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<v Speaker 1>Now one of your pudding. I got a string going

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<v Speaker 1>on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog,

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<v Speaker 1>my dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over

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<v Speaker 1>the fence and he was dead. And once you hit

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<v Speaker 1>the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I

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<v Speaker 1>saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what

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<v Speaker 1>are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling

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<v Speaker 1>around out here? Did you see what it was or

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<v Speaker 1>was it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through

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<v Speaker 1>the window now and I don't see anything. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to go outside. Jesus Quice, you better New York. Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>get somebody out here when I'm out there. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>of a bit of about tick what nine? I don't know?

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<v Speaker 1>Easy him out there. Yeah, I'm booking right head.

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<v Speaker 2>Greetings from Alaska. My name is fred Roll Curry, young

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<v Speaker 2>trouble member from Deneham, Alaska. Today, I want to share

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<v Speaker 2>an experience that happened with Eric s. He agreed to

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<v Speaker 2>be interviewed. It's just not going to happen till later on, once

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<v Speaker 2>I'm closer to the area. He's at. It was near

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<v Speaker 2>Campwell off the Dnalley Highway where this particular encounter happened

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<v Speaker 2>with Eric and his fiance at the time. Unfortunately they're

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<v Speaker 2>no longer engaged. What in the path news. He had

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<v Speaker 2>been going to the spot for twenty four years, every year,

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<v Speaker 2>same time of year, never had an issue ever, not

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<v Speaker 2>even weird al hoots, none of that stuff to standard

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<v Speaker 2>Alaskan critters, no big deal. Since he's freshly engaged at

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<v Speaker 2>this point, he decided, you know what, I've been doing this,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a passion. I'm going to bring her in on it,

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<v Speaker 2>get her laced up, basically, get her on board with

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<v Speaker 2>his yearly routine. He's used to spending a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>weeks every year out there just doing his thing, not

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<v Speaker 2>necessarily hunting, but getting out backpacking, exploring the area, trying

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<v Speaker 2>to photograph wildlife, caribou, etc. Just outdoors the stuff. Not

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<v Speaker 2>necessarily out to kill anything, although he was armed. It's Alaska.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything wants to get shit. They make it out. They're

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<v Speaker 2>just south of the Dnnaley Highway and on the motorized side.

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<v Speaker 2>He had given me the place. When I interview on

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<v Speaker 2>my I let him explain what ends up happening is

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<v Speaker 2>they get there, they get set up, no issues. First

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<v Speaker 2>couple of nights, it's great. She's really digging his Alaskan lifestyle.

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<v Speaker 2>Now he's an important He's not First Nations, but in Alaskan.

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<v Speaker 2>To me, if you've been up here for a few

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<v Speaker 2>years and you've gone through the winter bs, you're own LASKI.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to put my mind's eye in his situation.

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<v Speaker 2>So he's got this newbie to the woods. I think

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<v Speaker 2>she was originally from Connecticut, used to the woods there,

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<v Speaker 2>non issue. So first couple of nights it's nothing. They

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<v Speaker 2>go on to hike. The third morning, they're on this

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<v Speaker 2>hike and they've already hiked that place five six times

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<v Speaker 2>already in the last couple of days, because they just

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<v Speaker 2>go out for an hour at a time or so,

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<v Speaker 2>staying close to camp. The bears were on the move,

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<v Speaker 2>so they didn't want to necessarily be out too much,

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<v Speaker 2>but they didn't want to just sit there. So on

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<v Speaker 2>their excursion, just as they were getting away from camp,

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<v Speaker 2>just out of sight, third morning, they hear a long,

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<v Speaker 2>moaning groan. It sounded like something really big, basically sobbing.

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<v Speaker 2>It is what he said it sounded like, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>it couldn't have been too far away, but they couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>pinpoint exactly where because where they were at there was

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of trees wrapped around, so they couldn't pinpoint

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<v Speaker 2>because of how things were hacking around in this little meadow.

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<v Speaker 2>So he figured, say, bet, let's just get back to camp.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't bring his firearm with them on the excursions,

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<v Speaker 2>as Beyonce was against him. He gets back to camp,

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<v Speaker 2>he gets his firearm out and leans it against the

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<v Speaker 2>little makeshift table they had there, and they started making breakfast.

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<v Speaker 2>The morning run. Their morning. They going about their way.

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<v Speaker 2>It'd been about he said, three hours passed. Now it's

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<v Speaker 2>plenty daylight. It's not dark and menacing or anything, but

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<v Speaker 2>all the sound goes away. He said. He was struggling

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<v Speaker 2>to even hear the cracklo of the little fire they

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<v Speaker 2>had going to boil up to mix some cowboy coffee.

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<v Speaker 2>Having dealt with that pressure that kills all sound, it's different.

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<v Speaker 2>Some people have experienced it, some haven't. Those who haven't,

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<v Speaker 2>you recognize it immediately, but you don't know what it is.

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<v Speaker 2>You just know it's provoking some kind of fear. He

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<v Speaker 2>said when that happened. He was in the middle of

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<v Speaker 2>packing up or cleaning up some of the utensils that

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<v Speaker 2>they had made their breakfast with just a little bit ago.

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<v Speaker 2>So he assumed, what's probably a bear smell breakfast is

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<v Speaker 2>coming in. They had prepackaged all their food just to

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<v Speaker 2>basically warm it up. But it's still put the scent

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<v Speaker 2>of the food in here. It's not like he was

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<v Speaker 2>out there frying, bake it over an open flame or

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<v Speaker 2>anything like that. He gets cleaning stuff up and keeping

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<v Speaker 2>an eye on, telling her, hey, just listen for any

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<v Speaker 2>strange movements in the woods. We want to be bear aware.

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<v Speaker 2>So she puts on these little bells on her ankles

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<v Speaker 2>that jingle when they walk. I call them dinner bells

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<v Speaker 2>for bears, but anyway, people use them and they swear

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<v Speaker 2>by them. The bear. Here's the bell it takes off.

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<v Speaker 2>She gets those on. There's still a route camping that's

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<v Speaker 2>too ominous at this point. He doesn't even have bigfoot Harryman, Saswa,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you want to call it, on his mind. It never,

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<v Speaker 2>not once in the twenty something years he's been going

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<v Speaker 2>to this place, has it ever been an issue that

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<v Speaker 2>happens for a lot of people. They go year after year,

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<v Speaker 2>never had an experience. You could tell them your experience

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<v Speaker 2>and they'd be like, I've been out there twenty something years.

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<v Speaker 2>Ain't not never happen? You're full of it. That type

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<v Speaker 2>of thing, which is me to each his own. If

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<v Speaker 2>some people, if they haven't seen it, they won't accept it.

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<v Speaker 2>I respect that. I get that. As they're sitting there

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<v Speaker 2>and he's trying to explain to her, it's very important

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<v Speaker 2>that you beyond your wits when it comes to the

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<v Speaker 2>woods because if there's a bar circling when we don't

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<v Speaker 2>see it, it may come after you. It may view

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<v Speaker 2>you as the weaker of the tube since you're smaller,

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<v Speaker 2>and pounce on you. So be aware of that. And

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<v Speaker 2>his fiance wasn't having none of that shit. She was like,

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<v Speaker 2>screw that on no one's meal. Let's go. He was like, look, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to call it a trip though, Let's

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<v Speaker 2>just move somewhere else. She goes, okay, we'll move somewhere else. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>So they pack everything up, we're feelings the side or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>They decide, we'll just go down. We'll go down to

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<v Speaker 2>Swede Lakes, which is further down the din Naley Highway

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<v Speaker 2>going forwards packs and not too far from the Volcano

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<v Speaker 2>River incident. Coincidentally, same area. You got to go the

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<v Speaker 2>same direction to get there. There's multiple trails, but the

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<v Speaker 2>main ones from that gravel parking lot where the guy

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<v Speaker 2>ran out. So they make it to Sweet Lakes a

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<v Speaker 2>little later on. It was going on dusk, so they

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<v Speaker 2>had enough time. They set up and camped out in

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<v Speaker 2>that parking lot. The first night uneventful, talking to people

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<v Speaker 2>coming and going, photographers whatnot, having a great time. She lose,

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<v Speaker 2>she calmed back down, was telling everyone, Oh, there was

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<v Speaker 2>a barrier further up towards cansl Wheeds, get out down here.

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<v Speaker 2>I suffice both of them because they really didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>anything to go on outside of that. Now, it's quite

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<v Speaker 2>a distance that they went from where they were to

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<v Speaker 2>Swede Lakes, so no visual, no confirmation on whatever was

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<v Speaker 2>going on in his original spot, the same spot he

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<v Speaker 2>had been going to for twenty something years, so bear aware.

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<v Speaker 2>They continue out the next morning, they make it to

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<v Speaker 2>Sweet Lakes. Once you get back there, it's hard to

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<v Speaker 2>explain that she'd been there. There's a part of the

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<v Speaker 2>trail that kind of has this weird kind of zigzag

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<v Speaker 2>to it, and over the years people have made little

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<v Speaker 2>care site areas, so they picked one of those, about

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred and fifty yards from the main part of

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<v Speaker 2>the lake. They get set up. It's going on into

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<v Speaker 2>getting dark, so they got a good fire going and

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<v Speaker 2>everything's going great. She's calmed down from the bare things.

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<v Speaker 2>She no longer wants to run away from the woods.

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<v Speaker 2>It's his fiance. He doesn't want her to not like

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<v Speaker 2>the woods because then he knows he has to make

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<v Speaker 2>it out every year, and that's just going to create

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<v Speaker 2>some kind of tension. So he's very happy she's back

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<v Speaker 2>in it. When they get their fire going and everything's

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<v Speaker 2>calmed down, they're enjoying some adult beverages and just relaxing

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<v Speaker 2>and enjoying. Man, it's beautiful, from what he was saying,

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<v Speaker 2>was beautiful app and they were just enjoying the evening,

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<v Speaker 2>and on the far side of the lake they hear

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<v Speaker 2>that same groaning, moaning type of sound, same tight, not

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<v Speaker 2>exactly the same, he said. It was a little higher pitched,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was similar in rhythmic. However, the sound went

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<v Speaker 2>so that immediately peaked both interest because they just left

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<v Speaker 2>the campsite that they were at because of this noise

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<v Speaker 2>and the weird feeling. So they're trying to figure out

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<v Speaker 2>what's going on with these weird noises. We're way over

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<v Speaker 2>there and now we're hearing something somewhere over here. This

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<v Speaker 2>was late August twenty seventeen is when this occurred. As

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<v Speaker 2>they're discussing with each other, Hey, you know what, do

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<v Speaker 2>you think this could possibly be one of the other campers.

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<v Speaker 2>I was a little further down, he said, was walking

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<v Speaker 2>by going to get something because the people had parked

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<v Speaker 2>their four wheelers up. He was going to resupply with something,

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<v Speaker 2>and he asked, hey, did you notice that sound across

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<v Speaker 2>the lake? And he goes, yeah, it's been going on

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<v Speaker 2>for a couple of days now. We went looking forward

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<v Speaker 2>earlier today. We couldn't pinpoint where the noise was coming from,

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<v Speaker 2>but every time we would leave the area, we would

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<v Speaker 2>hear it again. Thought and of itd okay. So these

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<v Speaker 2>guys have been here unmolested for a couple of days

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<v Speaker 2>with this going on, so we're good, we're safe. They

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<v Speaker 2>continue around the campfire, they're doing their thing. They're getting

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<v Speaker 2>the feeling good behind their campsite. He said, less than

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<v Speaker 2>seventy feet, he would guess to Ma, they heard a

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<v Speaker 2>big crack that immediately cut their attention. It was such

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<v Speaker 2>a loud crack that the campers further down, same guy

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<v Speaker 2>that they had seen came back that direction a little

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<v Speaker 2>while later, asking hey, what was that noise? We heard

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<v Speaker 2>that crack way over there, and they're like, yeah, it

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<v Speaker 2>was about seventy feet back there, And the guy was like, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>why don't we go check it out to make sure

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<v Speaker 2>that it's not a rogue bear, young male, little four

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<v Speaker 2>year old just out causing trouble. We could be prepared

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<v Speaker 2>running off now before we're in bad early does it? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm game. So he gets his rifle and his fiance

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<v Speaker 2>wants none of this shit. She's dead set against him

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<v Speaker 2>basically trying to run off a potential issue. She's dead

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<v Speaker 2>set against it. He's not feeling that at all. He

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<v Speaker 2>feels there's gonna be some problems because she's not outdoorsy.

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<v Speaker 2>She's very susceptible to freak out. She doesn't know ask it,

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<v Speaker 2>she's not accustomed to this stuff. So him and this

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<v Speaker 2>guy Eric and this guy they go and they check

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<v Speaker 2>out the area and it's on in the dark. So

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<v Speaker 2>they're using their flashlights and the one guy had a

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<v Speaker 2>spotlight and they're going through and they're looking and there's

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<v Speaker 2>nothing to miss. And then they fired a broken birch

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<v Speaker 2>sapling head. It was about three inch in diameterans a

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<v Speaker 2>birch is a hardwood, so this tree was alive and

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<v Speaker 2>about six feet up. It was broke, like someone broke

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<v Speaker 2>it down and it was laid out. So they're sitting

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<v Speaker 2>there inspecting it. Wow, that bear must have just stood

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<v Speaker 2>up on it, pushed or something that knocked it over.

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<v Speaker 2>They heard that groaning noise again, that's not bear light,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's between them and Eric's tent. Now it was

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<v Speaker 2>real low, real subtle, but they both heard it. Now

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<v Speaker 2>they both turn around and they don't want to have

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<v Speaker 2>their left so if they do have to shoot at

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<v Speaker 2>a bear, they wouldn't have his tent his campsite as

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<v Speaker 2>a crossfire in the backdrop that type of thing, which

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<v Speaker 2>a very smart to do. So they're cutting around to

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<v Speaker 2>the left. That noise is mirroring them moving off to

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<v Speaker 2>don't typically do that. They're kind of looking at each other.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's just get out into the open because they're in

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<v Speaker 2>some pretty thick rush and stuff. They wanted to get

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<v Speaker 2>do whatever they got to do. So as they get

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<v Speaker 2>back to the campsite. His fiancees in the tent, she

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<v Speaker 2>won't come out. She heard everything going on. She heard

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<v Speaker 2>them talking in the woods because it was echoing right

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<v Speaker 2>back out to her, and she said, we're not staying here.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, look, it's on in the dark. We're several

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<v Speaker 2>hanging there. Will get out first light. We'll just leave.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll go back to my place in Anchorage. She said, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>but first light. As soon as there's a sliver of light,

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<v Speaker 2>we're out of here. She is full blown not having it.

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<v Speaker 2>Ain't never gonna come back, she stated as much. And

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<v Speaker 2>Eric is feeling sick inside because he knows he needs

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<v Speaker 2>this outlet he molds to be able to go out

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<v Speaker 2>in the woods. He's been doing it for twenty something years.

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<v Speaker 2>It's in his blood. At this point. I don't mean

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<v Speaker 2>to make light of it. I've lost relationships over similar

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<v Speaker 2>stuff being in the woods, and people just can't hang

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<v Speaker 2>with it. Not everyone's built for the outdoors, even if

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<v Speaker 2>they really like the idea of it, in practice it

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes doesn't work. So this cerenum this morning is still

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<v Speaker 2>going wrong. While she's complaining about wanting to get the

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<v Speaker 2>hell out of there, and so Eric and this guy,

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<v Speaker 2>the guys, hey, there's about five six of us over here.

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<v Speaker 2>Why don't you get your stuff and just come on

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<v Speaker 2>over and we'll stay as a group. His girlfriend his

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<v Speaker 2>fiance immediately times in I'm not going to hang out

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<v Speaker 2>with a bunch of strangers over some silly noise in

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<v Speaker 2>the woods. Me I would have been like, shut up,

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<v Speaker 2>pack up, let's go with the group, but he wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to salvage what was left of this little trip of

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<v Speaker 2>theirs because they are engaged and he wants to keep

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<v Speaker 2>it that way. At this point, the guy who looks

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<v Speaker 2>at Eric, Okay, I'm going to go get a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of my buddies. We'll come back. We'll take another look

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<v Speaker 2>around as a larger group, and maybe whatever it is

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<v Speaker 2>we'll get shoot away just by mere presence of a

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<v Speaker 2>bunch of people and Eric's cool. Yeah, definitely do that.

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<v Speaker 2>And so while Eric is fumbling around in his equipment

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<v Speaker 2>trying to find his handgun that he had brought along

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<v Speaker 2>the top hole strip and have a second firearm, his

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<v Speaker 2>financee starts freaking out about guns, laying into him, you

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't even have a gun, and he's trying to tell her, hey, look,

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<v Speaker 2>this is a perfect example of why we need a gun.

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<v Speaker 2>We got strange noises in the woods. We don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if it's a rogue bear out to come get us.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't know none of this stuff, So just calm down.

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<v Speaker 2>He's getting his buddies. We're going to go and check

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<v Speaker 2>this out. Just as he hears the other group coming

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<v Speaker 2>from the other campsite. They're talking amongst each other and

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<v Speaker 2>some kind of laughing guys maaraderie going on, and he

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<v Speaker 2>just coming up the trail back to their site from

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<v Speaker 2>the same direction of that break on the birch tree,

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<v Speaker 2>they hear and god awful sound like a woman being murdered.

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<v Speaker 2>Scream and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>right back after these messages and right after that scream

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<v Speaker 2>that just pierced their ears and shook their bodies crash

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<v Speaker 2>all around. He said it sounded like someone had some

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<v Speaker 2>kind of big something and was just swinging it in

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<v Speaker 2>a circle, and it was like almost like a rhythmic

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<v Speaker 2>kind of sound. And he said it was nothing he

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<v Speaker 2>had ever heard before. He never heard that kind of scream,

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<v Speaker 2>and he definitely never heard whatever commotion was going on.

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<v Speaker 2>And so at this point, the guys that were coming

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<v Speaker 2>they come trotting up and they're like, what the hell

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<v Speaker 2>is going on over here? Where'd that scream come from?

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<v Speaker 2>And he was like, right back over where we saw

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<v Speaker 2>that break. One of the females that was with the

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<v Speaker 2>other group came with that party and coached his fiancee

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<v Speaker 2>added the tent back over to the other campsite. She said, hey, honey,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, you're not staying here. If these guys are

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<v Speaker 2>firing off guns. You just need to be over here

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<v Speaker 2>with the other group, larger number at least until it's settled.

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<v Speaker 2>She agreed, So they go and she takes her away

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<v Speaker 2>to the other campsite as they're coming up with a

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<v Speaker 2>game plan. So they've been into the woods already once

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<v Speaker 2>and they seemed to layout and how the rush and

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<v Speaker 2>stuff is so Eric, and this guy is explaining to

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<v Speaker 2>the He said there was three other guys that ended

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<v Speaker 2>up coming, or four other guys something like that. It

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<v Speaker 2>was getting on in the dark, and he just saw

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of heads. So he was guestimating because after

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<v Speaker 2>the scream, they were discombobulated, and which I totally understand anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>So they decided they're going to two groups only facing

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<v Speaker 2>one direction. They didn't want to turn muzzles towards each

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<v Speaker 2>other if they had to fire. Aaron was like, if

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<v Speaker 2>we're in separate groups, that's not really a good how

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<v Speaker 2>about we're in a line like search and rescue and

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<v Speaker 2>just pushed through going that direct. Hey, that's a good idea.

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<v Speaker 2>So they all agree. They're all armed and most of

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<v Speaker 2>them have flashlights and whatnot, headlamps. They start pushing in

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<v Speaker 2>and once they get back up to where that broken

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<v Speaker 2>birch was, that birch is now broken all the way

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<v Speaker 2>off and moved off to the other side, and they

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<v Speaker 2>did nothing but look at it. When they were there

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<v Speaker 2>just a few minutes ago, probably half hour forty minutes

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<v Speaker 2>had passed since they cleared the woods. The guy went

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<v Speaker 2>to get his friends, and all that stuff transpired so

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<v Speaker 2>it's well on in the dark at this point, especially

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<v Speaker 2>in August, there was plenty dark. So they're beaming around.

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<v Speaker 2>They're trying to figure out what the hell, and they

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<v Speaker 2>noticed just past that birch tree was a line of

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<v Speaker 2>smaller alders and some other brush that were just broken

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<v Speaker 2>off at about seven feet up, just broken off. It

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<v Speaker 2>appeared that broken piece of birch swung around like you

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<v Speaker 2>would a rope over your head, like you go on

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<v Speaker 2>the lasso. It's how Eric said it looked. And he said,

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<v Speaker 2>that's twenty twenty hindsight. At the time. They didn't put

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<v Speaker 2>two and two together, but he's assuming that it was

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<v Speaker 2>used to spin around and knock the other ones down.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't see the carnage myself. So they're checking it out.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone's looking everywhere. Okay, we haven't heard any movement. We

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<v Speaker 2>hadn't heard an old thing. That it's a definitive, it's

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<v Speaker 2>a bear. Let's get it. Let's move on and let's

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<v Speaker 2>push it out. Any of that that it was actually

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<v Speaker 2>dead quiet. Now when they decided, okay, there's no movement,

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<v Speaker 2>there's no sound, we're not seeing anything. Let's retreat back

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<v Speaker 2>and just forget about call it a night. Just as

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<v Speaker 2>they're getting back to Eric's campsite, another scream, this time

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<v Speaker 2>between them and the other people's campsite. Now that they're

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<v Speaker 2>really pete because they got their women over there. I

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<v Speaker 2>think there was a child with the other group. They

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<v Speaker 2>were screwed that we're on this. So they run down

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<v Speaker 2>the trail. They get to the area of the scream

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<v Speaker 2>and they're asking the other campers that are right over

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<v Speaker 2>there at this point, hey, what direction was that scream

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<v Speaker 2>coming from? They said it sounded like it was past

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<v Speaker 2>where you guys were, And they said, no, this scream

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<v Speaker 2>came between us, And they're like, we didn't hear it

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<v Speaker 2>that close. So they're just perplexed. What the hell do

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<v Speaker 2>we do with that? So they went through looking. They

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<v Speaker 2>looked as best they could, not as sign nothing broke

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<v Speaker 2>in and no tracks, none of that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So things that calm down for a bit. Now they decide, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>it's calm enough, nerves calm down. They started doing a

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<v Speaker 2>little sipping. They felt better about the whole thing. Erica

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<v Speaker 2>and his fiance went back to their tent. Now they

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<v Speaker 2>get there and his fiancee is wiped out they get

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<v Speaker 2>in their shees immediately in the sleeping bag, snoring, complaining

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<v Speaker 2>about the bugs. He's tending the fire, he's getting it

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<v Speaker 2>going again because he wanted to keep some kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a fire go all night just for whatever that sound was.

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<v Speaker 2>No one had any idea what that scream was. No one,

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<v Speaker 2>so he put his rifle away in its case because

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<v Speaker 2>she was complaining about stepping on and if she had

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<v Speaker 2>to get up to tacle, so he kept his handgun nearby.

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<v Speaker 2>Now as he was just starting the doze off, he

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<v Speaker 2>was sitting at the front of the tent with his

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<v Speaker 2>legs outside of the tent, looking at the campfire and

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<v Speaker 2>just leaning back, just staring at and listening to the

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<v Speaker 2>crackling fire. Because it's just a small, little two man

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<v Speaker 2>hay frame tent that they had. So he's at the

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<v Speaker 2>front of it, staring at the fire. His fiancees laid out.

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<v Speaker 2>He notices the nylon sound of the tent, like something

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<v Speaker 2>rubbing on it, so he clicks on his head lamp

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<v Speaker 2>and he turns and he looks back and on the

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<v Speaker 2>inside of the tent he sees a huge hand impression

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<v Speaker 2>of a hand sliding up and down the tent on

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<v Speaker 2>the inside and it touched his fiance's head and he

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<v Speaker 2>could see it going like this, and then it moved

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<v Speaker 2>back up and then come back around and then touch

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<v Speaker 2>on his fiance's head like that again. He said he

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<v Speaker 2>was hypnotized at this. It was so surreal to see

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<v Speaker 2>this impression of a huge hand. He said, it was

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<v Speaker 2>huge moving around. He saw the fingers moving individually, so

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't just a prop pushed up against her or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>So as it slid up, he didn't know what to do.

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<v Speaker 2>He just put a bunch of shots through the back

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<v Speaker 2>of the tent into this impression of the hand. Right

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<v Speaker 2>as soon as that happens, he fired in quick succession,

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<v Speaker 2>and then stopped because his fiance was getting up. She

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<v Speaker 2>thought he was trying to shoot her. Understandably, She's laying

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<v Speaker 2>there and all a sudden, bang bang, he's shooting over

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<v Speaker 2>her at this hand impression.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>She freaked out hard. And I totally get it. Geez,

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<v Speaker 2>being woken up to gunshots from your fiance going over you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not a good time. I'm not trying to make

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<v Speaker 2>light of it. I'm really not. Shots are fired loud,

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<v Speaker 2>commotionally at the back of the tent, and a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of crash, something running away. Now his ears were ringing

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<v Speaker 2>from the gunshots. He's telling her calm down. Something was

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<v Speaker 2>trying to grab you through the tent, and she's looking

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<v Speaker 2>and she sees the bullet holes and there's a little

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00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.640
<v Speaker 2>bit of blood there right, So immediately she calms down

412
00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:25.680
<v Speaker 2>and was like a bear was trying to get me

413
00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.960
<v Speaker 2>while I slept, And he goes, it wasn't a bear.

414
00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.880
<v Speaker 2>It was a big, five fingered hand impression on the tent,

415
00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.319
<v Speaker 2>pushing around and touching you on the head. She goes,

416
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<v Speaker 2>that's what that was. She felt it touching her head,

417
00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.640
<v Speaker 2>but she didn't know what was doing it. She just

418
00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.880
<v Speaker 2>thought she didn't know. She was asleep out of it

419
00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.559
<v Speaker 2>from drinking a little bit, but she remembered feeling some

420
00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:51.599
<v Speaker 2>kind of touch on her head. She didn't realize that

421
00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.119
<v Speaker 2>was it. So she's in the fog of trying to

422
00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:58.559
<v Speaker 2>come to grips with what just happened. He's freaking the

423
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<v Speaker 2>hell out because the sheer size of the hand. He

424
00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:05.960
<v Speaker 2>never expected to see anything like that ever in his life.

425
00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.359
<v Speaker 2>He has not been back out since this incident. So

426
00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:13.839
<v Speaker 2>he scrambled get his rifle out. Now by this point,

427
00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.920
<v Speaker 2>the other campers. Three of the guys are running over

428
00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.240
<v Speaker 2>with their firearms, coming to see what the hell is

429
00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:22.839
<v Speaker 2>going on, because they heard the gunshots and then they

430
00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.039
<v Speaker 2>heard the commultion going through the trees. It was so

431
00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.559
<v Speaker 2>loud it reverberated back to them, so they come over

432
00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:31.839
<v Speaker 2>there all armed. He commences it, telling them what happened there.

433
00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.519
<v Speaker 2>I'll look at him. I'm like, dude, you had a

434
00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:35.559
<v Speaker 2>little too much, and he goes, look on the inside

435
00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:37.599
<v Speaker 2>of my tent. They went around to the back and

436
00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:40.680
<v Speaker 2>sure enough, they're splattering of blood. At one point on

437
00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:42.759
<v Speaker 2>one side of the tent, there was like a greasy

438
00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:45.279
<v Speaker 2>outline of a hand. He said it was hard to

439
00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.079
<v Speaker 2>make out, but he knew what it was that made

440
00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:49.920
<v Speaker 2>the marks. And they were saying, oh, you could have

441
00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.759
<v Speaker 2>rubbed to your tent against something to make that that

442
00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:55.559
<v Speaker 2>they were dismissive of it is what it was. And

443
00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.200
<v Speaker 2>he was like, look, I'm not shooting at imagination. Imagination

444
00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:03.319
<v Speaker 2>doesn't bleed, and it bled. That's flattering from the outside,

445
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.559
<v Speaker 2>and the shots came from the inside. Come on, you know,

446
00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:09.599
<v Speaker 2>don't dismiss me like that. Don't mock me. He was

447
00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:13.000
<v Speaker 2>very upset by this point. He's got his rifle out.

448
00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.720
<v Speaker 2>His fiance is over it, over it. She wants nothing

449
00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:19.599
<v Speaker 2>else to do with being there, being with him, being

450
00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:22.880
<v Speaker 2>near him. She still has alcohol in her system, so

451
00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.640
<v Speaker 2>she's not quite picking up what's happening. She's going off

452
00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:31.000
<v Speaker 2>of adrenaline, over emotional a little bit and shots ringing

453
00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.839
<v Speaker 2>over her head, which, hey, understandable stuff. This poor guy

454
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.480
<v Speaker 2>he's got the other camper's mocking him. His fiance wants

455
00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:43.200
<v Speaker 2>to leave him. He's sitting there dealing with what just happened.

456
00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.039
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot of that goes on when it comes

457
00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:48.400
<v Speaker 2>to these kind of sightings, a whole lot of that

458
00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.960
<v Speaker 2>evil people that were together when it happened. Warren will

459
00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:54.200
<v Speaker 2>want to tell people and they're there'll be like that

460
00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:59.079
<v Speaker 2>never happened. Why, I don't know. The rest of the night,

461
00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:02.920
<v Speaker 2>according to Eric, was uneventful. Is fiance never went back

462
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.680
<v Speaker 2>to sleep, she had everything packed again. He had to

463
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.160
<v Speaker 2>make her understand, we can't go until we got a

464
00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.480
<v Speaker 2>lost liver or light. We don't have enough battery power

465
00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:15.079
<v Speaker 2>for the headlamps to make a hike out the multiple

466
00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:17.920
<v Speaker 2>miles it is back to the parking lot. So they

467
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:19.759
<v Speaker 2>had to sit there by the fire, and he had

468
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:25.160
<v Speaker 2>to listen to her explain on detail why she was

469
00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.839
<v Speaker 2>not going to stay in Alaska when they get married,

470
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:31.920
<v Speaker 2>he has to move away from Alaska. Just a whole

471
00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.720
<v Speaker 2>bunch of stuff that he knew it wasn't going to

472
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.880
<v Speaker 2>help the relationship one iota, and so he never made

473
00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.079
<v Speaker 2>it back out again. He's currently down on I believe

474
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.119
<v Speaker 2>he said Vermont again. He's going to be back up

475
00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:53.160
<v Speaker 2>sometime a little later on this ball, and he agreed

476
00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:57.240
<v Speaker 2>to tell the whole thing off camera. Hopefully he makes it.

477
00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.920
<v Speaker 2>The poor guy, he was really busted up about his fiancee.

478
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:05.720
<v Speaker 2>He loved her. This situation just it kind of accentuated

479
00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:09.160
<v Speaker 2>the weakness in their relationship because she was an outdoorsy

480
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:13.480
<v Speaker 2>and he was. He'd been an outdoors guy for decades

481
00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:17.480
<v Speaker 2>and she was not with that. So I guess it's

482
00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:20.079
<v Speaker 2>for the best that they wouldn't have gotten along anyway.

483
00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:23.759
<v Speaker 2>But the poor guy wants his fiancee from that and

484
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:25.960
<v Speaker 2>then to be mocked by people that heard the same

485
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.720
<v Speaker 2>screams that he did, saw the blood on the outside

486
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.480
<v Speaker 2>of the tenth. I don't know what causes people to

487
00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:39.079
<v Speaker 2>just immediately deny something that was obvious. Can you imagine

488
00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:41.440
<v Speaker 2>you saw something and there's someone coming up saying, hey,

489
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:43.920
<v Speaker 2>you're a liar. You're either gonna smack him in the

490
00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:46.720
<v Speaker 2>mouth or you're just gonna keep your mouth shut and

491
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.960
<v Speaker 2>never speak of it. That's just not cool. It can

492
00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:53.000
<v Speaker 2>cause issues within yourself to hold that in. Like after

493
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:55.640
<v Speaker 2>my experiences for a couple of years, I was self

494
00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:59.000
<v Speaker 2>medicating with drinking. It can lead to a whole lot

495
00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.559
<v Speaker 2>of unnecessary image in your life by not sharing it.

496
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.079
<v Speaker 2>If you live in Alaska, been to Alaska and had

497
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.079
<v Speaker 2>some kind of strange encounter out in the woods, even

498
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.359
<v Speaker 2>if it's not visual, maybe it's weird sounds, whatever. I

499
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:13.720
<v Speaker 2>want to share an experience with you that happened to

500
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.440
<v Speaker 2>a friend of mine. We'll call him D. I talked

501
00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:19.440
<v Speaker 2>to him yesterday. He's from Ruby, Alaska, up on the

502
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:24.240
<v Speaker 2>Yukon River interior of Alaska. He originally shared this with

503
00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.359
<v Speaker 2>me in twenty eighteen when I was up there building

504
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.160
<v Speaker 2>some cabins for a remote mining operation. He was an

505
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.359
<v Speaker 2>equipment operator there. What happened with him him and two

506
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:35.960
<v Speaker 2>of his aunts in the small villages. Sometimes your ants

507
00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.119
<v Speaker 2>are a little younger than you. It's just how it

508
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:40.880
<v Speaker 2>works out. So he got two of his aunts and

509
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:43.880
<v Speaker 2>his little sister. He had agreed for a week and

510
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.200
<v Speaker 2>a half something like that to take them out to

511
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.319
<v Speaker 2>this bury patch and just to get him out there.

512
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.960
<v Speaker 2>It's way out the road. It's actually about two miles

513
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:57.559
<v Speaker 2>outside of Long Alaska. Long Alaska is an abandoned mining town.

514
00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:00.720
<v Speaker 2>Used to have a couple thousand people. There still a

515
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.920
<v Speaker 2>lot of old rustic equipment and some of the cabins

516
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.759
<v Speaker 2>are really cool. Been there explored. It Just an abandoned

517
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:08.720
<v Speaker 2>mining town is basically what it is. But they're a

518
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:12.559
<v Speaker 2>couple miles past that now to get to Long from Ruby,

519
00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.119
<v Speaker 2>it's just a cat road. It was cut in by

520
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.720
<v Speaker 2>miners and claims and stuff like that, so it's a

521
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:21.799
<v Speaker 2>glorified bike trail. Part of that road gets washed out

522
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:24.519
<v Speaker 2>all the time because the beaver will plug up the coverts.

523
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:27.039
<v Speaker 2>And it's way out in the middle of BFA. So

524
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.079
<v Speaker 2>they get out there and it's roughly midday, and where

525
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.480
<v Speaker 2>they're going is past an old mining site that has

526
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.640
<v Speaker 2>a lot of big pools of ponds. Basically there are

527
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.119
<v Speaker 2>old placer mines with overburden and it's pot marked with

528
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.440
<v Speaker 2>all these little drill sites. So two foot diameter drool holes.

529
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:47.680
<v Speaker 2>They could be fairly deep. So you got a Swiss

530
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:51.480
<v Speaker 2>cheese landscape with multiple paths going through it to get

531
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.599
<v Speaker 2>back to the tundra where their very pick and patch

532
00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:57.559
<v Speaker 2>was just past this mining clean So him as a

533
00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:59.799
<v Speaker 2>little sister and his two ants, they were going along.

534
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.279
<v Speaker 2>He said that there was nothing ominous in the air. Initially,

535
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.720
<v Speaker 2>once they got to the berry picking side itself, he

536
00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:10.599
<v Speaker 2>felt uneasy. But he was armed with a rifle and

537
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.880
<v Speaker 2>a handgun, and one of his aunts had a handgun.

538
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:16.519
<v Speaker 2>All the guns were a large caliber. So they're picking

539
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.200
<v Speaker 2>away and his little sister kept saying, there's that man

540
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:24.200
<v Speaker 2>over there, he's watching us. Dee would look over and

541
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.720
<v Speaker 2>he's not seeing what his little sisters seeing. He goes

542
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.640
<v Speaker 2>pointed out exactly. She said, I can't. Every time he

543
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:32.440
<v Speaker 2>turned the look, he ducks down and he's over there,

544
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.440
<v Speaker 2>and word she's pointing. He said, was approximately fifty yards away,

545
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.839
<v Speaker 2>just where the little tunderburm stops, and then there's some

546
00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:43.079
<v Speaker 2>spruce willows and then little sick of spruce, black spruce,

547
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.160
<v Speaker 2>whatever you want to call him. They look like mutated

548
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:49.799
<v Speaker 2>spruce trees that are stunted in growth. Muskeke scrub pine.

549
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.279
<v Speaker 2>So he is looking over and he doesn't notice anything.

550
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:55.200
<v Speaker 2>There was nothing that stood out, so he said, just

551
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.160
<v Speaker 2>keep your eye out and if you see him moving,

552
00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.960
<v Speaker 2>get my attention because their goal is to get berries,

553
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:04.279
<v Speaker 2>not sit around and stay tuned for more sasquatch out

554
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:11.200
<v Speaker 2>to see. We'll be right back after these messages. So

555
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.559
<v Speaker 2>they're picking away. One of his aunts says, hey, there

556
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.759
<v Speaker 2>is a guy over there. Who is that now where

557
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:22.200
<v Speaker 2>they're from, and Ruby is a small town. Everyone knows everyone.

558
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.400
<v Speaker 2>They got a post office there and a little general

559
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:28.079
<v Speaker 2>store type of deal. It's a dead town. People live

560
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.720
<v Speaker 2>there yet, but it's not an anchorage George, you know,

561
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:34.240
<v Speaker 2>or share banks or anything like that. Real small population.

562
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.720
<v Speaker 2>So they knew everyone, and they knew all the miners

563
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:39.680
<v Speaker 2>because they had to go through Ruby to get out

564
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:42.480
<v Speaker 2>to their claims. So it's very symbiotic with all the

565
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.359
<v Speaker 2>people that come and go from there. They all know

566
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:49.319
<v Speaker 2>each other. So they look. He sees movement, but he

567
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:52.000
<v Speaker 2>couldn't make anything out. This thing, he said, blended in

568
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.519
<v Speaker 2>real well as it moved, the creep factor goes up.

569
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:59.480
<v Speaker 2>His other aunt was just down the little knoll from them,

570
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:02.640
<v Speaker 2>just this little rise and she yells, hey, there's a

571
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.359
<v Speaker 2>guy over there, and he's moving. He's over here. So

572
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.640
<v Speaker 2>they go over this little knoll and look down in

573
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:11.640
<v Speaker 2>that direction, and sure enough, this thing runs off into

574
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.279
<v Speaker 2>the trees out of view. So they're immediately like winning

575
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:16.680
<v Speaker 2>to get the hell out of here because it was

576
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:19.440
<v Speaker 2>going in the direction of their back trail. To get

577
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.559
<v Speaker 2>back to their truck, now they had to go about

578
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.240
<v Speaker 2>three hundred yards through this old mining area pot marked

579
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:29.319
<v Speaker 2>with all these potholes, and this huge pond from an

580
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.839
<v Speaker 2>old excavation site. They just left it for reclaim, and

581
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.720
<v Speaker 2>now it's a big gas pod. They gather up their

582
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.359
<v Speaker 2>stuff and he slings his rifle over his shoulder, and

583
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.400
<v Speaker 2>he wasn't horribly worried about it, but he did have

584
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.240
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of a bad feeling. They weren't too sure,

585
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.079
<v Speaker 2>So they go down the trail and they get to

586
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.640
<v Speaker 2>where the overburdened line is, which is just a big

587
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:52.880
<v Speaker 2>hump of old cat push stuff. As they get over

588
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.880
<v Speaker 2>the burm, his little sister is holding hands with the

589
00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.400
<v Speaker 2>two anties and they're right in front of him. The

590
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.079
<v Speaker 2>hanty that had the handgun has out her forty four

591
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:06.119
<v Speaker 2>mag they're going along. He wasn't really over worried at

592
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.240
<v Speaker 2>this point. Once they got to the bottom of this berm,

593
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:11.319
<v Speaker 2>they all stopped there and stood and looked around because

594
00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:15.480
<v Speaker 2>they heard something. They couldn't pinpoint where it was. Off

595
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:18.839
<v Speaker 2>to their right, one of those little scrub brush pottings

596
00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:22.640
<v Speaker 2>of those black spruce. All of a sudden it snatched, crackin.

597
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.039
<v Speaker 2>He said. It was loud. It almost sounded like a

598
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:29.400
<v Speaker 2>gunshot loud how it snapped. So immediately his tensions over there.

599
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.359
<v Speaker 2>He's got his handgun out. They don't see nothing back

600
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.920
<v Speaker 2>in the trees and the willows and stuff and the alders,

601
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.599
<v Speaker 2>and they see another one shaking, so he puts two

602
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:41.640
<v Speaker 2>shots in the air over that direction, not in it,

603
00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:44.880
<v Speaker 2>but up in the air over it. This scene starts

604
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.119
<v Speaker 2>screaming and starts running in a circle around them. It's

605
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.160
<v Speaker 2>roughly about one hundred feet from them, he said. And

606
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.359
<v Speaker 2>it's running in a circle. And where they are there's

607
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.400
<v Speaker 2>two and a half three foot high grass and then

608
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.880
<v Speaker 2>the trails that are weaved in between the Swiss cheese

609
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.160
<v Speaker 2>on a terrain. So they're freaked out. The little girl screaming,

610
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:06.079
<v Speaker 2>He gets his little sister to cal him down. The

611
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:09.559
<v Speaker 2>ants scared as hell. It's nice creepy guys. Can you

612
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:13.279
<v Speaker 2>imagine something starts screaming and then running real fast. Anyway,

613
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.759
<v Speaker 2>so this thing does a circle around. It's zig zagging

614
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:19.960
<v Speaker 2>back and forth as it's doing it and breaking stuff

615
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000
<v Speaker 2>and making all this thrashing. So he's still got his

616
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.799
<v Speaker 2>handgun out, and as it comes around, it stops on

617
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:28.400
<v Speaker 2>their back trail, just on the other side of the

618
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.519
<v Speaker 2>burm that they just come over, so they could see

619
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:33.960
<v Speaker 2>from like about the stern them up, and this thing

620
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.559
<v Speaker 2>was just leaning over, looking sizing up the situation. Then

621
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.599
<v Speaker 2>ducks down and continues running and they lost sight of it,

622
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:45.880
<v Speaker 2>so they're free the f out. They immediately start making

623
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:48.200
<v Speaker 2>their move to get back to the truck. They lost

624
00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.599
<v Speaker 2>sight of it. They can't hear nothing. Everyone's just they

625
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:55.160
<v Speaker 2>gotta go. So as they're cutting through these trails, little

626
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:57.839
<v Speaker 2>sisters with the two anties and the d fell back

627
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:01.440
<v Speaker 2>a little bit to give room. He holstered his pistol

628
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:04.200
<v Speaker 2>and he's got his rifle unslung, and he had a

629
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.480
<v Speaker 2>three thirty eight wind bag, very powerful rifle. He can

630
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:09.960
<v Speaker 2>kill anything with that thing. He's got his three thirty

631
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.039
<v Speaker 2>eight and he chambers around and he's checking their six,

632
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:17.119
<v Speaker 2>just trying to make sure everything's okay. As he's walking along,

633
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:20.719
<v Speaker 2>he noticed there's the grass was moving like in a

634
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:25.159
<v Speaker 2>weird way, and it wasn't windy, and instinctively he raised

635
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:28.519
<v Speaker 2>his rifle in that direction and shot in front of

636
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.559
<v Speaker 2>where he saw the movement. Scream again, runs back off,

637
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:34.960
<v Speaker 2>stood up or ran back off from into the trees

638
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.159
<v Speaker 2>to the right. So this thing is trying to it's

639
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.480
<v Speaker 2>trying to sneak up on him in the grass. They

640
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.719
<v Speaker 2>continue through, and as they're going, like I said, these

641
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.159
<v Speaker 2>trails kind of weave, and so the two ants and

642
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:51.079
<v Speaker 2>the sister aren't split up there together, but they're each

643
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:54.559
<v Speaker 2>taking their own little individual path around these little potholes.

644
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.320
<v Speaker 2>And as they're going along, they all three stop. Where

645
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:02.440
<v Speaker 2>they happened to stop. There was kind of like a

646
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.280
<v Speaker 2>trench line of some kind that a back hoe had

647
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.719
<v Speaker 2>cut in. It was partially filled with water, and there

648
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.639
<v Speaker 2>was grass burms that grew alongside it. Like I said,

649
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:14.760
<v Speaker 2>it's reclaiming, so they're letting nature take it back. As

650
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:18.719
<v Speaker 2>they're standing there, they had noticed movement in front of

651
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:20.480
<v Speaker 2>them up to the right, and they're still a good

652
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.079
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and some yards from the truck. At this point,

653
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.880
<v Speaker 2>the thing screams again. When it screams, this time though

654
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.159
<v Speaker 2>behind them on the other side of the overburden where

655
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:33.880
<v Speaker 2>they come from, which is a distance away. Now they

656
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:39.199
<v Speaker 2>hear a return scream, sounding much larger than the screen

657
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:42.239
<v Speaker 2>that they knew where that one was coming from. They

658
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:44.880
<v Speaker 2>saw it, they saw its size or whatever, so the

659
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:48.880
<v Speaker 2>second scream sounded larger. He's in full panic mode. He

660
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:51.840
<v Speaker 2>only had three rounds in the rifle. He had shot

661
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.239
<v Speaker 2>a couple times with the revolver. He's got less than

662
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:57.519
<v Speaker 2>a handful of rounds. So as there stop, he gets

663
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.239
<v Speaker 2>over to them and he says, we need to keep moving.

664
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.159
<v Speaker 2>I know it screamed over here, but this is our

665
00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.039
<v Speaker 2>pass out. We don't want to get split up trying

666
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.280
<v Speaker 2>to run through these trees. We saw how fast it is.

667
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.239
<v Speaker 2>So as they're standing there talking, he notices the grass

668
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.559
<v Speaker 2>moving out of the corner of his eye again. This

669
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.480
<v Speaker 2>thing came running past them and reached out to try

670
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:19.880
<v Speaker 2>to swipe at his little sister, like it was trying

671
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.280
<v Speaker 2>to get to his little sister, and he butt stroked

672
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.920
<v Speaker 2>the thing's arm with the rifle. Heels hold because it

673
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:28.400
<v Speaker 2>all happened real fast. Moving out of the corner of

674
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.800
<v Speaker 2>his eye. He's butt stroking the arm away from grabbing

675
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:33.360
<v Speaker 2>his little sister. The thing had knocked her berry bucket

676
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:37.960
<v Speaker 2>out of her hand. She's freaked, understandably, she was like

677
00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:40.719
<v Speaker 2>seven at the time, something like that cheese. Can you

678
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:43.000
<v Speaker 2>imagine some of your earliest memories being one of these

679
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.880
<v Speaker 2>things trying to get you anyway, drops a berry bucket,

680
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:49.639
<v Speaker 2>It runs off and as it comes back around to

681
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:52.519
<v Speaker 2>their left, he gets a beat on it, what's rifle

682
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.119
<v Speaker 2>and takes a shot. Boom, doesn't hit it. It screams,

683
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.559
<v Speaker 2>and Keith continues running and he turns back to look

684
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:03.800
<v Speaker 2>back towards the berm, and there's nothing there but back

685
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:07.639
<v Speaker 2>where the original break on that spruce was. There's something

686
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:11.480
<v Speaker 2>over there shaking stuff. So he knows there's two. He's

687
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:14.719
<v Speaker 2>only had a visual on the one now his aunt.

688
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.679
<v Speaker 2>The other one that had the handgun. She was on

689
00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:21.920
<v Speaker 2>one knee following this thing. She was treating it like

690
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:24.719
<v Speaker 2>a bear charge. They say, don't stand there and shoot

691
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:27.000
<v Speaker 2>at a charging bear. You'll shoot over its back. You

692
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:31.079
<v Speaker 2>kneel down, just standard hunter stuff. So she's got a

693
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:33.800
<v Speaker 2>beat on it and it's running now. She doesn't shoot,

694
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.239
<v Speaker 2>she maintains her calm or whatever. As he's scanning the

695
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:41.480
<v Speaker 2>back area as well. A little girl screams again, it's

696
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.639
<v Speaker 2>right there. It's right there, and they look off to

697
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:47.679
<v Speaker 2>the right. That was standing right there in the trail.

698
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:50.159
<v Speaker 2>Like I said, to all these little trails, exagg through

699
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:54.039
<v Speaker 2>there to get back. So it wasn't the main trail,

700
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:56.159
<v Speaker 2>but it was one of the little side trails. And

701
00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:58.760
<v Speaker 2>like I said, it's all interwoven. He turns takes a

702
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:02.599
<v Speaker 2>shot at it, so I think he said he had

703
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:05.719
<v Speaker 2>one more round after that. He said he shot fast.

704
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:09.239
<v Speaker 2>He didn't think he hit it. Panic stricken, every single

705
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.079
<v Speaker 2>one of them. My aunt took that opportunity because it

706
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.039
<v Speaker 2>didn't run after that shot, and she shot at it

707
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:18.159
<v Speaker 2>twice and then it ran, so she struck it. They

708
00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:20.639
<v Speaker 2>heard the bullets hit it. It screamed, it ran off,

709
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.039
<v Speaker 2>so they're thinking, okay, we'll get moving. They continue moving.

710
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:27.159
<v Speaker 2>They're going as quickly as they can. They're running law

711
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.360
<v Speaker 2>on Ammo. His aunt only had six rounds in the revolver.

712
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:32.280
<v Speaker 2>He had shot a few out of the revolver, and

713
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.239
<v Speaker 2>I think he had one round left and the right.

714
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:36.840
<v Speaker 2>There's two of these things that are panic stricken they

715
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:42.119
<v Speaker 2>want to go totally understandable, just trying to imagine I've

716
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:43.800
<v Speaker 2>been there with these things trying to come at you,

717
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:47.000
<v Speaker 2>but there was never a child involved where I was

718
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.679
<v Speaker 2>responsible for a child in some kind of situation like that. Anyway,

719
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.639
<v Speaker 2>they move on. They get down to the truck. Now

720
00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:58.400
<v Speaker 2>there's this little cutbank that drops down and then there's

721
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.719
<v Speaker 2>a trench, and then the road is because, like I said,

722
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.679
<v Speaker 2>the mine owners they all have their heavy equipment and

723
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:06.400
<v Speaker 2>they would grade it every once in a while or

724
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.920
<v Speaker 2>whatever to maintain that road so they can just logistically

725
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.320
<v Speaker 2>get in and out to their claim. Now at the bottom,

726
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:17.079
<v Speaker 2>in this little drain area on the side of the road,

727
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:21.559
<v Speaker 2>there's a pipe that sticks out for water. It's a spring.

728
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:25.440
<v Speaker 2>It's been there forever since the mining town was alive,

729
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:27.639
<v Speaker 2>and it's something they use every year to fill up

730
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:31.559
<v Speaker 2>their water. It being or springing of pipe sticking out

731
00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:33.679
<v Speaker 2>the way they were parked in the truck. They got

732
00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:35.800
<v Speaker 2>everything into the back of the truck and as they

733
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.920
<v Speaker 2>were jutting it to get out of there, it slid

734
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:41.519
<v Speaker 2>sideways and that pipe where it was sticking out from

735
00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:45.400
<v Speaker 2>the bank ended up stuck in the wheel hub between

736
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.320
<v Speaker 2>the tire and the top of the wheel hub, so

737
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:52.000
<v Speaker 2>they're not stuck, but he has to do more maneuvers

738
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.960
<v Speaker 2>to get it from where it's at. So he's doing

739
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:59.039
<v Speaker 2>his thing. He's bucking that truck back and forth. Meanwhile

740
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:02.400
<v Speaker 2>his little sister, it's saying, it's on the road. It's

741
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:04.679
<v Speaker 2>on the road. She was looking out the back window.

742
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:07.840
<v Speaker 2>So he's trying to work the gearshifter, doing this thing

743
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.280
<v Speaker 2>to get uncompromised from this little well pipe that's sticking

744
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:15.280
<v Speaker 2>out of the side of the road. The ant jumps

745
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.320
<v Speaker 2>out the door and starts blazing shots at this thing

746
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:21.679
<v Speaker 2>and empties her revolver. She had three or four shots,

747
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.280
<v Speaker 2>like boom, boom, boom. It runs off and it's screaming.

748
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:29.119
<v Speaker 2>As she's done and is getting in the truck. The

749
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:33.199
<v Speaker 2>other one shows itself just ahead of them, off the

750
00:40:33.239 --> 00:40:35.519
<v Speaker 2>side of the road, up on top of the cut bank,

751
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:38.360
<v Speaker 2>and it just looks at him and it's doing this

752
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.039
<v Speaker 2>little sway thing back and forth, just eyeballing them, and

753
00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:44.599
<v Speaker 2>then it just takes off, so they get out of there.

754
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:48.360
<v Speaker 2>But for these things to be so brazen, even while

755
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:51.960
<v Speaker 2>being shot at attempt to snatch a child. He said

756
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:54.079
<v Speaker 2>that it tried to grab the smaller ant at one

757
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:56.960
<v Speaker 2>point too, when they were cutting through the older little

758
00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:59.960
<v Speaker 2>trails or whatever. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine

759
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:03.960
<v Speaker 2>being with your loved ones in the woods and having

760
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.440
<v Speaker 2>to deal with something like this. I don't know, but

761
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:08.559
<v Speaker 2>it's Alaska, and I don't want to speak on the

762
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:10.880
<v Speaker 2>Lower forty eight. There's a lot of people that I've

763
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.000
<v Speaker 2>seen that make in progress with what they're doing. They're

764
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:18.480
<v Speaker 2>not friendly up here. All the mythology, all the legends

765
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:23.199
<v Speaker 2>everything Alaska, killer Bigfoot, Port Chatham, all that stuff. There's

766
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:26.400
<v Speaker 2>a reason they call them killer Bigfoot up here. I

767
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.639
<v Speaker 2>don't take it lightly. I've seen what these things do.

768
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.800
<v Speaker 2>I've seen how they move. In my opinion, at least

769
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.920
<v Speaker 2>for Alaska, I don't think there are friends.

770
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:40.119
<v Speaker 3>They say, you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.

771
00:41:45.000 --> 00:42:13.079
<v Speaker 3>I don't want step still side step joy this child,

772
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:19.360
<v Speaker 3>that child, everything came right back, right back joy for me?

773
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.599
<v Speaker 2>You joy staying right, you come it.

774
00:42:24.800 --> 00:43:17.119
<v Speaker 3>Right away side still stay step stats saunock do do

775
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:37.840
<v Speaker 3>dossas still steps Stassus thess