Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a stream going
Speaker 1: on here. Something just kid my dog. Something killed your dog.
Speaker 1: My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 1: the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
Speaker 1: the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
Speaker 1: saw was my dog coming over the fence. What are
Speaker 1: you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling around
Speaker 1: out here? Did you see what it was? It was?
Speaker 1: It was standing up. I'm out here looking through the
Speaker 1: window now and I don't see anything. I don't want
Speaker 1: to go outside. Jesus, quiet, you better Hello, hit somebody
Speaker 1: out here? What quin? I'm out there's thought of a
Speaker 1: bit of about sixty fort nine. I don't know. Easy
Speaker 1: ann out there. Yeah, I'm woking right.
Speaker 2: Hey, oh, hey, greetings. Thanks for joining me. Is Fred
Speaker 2: in Alaska. Some words of warning. Over the last two weeks,
Speaker 2: I've had nine different people get a hold of me
Speaker 2: from everywhere from the yek Delta Bristol Bay down to
Speaker 2: the Kenai Peninsula. There has been an uptick in sightings
Speaker 2: near very picking places, so be aware of that. That's
Speaker 2: nine and two weeks from different people. Be aware, you
Speaker 2: just never know. What I wanted to share with you
Speaker 2: today comes from Adrian. Adrian is now in his seventies.
Speaker 2: This incident happened approximately fifteen years ago. He's a pilot,
Speaker 2: not a bush pilot. He's just a recreational pilot. Once
Speaker 2: he retired, he started flying around in his plane, hitting
Speaker 2: everywhere he can, just recreationally.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Approximately fifteen years ago, he decided he wanted to get
Speaker 2: a bear. He wanted a world class bear. He decided
Speaker 2: he's going to go to the Bristol Bay area large
Speaker 2: salmon returning, large bears, a lot of mature bears. So
Speaker 2: he ends up going. He lands near the Stuyahawk River,
Speaker 2: which is tributary to the Mulchattan. What ends up happening
Speaker 2: is he circles around. He sees plenty of game trails
Speaker 2: cutting through all the grass and stuff like that. Now
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of trees in this area. He
Speaker 2: picks this little small amount to land on. He's in
Speaker 2: a little piper cup. So when he lands, it's fairly early.
Speaker 2: He had just finished gone from Platinum to Togak Togak
Speaker 2: he stopped and dealing him, He got fuel, got a
Speaker 2: couple extra supplies or whatever, and he had a buddy
Speaker 2: who was going to be coming and checking on him periodically,
Speaker 2: who happened to be in doing him at the same
Speaker 2: time he was refueling. So he talked to his buddy, said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm heading over by the Studiahiver. I'm going to be
Speaker 2: approximately in this area, So if you're going through there,
Speaker 2: stop by if you want or whatever, say hi, I
Speaker 2: check on me or whatever. So his buddy's yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: Because his friend was just flying back and forth to
Speaker 2: Iliamna Lake Clark area from dealing him and nack Nick
Speaker 2: and all that, basically doing the small amounts are free
Speaker 2: to different little villages on the way or whatever. He
Speaker 2: had a good time talking with his buddy. So he
Speaker 2: takes off and he gets up by the Stueyhawk River.
Speaker 2: He's seeing plenty of game trails. He saw a little
Speaker 2: bit of caribou migration going through there, not much though
Speaker 2: he figured it was a tail in. So he found
Speaker 2: this spot and he lands. Initially, he's like perfect. There
Speaker 2: was a nice wind he was landing into and he
Speaker 2: could see off in the distance and according to the
Speaker 2: weather predictions that he was going to be socked in
Speaker 2: for a day or two. Adrian said when he got
Speaker 2: out of the plane and was strapping everything down because
Speaker 2: the winds were picking up a little bit as this
Speaker 2: system was moving in from the east moving west, he
Speaker 2: kept having an odd feeling like he was being watched,
Speaker 2: and he was like, there must be some bears around
Speaker 2: what it is. So he gets all his gear out,
Speaker 2: he sets up his little spot right underneath the wing
Speaker 2: of the little piper cup, just mainly for a wind
Speaker 2: block and stuff. And as he's doing all this, he
Speaker 2: keeps feeling like he's being washed. And Adrian said he
Speaker 2: a couple times to grab his binoculars and walk around
Speaker 2: because he's up on this little bit of a little
Speaker 2: mound a couple hundred feet and he's glassing around to
Speaker 2: see why he keeps feeling like he's being washed. And
Speaker 2: just as he's getting done, he would check every once
Speaker 2: in a while because he kept feeling like he's being
Speaker 2: washed and it was really starting to creep him out.
Speaker 2: He never felt that way before, and he's been plenty
Speaker 2: of places. So he said he goes around to the
Speaker 2: front of the plane and he glasses out I believe
Speaker 2: it would be east northeast of his position. He glasses
Speaker 2: out with the binoculars and he sees his big brown
Speaker 2: movement a few hundred yards away, and he goes, ah,
Speaker 2: that's why I was feeling watched. There's a big old
Speaker 2: barrel over there. Lucky me, I'm here for bears. So
Speaker 2: he gets excited. He's like, all right, I'm onto something
Speaker 2: that I just landed. He does all this stuff, He
Speaker 2: sets up, and he decides, I got a few hours
Speaker 2: before the sunsets. I got time to drop this bear,
Speaker 2: and then I can skin it out tomorrow. He glasses,
Speaker 2: he's got his rifle ready. He's using a three thirty
Speaker 2: eight win mag He's glass around it. It's gone. He
Speaker 2: surmises that it's over across the way around these other
Speaker 2: small mouns. He could see that one of the trails
Speaker 2: cut up in there. So he figured, Okay, what I
Speaker 2: can do tomorrow is if it's not showing itself in
Speaker 2: the open I can go back up in there and
Speaker 2: maybe find him laying down or something. Which bear hunting.
Speaker 2: I would always go with two, but teach his own.
Speaker 2: He felt confident. He had a four fifty four castle
Speaker 2: chest mounted pistol revolver, and he had a street thirty eight.
Speaker 2: So he felt really confident that he would any problems,
Speaker 2: so he said. The next morning he got up and
Speaker 2: he was doing one of these little quick meals, one
Speaker 2: of these freeze dried contraptions or whatever, some scrambled eggs
Speaker 2: or something. He said, it was horrible when he was eating,
Speaker 2: and as he was eating, he was looking in the
Speaker 2: direction he had last seen that bear. And just as
Speaker 2: he was finishing up what he was doing and packing
Speaker 2: up his little stove, little Coleman single burner on top
Speaker 2: of a one pound count of propane, he's looking in
Speaker 2: that direction and he sees brown movement again, and it's
Speaker 2: just off to the right hand side of the tallest
Speaker 2: mound across the way, about three four hundred yards. He
Speaker 2: was like, all right, good morning. So he gets everything
Speaker 2: squared away, he gets his pack, he gots his rifle,
Speaker 2: and he heads out that way. Now, when he drops
Speaker 2: down from the mound that he's on, he has to
Speaker 2: cross a feeder creek into the Stuyhawk River. He said,
Speaker 2: it was little marshy going through there, and then there
Speaker 2: was a bit of a deep spot, but he had
Speaker 2: his hip boots on, and he was able to leap
Speaker 2: a cross and make it through. And he was really
Speaker 2: concerned about making it through because when he got down
Speaker 2: into the brush line that's next right off the size
Speaker 2: of this little feeder creek, he got real soft, real fast,
Speaker 2: and he was real like, oh geez. He thought he
Speaker 2: might have turned back, but luckily he found a spot
Speaker 2: made it across. He said, as he came around to
Speaker 2: where it's basically three four mounds and there's a bigger one,
Speaker 2: it's like an islet the shape of the trail around it.
Speaker 2: As he's getting over there, he's checking for sign on
Speaker 2: the ground, and he said, the grass, the way it
Speaker 2: was laid out was real weird. It looked extra stomped down.
Speaker 2: It just something was off about it. And he kept
Speaker 2: seeing what looked like double bear prints, and so he
Speaker 2: was like, wow, there's there must be several large bears
Speaker 2: around here, so my chances are even better. He starts
Speaker 2: weaving back up in there. He gets up near where
Speaker 2: the first mound is, which is a few hundred feet.
Speaker 2: He's looking something off, so he decides he's going to
Speaker 2: start climbing this mound get a higher position because he's
Speaker 2: getting that uneasy feeling of being watched again. So he
Speaker 2: gets up there and he's looking on his back trail.
Speaker 2: He's making sure nun's coming up behind him, which is
Speaker 2: always smart to do.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Adrian said, when he got up to a certain point,
Speaker 2: he froze, even though he hadn't seen anything. He froze
Speaker 2: because he sensed something off to his right about the
Speaker 2: two o'clock position. If he was facing twelve o'clock, it
Speaker 2: was at about his two o'clock and he stops. Out
Speaker 2: of the corner of his eye he sees very large
Speaker 2: brown movement one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty yards away,
Speaker 2: just like right over there basically, and so he says, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take it easy, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: turn into this while I'm raising my rifle, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to be ready. So he clicks off the safety
Speaker 2: and as he's raising the rifle and he turns, he
Speaker 2: looks through the scope and he's getting his site pictured
Speaker 2: through that scope. He said. The first thing that stuck
Speaker 2: out was it was like he was looking at a
Speaker 2: cave man. He was in shock. He said, it looked
Speaker 2: like a caveman squatted down like a running back, and
Speaker 2: so he was like, what the hell. He thought maybe
Speaker 2: the meal that he just ate was giving him hallucinations
Speaker 2: or something, because he paused, it wasn't moving or anything,
Speaker 2: and it was up on a different mound, so he
Speaker 2: felt confident if it came at him, he had time.
Speaker 2: So he raises his rifle again and looks, and at
Speaker 2: this point this thing had turned and is quartering away
Speaker 2: from him on all fours. That was weird. He's a
Speaker 2: little bit shooken up by what he had seen. Initially,
Speaker 2: he said the face was that of a caveman like Neanderthal.
Speaker 2: The skin was very wrinkled, the eyes were beady black.
Speaker 2: It was so quick he only got a few real, lasting,
Speaker 2: ingrained memories of what he looked at. He said, the
Speaker 2: skin was very dark. Whether it was black or gray,
Speaker 2: he couldn't make out, but it's very dark. He noticed
Speaker 2: a lot of wrinkles right with the black eyes. It
Speaker 2: was just haunting him. Wow, what the hell? And as
Speaker 2: this incorded the way, it went down behind this mound
Speaker 2: where he couldn't see it anymore, Adrian said. At that point,
Speaker 2: he said, eh, I'm good, I'm good. I'll go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: He was feeling off about the whole thing. He thought
Speaker 2: he was hallucinating. He thought he'd better get back over
Speaker 2: to his camp, so he starts backtracking out of there,
Speaker 2: and as he gets back to the point to where
Speaker 2: he had initially saw all the double bear tracks that
Speaker 2: he thought were double bear tracks, he started paying more attention,
Speaker 2: and there was a spot in the mud where he
Speaker 2: looked down and it was a human type footprint, just wider,
Speaker 2: a lot larger. He estimated about twenty one inches, give
Speaker 2: or take, because he laid his rifle down next to
Speaker 2: it to gauge it. He was being shocked with that,
Speaker 2: what the hell, nothing's adding up at this point, he's
Speaker 2: not thinking about bigfoot. Harry Manner. Now that he's trying
Speaker 2: to figure out why in the hell he's so off
Speaker 2: that day, and he's concerned about his health. He thinks
Speaker 2: he's losing it. So he's quickly back tracks his way,
Speaker 2: and as he gets across that little feeder creek, when
Speaker 2: he gets back to the spot to where he crossed,
Speaker 2: he gets across there just firing, and as he gets
Speaker 2: up above the brush, going up on the mound that
Speaker 2: his plane is parked, he said he got to a point,
Speaker 2: had to stop and turn right around and look, and
Speaker 2: on his back trail, he looks back across and where
Speaker 2: he had seen that track, this thing was squatted down
Speaker 2: again like a linebacker, looking right at him. So he
Speaker 2: lifts his rifle just to get a look at it,
Speaker 2: and before he can fully get the scope up and
Speaker 2: get the field of view and the scope, this thing
Speaker 2: takes off back in the direction he initially seen it.
Speaker 2: So again he's what the hell because he hasn't gotten
Speaker 2: a full on clear view of this thing, and he
Speaker 2: thinks he's hallucinating. So he gets back up to his plane.
Speaker 2: He's really contemplating leaving, and just as he's thinking about leaving,
Speaker 2: that weather system that he was concerned about starts blowing in.
Speaker 2: So he's got a heavy crosswind kicking up so much
Speaker 2: so that he loses track of everything going on that
Speaker 2: morning with the hunt and needs to worry about his
Speaker 2: plane because his plane was starting to catch wind and stuff.
Speaker 2: So he was mitigating that and he focused on that
Speaker 2: for a few hours, just keeping his plane safe and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So once the winds died down a little bit, everything
Speaker 2: calmed down, he starts glassing again and he chalked up
Speaker 2: that morning to some weird stuff with the meal.
Speaker 3: He ate.
Speaker 2: This bear was acting weird and maybe it was disfigured,
Speaker 2: just explaining it away in his mind. So as the
Speaker 2: day carries on, no activity, dead quiet, he said, it
Speaker 2: was rather boring. As he sat there, right, so it's
Speaker 2: not too far from last light, and he sees movement again,
Speaker 2: but this time it's just to the left of where
Speaker 2: he had last seen this thing in these little mounds
Speaker 2: across the way. It was more over by this little
Speaker 2: feeder creek up the mound from there, and he's looking
Speaker 2: and he said, at this point it was about three
Speaker 2: hundred yards way and he's trying to get a look
Speaker 2: at it with the binoculars and he's not getting anything
Speaker 2: his spotting scope. Something had happened. He had bumped it.
Speaker 2: It was misaligned, so he couldn't see anything because it
Speaker 2: was like a double view all the time. The parallax
Speaker 2: or whatever was all messed up. He decides, okay, it's
Speaker 2: way over there. It's a good distance away. He was
Speaker 2: estimating like three four hundred yards, and he was like,
Speaker 2: we'll just see what happens tomorrow. Thinks nothing of it
Speaker 2: because what he saw was a different color from his
Speaker 2: memory of the color of this last one he saw,
Speaker 2: which he said it was like a reddish brown with black,
Speaker 2: a grizzled kind of look, and this one appeared to
Speaker 2: be like a lot more brown, reddish color. He said
Speaker 2: he had a hard time sleeping. There was weird noises
Speaker 2: he kept hearing, but he couldn't make it out. He
Speaker 2: would wake up to the noise like it was some
Speaker 2: weird noise woke them up. But when he woke up,
Speaker 2: it was just fading out and he couldn't make out
Speaker 2: what it was. That's weird. He ran everything through his mind.
Speaker 2: I know what a loon sounds like, I know what
Speaker 2: a wolf poal sounds like. I goes through everything and
Speaker 2: he just he couldn't make it out. And he said
Speaker 2: that happened a few times through the night. So when
Speaker 2: he gets up the next morning, it's before daylight comes up.
Speaker 2: So he's got his headlamp on and he's trying to
Speaker 2: brook some coffee. Of course, he's got his four fifty
Speaker 2: four in his chest and he's got his three thirty
Speaker 2: eight with him arms reach. Every time he moved, like
Speaker 2: he said, when he got up to get the coffee
Speaker 2: out of the pack. He literally leaned the rifle against
Speaker 2: the pack, unzipped it. When he got to the coffee,
Speaker 2: he grabs a rifle. So every movement he did he
Speaker 2: had his rifle ready, you know what I mean. He
Speaker 2: said he felt off that second morning heavy. So as
Speaker 2: he's making Bruna's coffee, he starts hearing noises just down
Speaker 2: the mouth from where he's at. The brush he said
Speaker 2: was real wet when he went through there, he said,
Speaker 2: it is less than forty yards of just al there's
Speaker 2: willow brush and stuff. When he came out of that,
Speaker 2: it was real flimsy, moist. It wasn't like it was
Speaker 2: a bunch of dead vegetation or anything. And he's hearing
Speaker 2: the movement down there, and he's, man, that's really weird. Again.
Speaker 2: It's still dark out. It's light on the horizon, but
Speaker 2: it ain't light out at all. So he decides he's
Speaker 2: gonna he digs out his flashlight and he changes the
Speaker 2: batteries in his headlamp. And he had a fairly decent
Speaker 2: one for the technology at the time.
Speaker 4: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll
Speaker 4: be right back after these messages.
Speaker 2: Changes his batteries out. He's got a little brighter look.
Speaker 2: So he takes his rifle and his flashlight and his
Speaker 2: headlamp and he goes down over where he can see
Speaker 2: down the mount a little better and he hits the flashlight.
Speaker 2: He's not seeing anything, so he turns on the headlamp
Speaker 2: as well, because the headlamp had a little bit of
Speaker 2: a broader beam. He lights up the area a little
Speaker 2: more and off to the right there's eyeshine and it's
Speaker 2: just down at the bottom of the mount, not that far,
Speaker 2: he said. He doesn't remember exactly how far, because it
Speaker 2: all happened real fast. Eye shine. He kind of startles
Speaker 2: and he kills the flashlight. Handheld flashlight, drops in his
Speaker 2: pocket and raises his rifle up and by the time
Speaker 2: he gets the rifle up, the eye shine was gone.
Speaker 2: He heard movement through the brush and whatever was there
Speaker 2: is now gone. Spooks him. He goes back to camp.
Speaker 2: He's nervously drinking coffee until it's daylight out enough, and
Speaker 2: he's very nervous. He said to go over that mound
Speaker 2: and look. He just kept getting a sinking feeling. The
Speaker 2: wind was calm, there was a slight breeze like a
Speaker 2: headwind coming towards him. So he's evaluating leaving, so he
Speaker 2: would have to taxi down and then come back to
Speaker 2: take off, which no big deal, right. So as he's
Speaker 2: contemplating what he's going to do, he's feeling very unwell welcome,
Speaker 2: he said. His reoccurring thought, which was real strange, he said,
Speaker 2: was that I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: And way off in the distance at this point, when
Speaker 2: it's light out, he notices an actual bear like way out.
Speaker 2: It caught his attention. He's there to bear hunt. Grant you,
Speaker 2: creepy stuff is happening, he said. But he was seeing
Speaker 2: maybe that bear he could take off land somewhere else
Speaker 2: and catch it the next day. While it's heading east
Speaker 2: or whatever. He's trying to reevaluate and move right. So
Speaker 2: as he's glassing this bear, he notices the bear stands
Speaker 2: up and the bear, he said, was at about four
Speaker 2: hundred yards and the wind was variable at a certain point.
Speaker 2: This bear, he thought, winded him. It stands up, looks
Speaker 2: in his general direction, and drops down and takes off
Speaker 2: the way it came fast, he said, that bear took off.
Speaker 2: He was like, crap, it winded me. So he goes
Speaker 2: and by this point he had progressed over to the
Speaker 2: edge of this mouth that drops down, and he said,
Speaker 2: he caught with that variable wind, he caught the whiff
Speaker 2: of something horrible. It smelled like rotten me body odor
Speaker 2: and heavy urine. And he looks down and in the brush.
Speaker 2: He said, about forty yards a way, there's this thing
Speaker 2: looking at him. And he said there was no mistake
Speaker 2: in what he saw because when he made eye contact
Speaker 2: with this thing just down the hill from him, down
Speaker 2: the slope, this thing stood up. He said, when it
Speaker 2: stood up, he felt like his chest, his heart was
Speaker 2: just going to break his chest open, because he said
Speaker 2: it was beaten real hard. He said he froze up.
Speaker 2: His fight or flight just went haywire, and he was
Speaker 2: halfway raising the rifle when he just stopped, and he
Speaker 2: said he was mentally stuck. He couldn't wrap his mind
Speaker 2: around what he was seeing down below him. He said
Speaker 2: it was like fifty sixty yards away tops. He said
Speaker 2: it had to be. He's six foot coming through that brush.
Speaker 2: It was taller than him. The brush. This thing is
Speaker 2: right on the trail that he went through to cross
Speaker 2: the day before or whatever. So he knew the brush
Speaker 2: was taller than him by about a foot or so,
Speaker 2: and this thing, when it stood up, it had to
Speaker 2: have been over ten feet tall, at least that's a
Speaker 2: guestimation looking down at it, not having a perspective of
Speaker 2: it level. He froze, He freely admitted he froze up.
Speaker 2: He didn't know what to do. His thumb was on
Speaker 2: the safety of his rifle, just a little rocker switch
Speaker 2: back and forth, and he couldn't get himself to break
Speaker 2: three of that. He said, this thing stood there a
Speaker 2: few moments, looking at him inquisitively like a dog. And
Speaker 2: he said, when it move its head, it moved its
Speaker 2: upper body like this. When it was sizing him up, basically,
Speaker 2: it let out a hllacious grunt, guttural scream. He said
Speaker 2: that was real low but at the same time high pitched.
Speaker 2: He said it was the weirdest thing he ever heard.
Speaker 2: That snapped him out of his spider flight like stuck.
Speaker 2: He said, once that happened, don't run from predators. All
Speaker 2: that stuff was right out the fucking window. He turned
Speaker 2: and booked it back to the plane. Now at this
Speaker 2: point he had been packing stuff up. There was minimal
Speaker 2: stuff outside his plane. He tossed the rest of it in.
Speaker 2: He had some those little cinder blocks for peer pads
Speaker 2: for decking and whatnot. He had a couple of those,
Speaker 2: and rope for his tie dounds when he was flying
Speaker 2: remote just to tie down the wings or whatever. He said,
Speaker 2: he just cut those lines on both sides. He didn't
Speaker 2: give a flying rants ass. He jumps in. He has
Speaker 2: to warm up the plane. And he said, as he's
Speaker 2: warming up the plane, he's got his four fifty four
Speaker 2: out on his lap and he's looking in the direction
Speaker 2: of where he's seen this thing, right, And so once
Speaker 2: he gets up to operating temperature, he immediately throttles, turns around,
Speaker 2: cuts back down. He tied some marker tape trail marker tape,
Speaker 2: the neon orange stuff onto his struts for his wings
Speaker 2: so he could gauge where the wind was boring. No
Speaker 2: grant you, he was gauging the wind before he fired
Speaker 2: up the prop. Understand that he's not it you're going
Speaker 2: to fire it up and of course going to flat back.
Speaker 2: So he had these streamers up to gauge wind direction
Speaker 2: before he fired up, and so he had to taxi
Speaker 2: back down and then come back the direction he was
Speaker 2: camped to take off. He said. When he turned around
Speaker 2: to taxi down, he was about halfway down taxiing, and
Speaker 2: he looks off to his right hand side. When he did,
Speaker 2: he noticed movement off to his right hand side. He said,
Speaker 2: it freaked him out. He almost over correct it. He'd
Speaker 2: throttled up, was bouncing along pretty damn hard, and didn't
Speaker 2: know what to do, so he calmed down. He throttled back.
Speaker 2: He finished his taxi, turned around and just got his
Speaker 2: ale rounds, all that stuff set and just powered up
Speaker 2: and just slowly built up speed, heading to towards the
Speaker 2: end of his mouth. He said, just as he came
Speaker 2: up and lifted off, he caught a nice little draft
Speaker 2: and helped lift him further up. He was going through
Speaker 2: his thing, he said. He got about three miles away
Speaker 2: trying to shake off what was going on, so he
Speaker 2: decided he's going to circle back, which there's quite a
Speaker 2: few powers that have done that, he said. When he
Speaker 2: circled back and started coming back, he was basically in shock.
Speaker 2: He said. He was shaking real hard. And if anyone's
Speaker 2: been on a piper cut les's literally fly by wire
Speaker 2: with your yoke and whatnot. It's literally by wire, so
Speaker 2: he's bouncing around, but it's his own nerves messing with them,
Speaker 2: and so he's happened to be flying back towards the
Speaker 2: direction of delling him. He said. As he was coming
Speaker 2: back over the spot, he was looking down. He could
Speaker 2: see where he had been parked, and he could see
Speaker 2: the cinder blocks one pair of him. The other ones
Speaker 2: were missing, or maybe he didn't see him or whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's what happened with Adrian approximately fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: He said he felt fortunate that it didn't go any
Speaker 2: further than what it did. He mentioned that the feeling
Speaker 2: of being watched, that was his biggest thing. He was like,
Speaker 2: when you share this, reiterate that when you're feeling like
Speaker 2: you're being watched, you probably are. You gotta trust your
Speaker 2: intuition in the woods, you just have to. I'm going
Speaker 2: to thank Adrian for reaching out. It wasn't easy for him.
Speaker 2: He hasn't talked to anybody. At one point, he said,
Speaker 2: he brought it up to his buddy, the other pilot briefly.
Speaker 2: One time. He broke the ice by bringing up crazy
Speaker 2: stuff in the woods. The guy wasn't reciprocating any craziness,
Speaker 2: so he just left it alone. Also a reminder, be
Speaker 2: aware at the berry patches. There's been a serious uptick
Speaker 2: in sightings near berry picking places this year, nine within
Speaker 2: fourteen days. That's quite a bit for people to go
Speaker 2: out of the way to report. It makes you wonder
Speaker 2: what's not reported, So be safe out there. What I
Speaker 2: wanted to share with you today comes from a couple hunters.
Speaker 2: Now we'll name them Woody and Harold. Okay, So they
Speaker 2: were part of a seven man group of hunters. This
Speaker 2: was five years ago. This was the hunting season before
Speaker 2: COVID kicked in. They had saved up the money to
Speaker 2: go with a guide buddy of theirs. It so happened
Speaker 2: that Harold had his own plane. He doesn't fly that often,
Speaker 2: but he has his license and he flies enough to
Speaker 2: stay current. He freely admits he's not the top level
Speaker 2: bush pilot by any means. It's strictly recreational and he
Speaker 2: doesn't get much time for it. So Woody and Harold
Speaker 2: agreed that they would come in on Harold's plane following
Speaker 2: their guiding buddy, and so they came in together. They
Speaker 2: packed fairly light. Their guide buddy had a moose camp
Speaker 2: already set up, and this is in the interior of Alaska.
Speaker 2: Asked me not to use the exact location just due
Speaker 2: to their guide buddy still operates in the area and
Speaker 2: so on. So we'll just say it's south of the
Speaker 2: Brooks Range. Okay, they get there. They get there a
Speaker 2: couple of days after their friend had been there and
Speaker 2: things were set up. Harold had a hard time. He
Speaker 2: had to do the approach for the landing several times.
Speaker 2: Could you got to skiff on the water and then
Speaker 2: get on the ground. He wasn't well versed at it.
Speaker 2: He was really worried about flipping over and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So after third fourth try he finally came in and
Speaker 2: committed and made it right. No problem. So they get there.
Speaker 2: The guide buddy had already been there a couple of days.
Speaker 2: He was getting ready to ferry a couple of clients out.
Speaker 2: They had other planes come in to pack moose meat out.
Speaker 2: He was telling them, hey, we had seen bears. There's
Speaker 2: gut piles over here over there. Just be aware when
Speaker 2: you guys are out, be aware of those gut piles
Speaker 2: because there's probably gonna be bears on them. Fair enough
Speaker 2: would he experienced hunter, have been out in the woods
Speaker 2: several times, this is not his first picnic when it
Speaker 2: comes to going remote for hunting. Harold, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: was a newbie. He had basically road hunted. Hunt from
Speaker 2: the road, see something off in the distance, get off
Speaker 2: the road and spot and stock and shoot a caribou
Speaker 2: that way or whatever, which hey to each his own.
Speaker 2: So what he's explaining to Harold, Okay, I want to
Speaker 2: check out one of these gut piles. I have a
Speaker 2: bear tag this year. You okay with potentially hunting a
Speaker 2: brown bear, And Harold's sure, why not. We're out here,
Speaker 2: We've committed to this, so we might as well give
Speaker 2: it a try if it's around. So they decide on
Speaker 2: their plan of action. By the time they had gotten there,
Speaker 2: they really didn't want to commit to all out hunting
Speaker 2: that evening, so they decided to do a quick scout,
Speaker 2: glass around, and then come back to the camp and
Speaker 2: commit right and early in the morning and get out
Speaker 2: there a glass, spot, stock, do whatever they got to do.
Speaker 2: They essentially just wanted to find a gut pop, so
Speaker 2: for that evening they did. They spotted the gut pile
Speaker 2: there's some camp robbers and other birds around the pile.
Speaker 2: So okay, it's right over there. We got it ingrained
Speaker 2: in the memory. Let's just call it a night, go
Speaker 2: enjoy the evening. And by time they got back to camp,
Speaker 2: their guide buddy, who had already been there a couple
Speaker 2: of days, there was five guys when they got back
Speaker 2: to camp. When they get back to camp, there was
Speaker 2: two planes getting ready to take off. It was the
Speaker 2: last of the moose meat. Before they took off, a
Speaker 2: couple of the guys parted ways with so now they're
Speaker 2: down to a total of about five people in camp.
Speaker 2: Next morning, as they were getting up getting ready to
Speaker 2: do their thing, they're enjoying coffee and they're talking to
Speaker 2: their guide buddy. It was light enough they were getting
Speaker 2: ready to take a few more of the guys out,
Speaker 2: so they're like, all right, the hunters are going to
Speaker 2: be in camp, so they'll be around. Their hunt is done. Basically,
Speaker 2: they're just killing time waiting for their ride out. So
Speaker 2: their guide buddy takes off off they go, and so
Speaker 2: Woody and Harold they get up on top of this
Speaker 2: little butte looking down glassing this one particular gut pile well,
Speaker 2: when they get up there, they're having a hard time
Speaker 2: finding because there's no birds around yet. There's no birds
Speaker 2: picking at it. So they decide they're going to walk
Speaker 2: downhill a little ways down off this little butte and
Speaker 2: go down and check out the area of the gut
Speaker 2: pile and see if there's any even bare sign. Should
Speaker 2: we even sit here or should we just go look
Speaker 2: for moose? There's basically, in essence what they were doing. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: they're making cow moose calls stuff like that, periodically scraping
Speaker 2: brush with an old antler and just making moose noises,
Speaker 2: trying to see because they're there to moose hunt. The
Speaker 2: bare thing came up. So from what he said, they
Speaker 2: get about twenty ish feet from this gut pile. It's
Speaker 2: right near some willows. As soon as they get closer
Speaker 2: to the willows rupt with activity and they can't see,
Speaker 2: but they see a darkness take off like low to
Speaker 2: the ground foon. It's gone. And it startled them because
Speaker 2: this bright and early in the morning is daylight, but
Speaker 2: still shadow in the brush and stuff. So they were like,
Speaker 2: oh crap, So they retreated back up the butte, decided okay,
Speaker 2: that sounded really big, let's back off. Let's let it
Speaker 2: come back, and maybe we can get a better look
Speaker 2: at this bear and maybe we could fill that bear tag.
Speaker 2: So wood he's excited. He's, oh, man, I'm going to
Speaker 2: get this bear. And they smell the funny smell and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, but again they're thinking bear, no, biggie.
Speaker 2: They get back up the butte. Woody had a hard
Speaker 2: time sleeping the night before because the hunters they were
Speaker 2: enjoying themselves with some cold beers and their successful hunt
Speaker 2: the night before they flew out, so they whooped it
Speaker 2: up a little bit, and Woody didn't get the best sleep,
Speaker 2: and so Harold said, hey, I slept just fine. I
Speaker 2: put in my earbuds and listened to an audio bi
Speaker 2: I didn't hear none of it, and so I got
Speaker 2: good rest. I'll keep glassing for this bear to come back.
Speaker 2: You catch a net what he's all for it? He said.
Speaker 2: He laid back on his pack and boom, he was out.
Speaker 4: Because it was so quiet, they tuned for more sasquatch
Speaker 4: out to see we'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 2: He says. As he was woken up just as the
Speaker 2: sun was coming up by Harold shaking his boot and
Speaker 2: he wakes up to it, and Harold's giving him the
Speaker 2: motion like come here and look, come here and look.
Speaker 2: So what he kind of shimmeys forward because he was
Speaker 2: up the hill a little ways with his feet just
Speaker 2: down close enough for Harold to reach, he said. When
Speaker 2: he got next to Harold and Harold handed him the
Speaker 2: binoculars and was pointing, he looks down and he's looking
Speaker 2: just past the gut pile and this thing, this dark,
Speaker 2: shadowy figure was inside the willows, basically the same spot
Speaker 2: where they got close and it spooked it and it
Speaker 2: ran off. So he's really trying to focus in and
Speaker 2: he can't seem to focus on it. It's dark, he said.
Speaker 2: It was beyond the darkness of the shadows around it.
Speaker 2: It was a silhouette. It looked like a head and shoulders.
Speaker 2: And Harold kept whispering, is that some guy in a
Speaker 2: gilly suit? When the like, dang, why would one of
Speaker 2: the hunters steal in camp come over here knowing we're
Speaker 2: out to hunt bear. It didn't make sense for someone
Speaker 2: from their camp, which was the only one around, for
Speaker 2: someone to be out there, and they're trying to think,
Speaker 2: did we hear any other planes. They're trying to do
Speaker 2: the little process of elimination. Who or what is this? Right?
Speaker 2: So what he puts his hand up waves nothing, just
Speaker 2: dead quiet, and he's like, hey, starts yelling down there,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? You've ruined our hunt? So what
Speaker 2: he stands up. He's pissed off at this moment, like,
Speaker 2: who the hell's this asshole out here? What are you
Speaker 2: doing squadding down by this gut pile trying to get shot?
Speaker 2: He wasn't threatening to shoot him. When you're playing silly
Speaker 2: games in the woods, you fuck around and find out,
Speaker 2: you don't startle somebody out hunting. And so he starts
Speaker 2: chastising and yelling. Didn't even grab his gun because he
Speaker 2: thinks he's dealing with some idiot. He's just walking down
Speaker 2: and hill, just yelling. And he only went a few feet,
Speaker 2: just yelling and making all sorts of gestures to the guy.
Speaker 2: And he turns around. He's coming back up, and Harold
Speaker 2: stands up real fast, right, and his eyes are huge.
Speaker 2: So what he turns around to see what's going on,
Speaker 2: and this thing had stood up. Now what he said,
Speaker 2: when this thing stood up, he was just down by
Speaker 2: this brush he was just there. It was just about
Speaker 2: head height. Whatoody's six foot two, so he knows the
Speaker 2: brush is about as tall as him. Now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, this thing is standing up and it's almost
Speaker 2: twice that He's literally in shock. What the hell? And
Speaker 2: this thing turns and is going from directly in front
Speaker 2: of him off to their right. So their camp is
Speaker 2: off to that right too, but it's three quarters of
Speaker 2: a mile away. But this thing starts walking through the
Speaker 2: brush and it's just a little thin line of brush,
Speaker 2: and he got open area of muskeg and tundra and
Speaker 2: stuff back behind it, and there's tundra and a little
Speaker 2: brush between them and this thing. This thing gets to
Speaker 2: a certain point and he said it had to have
Speaker 2: been forty five feet As they're stuck staring like what
Speaker 2: the hell, and Harold's holding what he's arm because he
Speaker 2: grabbed his arm when it stood up and was startled.
Speaker 2: And the only thing that Snappedoody out of it is
Speaker 2: Harold squeezing the hell out of his arm like hard,
Speaker 2: so he breaks the grip. When they're paying attention to it,
Speaker 2: this thing drops down to all fours, goes zig zaggy
Speaker 2: back and forth and then takes off on all fours
Speaker 2: and it looks like it's just going right away from
Speaker 2: him fast. He said, it was moving out a clip.
Speaker 2: Nothing was slowing it down. It was just gone. And
Speaker 2: so they watched it for a little bit until it
Speaker 2: just they stopped noticing it. With the little rises and
Speaker 2: falls of the tundra, he got these little divots and stuff,
Speaker 2: and it just was gone. They were in shocked sitting
Speaker 2: there looking at each other and nervously started laughing with
Speaker 2: each other, and Harold's almost pissed myself, Man, what is that?
Speaker 2: What is I don't know. They pack up their stuff
Speaker 2: and they make a hasty retreat back to camp. Right now,
Speaker 2: a couple hours gone by since they left. It hadn't
Speaker 2: been huge expanse of time or anything like that, and
Speaker 2: they were multiple hours before their guide buddy came back
Speaker 2: with his plane and whatever else to get the rest
Speaker 2: of their stuff. And so when they get back to camp,
Speaker 2: one of the two guys was up. He was a
Speaker 2: white guy. They were telling him, hey, this craziness happened
Speaker 2: over here or whatever, and the guy looks at him
Speaker 2: and he goes, you know what, my hunting partner. He's
Speaker 2: a native guy. He lives outside of Bristol Bay. He's
Speaker 2: getting moving now, let me ask him about it. He
Speaker 2: had mentioned something about a hairyman and so they were like, what,
Speaker 2: they never heard of it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So this guy, middle aged guy, he said, native dude.
Speaker 2: He comes out at the basket. I was shaking off
Speaker 2: the little bit of drinking they did tonight before, and
Speaker 2: he's sipping coffee and he's zipping up his coat and
Speaker 2: stuff because it's chilly kind of morning. And they all
Speaker 2: sit down by the fire. This native gentleman commences to
Speaker 2: explain to them about the hairy man and things he's
Speaker 2: seen and be aware because they had seen one a
Speaker 2: couple days before the first day they got there. This
Speaker 2: particular native gentleman had spotted it way off in the distance,
Speaker 2: but immediately knew by its shape and how it was
Speaker 2: moving it was a hairyman. He had already dealt with
Speaker 2: stuff before. He warns them, Hey, from my understanding, we're
Speaker 2: clearing camp today, So you guys need to be safe
Speaker 2: if you stay here, because it's probably just after the
Speaker 2: gut piles, and maybe stay away from the gut piles
Speaker 2: and go hunt across the way over here. We saw
Speaker 2: some bull activity over there, so maybe you can get
Speaker 2: your bull moose over there. Leave it alone. It should
Speaker 2: leave you alone, kind of advice. Keep your wits about you.
Speaker 2: And then in a way gave him an ominous premonition
Speaker 2: of they'll steal you and eat you, is the last
Speaker 2: thing he said about. And then he laughs at him
Speaker 2: and then commits his drinking his coffee and getting ready
Speaker 2: and packing stuff up, right, because they had to shut
Speaker 2: down what they were doing to fly out as soon
Speaker 2: as their guide buddy got back. So Woody and Harold
Speaker 2: just look at each other and okay, like they didn't
Speaker 2: know what to do with the information, but they know
Speaker 2: what they just saw. And it wasn't a freaking bear.
Speaker 2: It was huge, and it took off. They had their
Speaker 2: own plane there, they had their rifles. They felt relatively safe,
Speaker 2: just uneasy about the unpredictability, the unknowns. They're like, what
Speaker 2: the hell, and they're like, we're out here. It took off,
Speaker 2: It was long ways away when we last seen it,
Speaker 2: and it didn't seem to be slowing down. So let's
Speaker 2: go across the way and go look for this bull moose. Right, So,
Speaker 2: by time they make it across the way, which is
Speaker 2: a good mile and a half away up onto this
Speaker 2: other butte, and back behind that was some more swampy
Speaker 2: muskeg area and some black spruce and some other vegetation
Speaker 2: where they said this bull moose was hanging around. So
Speaker 2: once they get up on that butte and they're glassing around,
Speaker 2: they see the moose. They see the petals of the moose.
Speaker 2: It's off at a distance, it's down just below the brush,
Speaker 2: but every once in a while they could see the
Speaker 2: antlers move right, so they're like, oh sweet. So they
Speaker 2: start doing their cow calls. They start brushing the brush
Speaker 2: with an old piece of antler, just making this sound
Speaker 2: and doing their calls, and this thing's not responding at all,
Speaker 2: which is weird. They're in the rut, so usually they'd
Speaker 2: at least stand up and come doing this little sauntering thing,
Speaker 2: swinging their head back and forth, trying to figure out
Speaker 2: where this female is doing none of that, so they figure, okay,
Speaker 2: we know where it's at. This regroup down at the
Speaker 2: bottom of this butte and circle around, keeping the wind
Speaker 2: in our face, get a better line of sight on
Speaker 2: this bull moose, and we could bag the moose and
Speaker 2: we fly out of here today. So they're all for it.
Speaker 2: The excitement of the moose hunt kind of clouded what
Speaker 2: they had just seen, but he had it on the
Speaker 2: back of his mind because what he said when he
Speaker 2: was traversing down this butte, there was a couple of
Speaker 2: times he got an eerie feeling and he would look
Speaker 2: around and just chalked it up to jittery. He's jumpy
Speaker 2: from what they witnessed a couple hours ago. So Harold
Speaker 2: right behind him. They get down and they get a
Speaker 2: line of side on the bull moose, and they're looking
Speaker 2: at it and just it seems off because they're getting
Speaker 2: a straight line of sight and it appears to be
Speaker 2: looking right back at them. But every once in a while,
Speaker 2: the way it was moving its antlers was like it
Speaker 2: had a tick. It was like the antlers were being
Speaker 2: pulled to the side and then they'd straighten up, pulled
Speaker 2: to the side, straighten up, And they can make it
Speaker 2: to their something wrong with this. It had it been
Speaker 2: shot by someone else, And so now they're like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: I wonder if someone else wounded this bull moose didn't
Speaker 2: know it was wounded. It run off and now it's
Speaker 2: sitting here suffering. Harold is hey We can't just leave
Speaker 2: it there like that. We should go check it out,
Speaker 2: put it out of its misery, make a note of
Speaker 2: it the area, and report it. If it's already been shot.
Speaker 2: We don't know the condition of the meat. We don't
Speaker 2: know if it's been poisoned. We don't know, So let's
Speaker 2: just go check on it. Put it out of its misery,
Speaker 2: no harm, no foul. So they make their way and
Speaker 2: they were a good three four hundred yards from the
Speaker 2: position of the moose. Where they were at the wind's
Speaker 2: blown in their face the whole time, and he said,
Speaker 2: once they got what he had said, Once they got
Speaker 2: approximately seventy five yards ish from this bull moose, they're
Speaker 2: thinking it's going to stand up at any among our
Speaker 2: attempt to, because it appears to be looking every once
Speaker 2: in a while. Is still the same thing the handlers
Speaker 2: with twitch, right, he said. Once they reset seventy five
Speaker 2: yard mark or whatever, they slowed down real quick, and
Speaker 2: they cut him with something strange, and they were like,
Speaker 2: what is that smell? They couldn't make it out. He said.
Speaker 2: It was like a heavy body odor urine smell, which
Speaker 2: he had never smelled before dealing with moose or anything.
Speaker 2: Like that. So he was very intrigued and cautious, especially
Speaker 2: considering the morning they had. And so Harold starts nudging up, saying, hey,
Speaker 2: do you see that what? He's looking right at the moose.
Speaker 2: So he's yeah, I say, it's right there. I see it.
Speaker 2: Harold's and all behind it in the brush. Look, look,
Speaker 2: And so he's trying to look, and Harold had on
Speaker 2: the binoculars what he had some in his backpack, but
Speaker 2: he hadn't dug him out or whatever, right, they had
Speaker 2: just been passing him back and forth. Harold passes them
Speaker 2: the binoculars and he looks through. What he's not seeing
Speaker 2: it what he's seeing the moose, and he's staring at
Speaker 2: the tree, not seeing the forest, so to speak, or
Speaker 2: seeing the forest, not the tree. So Harold goes and points,
Speaker 2: he goes off what would be the right paddle of
Speaker 2: the moose's antlers. Just be that, just straight back from
Speaker 2: that from our spot. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: So what he takes his time and he lines it
Speaker 2: up and he's looking and then he sees it. He
Speaker 2: sees something very dark but had a little more of
Speaker 2: a like a cinnamon red tinge to it. And he thinks, oh,
Speaker 2: a brown bear is on a dead moose. Score, that's
Speaker 2: my bear. We got lucky the errors in our face.
Speaker 2: That explains a funky smell. So he starts getting excited
Speaker 2: about a bear. Harold, I don't feel good about it.
Speaker 2: What is now will be okay. We're already in a
Speaker 2: good position. Let's move forward just a little bit more
Speaker 2: to get this thing to move out into the open.
Speaker 2: So they move forward about another twenty yards. What he said,
Speaker 2: and he gave a cow call, a moose cow call.
Speaker 2: As soon as he did that, he said, this thing
Speaker 2: stood up from behind the moose, and it wasn't as
Speaker 2: big as the last one they had seen a few
Speaker 2: miles away. This one, he said, was between six seven
Speaker 2: foot tall. Real skinny, he said. You could tell it
Speaker 2: had muscle mass, but it was real lean. It was real,
Speaker 2: real lean, real shaggy looking, real haggard kind of hair,
Speaker 2: and it had a lot of gray towards the bottom
Speaker 2: of it. But the upper part, off the shoulders and
Speaker 2: off the head was this reddish brown, kind of grizzled color.
Speaker 2: He said. The lower part of the arms were real
Speaker 2: dark as far as the hair. When it stood up,
Speaker 2: it looked right at them and started doing this number,
Speaker 2: twitching back and forth, and as they're staring at it,
Speaker 2: they're stuck again. This time Harold is freaked out and
Speaker 2: he raises his rifle and points it in the direction
Speaker 2: of this thing. Right as soon as that rifle was
Speaker 2: pointed at this thing, what he said, because he watched
Speaker 2: Harold lift his rifle out of the corner of his
Speaker 2: eye as he was transfixed staring at this thing, he said,
Speaker 2: as soon as Harold lifted that rifle up in that direction,
Speaker 2: this thing dropped to the ground and they didn't see
Speaker 2: it again. He said, he just dropped out of the way.
Speaker 2: They didn't hear a peep, a noise or anything, no
Speaker 2: brushes moving, nothing. It dropped down and was gone. Once
Speaker 2: it dropped down, he was in shock, and he was like,
Speaker 2: don't shoot. We don't know what that is. We don't
Speaker 2: know what that is. And he goes, it's a hairy
Speaker 2: man whatever. He's repeating some of the warnings that the
Speaker 2: native guy had given him a few hours ago at camp.
Speaker 2: But we got it. Let's go over there, Let's go
Speaker 2: over there. It wasn't that big. Let's go over there.
Speaker 2: I think we'll be all right, what are you not
Speaker 2: knowing any better? They get over right up on this
Speaker 2: moose and it is half picked apart. He said. It
Speaker 2: looked like pieces of the fur and skin were folded
Speaker 2: back out of the way of the ribs. A lot
Speaker 2: of the innerds were already speeled out. The liver was missing,
Speaker 2: the heart, the intestines were just stacked off to the side.
Speaker 2: So it looked like whoever was in there this thing
Speaker 2: was picking and choosing what it was eating. And as
Speaker 2: he's looking, he realizes it has no back legs, right,
Speaker 2: the back legs are gone, and so he's just in awe.
Speaker 2: What he's looking at just torn a power or moose
Speaker 2: is just right there, and he's staring. And as that's happening,
Speaker 2: they're hearing noise and they're trying to figure out where
Speaker 2: they're hearing it from. So Harold looks behind them, and
Speaker 2: this thing had dropped down out of view, and somehow
Speaker 2: it quietly got directly behind he said. When he turned
Speaker 2: around and saw this thing, it had the most curious
Speaker 2: look on its face, he said. Seeing it out away
Speaker 2: from the brush, it had to have been just below
Speaker 2: six foot tall. His guestimation, because it's all happening a
Speaker 2: lot faster than I'm telling you. But when he looked
Speaker 2: at it, he got startled because it was something that
Speaker 2: shouldn't be He said. The skin appeared to be like
Speaker 2: almost black. He said, it looked more of a dirty
Speaker 2: versus a permanent pigment. Right, it looked like it just
Speaker 2: weathered dirty face said, looked more tan in the creases
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, said for something that looked young
Speaker 2: in the eyes around the eyes. It had a lot
Speaker 2: of wrinkles on his face still, and it wasn't that big,
Speaker 2: but he said, when they were looking at it, the
Speaker 2: way it was looking back at him, he could tell
Speaker 2: it was sizing them up. So at that point, Harold
Speaker 2: had lifted his rifle again almost immediately, and this thing
Speaker 2: didn't take off running, right, So Woody lifts his rifle
Speaker 2: because they don't know what this thing is going to do.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: For Woody, it was really hard explaining this part because
Speaker 2: he said he felt like he was violating something by
Speaker 2: raising the rifle. He felt like he was in the wrong,
Speaker 2: and Harold was so freaked out he didn't give a
Speaker 2: damn right. And so what he said when he got
Speaker 2: a beat on this thing, it showed its teeth and
Speaker 2: then got up on two feet because it was hunched
Speaker 2: down like it was about to start doing pushups or something.
Speaker 2: When they first saw it, he said, when it stood
Speaker 2: up and walked off, it did very similar to the
Speaker 2: one they saw earlier that day in the morning. It
Speaker 2: walked off about forty yards, dropped down to all fours,
Speaker 2: and just gone, just hauling butt on all fours. He
Speaker 2: said he had never seen anything look so awkward moving
Speaker 2: but yet move so fast. He said the hips gyrated,
Speaker 2: rotting around and stuff, and he said it was gone.
Speaker 2: Once that happened, he would he said, I'm done. Harold
Speaker 2: was like, I'm done, screw this, let's go. They get
Speaker 2: back to camp. His guide buddy hadn't made it back yet,
Speaker 2: and they told the native dude what happened. And the
Speaker 2: native guy just nodded acknowledgment and was like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: gotta be careful. The other hunting buddy was this already serious?
Speaker 2: Are you guys messing with us? What's the point of this?
Speaker 2: And they're telling them, look, this is what happened. We're
Speaker 2: getting the hell out of here. So what they ended
Speaker 2: up doing is packing up their stuff. So they got
Speaker 2: packed up relatively quickly. They had Harold's planeloaded and they
Speaker 2: had it turned around for taxi for takeoff.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: They were just waiting for the right wind because at
Speaker 2: this point to take off they got a tailwind, so
Speaker 2: they can't take off into a tailwind, so they're tuck
Speaker 2: back waiting for the wind to shift. Harold had already
Speaker 2: went through the motions, warmed up the motor, so he
Speaker 2: was ready. He could just fire up and be ready
Speaker 2: to take off. As that's going on, their guide buddy
Speaker 2: comes in and lands right, so Harold let's whitty out
Speaker 2: what He crawls out from behind the backseat of the
Speaker 2: super cub, crawls runs over there, tells his guide buddy
Speaker 2: what's going on. As guy buddy he could tell was
Speaker 2: just like what tell me about it later, and he goes, look,
Speaker 2: we're just waiting for the wind to change and we're
Speaker 2: out of here. The guy buddy lets him know, Hey,
Speaker 2: there's no other planes coming in, so when you guys
Speaker 2: get your wind, feel free. What they had done is
Speaker 2: they had taken basically an old pole and they'd stuck
Speaker 2: it in the ground and kept it upright with rocks,
Speaker 2: and it had streamer tape on it, which is a
Speaker 2: common thing, trail marker tape. It's lightweight and you'll pick
Speaker 2: up the direction of the wind right. So as soon
Speaker 2: as that wind change happened, Harold fired up and they
Speaker 2: flew out of there. He said. Once they got up
Speaker 2: to elevation. What he was like, let's go see if
Speaker 2: we could spot them. Let's go see if we could
Speaker 2: take a look at these things. Harold wasn't having none
Speaker 2: of it. He goes, I got enough fuel to get home.
Speaker 2: Just left it at that. I want to thank Woody
Speaker 2: and Harold. Harold I talked to briefly. He really didn't
Speaker 2: want to talk much about it. Woody, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you guys for joining me today.
Speaker 2: We'll catch you here in the very near future. They say,
Speaker 2: you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be.
Speaker 2: World out it.
Speaker 3: Joy this job, Joy everything, Joy for me. Jos, you
Speaker 3: come in right away. Inside ss inside and still said,
Speaker 3: said Sid inside and still sings. Also Basil Insta plays
Speaker 3: and pears in states pass us.
Speaker 2: Most instance,