 3: to wrap his mind around it, right, And he was like,
Speaker 3: no way do I want to use this rifle either. Again,
Speaker 3: he doesn't remember how long it went on, but it
Speaker 3: continued for a while and then it moved out of
Speaker 3: sight and then it got still. It was quiet. He said.
Speaker 3: He sat there probably an hour after it had finally
Speaker 3: moved away, went and looked out the window, saw nothing.
Speaker 3: Sat there the rest of the night, scooted over beside
Speaker 3: the pot belly stove because the stove was between him
Speaker 3: and that broken window, and the other window was across
Speaker 3: from him and his little counter and where his little
Speaker 3: armchair was, and the table with his DVD playering, little
Speaker 3: TV and stuff was all right there. And he said
Speaker 3: he sat there throughout the rest of that day until
Speaker 3: the next day. Once it was about mid morning, he said,
Speaker 3: finally he had to get out, breathe some air, and
Speaker 3: look around. He said it was the hardest steps he
Speaker 3: ever took to unlatch that door and go out. He
Speaker 3: said he was having freak outs, panic attacks, like he
Speaker 3: would go back in slam the door. He said. It
Speaker 3: took about five or six times to get out onto
Speaker 3: the little landing of a porch he had, and just
Speaker 3: look around and breathe a little bit. Then he went
Speaker 3: back inside. The following day, he heard the buzz of
Speaker 3: the plane because his buddy would come early in the morning,
Speaker 3: hang out, fish for some trout in the lake or whatever,
Speaker 3: hang out, just bs for a little bit before they
Speaker 3: would take off, to give themselves enough time to fly
Speaker 3: out of there before it gets dark. He hears the
Speaker 3: buzz of the plane and he knows his friend's coming,
Speaker 3: so he grabs his important stuff, nothing else, just his
Speaker 3: important stuff, rifle, pistol, put on his little rain jacket
Speaker 3: because it was sprinkling, but it wasn't socked in, so
Speaker 3: he knew his friend could land. His friend lands, He's
Speaker 3: out there to meet him on the little floating dock
Speaker 3: because there was his last trip there. Normally they pulled
Speaker 3: the little floating dock out together so it doesn't freeze
Speaker 3: into the pond and get all screwed up. He said.
Speaker 3: His friend landed and got to the little dock and
Speaker 3: was all cheerful, Hey buddy, he was like, let's go.
Speaker 3: His friend saw his face and was like, are you okay.
Speaker 3: Being a doctor, he's examining him because he was so pale.
Speaker 3: He thought he had injured himself, and so he's trying
Speaker 3: to assess his buddy. And meanwhile, Vincent said he was
Speaker 3: climbing over his friend to get into the plane. And
Speaker 3: I only laughed because he laughed. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: disrespect the sheer terror of that. So he says he's
Speaker 3: literally pushing his friend out of the way, almost pushed
Speaker 3: him into the water, saying, get the hell out of
Speaker 3: my way, let's go. Obviously something's going on. His friend,
Speaker 3: he said, stood there, looked around, nothing was happening, shook
Speaker 3: his head and just pushed off, fired up and they
Speaker 3: took off, and he told his friend about it on
Speaker 3: the flight back to Anchorage. His friend initially chuckled what
Speaker 3: and asked him like, were you eating mushrooms or something?
Speaker 3: And Vincent was like, look, this is what happened, and
Speaker 3: went back through it again, and his friend realized, Hey,
Speaker 3: my friend is not just jerking me around, he's being
Speaker 3: sincere told him about the generator, the eye shine, to sink,
Speaker 3: peeking in and all that. His friend feels horrible because
Speaker 3: he sold him the property, but he had never had
Speaker 3: a chance to really hang out there. That's why he
Speaker 3: sold it, because he wasn't making use of it and
Speaker 3: he's getting ready to leave state. It was one of
Speaker 3: those things to where he shared with this friend his
Speaker 3: doctor buddy ended up leaving or whatever. Not too long
Speaker 3: after that, Vincent went down the rabbit hole, as a
Speaker 3: lot of people do about these creatures, stumbled across my
Speaker 3: website somehow going through the rabbit hole or whatever, and
Speaker 3: then saw it was all Alaskan based and reached out
Speaker 3: and shared. And I want to thank Vincent. He almost
Speaker 3: didn't because of his profession. I assured him, Hey, dude,
Speaker 3: I won't give any information that'll jeopardize your career, especially
Speaker 3: being in the position you are, being a doctor. It's
Speaker 3: one of those things that's inexplicable. You can't explain it.
Speaker 3: It's so random in nature. He's not sure what he's
Speaker 3: going to do as far as the property is concerned.
Speaker 3: He has no interest in it at this moment. He
Speaker 3: said he'd get a hold of me if that changes,
Speaker 3: and maybe go out there with him sometime. That's definitely
Speaker 3: a possibility. It was a back and forth. One minute
Speaker 3: he'd be laughing about a certain scenario, and the next
Speaker 3: minute he was on the verge of tears. It's very
Speaker 3: traumatic for these people who go through this. It's one
Speaker 3: thing to share to the encounter. It's another thing. There's
Speaker 3: humanity behind it. These are people. These are people. Some
Speaker 3: of them are regularly in the comments and stuff. But
Speaker 3: people are affected by this stuff, and not in a
Speaker 3: good way. Grant you. This thing sounded overall curious. Maybe
Speaker 3: was upset by the noise of the generator. We could
Speaker 3: speculate on that shit all day. However, the fact is
Speaker 3: this thing actively was accosting him, It was actively looking
Speaker 3: in on him, It actively threw shit at him. Thank you, Vincent,
Speaker 3: Thank you for sharing what I wanted to share. With
Speaker 3: you today. It's a bit disturbing. David. This was approximately
Speaker 3: forty years ago. He went with his uncle to check
Speaker 3: out his grandpa's his uncle's dad cabin. David had lost
Speaker 3: his dad when he was an infant. Never knew his dad,
Speaker 3: but his uncle was there for him to show him
Speaker 3: out to be a man and everything that type of thing.
Speaker 3: This particular cabin they were going to check on. No
Speaker 3: one had been to in Let's see, this is forty
Speaker 3: years ago, so it's been about seventy years now, but
Speaker 3: at the time it was only thirty years that no
Speaker 3: one had been to this place. He still owns that property,
Speaker 3: so never been there. The uncle going it was something
Speaker 3: new to the uncle and something new to David. David
Speaker 3: was approximately ten years old. He remembers it vividly. He
Speaker 3: has not to share the exact location. Let's just say
Speaker 3: it's between the Brooks Range and the y K Telta.
Speaker 3: We'll just leave it at that. It's in Alaska, though,
Speaker 3: we'll just leave it at that. So David goes with
Speaker 3: his uncle. The easiest way they figured was to go
Speaker 3: in the wintertime. It was after first freeze up, after
Speaker 3: first good snowfall. They took off on the antiquated snow
Speaker 3: machines of the time, there wasn't a lot to choose from.
Speaker 3: It takes them quite a while to get to this cabin. Now,
Speaker 3: from what David was saying. Along the way, when they
Speaker 3: take breaks and stuff, his uncle would be telling them
Speaker 3: stories that he had heard from his grandpa, his uncle's
Speaker 3: dad about this particular area. And now there's Harryman activity.
Speaker 3: So David it was like, okay, what's the hairy man?
Speaker 3: And his uncle would tell him. It said that he'll
Speaker 3: steal you, eat you, and so on.
Speaker 5: Right, and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. After these messages, David just took
Speaker 3: it with a grain of salt. He was a kid.
Speaker 3: He really had no clue. According to what he said,
Speaker 3: when him and his uncle got to this cab, and
Speaker 3: half of the roof was sunk in and the places dilapidated,
Speaker 3: in serious disrepair, they go in, the door is missing.
Speaker 3: There's only one window left in the place, and there's
Speaker 3: only three to begin with. Of course, I asked for
Speaker 3: all the finer details. I asked him what it looked
Speaker 3: like facing the cabin. He said the door was off
Speaker 3: to the left little waves. Inside was a big window
Speaker 3: just passed the door on the left, smaller window on
Speaker 3: the right, and a very small window in the back
Speaker 3: where this little kitchen area was set up. He said,
Speaker 3: when you go in, the roof was clapsed up towards
Speaker 3: the front, and there was an old pot belly stove
Speaker 3: that had no door and no lower chamber door to
Speaker 3: control a fire or whatever. It was just basically a
Speaker 3: doorless pot belly stove. There was still stove pipe, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't connected. It long since rusted through and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. When we got there, his uncle
Speaker 3: was very disappointed. Of course, he was hoping for something
Speaker 3: a little more structurally sound, but it was what it was.
Speaker 3: They brought supplies, they download everything because there's holes and
Speaker 3: the roof on that particular side and no door. His
Speaker 3: uncle just basically moved that potbellied stove over to the
Speaker 3: area where it was open up above and just lit
Speaker 3: a fire in there, just as a place to keep
Speaker 3: the flames from the walls. Whatever. He just used that
Speaker 3: pot belly stove and it starts the fire. They get
Speaker 3: that going and they got their supplies in there. His
Speaker 3: uncle and him are looking around through all the debris
Speaker 3: because over the years, with the door off and the
Speaker 3: windows broke, the wind would swirl through and it looked
Speaker 3: like someone had been in there. He had no clue.
Speaker 3: So as he's sitting there with his uncle trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what's what, if there's anything worth keeping, one
Speaker 3: of the old bunks was still intact and was inside
Speaker 3: the door off to the right, and his uncle had
Speaker 3: moved it and it collapsed over and he just drug
Speaker 3: it out of the way to put that potbellied stove there.
Speaker 3: It was approximately midday, but in the wintertime, it was
Speaker 3: already getting dark. David remembers his uncle saying, go get
Speaker 3: the rifles out of the sled and bring those in,
Speaker 3: because in the wintertime, you really don't worry about bears.
Speaker 3: This maily moose, you got to worry about trumpling your ass.
Speaker 3: David does as he's told. He brings in the rifles.
Speaker 3: They make sure they're loaded, they're out of the case
Speaker 3: or lean up against the wall easy to get to,
Speaker 3: and his uncle's okay. He starts the process of making
Speaker 3: this dinner. He had brought pre made meals, basically had
Speaker 3: to warm them up, so David said, as his uncle
Speaker 3: was doing that way off in the distance. David heard
Speaker 3: this weird hawling, and he assumed it was wolves because
Speaker 3: that's the only thing that made sense to him at
Speaker 3: the time. So he hears this how and his uncle
Speaker 3: seems overly concerned. Right, David, as a kid, easily got rifles,
Speaker 3: will just shoot the stupid wolves that they come. And
Speaker 3: his uncle's like, no, I don't think that was a wolf.
Speaker 3: And David got concerned because his uncle seemed genuinely put
Speaker 3: out and concerned by what was transpiring. It is weird
Speaker 3: how way off in the distance, And David said, looking back,
Speaker 3: it sounded way off in the distance, but it probably wasn't.
Speaker 3: With the way the snow was blown and the wind
Speaker 3: it picked up a little bit, it was really hard
Speaker 3: to pinpoint what direction it came from. It was just
Speaker 3: that they could hear it. So as his uncle was
Speaker 3: preparing and heating up this meal, David kept hearing this
Speaker 3: howling off in the distance. Now what really started to
Speaker 3: concern them both is that howling was starting to finish
Speaker 3: its arc of sound. But the very high pitched, like
Speaker 3: piercing scream. That's when his uncle really got concerned and
Speaker 3: started looking around for things to put in front of
Speaker 3: that door. So what his uncle did was he went
Speaker 3: and got the sled detached from the snow machine. He
Speaker 3: parked the snow machines close to the side, brought the
Speaker 3: one sled, laid it down crosswise at the bottom of
Speaker 3: the door, and then leaned the other one up against
Speaker 3: it like that. So they had some kind of barrier
Speaker 3: for whatever's trying to come in. There's something that would
Speaker 3: slow down at least a little bit. And his uncle
Speaker 3: was very concerned and started referring back to his dad's
Speaker 3: warnings about the hairyman, said that some of the stories
Speaker 3: were that this thing was very aggressive, had been on
Speaker 3: the roof of this place before. David's grandpa had shot
Speaker 3: at this thing several times, and it would just leave
Speaker 3: and eventually come back a couple days later. It was
Speaker 3: just a constant harassment. It was one of the reasons
Speaker 3: his grandpa stopped going there was because he could not
Speaker 3: enjoy himself there. It was always something going on that
Speaker 3: was high stress. Right, So as him and his uncle
Speaker 3: finishes up making the meal, the place isn't overly warm.
Speaker 3: The pop belly stove's going, but it hasn't warmed the
Speaker 3: cabin up yet. If anyone's ever been in the cabin
Speaker 3: in the winter, it takes a few hours to warm
Speaker 3: up the logs. Like my log home here, it takes
Speaker 3: a while if i'll let it cool off all the way,
Speaker 3: it takes a few hours to even with the RiPP
Speaker 3: brow on fire. So they're huddled close to this pop
Speaker 3: belly stove. It's basically twilight, a little darker than twilight,
Speaker 3: and they're sitting in front of this pot bellied stove
Speaker 3: with the bruce logs kind of popping a snap. And
Speaker 3: as he's eating, and he's trying to eat it fast
Speaker 3: because it's cooling off very fast as they're doing. So
Speaker 3: his unclehol a sudden jumps up, runs over it, dropped
Speaker 3: his foot on the ground, grabs one of the rifles,
Speaker 3: and goes over to that little window because the pop
Speaker 3: belly stoves in front of him. His uncle's off to
Speaker 3: his left hand side, And for whatever reason, his uncle
Speaker 3: like flashed over to the window real quick, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, dropped this food, grabbed the rifle
Speaker 3: and went back and was looking out the window. Then
Speaker 3: he tells David, hey go to that back far corner
Speaker 3: away from the windows. So David was scared. He grabbed
Speaker 3: the other rifle and went back over into that corner,
Speaker 3: was sitting there and was just squatted down, leaned into
Speaker 3: the corner, holding the rifle and just waiting for a
Speaker 3: cue from his uncle. As he was sitting there, he's
Speaker 3: focused on his uncle, so he's not really paying attention
Speaker 3: to what else is going on. But he starts hearing
Speaker 3: noises outside and it sounds like crunching snow, and he
Speaker 3: hears it and he's listening, and it's going all the
Speaker 3: way around the cabin, but not immediately up on it.
Speaker 3: He said, it was a little ways away as this
Speaker 3: thing circling. His uncle has backed off from the window,
Speaker 3: and he's got distance between the window and himself, and
Speaker 3: he's just going like this every once in a while
Speaker 3: and then lifting it and pointing it back over towards
Speaker 3: the door, and so on as this thing would come by.
Speaker 3: From what his uncle was saying, because David, he would ask, hey,
Speaker 3: what's happening, and he goes, it's just out of you.
Speaker 3: Because the way the snow was falling, all he saw
Speaker 3: was this dark figure on two legs circling around about
Speaker 3: thirty yards away from this cabin. Now on the back
Speaker 3: side of the cabin, David said, it was like a
Speaker 3: big l shape of trees, black spruce, alders and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot of vegetation, but the most vegetation
Speaker 3: around was on the back side of the cabin and
Speaker 3: it was an elf shape. Then there was more vegetation
Speaker 3: further off, but it was about one hundred yards out
Speaker 3: to where there was actual tree line and stuff. So
Speaker 3: it was basically this cabin was in a meadow, but
Speaker 3: the upper part of a meadow, so it had a
Speaker 3: bunch of open area around it except for just behind it.
Speaker 3: It was like a big at least one hundred yard
Speaker 3: circle around before the other trees were and stuff. So
Speaker 3: with the way the snow was falling, he said, this
Speaker 3: thing was just staying just barely out of you, and
Speaker 3: his uncle was starting to freak out. He said, about
Speaker 3: the fourth pass it had gotten into darkness, right. So
Speaker 3: all they had was his uncle had some antiquated lamps
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. They had popped up the little
Speaker 3: lantern and the white gas lannern and all that. They
Speaker 3: had all that stuff going. They had two of those going,
Speaker 3: and his uncle also had one of those old school
Speaker 3: flashlights right. They were sitting there, David scared to death.
Speaker 3: He's sitting back in that corner. He doesn't know what's
Speaker 3: going on because he doesn't fully understand the dynamics, and
Speaker 3: his uncle isn't saying a whole lot. He doesn't want
Speaker 3: David scared or whatever. Right, David being ten, he's trying
Speaker 3: to absorb all this and not be freaked out. And
Speaker 3: as they're sitting there, his uncle's looking out that window.
Speaker 3: His uncle had got himself stuck in that window, so
Speaker 3: to speak, mentally. He was standing by that window. He
Speaker 3: was trying to watch out this window on the opposite
Speaker 3: side where that bigger window was. There was nothing there.
Speaker 3: There was no window on that one. There was annoyed.
Speaker 3: He said. It sounded like chickadee's chirping or some kind
Speaker 3: of bird, but it was very loud and it was
Speaker 3: projected into this cabin. So his uncle swings around rope
Speaker 3: fires right out that window. Scared David, scared the shit
Speaker 3: out of him. David said, he was standing up and
Speaker 3: he's holding the rifle, and he's asking, what do I do?
Speaker 3: What do I do? His uncle says, stay down. This
Speaker 3: whistling he could hear it, and it's moving around the
Speaker 3: cabin real fast, but it would fade in and out
Speaker 3: with the distance of its running around. He was freaking
Speaker 3: out because he said the bird whistles were so sharp,
Speaker 3: so crisp, almost like they were fake. So his uncles
Speaker 3: ran over to the open window. He's looking out. He
Speaker 3: can't see nothing. He's using the flashlight. He's looking for eyeshine.
Speaker 3: There's this too much snowfalling. His uncle starts getting concerned
Speaker 3: about the snow machines that are right outside that window,
Speaker 3: right along the edge of the cabin there. So he
Speaker 3: tells David, go over by that pot bellied stove, make
Speaker 3: sure your rifle's loaded, keep it ready, and keeping eye
Speaker 3: out that window. That's all fine and good, but remember
Speaker 3: it's getting very dark outside very fast. The window David's at,
Speaker 3: the only intact one, is giving a mirrored effect from
Speaker 3: the little bit of light and the lanterns in there,
Speaker 3: so he's not able to see anything. So as he's
Speaker 3: standing there, he's just holding the rifle and trying to
Speaker 3: figure out, I can't see nothing, and so he's just
Speaker 3: basically posted up there. And he said he was about
Speaker 3: two feet away from the window just looking around, but
Speaker 3: again with the mirrored of fact going. He was so scared.
Speaker 3: He was scared to tell his uncle, I can't see
Speaker 3: nothing out this one thow because his uncle just kept
Speaker 3: every once a while raising his rifle and it looked
Speaker 3: like he was about to shoot, so David would shy
Speaker 3: away from it or whatever. And then they hear the
Speaker 3: whistling again. And at this point it's off to his
Speaker 3: uncle's left where they had the one sled and then
Speaker 3: the other one leaned up, and that was to the
Speaker 3: outside of the little cabin there. And when they heard
Speaker 3: that whistle, his uncle banged a rifle barrel against the
Speaker 3: framework of the broken out window because he had the
Speaker 3: rifle outside. When he banged, whatever made noises, crunching the
Speaker 3: snow running away, David said. At that point he freaked
Speaker 3: and ran back into that corner and told his uncle
Speaker 3: he couldn't. He couldn't. His uncle said, no, that's fine,
Speaker 3: you're okay. So what his uncle did was got below
Speaker 3: the tiny window next to David where this little counter
Speaker 3: used to be. It was all busted down. There's a
Speaker 3: little bit of debris and stuff. But as they were
Speaker 3: sitting there, his uncle finally was moving some of the
Speaker 3: debris and realized there's an old piece of this like
Speaker 3: plywood type material, and he pulled that up and went
Speaker 3: and put that in front of the door, and then
Speaker 3: he found some other stuff and just set it up
Speaker 3: on the window seal of that big broken open window
Speaker 3: just as some kind of early warning system knock it over.
Speaker 3: Whatever his old coffee cans or oil cans or something.
Speaker 3: David doesn't quite remember because everything was so freaky. As
Speaker 3: he was sitting there back in that corner, he was
Speaker 3: feeling like he was being watched as his uncle setting
Speaker 3: up these cans in the window. He said he could
Speaker 3: have swore he looked past his uncle to where those
Speaker 3: sleds were and he saw eyes looking There's a bunch
Speaker 3: of slats in the sled, and he said he could
Speaker 3: have swore he saw red eyeshine in between some of
Speaker 3: these slats, moving back and forth, kind of looking higher
Speaker 3: up on the sled. As that was going on, he
Speaker 3: was just barely breathing because he said he was freaked
Speaker 3: out the whole time. He was thinking, I never shot
Speaker 3: this rifle. I hope I don't have to shoot this rifle.
Speaker 3: I hope my uncle can deal with this. Once that's
Speaker 3: all done, he tells his uncle what he thought he saw,
Speaker 3: and his uncle said, don't worry about it. We're gonna
Speaker 3: sit here. You stay still. When I need to feed
Speaker 3: the fire, I'll go over there and feed it. They
Speaker 3: had brought probably a few cubic feet of firewood, and
Speaker 3: it was all kindling size, just to start a bigger fire, basically.
Speaker 3: But his uncle would feed that little potbellied stove very
Speaker 3: once in a while. The one particular part of the
Speaker 3: roof in that back corner behind the stove and next
Speaker 3: to the window, David said, it had a pretty good
Speaker 3: size missing portion of it, like it had just rotted
Speaker 3: away over the years or whatever, and it was basically
Speaker 3: an opening and that's where the smoke was going out
Speaker 3: or whatever. He said. His uncle was putting wood one
Speaker 3: of the times he was feeding it, and his uncle
Speaker 3: looked up and then reached down and grabbed his rifle
Speaker 3: and quickly slung it and bow fired a shot up
Speaker 3: out right, and immediately scurried back over next to Dave
Speaker 3: and told David, point your gun over at the door
Speaker 3: and be ready. David's freaking out. He's a kid, he's
Speaker 3: ten years old, he said, he was so nervous and
Speaker 3: so scared. He could barely hold that rifle up, and
Speaker 3: he was putting it under his arm against the back
Speaker 3: wall and just basically holding the front of the rifle.
Speaker 3: Didn't even have his finger on the trigger, but he
Speaker 3: was showing a united front even though he really didn't
Speaker 3: have the strength to hold the rifle that long. It
Speaker 3: was real heavy. He doesn't remember what caliber it was,
Speaker 3: but it was an old rifle. And he was sitting
Speaker 3: there and as he's doing that with his uncle retreated
Speaker 3: next to him, his uncle kept worried about that hole,
Speaker 3: and he was like, we're defenseless. We got multiple places.
Speaker 3: The think could come through David every once in a
Speaker 3: while because his uncle was so agitated. Every once while
Speaker 3: he had asked, is the harry Man trying to get us?
Speaker 3: And his uncle would say, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know so far. It's just watching us. It's watching us.
Speaker 3: So be aware. If you see any eye shine, shoot
Speaker 3: at the eye shine. David said, okay, but he was
Speaker 3: incapable at that time. He wasn't even holding the trigger.
Speaker 3: He was just holding the rifle on the four stalk.
Speaker 3: Rifle was under his arm and pressed up against the
Speaker 3: wall behind him, so he's just holding it. His uncle
Speaker 3: after a minute recognized what he was doing and just
Speaker 3: left him alone. His uncle was really good to him
Speaker 3: and didn't like to overpressure him or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Davis said. As the night wore on, he started getting tired,
Speaker 3: and he told his uncle, I'm so tired, and it's
Speaker 3: cold because the little potbelly stove had cold down a
Speaker 3: little bit and there's some embers in there. His uncle
Speaker 3: went over and basically, even though it was small and
Speaker 3: was still really heavy, so his uncle struggle got it
Speaker 3: over closer to them, had it turned away from him
Speaker 3: so it wasn't messing with their night vision. He ended
Speaker 3: up killing the lamps and started a fire. As David
Speaker 3: was warming up his hands by the stove, with the
Speaker 3: way the opening of the pot bellied stove had been
Speaker 3: turned away from them, he kept seeing a twinkle over
Speaker 3: by this basically open door with the sledge laned against it.
Speaker 3: He kept seeing a twinkle and it was right in
Speaker 3: between the eye slabs and.
Speaker 5: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll be
Speaker 5: right back after these messages.
Speaker 3: As he was noticing it, his uncle had already noticed
Speaker 3: it and was slowly, unbeknownst to David, his uncle was
Speaker 3: slowly raising his rifle up and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: a fire shot just cracks off. Scared the shit out
Speaker 3: of David, but he's trying to warm up his hands. Immediately,
Speaker 3: he's back in the corner and there's a hillacious noise
Speaker 3: right outside the door, and one of the sleds, the
Speaker 3: one that was leaning up, was flung off into the darkness,
Speaker 3: just gone, with this hoalacious scream running off. Now, once
Speaker 3: that happens, it got dead quiet, and it seemed like
Speaker 3: even the snow, the wind from the snow stopped. He said,
Speaker 3: it was so early quiet, it was scary, scary. Then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he said, it had to have
Speaker 3: been within ten minutes, a boom. Something hit cabin hard.
Speaker 3: He said, it hit so hard that part of the
Speaker 3: roof sunk in a little more. And his uncle was shocked,
Speaker 3: jumped up with the flashlight that he had, of course
Speaker 3: antiquated technology, but it was light nonetheless, So he goes
Speaker 3: over the window because when whatever hit the cabin knocked
Speaker 3: a little early warning system of those oil cans and
Speaker 3: coffee cans out of that window runs over and looks
Speaker 3: out and he's peering around, doesn't see anything, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden he notices it was a piece
Speaker 3: of tree about ten foot long, he said, as his
Speaker 3: uncle was looking. His uncle fell to the ground real
Speaker 3: quick and was pointing the rifle out the window. And
Speaker 3: there was another big bam that near where David was,
Speaker 3: but on the opposite side of the cabin wall. Freaked
Speaker 3: him out. He jumped up, ran to the other corner,
Speaker 3: let the rifle over across the way, and his uncle
Speaker 3: was like, grab your gun, grab your gun. So he does.
Speaker 3: He runs back over, grabs a gun, goes back over
Speaker 3: to the opposite corner and is scared, real scared. His
Speaker 3: uncle's still on the ground pointing the gun out the window.
Speaker 3: He's got the open door basically within a couple feet
Speaker 3: of him, with that little sled in front of it.
Speaker 3: And so his uncle slowly gets up and works his
Speaker 3: way back over to where David is. Now they're in
Speaker 3: the opposite corner. As they're sitting there, David said, his
Speaker 3: uncle started mumbling some stuff to himself. As his uncle
Speaker 3: was mumbling, it seemed like he caught on that his
Speaker 3: uncle was saying a prayer and the more his uncle
Speaker 3: was saying a prayer, the more violent the activity became.
Speaker 3: He said that he was doing a rosary or something.
Speaker 3: Because his uncle was Catholic, he was reciting something or another.
Speaker 3: David couldn't really make it out. He just knew it
Speaker 3: was religious in context. And all of a sudden, above
Speaker 3: the corner at the roofline where David was the whole time,
Speaker 3: up until when the logs started hitting, it started banging
Speaker 3: on the back side of that corner. Just damn that
Speaker 3: little window, what was left of it, comes crashing in.
Speaker 3: He saw a hand reaching in, he said. When the
Speaker 3: hand reached in and was reaching into that opposite corner
Speaker 3: where David was, he said, the arm was real long,
Speaker 3: and had he still been sitting there, it may have
Speaker 3: been able to get a hold of him. As that's
Speaker 3: going on, his uncle shoots it in the arm. This
Speaker 3: thing rips its arm back out of there real fast.
Speaker 3: They hear noise in the snow moving away. All of
Speaker 3: a sudden, his uncle turns and fires again over where
Speaker 3: that opening was in the ceiling. David said, at that
Speaker 3: point he mustered the courage to start shouldering the rifle.
Speaker 3: He checked it and his uncles giving him quick instruction,
Speaker 3: just work the bolt. There's a bullet in there, the
Speaker 3: safety's right there. In essence, say a there, And his
Speaker 3: uncle kept reciting this prayer, so he got quiet for
Speaker 3: a while. It'd been quite long enough that he had
Speaker 3: knotted off for a little bit when he woke up
Speaker 3: that potbellied stove and his uncle had moved it more
Speaker 3: closer to them to keep them warm, have some kind
Speaker 3: of fire going. When he woke up to the crackburn
Speaker 3: of the wood, he felt a weird sense of peace.
Speaker 3: He forgot where he was briefly in those moments when
Speaker 3: you're waking up in his awe, and then he realized, oh,
Speaker 3: we're still here. At this point, there's the slightest bit
Speaker 3: of light change outside in the wintertime in Alaska, it's
Speaker 3: a long process believing you'd catch a glimmering, and it's
Speaker 3: just slow burned. So his uncle's over by the door.
Speaker 3: The sled at the bottom was no longer there. He
Speaker 3: has no idea where, when, or how come it was gone.
Speaker 3: It was just his uncle standing in the doorway, looking
Speaker 3: off to the left. So David stands up, he grabs
Speaker 3: a rifle, and he goes and stands by his uncle
Speaker 3: and he's like, hey, uncle, what's going on. Where's the sled?
Speaker 3: And he goes, I don't no, it just disappeared. It
Speaker 3: got snapped. As they're talking through that bigger window where
Speaker 3: he had the cans set up, coffee cans and oil
Speaker 3: cans off or they could tell it was a ways
Speaker 3: a way, but they heard bird whistles again. Now the
Speaker 3: breeze had stopped, but it's still snowing pretty good. The
Speaker 3: bird whistles were very loud. When they heard that, his
Speaker 3: uncle took a couple steps back, turned and was looking
Speaker 3: out the window and he said, that's when his uncle said,
Speaker 3: get back in the corner. It started freaking out. Get
Speaker 3: back in the corner. Get back in the corner is
Speaker 3: basically shooting them back into that corner. No sooner than
Speaker 3: they get in that corner, cub boom, there was another
Speaker 3: hit against the wall. Come to find out, David found
Speaker 3: this out years later from his uncle before he passed
Speaker 3: that the reason he shoot him is because his uncle
Speaker 3: could see something because of the white snow was we
Speaker 3: had basically illuminating any light there was. It was amplifying
Speaker 3: any light because of the white snow. He could see
Speaker 3: something dark coming through the snow towards them, and that's
Speaker 3: when he shoot David off into the corner. Now, it's
Speaker 3: not night vision any alaskins snow. You know, when it's
Speaker 3: snow on the ground in the wintertime, even if it's
Speaker 3: pitch black out, you could still get a slight glow
Speaker 3: from the snow. That'll give you a little bit of
Speaker 3: night vision, just the slightest bit to where you can
Speaker 3: notice shadows and darkness and whatnot a little better. So
Speaker 3: once the thump happens, he said it was a solid thump.
Speaker 3: It may have happened more than once. He was really
Speaker 3: freaked out by it. But he squatted down and his
Speaker 3: uncle just shoots the wall basically where this thumping is
Speaker 3: going on, shoots the wall. They hear some noise and
Speaker 3: then they hear running around, and basically his uncle grabbed
Speaker 3: a bunch of boets, put in his pocket, reloaded the
Speaker 3: rifle he was using. Basically was going from He shot
Speaker 3: out the one window and would turn and would shoot
Speaker 3: out the other window. And this was basic potshots in
Speaker 3: every direction. He could find out the roof, out the
Speaker 3: windows everywhere, just popping shots. Every so often, he pops
Speaker 3: some shots, told David, give me that rifle. Under the
Speaker 3: hatch of one of the snow machines, there was this
Speaker 3: little compartment for a little tool bag. That's where his
Speaker 3: uncle kept his extra rounds. So he tells David, hold
Speaker 3: on to my rifle. I'm gonna take this one. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go grab those extra bullets because it's getting lighter
Speaker 3: and lighter. His uncle goes out there, gets the extra bullets,
Speaker 3: comes back in. As he comes back in through behind him,
Speaker 3: David's looking at his uncle, and as his uncle comes
Speaker 3: through the threshold of the door, he sees something dark
Speaker 3: just right behind him. Cut cross and goes look out,
Speaker 3: and his uncle turns around, looks all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the snow machine closest to the window underneath the window,
Speaker 3: and then the other one was closer towards the corner.
Speaker 3: He said, all of a sudden, through that window where
Speaker 3: his uncle was staying by, he saw the snow machine
Speaker 3: flip over. Freaked him out because he had accidentally tipped
Speaker 3: that snow machine before, and for him, as a ten
Speaker 3: year old, it was super heavy. Any of his uncle's
Speaker 3: helped to tip it back up. This thing just flung
Speaker 3: it basically about twenty feet or so. He didn't realize
Speaker 3: it was twenty feet until I got lighter out and
Speaker 3: they were leaving. His uncle freaks and shoots out the
Speaker 3: window a couple more times, retreats over by David and
Speaker 3: reload's rifle, puts the extra rounds in his pocket, ready
Speaker 3: to go, and it continues to get lighter. And as
Speaker 3: it got lighter, he said about thirty minutes before everything
Speaker 3: stopped altogether. That bird chirping was just a constant, like
Speaker 3: constantly chirpping. You could hear it out through one window,
Speaker 3: then you could hear it through another, and it was
Speaker 3: like this thing was moving around making that noise every
Speaker 3: so often. And then once it got light enough and
Speaker 3: his uncle could clearly see what the help of the
Speaker 3: snow reflecting lighter, his uncle was able to make a
Speaker 3: couple of accurate shots towards this thing when he would
Speaker 3: see it. And then finally it just went away. So David,
Speaker 3: being dead dog tired, he was like, I want to
Speaker 3: go home. I'm going to go home, and his uncle's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're going home. So he says, you stay in here.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go check the snow machine because the one
Speaker 3: got flipped. So his uncle goes out, sets it back up,
Speaker 3: and what had happened is when this thing had flipped
Speaker 3: it over, it had landed just right and it slipped
Speaker 3: the track. And his uncle didn't have the time nor
Speaker 3: the proper tools to fix that because it basically it
Speaker 3: warped the rear end where that snow machine wasn't going
Speaker 3: to be usable until it was fixed. And so his
Speaker 3: uncle went out, fired up the one that was untouched,
Speaker 3: got the snow off it, or whatever got that going.
Speaker 3: Circled around a couple times with his rifle looking, made
Speaker 3: a bigger circle in the bigger circle, looking to see
Speaker 3: if he could see this thing, and it wasn't there.
Speaker 3: So he goes back over the one sled they could find.
Speaker 3: One of the runners was broken, but it was together enough.
Speaker 3: His uncle put what stuff he wanted to take with
Speaker 3: into that sled, told David to hop into the sled.
Speaker 3: Told David, as we're going down the trail, if you
Speaker 3: see anything anything moving at all, you better shoot it,
Speaker 3: Just shoot it. David said he's never forget those words
Speaker 3: because of how his uncle had a fierce look in
Speaker 3: his eye of determination. You gotta understand me. You got
Speaker 3: to shoot this thing if you see it. They go
Speaker 3: down the trail, and the main part that David was
Speaker 3: worried about. He knew the trail that came in was
Speaker 3: pretty narrow and it was a good distance. It was
Speaker 3: at least a few hundred yards. His uncle was worried
Speaker 3: about that too. So when they're heading out, it's steadily
Speaker 3: getting lighter, but once you hit the canopy of the trees,
Speaker 3: it's pretty dark. As far as seeing around you. You
Speaker 3: can see the ground in front of you just find
Speaker 3: but seeing around you gets a lot harder. It's all shadows.
Speaker 3: So as they go through the trail on the way out,
Speaker 3: David is scared to death. He doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 3: He's pointing out everything. His uncle has his rifle ready
Speaker 3: to go too. He has arrested by the butt stock,
Speaker 3: by his foot pinned against the sledge so it doesn't
Speaker 3: fall off, and resting on the inside between his leg
Speaker 3: in the seat. He's trying to drive the snub machine.
Speaker 3: Just as they were getting towards the end of this trail,
Speaker 3: his uncle could see where it opens up in front
Speaker 3: of him, and just as they were getting to that point,
Speaker 3: something moved across the trail. From left to right. David'll
Speaker 3: never forget because he saw it too, because when his
Speaker 3: uncle came just around his little turn, it was at
Speaker 3: the apex of that turn where David was in a
Speaker 3: sled and could see down the trail as well see
Speaker 3: what his uncle saw. David saw it cross as well,
Speaker 3: and his uncle immediately stood up boom, put a couple
Speaker 3: shots off that direction, and they heard a scream and
Speaker 3: no noise to what's moving away real fast. His uncle says,
Speaker 3: hold on and guns it got on out of there.
Speaker 3: They hit the clearing and it was a good couple
Speaker 3: miles of clear open tundra that they're going across, and
Speaker 3: so on the way out they heard screams off in
Speaker 3: the distance once or twice, but it was clearly they're
Speaker 3: creating distance. Once he got closer to back home, his
Speaker 3: uncle said, I'll talk to everyone about this. It'd be
Speaker 3: best if you didn't mention it, because again, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of superstition involved, and he explained some of the
Speaker 3: things it could bring a bad home and a family
Speaker 3: member could die, So let's just not talk about it.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to who I need to when I have
Speaker 3: to about it. And so that's where it stayed. I
Speaker 3: want to thank David for sharing that, because it was
Speaker 3: the first he had ever shared it with us, and
Speaker 3: strictly for the public safety thing. In the last couple
Speaker 3: of years. He said that he finally started looking into
Speaker 3: it because that superstition was so strong. He didn't want
Speaker 3: to bring any bad omens on the family or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I totally understand. I started somewhere and there, based
Speaker 3: in some reality after looking around. Me and him have
Speaker 3: been corresponding via email here and there, and finally we're
Speaker 3: able to talk a few times. He was able to
Speaker 3: give me the finer details of what happened. I want
Speaker 3: to thank him because it wasn't easy to come forward.
Speaker 3: It's not easy for Alaska Natives to come forward and
Speaker 3: share these things because of that superstition. For one, and
Speaker 3: for two, a lot of them say, why waste my
Speaker 3: breath with the gus socks. They don't listen, they don't
Speaker 3: want to hear it. We'll catch you guys on the
Speaker 3: next one.
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