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. They have eight different shows on all sorts 12 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.119 of exciting topics such as bigfoot, cryptids, UFOs, aliens, and 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.479 much more. I even have my own show called Weird Encounters, 14 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.439 where I talk about all things strange. This is more 15 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.280 than just a podcast network. It's a community that allows 16 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.759 me to meet so many amazing people who share their 17 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.520 stories and experiences with strange. If you're interested in hearing 18 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.880 more of these stories and learning more about the paranormal 19 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.679 and encryptids, make sure you check out the Untold Radio 20 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.600 Network for all kinds of exciting shows. 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 --> 00:01:12.840 kill your dog. 26 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.040 My dog. 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.159 We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know 28 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.439 how it did it. Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All 29 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.239 I saw was my dog coming over the fence and 30 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.400 they would dead once you hit the grill. I didn't 31 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.319 see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 32 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:46.959 over the fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:57.640 some wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.519 see what it was? It was enough out here? Look 35 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.359 him new the window now and I don't see anything. 36 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.840 I don't want to go outside this point. Kara, New York. Hello, 37 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.120 hit somebody out here? What que on the Altair's thought 38 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.520 of a bit just about sixty forty nine. I don't 39 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.199 know easy, I'm out there, yeah, from walking right head. 40 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.520 Oh hey, greetings, thanks for joining me. His friend Alaska. 41 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.159 What I'm sharing with you today comes from Sam. This 42 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.919 occurred back in the early mid seventies. He was a 43 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.039 welding assistant on the trans Alaska Pipeline. From what he said, 44 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.199 the assistant wasn't necessarily the job title. It was basically 45 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.840 a ross about. He would just be a gopher for 46 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.080 all the welders for whatever their needs were. He came 47 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.599 to having his time off and one of the guys 48 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.639 he had met on the job lived outside of fort Yukon. 49 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.000 He went with this guy. This person was visiting his 50 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.840 home village for a minute. Sam and this guy decided 51 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:00.199 to go towards what's called the Neetti Landing. They were 52 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.479 going to go on foot. There's some trails and whatnot. 53 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.479 So they take off and they're taking their time and 54 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.840 they planned on camping out because he had a week off, 55 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.560 so his friend was well armed. He wasn't. Sam basically 56 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.120 came up to the state for the work. As they're 57 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:20.319 going along the whole time, Sam said, once they got 58 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.759 outside of fort Yukon and they're heading due west along 59 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.280 the Yukon River, they said they spend a lot of 60 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.520 the time on the banks of the Yukon just skirting around, 61 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.840 easier traveling, you know, instead of just breaking trail through 62 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.479 the trees because it was pretty dense due there. He 63 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.360 said they had planned it out to go so far, 64 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.319 hang out, do whatever things they want to do. Drink 65 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.639 some beer or whatever. Just basically a break. It wasn't 66 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:49.840 out to go hunting or anything like that. It was 67 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.199 just a break from the pipeline work. So the first 68 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.560 night they're camped out, just as they were inning their 69 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:01.240 festivities or whatnot, calling it a night. It wasn't overly dark. 70 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.479 The sky was light, but everything around them was dark, 71 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.479 pretty standard for Alaska. And this was towards the end 72 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.120 of July. They decided because of how it was the 73 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.759 weather and the winds were blowing up and down the river, 74 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.360 they decided to tuck back into the trees a little 75 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.480 ways as they were getting ready to call it at night. 76 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:23.959 So they get up in there. It's a little bit 77 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.120 chilly because of the wind blowing and stuff. So they 78 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:28.480 decide to light this fire. He said, it wasn't a 79 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.040 big fire, just something just warm them up a little bit. 80 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.600 So they get the spire going and it gets on 81 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.000 in the darkness. When I was talking to him, he 82 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:40.439 had really long pauses. He was really still. It still 83 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:42.800 bothers him. And this happened back in the seventies. So 84 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.199 as he was sitting there staring at the fire, which 85 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.079 you don't want to do that, Yeah, I can understand 86 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.079 getting hypnotized by the flames, but if you're in a 87 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.720 place with real predators, don't stare at the firelight. You 88 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:57.040 just don't want that because it takes away your night vision. 89 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.879 You turn away from that fire. Everything's just pitch. He 90 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.160 was staring at the fire, so every once in a 91 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.920 while he was hearing this noise, and his buddy had 92 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.279 already passed out, fallen asleep. His friend had a rifle 93 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.560 laying next to him. Sam was sitting there, and he 94 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.160 said he kept hearing this noise. He would stand up 95 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.120 and go to the other side of this little fire 96 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.360 pit and look in that direction. But because his night 97 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.959 blindness from the fire, he couldn't make out anything. He 98 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.000 thought the glow he saw was just burned retina from 99 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.279 staring at the fire. What he was in essence seeing 100 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:33.839 was eyeshine off in the distance. He said it was 101 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.879 less than thirty yards. He said he only knows and 102 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.279 caught onto that because every time he heard the noise, 103 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:40.639 he would do the same thing, go over the other 104 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.319 side of the fire. It was at the same place. 105 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.160 It wouldn't move, it was just the same eye shine. 106 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.600 So after about third fourth time he was hearing these noises. 107 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:51.720 He wakes up his friend, and his friend's a little groggy. 108 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:53.920 He'd tied it on a little bit, sipping on some 109 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.959 whiskey with the beer. So Sam tells him, hey, I 110 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.279 hear noises over here. His friend was just half out 111 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:03.879 of us, says, take the gun and go run the 112 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.800 bear off. Sam goes, yeah, I've never done that. What's 113 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.959 the procedure in that, I'm not from Alaska. His friend 114 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.199 told him, look, just run over there, yelling haybar, be 115 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:16.879 ready to shoot in case it charges, it should run off. 116 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.000 Bad advice, but Sam took the advice grab the rifle. 117 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.600 Sam said he had no clue what the rifle was. 118 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:27.879 It was just his buddy's hunting rifle that's lost to 119 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.399 the annals of time. Exactly what caliber was. Sam grabs 120 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.240 his rifle and I'm not trying to laugh at Sam. 121 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.560 It's the way he explained it was. He was a 122 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:41.040 fumbling idiot. His word's not mine. Sam claimed that he 123 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.680 was a fumbling idiot trying to make this scream run 124 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.920 towards this darkness with a gun he doesn't even know 125 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:49.720 how to shoot. He wouldn't even know how to take 126 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:53.480 it off safety so mistakes, big mistakes being made. He 127 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.800 self admitted that. So he goes fumbling and stumbling that direction, ah, 128 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.920 screaming and whatnot. Doesn't hear a peep. The eye shine 129 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.560 goes away, but doesn't hear a sound of anything leaving. 130 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.079 Then he gets creeped out. He backs it back over 131 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.839 to the fire. He sits down. He starts sipping his 132 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.120 beer again, and he's nervous as health. He finally gets 133 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.160 his buddy to take him serious and get up. So 134 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.560 his buddy's shaking it off, trying to fully wake up 135 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.839 or whatever as they're discussing, no sound, and he ran 136 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.079 over that way his friend coming out of the fog. 137 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:28.120 He was getting earlier, so you shouldn't have ran over 138 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.240 that way. That's the instructions he gave me. Dude guy, 139 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.279 apologize whatever, no harm, no foul. They sit up for 140 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.199 a little while. Sam is super nervous. He can't fall asleep. 141 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.959 There was something off about the whole thing by seeing 142 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.519 the eye shine, just how everything was going. He felt 143 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.439 uncomfortable in his skin. He convinces his buddy to take 144 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.519 him more serious. Let's get out the flashlight, the only 145 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.959 one flashlight they had that they saved the batteries on 146 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.480 for emergencies, and let's use some of that emergency light 147 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.360 and go see what the hell's going on, because periodically 148 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.199 there would still be be a noise here and there, 149 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.199 nothing really outlandish or outrageous. Just little tree snaps, little 150 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:10.560 twig breaks, that type of thing. Nothing crazy. So his friend, 151 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.120 being native, gets up and remember his friend still coming 152 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.639 out of the fog or drinking, maybe still pretty buzzed. 153 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.439 His friend starts assessing what's going on, tells him maybe 154 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.120 we should just we'll hit the river and move camp. 155 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.160 They got this fire going, so Sam was concerned about 156 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.360 the fire, and he goes, okay, let's douse the fire. 157 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.559 His friend goes, okay, I'm gonna sit here, I'll keep watch. 158 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.799 Go ahead and douse the fire. So Sam does this thing. 159 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.480 He throws dirt on it, breads the logs apart, piles 160 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.200 a bunch of dirt on it, making sure that it 161 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.080 was out. They retreat from where they were at back 162 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.120 towards the river, out of the tree line, and when 163 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.960 they get to the river, he said, they're in this 164 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.200 tall grass. They're going along the tree lines off to 165 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.200 their right hand side. So as they're walking along periodically 166 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.120 they would hear scuffling through the brush, just like something 167 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.559 moving fastened than stopping. His native buddy was like, that's 168 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.519 not bare behavior. Something's up. I wonder if one of 169 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.799 my relatives is playing a trick. So he starts yelling 170 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:10.480 out names of his relatives. Hey, don't play around whatever, 171 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:14.159 yelling into the trees. Not a sound. They get to 172 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.960 this little feeder creek that feeds into the Yukon. It's 173 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.399 about twelve foot wide and about three foot deep at 174 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.879 the center of it, so it was a little deeper 175 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:25.080 than what Sam wanted to tredg through. So he backs up, 176 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.679 runs and jumps over right. His friend, still more inebriated 177 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:33.600 than Sam, backs up, runs does the same. He makes 178 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.919 it lands into the shallower part of the water. The 179 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.080 rifle gets in the water. He pulls it out and 180 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.759 it's all full of gunk and stuff. So they're basically stopped. 181 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.039 His friends using blades of grass and anything he could 182 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.759 think of to clean the barrel out because they still 183 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:51.159 got something unknown over in the shrubs. So this goes on. 184 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.039 They're movements to stuff everything. I'm explaining to you it 185 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.720 was over the course of a couple hours, so for 186 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:01.320 literally a couple hours. This thing's moving, pacing, paralleling beside 187 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.279 him in the trees. He's got to stop cleaning the rifle. 188 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:08.080 That took some time. Being Alaska's starting to get light again, 189 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.639 but not full on daylight. Everything's still pitch black, silhouetted 190 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.679 in the trees. You could see where you're walking, but 191 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:19.240 you're not getting full on light. So as they're going along, 192 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.360 his friend says, I keep hearing it. Do you hear it? 193 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.200 It's moving in the grass. They were only maybe forty 194 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.559 feet from where the grass ended, and then it went 195 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.039 up the bank into the tree line. He goes, I 196 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.720 don't hear anything in the grass. They keep talking and 197 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.480 moving along periodically. His friend was behind him with the 198 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:40.360 gun and would stop, hey, stop when they were talking. 199 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.399 His friend told him, anytime I ask you to stop, 200 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:46.159 you squat down low in case I have to swing 201 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.600 the barrel over the course of blocking. His friends sobering up, 202 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.200 it's getting uncloudy as far as safety measures. There's something 203 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.679 moving unknown. I don't want you being collateral damage if 204 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.480 I'm swinging the barrel. So they get their game planned 205 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.919 down in case the bear comes out, because they really 206 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:04.600 at this point they had no clue. They continued going. 207 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.720 They're exhausted, they came down from the drinking. Their headaches 208 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.480 are starting to kick in. So they decide, all right, 209 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.799 let's stop, let's brew up some coffee, Let's have a 210 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.120 little breakfast. Let the day come on in. Be done 211 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.080 with this darkness craziness. So they had to go and 212 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.320 find some brush, big enough fire to heat up and 213 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.000 percolate the coffee. So they're together. His friend said, you're 214 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:30.440 not leaving my side. We stay together. You don't want 215 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:32.480 to go missing. They gather up what they needed to. 216 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.799 They get this fire going and they're brewing the coffee. 217 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.399 And as they're doing so, it's getting lighter on the horizon. 218 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.720 So his friends getting a little more comfortable, a little 219 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:44.399 more relaxed. Sam's buddy falls asleep. Sam goes, it's light enough. 220 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.159 The rifles there, He explained how to take the safety off. 221 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.000 I'm gonna let him rest a little bit. Sam doing 222 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:53.360 the same thing, chilling, relaxing. It percolated the coffee. Sam 223 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.759 said he didn't even get it off of the rock. 224 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.360 He was just so exhausted. He just laid back and 225 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.799 fell asleep as well. He wakes up approximately fifteen feet 226 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.759 away from him in the grass. He keeps seeing something 227 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.799 dark moving as he's waking up. He's trying to figure 228 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.720 out what am I looking at. At first he thought 229 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:14.240 it was the face and muslim of a bear reaches 230 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.919 over and pats his buddy, who was sleeping. He wakes 231 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.360 up groggly and mumbles something, and as his buddy's waking 232 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.320 up mumbling this scene starts moving away. His buddy caught 233 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.240 wind of the movement because they felt it in the ground. 234 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.639 That's unnerving. Shit. When something's close enough and it's heavy enough, 235 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.759 you could feel it in the ground. So immediately his 236 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.960 friend's up bear grab jumps up, has the rifle and 237 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.639 is looking Sam stayed down. Sam couldn't see over the grass. 238 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.679 His friend was standing up pre arranged stay down when 239 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:46.759 I got the gun, that type of thing for safety. 240 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.159 So Sam sitting there and his friends start pacing back 241 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.200 and forth looking doing this number, and just keeps looking 242 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:56.559 down at Sam. Dude, this is something mat right. So 243 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.240 Sam stands up and comes back behind him. He's not 244 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.720 in any line of fire, and he goes what's going on. 245 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:06.159 He said, that's not a bearer, that's a man. That's 246 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.559 a man over there, he points. Sam doesn't see this 247 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.480 figure at first. It's approximately seventy yards away at this point, 248 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:15.840 at the tree line. Looking back at them, Sam said, 249 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.559 once he focused saw this thing, he said, it had 250 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.840 to have been every bit of at least nine foot tall. 251 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.799 It looked real, scrawny, pitch black looking hair. He couldn't 252 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.759 make out the face because of silhouet. Sam starts pointing 253 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.720 and his friend smacks his hand. Don't point at it, 254 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:35.440 don't acknowledge it. Sam asked, what the hell are we 255 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.159 dealing with? He tells them it's the hairy Man. We 256 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:41.159 need to go. Let's start heading back towards fort yukons. 257 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.399 Sam goes, what the hell's this, Harry Man, what are 258 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:47.039 you talking about? Bigfoot wasn't a big thing as pop 259 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.320 culture goes, or so his buddy lays it out. The 260 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.200 hairy Man will steal your women and children each et cetera. 261 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:55.799 Sam's what the hell is this? What are you talking about? 262 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.320 Because it made no sense to Sam. It wasn't even 263 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.480 in his wheelhouse with what his buddy was talking about. 264 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.360 His friend was deadly serious, said we gotta go. At 265 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.639 that point, the fire wasn't very big that they heated 266 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.919 up the coffee. They both grabbed a little bit of 267 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.200 a sip. They were still concerned because it was still 268 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.559 standing there. Sam said that his friend was keeping watch 269 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.679 with the rifle as he was putting out the fire 270 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.519 and collecting things up so they could start beating feet back. 271 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.120 As he was doing that, all of a sudden, his 272 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.879 friend lets off a shot. It startled the shit out 273 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:30.200 of Sam. He fell over backwards, spilled coffee down his leg. 274 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.320 Hot coffee really woke him up, was like, what the hell? 275 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.759 What are you shooting at? Why'd you shoot? His buddy 276 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.360 told him that this thing was peeping out back and 277 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:44.000 forth doing this little sway thing and started motioning, moving 278 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.159 quickly towards them, and he shot over it and it 279 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.759 ran off. So Sam's like, all right, I'm not going 280 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.360 to question this. I've seen it. I'm good. Let's go. 281 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.799 They finished gathering up and they start heading back. They 282 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.559 make it back cross that creek near where the other 283 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.120 camp was, and as they were coming up and through 284 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.200 that area, fire was still smoldering out of the dirt 285 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:07.200 A little bit, right. 286 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.039 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll 287 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:12.960 be right back after these messages. 288 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:19.200 Sam was like, shit, let me stop, let me douse 289 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.279 it a little better, let me stop. More dirt on it. 290 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:24.120 As he gets up there, all the dirt and stuff 291 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.399 he had flung on there, he said, there was approximately 292 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.039 about a seventeen inch track and it was about six 293 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.240 seven inches wide. It looked like a huge human footprint. 294 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:36.679 That freaked him out. He said. For whatever reason, the 295 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.759 footprint in the dirt freaked him out more than this 296 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.039 creature swaying over in the darkness. It made it a 297 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.600 little more real for him. They beat feet to get 298 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.840 out of there. As they're trotting along, his friend insisted, 299 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.720 you go ahead of me because this thing is behind us. 300 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.879 I want the gun so in case it starts coming 301 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.720 up behind us, I could turn around and not worry 302 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:59.320 about you being in the way. So they're trying along. 303 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.600 They're not in a but they're in a fast walk. 304 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.480 They get into a point where the trail cuts up 305 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:06.840 away from the river and goes into the trees. That's 306 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.240 the trail they came out in. So they get up 307 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.440 the bank. They're in this treat area and off to 308 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.679 their left, they heard this hollacious cracking sound. He said 309 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.799 it sounded if someone had taken a huge, at least 310 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.279 eight inch round tree and just crack it in half, 311 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.840 if it was dry, just a real loud, snapping crack, 312 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.960 and it freaked him out. He said that noise really 313 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:28.960 startled him and shook him because it was such a 314 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.879 powerful crack. His friend immediately says, we need to pick 315 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.240 up our pace, and they're still miles away from their destination. 316 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.600 They continue along and they keep hearing this different levels 317 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.320 of breaking and thrashing around off to their left hand side. 318 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.120 Now they get to a point to where the trail 319 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:50.720 breaks off to an old berry picking spot and then 320 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.480 back towards fort Yukon. They of course were going back 321 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.440 towards fort Yukon, but as they were in this little 322 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.159 bit of a clearing where this why was, they both 323 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.919 look up to their left and this thing is basically 324 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.640 standing in the trail less than one hundred yards up there, 325 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.599 just looking at him. He said he still couldn't make 326 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:09.559 out what it looked like because it was silhouetted. They 327 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:13.720 continued on the fort Yukon. That was his first vacation, 328 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.359 taking a break from working on the pipelines, he went 329 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.799 back to work. They left it alone. He didn't tell 330 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.359 anybody him. Sharing what the channel were the third to 331 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.119 hear of his experience. His friend has since passed. They 332 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.359 kept in touch for many years. His friend passed some 333 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.359 years ago on a boating accident on the Yukon. I'm 334 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.640 going to thank Sam for sharing. That sucks. That's not 335 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.400 how anyone wants their vacation. I want to share what 336 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.559 you guys. Comes from a guy in his mid fifties, 337 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.279 his named Blake. About six years ago, he asked his uncle, 338 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:50.000 who hadn't hunted many years, if he could proxy hunt 339 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.640 for him because he knew his uncle like cariboo. His 340 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:54.799 uncle says, I don't like to thought of you going 341 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:58.240 out hunting for me. He was real cryptic in his responses, 342 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:01.079 not giving him a definite answer. So finally Blake cornered 343 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.519 his uncle, and his uncle finally agreed, Okay, I'll let 344 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.240 you hunt for me. I just don't like the idea 345 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.680 of you going out in the woods for me. Blake's like, no, 346 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.000 I'm going for me, but if I'm going to be there, 347 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:12.960 I might as well harvest you something. I know you 348 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.599 love Caribou. They figure all the stuff out, They get 349 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.359 their paperwork turned in for the proxy hunt permission and 350 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.880 all that kind of stuff. His uncle, upon leaving, warns 351 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.640 him about hunting south the Sweet Lake, south of the 352 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.640 north Fork of the Gulcano, which I've shared I think 353 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:32.160 five experiences from this area, which boggles me that more 354 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.880 people don't come forward, but I understand. So he was 355 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:39.480 further south than everyone else. He didn't stay in the shantytown. 356 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.680 He went out. He found this little honey hole where 357 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.359 he saw a bunch of moose and figured, all right, 358 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.160 the moose are down over here. I think I'll go 359 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.759 over this way and see if I can find some 360 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.920 caribou which is heading back north towards the Dinnaley Highway. 361 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:55.799 So he gets on his four wheeler. It was about 362 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.119 the second morning, he said. That morning, he said it 363 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.640 was odd. All the moose were acting weird. Some were 364 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.480 walking in circles and then looking north, walking in a 365 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.160 circle and then looking north, and he just he never 366 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.240 seen that behavior before. So he makes his way pre light, 367 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:13.279 and it wasn't as cold as Blake would like it 368 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.839 to be hunting. He liked it real crispy. He knew 369 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.480 the animals would be moving. He gets up north, he 370 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:20.960 finds this little cut he gets up on this little step. 371 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.519 He's walking around and he noticed it's an old game trail, 372 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.079 you know, there's depressions in there that he thought were 373 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.839 old double bear step prints and just left it at that. 374 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.720 He was hunting with a magnum, which is a stout round. 375 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.319 Definitely dropped mooser caribou. He goes around and he finds 376 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.440 this little patch of alder willows. He kind of creates 377 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.160 this little opening to where he has a line of 378 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:47.200 sight over this little piece of marsh down below him 379 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.759 from when the caribou come through. The one was in 380 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.440 his favor. He felt really good about it. So he's 381 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.640 sitting there for about an hour before daylight. He just 382 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.400 kept hearing weird noises, like a weird grunting sound. So 383 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.119 he starts looking off in the distance. He'ssing. He's glassing 384 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.880 the edge of the black spruce sect. He estimated about 385 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.000 eight hundred yards out. As he's glassing and looking along, 386 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.400 he sees a cow moose come out. The cow moose 387 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.319 comes out and is almost trotting towards him. He had 388 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.799 already got his moose, so he wasn't out for moose, 389 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.160 but he was just watching what was unfolding in front 390 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.200 of him. A bull moose, a young bull moose barely 391 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.119 above spike and fork, barely had the little paddles. It 392 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.599 wasn't a mature bull. It follows her out, but he's 393 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.599 watching and he's just curious by it because nature's unfolding 394 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.319 before him and no careboul yet, So he's just watching. 395 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.079 On this step that he was on, down below him 396 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.240 were these another thick patch alderbrush. It was quite a 397 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:46.440 bit of a step. Once he walked around and found 398 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:49.559 his spot, it started off slightly sloped, and then as 399 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.480 he walked around it really stepped off, and then those 400 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.079 alderbrushes wrapped around. He was on a bend on this 401 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.319