WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to 25 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.280 kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there over 26 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:20.079 the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn, 27 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.640 I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming 28 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.480 over the fence, and name was dead once you hit 29 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.560 the grill. I didn't see any cars. All I saw 30 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:45.120 was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what are 31 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.959 you reporting? We got some wonder or something crawling around 32 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:58.640 out here? Did you see what it was? It was 33 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.439 enough out here? Look him near the window now and 34 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:03.400 I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside 35 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.439 this point. You're raw y? Hello, hit the boddy out here? 36 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:13.719 What quent on the oltair's thought of a bit? Just 37 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.159 about sixty ft nine? I don't know? Easy am out there? Yeah, 38 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.199 I'm walking right head. 39 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.199 Oh yeah, spread Thanks for joining me. What I wanted 40 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.199 to share with you today comes from Billy and three 41 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.000 of his friends, a couple of buddies from college, and 42 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.759 one of their girlfriends. This happened two years before the COVID, 43 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:35.439 around twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. They're from Colorado. Billy had 44 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.360 been up here to Alaska several times fishing out of 45 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.000 Dillingham commercial salmon fishing, and on one of his last 46 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:43.800 fishing trips before he retired from it. 47 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:45.080 He was young. 48 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.319 He just quit fishing. That's what I meant by retirement. 49 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.360 What he decided to do was go with a couple 50 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.599 of buddies he had met over the years commercial salmon 51 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.879 fishing up to Lake Nurka, up the Wood River, up 52 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.280 the Agula Walk and whatnot. He loved the area so 53 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.759 much he went home and ragged about it. Finally, a 54 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.879 couple of his college buddies and one of their girlfriends decided, Okay, 55 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.759 let's go check out all this hype about Alaska. It 56 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.719 took some time to plan because it's not cheap getting 57 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.680 out in the wilds of Alaska, especially with what they 58 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.400 were planning on doing, because it required flying in and 59 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.120 bush piloting. They get it all down where they end up. 60 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.000 I'll try to throw a screenshot of the area. It 61 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.680 would be to the northwestern part of Lake Nerka, a 62 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:32.240 place called Rainbow Basin. They initially thought they had reservations 63 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.520 for the cabin at Joe Creek at Ott Bay there 64 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:37.960 in Lake Nerka, but it didn't pan out, something to 65 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.159 do with the website. They make it over. They pick 66 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.560 a beautiful spot, lots of rocks, gravelly, not a whole 67 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:50.000 lot of dirt, mossy, spongy, standard Alaska stuff, especially for 68 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.800 the wood Tick Chick State Park area. They get back 69 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.719 into the spot, they set up. They have triple arms, right, 70 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:00.680 they have several triple arms. They were used these triple 71 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.599 arms to warn the encroaching bear. They did all their 72 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.919 safety stuff. They get their camp set up. This particular 73 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.639 spot where they chose to camp was at the bottom 74 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.879 of a wash, all gravel. It looked like it was 75 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:19.560 basically for spring runoff. After that, maybe a little bit 76 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.800 of trickle from rain, but it looked like a wash 77 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.720 that they could camp on have an open area not 78 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:28.680 being closed by all the vegetation. So they set up 79 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.480 their blackout tent. They had a big, old two room 80 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.519 blackout tent, which a blackout tent is just basically landed 81 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.639 the midnight sun. You don't use a blackout tent or 82 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.360 a dark tarp over year tent, it's gonna seem daylight 83 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.680 twenty four to seven certain time of year, and it 84 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.319 was towards the end of July. They had five to 85 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.360 six hours of nighttime. At that point it's still light, 86 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.120 so they get it set up the first couple of nights. 87 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.759 Their triple arm was about a fifty foot circle, right, 88 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.120 and they used fine fish line, you know that kind 89 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.399 of thing, just to if a bear comes in, it'll 90 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.759 pal shoot off a twelve gage round and wake everyone 91 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:08.800 up and hopefully scare off the predator. Billy's buddy. We'll 92 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:12.519 just name him Chuck, all right. Chuck was the most 93 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.879 avid outdoorsman of the other three that he took with them. Well, 94 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.879 named Dennis and Maria as the other two, so he 95 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.120 got Billy Chuck. Dennis and Maria are the couple. Chuck 96 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.079 be an outdoorsy guy. He decided after the first couple 97 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.759 nights he had heard some weird grunting off in the distance. 98 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.959 He wanted a little wider perimeter, to be a little 99 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.560 more ready, because he said it sounded large. Whatever it was. 100 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:40.399 Dennis and Maria they would sneak away and go by themselves, 101 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.000 of course armed, but he would go armed with Maria 102 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.680 and they would go nature walks, look around at the 103 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.839 scenery together as a couple and get away from just 104 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.079 the guys. On the third day they were out on 105 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.639 just such an excursion. They got up just as the 106 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.879 sun was coming up over the mountains beautiful. As they 107 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.279 were walking along the same path they had the day before, 108 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.360 they noticed that some of the blackberries and stuff were 109 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.800 starting to form. They weren't nowhere near ready, but they 110 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.639 were just checking out the berries. As they're doing so, 111 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.800 they kept hearing a very sharp whistle from somewhere. It 112 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:16.959 sounded like it was all around them at once, according 113 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.720 to what they said now after the third or fourth whistle, 114 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.120 because at first it was sporadic. The first couple were 115 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.800 random and not very close together, and the last two 116 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.600 to three were fairly close in succession. They didn't sound 117 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.879 that far away, so they got a little creeped out 118 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.160 by that retreated back to camp. They were one hundred 119 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.759 and fifty yards from camp something like that. As they 120 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.120 were continuing back to camp, they continued to hear that 121 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:48.439 whistle as though it was just near them, real sharp, 122 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.480 real crisp. But they couldn't hear anything else. There was 123 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.519 no sound of movement in the brush. And trust me, 124 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:55.839 that time of year there's a lot of brush, all 125 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.759 their willows, scrub brush. You know, you got fire weeds, 126 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:01.680 you got all sorts of stuff. It was a bunch 127 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.800 of vegetation. So they couldn't really see anything. They heard 128 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.720 the whistles, though, very sharp, very crisp. They get back 129 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.720 to camp, Chuck and Billy happened to be at camp. 130 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.480 They were working on the trip perimeters while they were 131 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.439 gone on their little walk. Chuck and Billy, from what 132 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.000 Billy said, no sooner than Dennis and Maria were out 133 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:27.720 of view, they were hearing a grunt. This grunt, he said, 134 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.720 was so low you could almost not hear it. It 135 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.279 was almost below the perception of sound. They were both 136 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.920 feeling it when they were sitting by their campfire in 137 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.079 their chairs, just sipping on coffee. They said they were 138 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.639 feeling it in the framework of their little fold out chairs. 139 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.879 They're feeling this low, grumbling growl sound creeped them out, 140 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.959 so they yell out, hey bear, bear, bear, Hey bear bear. Now, 141 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:54.720 remember Billy and Maria are on their little excursion at 142 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.040 this time, so they both get up. They're armed. They're 143 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.040 both walking around with their rifles, looking and saying, hey bear, bear, 144 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.560 Hey bear. We're here bear, waiting for the bear to 145 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.720 leave or to come in one of the two, because 146 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.120 they felt that this grumbling, growling sound was so close 147 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.279 it had to have been damn there on top of them. 148 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.720 Not a sound. Once they got up and started calling out, 149 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:20.160 all sounds stopped. It was dead quiet. He said, he 150 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.439 doesn't even remember the mosquitos buzzing at this point. They 151 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.839 were creeped out by that. So they're setting up a 152 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.879 wider perimeter with more of these little trip alarms. Tennis 153 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:32.919 Maria get back. They're like, hey, we heard this weird whistle. 154 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.679 It followed us almost all the way back here, and 155 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.559 then they exchanged stories about what's going on. They all 156 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.679 thought it was super weird. So they decided, let's try 157 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.559 to figure this out, stay close to camp and all 158 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.919 together before any other excursions out. But two by two 159 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:47.879 or whatever, let's figure this out because if it's a 160 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.320 large bear, it could overwhelm two of us. So they 161 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:54.840 decided to close the ranks, set up that perimeter, get 162 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.720 everything nice and tidy because they had not been sleeping 163 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.879 the best. They decided I did. Towards the midday, they 164 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:03.559 were going to try to lay down for a nap. 165 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:05.799 There was some weather moving in. It was looking like 166 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.919 it was threatening to rain. It cooled off. They decided 167 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.720 they're going to rejuvenate start again once we get up, 168 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.159 so they going and they lay down. The clouds rolled in. 169 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.600 It got drizzly, but they weren't too socked in. They 170 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.600 could still see all the mountains, so the clouds hadn't 171 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.799 come down. Chuck and Billy were on one half of 172 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:24.879 this tent. It was a two room tent. Billy and 173 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.120 Marie had the back portion. There was entrances on both 174 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.120 sides and the divider in between that could be taken out. 175 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.480 Billy and Chuck were discussing that weird grumbling. Meanwhile, Dennis 176 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.039 and Maria they were talking about the whistling. So they're 177 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.759 having simultaneous conversations about the same time of weirdness. Right, 178 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.639 they all start laughing because they hear each other talking 179 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.399 and they're like, Okay, we're getting really worked up. And 180 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.519 they couldn't figure out why they were so scared. They 181 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:58.960 didn't see anything. They just heard these noises, but they 182 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:03.879 felt the They felt unnatural, fear, unwarranted. There was nothing 183 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.399 to be so scared about that they were aware of. 184 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.200 At this point, they chuck the laugh and they open 185 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.320 up the divider and they're hanging out. They're all sitting 186 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.440 going to circle on the floor at this point, just 187 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.080 talking about whatever. As they're doing so, something starts hitting 188 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:23.159 the tent don't and they sounded like little rocks hitting 189 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.039 the tent. So they're like, what the hell is it 190 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:27.720 starting to rain? They thought maybe hal was starting to 191 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.879 come because of the clouds moving in and stuff. It's 192 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.320 not far fetched. So they're sitting there. It's not all over. 193 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.559 It's just one side of the tent that keeps getting 194 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.639 hit by this rock. So they decide okay, because of 195 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:44.919 Dennis and Maria's entryway on their side of the tent, 196 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.919 someone could go out that entryway, obscuring them, leaving the 197 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.840 tent from whatever's throwing these rocks. They wanted to see 198 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.559 what was going on. Chuck, being the bravest of the bunch, 199 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.879 according to Billy, grabs, his shotgun, goes out their portion 200 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:02.639 of the exit, goes around, comes back to the backside, 201 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:06.440 and starts peeking around the tent. As he's doing so, 202 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:09.159 he could still hear the rocks hitting the tent, and 203 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.840 he can hear some wishing of the brush on the 204 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.559 opposite side of their camp, their camping area, so it's like, 205 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.720 what the hell, So he jumps out with the shotgun 206 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.639 real quick and yells, hey, stop throwing rocks. He thought 207 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.519 maybe locals had followed him. They're having some fun or something. 208 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.440 He didn't know. So as he jumps out and yells this, 209 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.039 all of a sudden, he sees dark brown in the 210 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:34.080 brush move away. As it's moving away, it had to 211 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:37.000 have hit one of those chip things because bam, the 212 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.799 round went off. So this thing all he saw was 213 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.240 some barren in the brush. Trips to one of their 214 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:47.559 little shotgun proximity alerts, all of a sudden, sounds like 215 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.480 a freight train just boom, barreling away heading back towards 216 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:56.120 Lake Nrka proper just tears off, So immediately he's shook. 217 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.559 He didn't know what that was, and heard the trip 218 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:03.039 alarm and figured, okay, that's one big fricking bear. That 219 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.879 is one huge bear because all the noise it made. 220 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.200 Everyone else came out armed, of course, trying to figure 221 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.879 out and they can all listen to this thing move 222 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.840 away as they're doing. So a couple moments pass, things 223 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.080 are calming down, they're like that was one big bear. 224 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.600 So they decided, let's go reset that triple arm, readjust it, 225 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.000 make sure all the other ones are up and ready 226 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.519 to function. So they go over Billy and Chuck. They 227 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.000 go over. Chuck is standing guard. They're looking for signs 228 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.039 of this thing that was in the brush, and they 229 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.159 saw nothing. They saw a couple of broken limbs and 230 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:41.799 some disrupted vegetation, but nothing definitive. Again, they're not like 231 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.399 gravelly mossy stuff, so there wasn't really any impressions to 232 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.440 be spoken of at this point. So they reset it. 233 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.440 They make sure all the other lines, their little trip bires, 234 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.120 are all set and good. Then they retreat back to 235 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.840 the campground. Now they had to go into the vegetation 236 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.960 a little ways. While they were in the vegetation, Dennis 237 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.600 and Maria we're hearing the whistling again. It was at 238 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.320 a distance, but they were hearing that same crisp, sharp whistle. 239 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:12.120 So Billy and Chuck get back over to the camping area. 240 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.720 They're like, listen and as they're being quiet, not a sound, 241 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.039 and all of a sudden, from behind the tent, they 242 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:22.200 hear that sharp whistle. They all turn. They're about twenty 243 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.360 five feet from the tent. At this point, they all 244 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.279 turn around look in that direction. Something big and brown 245 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.200 just goes out of their view. It was like they 246 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.639 turned just a moment too late just to catch something 247 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.279 brown moving back off into the alder willows right. So 248 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.600 immediately guns are up and they're yelling, hey bear, hey bear. 249 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:45.279 Chuck be an outdoorsy guy tells them all bears don't whistle. 250 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:49.200 Bears don't whistle. So they're going around the back of 251 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.639 the tent. Dennis is staying with Maria, They're staying put. 252 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.639 Billy and Chuck are going around both sides of the 253 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.320 tent back to where they saw this brown streak. As 254 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.960 they get to the backside, Chuck is saying, hey, bears 255 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.399 don't whistle. Dude, I don't know what that is, but 256 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.279 bears don't whistle, and they're not that tall in the shrubs. 257 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:10.559 Whatever that is is big. Again, Everyone outside of Chuck 258 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:15.159 who's had the most wilderness experience, they're just like, what 259 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.799 do we do. They're looking at Chuck for guidance, and 260 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.279 Billy said they put a lot of pressure on Chuck 261 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.039 for answers and he didn't have any, and they felt 262 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:27.000 bad after. But in those moments of terror because they 263 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:28.559 didn't know what the hell was going on. They were 264 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.639 relying heavily on Chuck's outdoor knowledge. Movement it goes off, 265 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.480 They hear it moving, but they didn't want to follow 266 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.919 because how large it was. He said. The initial brush 267 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.360 behind the tent was about five to six foot tall, 268 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.200 and then there was taller alders behind that went up 269 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.360 to about twelve ish foot tall. He's estimating this thing 270 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.799 was almost as tall as a background shrubbery. They saw 271 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:58.600 from what would be halfway up its body move away 272 00:14:58.639 --> 00:14:59.000 from them. 273 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.159 Freaked out and stay tuned for more sasquatchy out to see. 274 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.000 We'll be right back. 275 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:06.720 After these messages. 276 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.120 And time passes. After this, they settle down, they all 277 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.600 decide to start cooking. What they end up doing they 278 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.480 make a half moon shape with their chairs all facing 279 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.440 back behind the tent. Not the brightest because then they 280 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.360 got their back to a whole lot of area. They're 281 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.480 in this half moon shape around their little fire pit. 282 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:32.279 They're cooking, they're discussing, they're debating. Bigfoot comes up. They 283 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.360 start talking about what they know about Bigfoot because of 284 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.399 the size, the color of it, just the weirdness. They 285 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.080 discuss Bigfoot, and they don't have really much. They decide, okay, 286 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:45.320 we'll just play it by ear now. It gets on 287 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.600 in the evening and gets into dusk. Once it gets 288 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.039 into dusk, everyone is tired there. Adrenaline's been dumping all day. 289 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.879 They decide, okay, let's move the tint from where it's 290 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.600 at more into the center of this gravelly area instead 291 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.879 of over by those bushes. That way, we'll center it 292 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.720 in between our trip circumference where they got the trip lines. 293 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.000 So they rearrange everything. They have to shuffle some rocks 294 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.159 because it's uneven ground and stuff. And while they're doing that, 295 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.919 Dennis and Maria they're standing watch, keeping an eye around. Again. 296 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:19.879 All their focuses in the last place they saw this thing. 297 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.399 Anytime they're doing anything, they're constantly looking back to that point, 298 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.759 which is a mistake because obviously they move around as 299 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:32.000 they're doing so, Dennis and Maria are critiquing, oh, you 300 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:33.720 want to pull that leg of the thing out that 301 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.919 they're getting the tent squared away or whatever. As they're 302 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.399 doing so, a rock hits the tent and it came 303 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:44.039 from behind them. They turn around and about one hundred 304 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.080 yards away they're estimating. They've self admitted they're not the 305 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.080 best at distance, but they're guessing. About one hundred yards away, 306 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:54.159 they saw that big, dark brown figure. Now it's silhouetted 307 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.080 and looks almost black. They barely make out the brown 308 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.559 standing off in the brush almost one hundred yards away. 309 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.440 Maria screams, Chuck and Billy stop what they're doing, jump 310 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.960 up and look. All of them turn and see this 311 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.119 thing standing silhouetted in the brush almost one hundred yards away, 312 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.599 give or take again. They self proclaimed they weren't the 313 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.240 best with distance, but they're guessing. Freak out rifles up, 314 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.440 starts screaming, hey, we're over here, we're over here. You're 315 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.839 not allowed to be here. Just but whatever they were yelling, 316 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.960 they're trying to make a bunch of noise. This thing, 317 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.640 according to what Billy said, calmly did a one pint 318 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:32.119 eighty and walked off into the brush to where they 319 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.680 couldn't see it. It was just obscured by the shadows 320 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.599 and gone. So now they're super freaked out. They're like, 321 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.759 that's a freaking bigfoot. We need to do something. They 322 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.079 knew they weren't getting out of there immediately. They had 323 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.559 three more days before the flight came back in where 324 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.079 they were supposed to meet their bush plane at Lake NERCA. 325 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:53.279 Now they knew this, so what they did was, as 326 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.279 a group, they all went and gathered firewood as much 327 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.000 as they could together. They hand chopped down some beetle 328 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.359 killed spruce. They did what they had to do to 329 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.640 get a large amount of firewood. They're tired, They've been 330 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.799 all the traveling and stuff, so they're exhausted at this point, 331 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.000 according to what Billy was saying, But they were so 332 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.799 adrenalized from what was going on they weren't gonna just 333 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.440 go to bed, you know what I mean. So they 334 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:20.240 get the fire going. They're busy chopping away. They're using 335 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:23.359 their little handsaws and stuff, bucking it up into usable pieces, 336 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.279 which they could have just slid it in as it 337 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:28.240 burned out, but they were new to it, so they 338 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.039 were doing what they felt they had to do to 339 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:34.119 get enough firewood to keep it light around this little open, 340 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.440 gravelly kind of area they were in. Now, as they're 341 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.720 doing so, Chuck had just got done whacking at the 342 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.920 tree with the hatchet that they had basically stuck it 343 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.720 in it and just left it there. It was like, 344 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.440 I'm done for now, kind of taking a break. So 345 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:50.839 they all retreat back around to the fire they got going, 346 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.799 and now they're set around to where everyone can see 347 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:56.960 over everyone else's shoulders so no one can come up 348 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.920 from behind them. At this point, it still wasn't dark 349 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.279 get but it was dusk enough to where Dennis breaks out. 350 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.160 He had brought along some whiskey, so they start taking 351 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.039 SIPs and passing it around calm the nurse. As they're 352 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:14.160 doing solf, they hear what sounds like a hllacious scream. 353 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.839 According to what Billy said, it sounded like it was 354 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:21.200 happening all around them at once. Scream. He said it 355 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.920 was really low and really high pitched at the same time. 356 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.599 It was so loud they were all putting their hands 357 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.799 over their ears. So as soon as that scream stops, 358 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.519 they all jump up right because while the scream's going on, 359 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.960 they're hunker down, like what the hell scream stops, they 360 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.400 all jump up, turn around, facing opposite ways from each 361 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.119 other with the guns to try to figure out what 362 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:46.279 the hell now. Maria just had one of the guys's handguns. 363 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.519 She was really freaked out. So Dennis, seeing this, said, 364 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:51.359 come stand by me, give me the handgun because she 365 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.640 could have accidentally hurt somebody. She was so freaked out. 366 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.160 She hands him the pistol. He tucks it in his 367 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.160 coat pocket. As they're sitting there discussing what's going on. 368 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.920 Just on that backside where the tent was. Earlier when 369 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.039 they first saw the brown light, they see eye shine 370 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.319 from the flames from the fire, not far into that shrub. 371 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:12.839 They just happened to be looking that direction, he said. 372 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:15.599 They were less than forty feet from that when they 373 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.400 saw the eye shine way up in the brush. Shreaked 374 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:21.440 him out. Chuck saw it because he heard him talking 375 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:24.240 and was looking around everywhere noticed it. When they noticed it, 376 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.680 came running over beside them, pulled up the shotgun and says, 377 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.519 you get out of here. I'm gonna shoot you. Get 378 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.880 out of here. I'm gonna shoot. Yet not a noise 379 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.319 is made, so he shoots into the air in that direction. 380 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.000 The eyes disappear. It was dark. They didn't see any movement, 381 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:42.640 but they couldn't even if there was movement, it was 382 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:44.599 just too dark. There was nothing they could really make 383 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.559 out other than the eye shine was gone. So now 384 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:52.440 everyone's hyper vigilant they're freaked out. They decide, Okay, we're 385 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:54.799 gonna have to do this in shifts. Some of us 386 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:57.440 need to get some sleep too, sleep too, stand guard. 387 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:02.039 Dennis and Maria volunteered to stand guard first, and Chuck 388 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:04.640 and Billy are like, no, you two get some sleep. 389 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:05.279 Well. 390 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:07.599 Stepped as late as we can, and you guys can 391 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:10.519 relieve us. Towards the morning they were all amped up. 392 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:14.000 Dennis and Maria get in there. Dennis wasn't able to sleep. 393 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:16.960 Maria fell asleep after crying for a bit, after she 394 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.119 calmed down and felt safe for Dennis more in an 395 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:23.119 enclosed environment, which false sense of security, however, it helped 396 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.319 her fall asleep. It's going on, nothing's happening. It's dead 397 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.519 quiet most of the night now. From what Billy said, 398 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.400 him and Chuck were sipping the whiskey, putting a little 399 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:35.200 bits in their coffee, so they'd take a little sip 400 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:37.400 and put them in the coffee and ship their coffee. 401 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.680