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Dot Untold Radio 22 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:06.560 network dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a string going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.359 on here. Something just kid with my dog. Something killed 25 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.680 your dog, my dog. We're flying through there over the tree. 26 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:20.319 I don't know how it did it? Okay, Damn, I'm 27 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:22.840 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 28 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.840 the fence, and name was dead once you hit the ground. 29 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:26.840 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my 30 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:45.640 dog coming over the fence. Mad, What are you reporting? 31 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.439 We got some wonder or something crawling around out here? 32 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.519 Did you see what it was? It enough here when 33 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.359 I'm new the window now and I don't need anything. 34 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.759 I don't want to go outside. Fine, you're right, Cara. Hello, 35 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.680 hit the boddy out here. What quent on out there? 36 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.319 I've thought of a bit of about text nine. I 37 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.199 don't know easy, I'm out there. Yeah, I'm walking right away. 38 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.680 Well, welcome our guest to the show. It is Steve 39 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.840 from British Columbia. Welcome to the show. 40 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:25.800 Thanks for having me, Brian, I'm. 41 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.199 Glad to have you. So let's get right into it. 42 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.120 Let's talk about this big fit thing. What gut you 43 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:30.240 interested in the subject? 44 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.879 To begin with. I guess for myself. Growing up, I'd 45 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.879 seen the Patterson Gillman from Everybody Has. I'd seen it 46 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.280 on TV at home and my dad saying, well, that's 47 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.879 just some buffoon in a gorilla suit. And I'd heard 48 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:46.360 the Sierra Sounds. That was also some sula. What's making noise? Right, 49 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.400 So that's the reality of that. I grew up. We 50 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.960 hunted a lot fish. I'd had some things happen over 51 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:55.919 the years, which I'll go into later. When it really 52 00:02:55.960 --> 00:03:00.840 started interesting me, it was in twenty eighteen, started working 53 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.479 up in Lake Louise Nearbath. I think you were up 54 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:05.759 there Radium, which is close. I've worked there as well. 55 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.599 I went back the following year in twenty nineteen. It 56 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:12.599 was January. It's minus thirty celsius, right, I'm working up there, 57 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:14.719 and I was listening to the local radio station. It 58 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.759 was the CBC. I think I had somebody on telling 59 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.960 some accounts. It's interesting. I was listening to it. Then 60 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.560 they mentioned Laura Krantz had a podcast called wild Thing. 61 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:26.719 I'd never even actually heard any podcast, so I didn't 62 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.080 even know what they were. I was the back of 63 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.439 the hotel. I found Spotify subscribe to that I found 64 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:34.639 that podcast started listening to it. I'd burned through that 65 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.520 and I got to a point and then they referenced 66 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.240 West Kermer's show, The Sasquad Chronicles. I slipped over to that. 67 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.919 Then it was referencing an episode. I can't for the 68 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:45.520 life and may remember what it was, but it was 69 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.240 right around forty something. Maybe it was more. That was 70 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.000 twenty eight nineteen. I was listening to this, I'm working away, 71 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.800 I'm by myself, way in the middle of nowhere, and 72 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.759 then I start hearing them talking about some of these 73 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.280 things that are similar to what happened. I just stopped. 74 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.479 I was what, wait, huh tree knocks? Never heard of 75 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.120 a tree k nock? Never heard of whistling, other odd things. 76 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:05.680 Then the hair on the back of my next stand. 77 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.240 And because I'm reliving this thing, that really it stopped 78 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:12.960 me from hunting because nothing made any sense. I guess 79 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.560 maybe I'll start there. I think it was probably about 80 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.560 twenty ten eleven, I'm not quite sure. First week of 81 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.399 October I hunted with my dad in an area out 82 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.240 of Cash Creek had quite a little ways off the highway. Right, 83 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.519 you're remote, there's no cell service or anything up there. 84 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:29.480 At that time. I didn't even have a cell phone. 85 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.399 I'm off the grid myself. So we pulled up there 86 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.600 the first evening. We had our little let thirteen foot 87 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.600 trillium trailer, got way up top there, back in this 88 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.279 little deactivated road, and we were gonna go out quickly 89 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.879 for the evening, look around, and the next day go 90 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.240 for our real hunts. So we get up there, pull 91 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.120 the trailer. It's probably around I don't know, two thirty 92 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.360 three o'clock something that it gets dark really early. So 93 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.480 my dad's going to add a way up the hill 94 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.000 across the road to do a big luke, come back around. 95 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.759 We will meet back at the trailer at dark. I 96 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.639 take off. He told me where to go. He told 97 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.120 me just head up that road that we were on, 98 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.079 because it's deactivated. Walk up there about it's not even 99 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.079 that far a quarter mile maybe a little better than. 100 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.000 Then there's a landing. He explained the lay of the 101 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.000 land to me. Just go down there, plunk yourself up, down, 102 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.920 break down. Some branches make a little ground blind. There's 103 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.920 a water source just over the crest, he explained. There's 104 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.439 a finger ridge that's just in the thick timber. It's 105 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.079 only in maybe seventy yards in the woods. He said, 106 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.040 the deer will come along there, get down to get water. 107 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:33.800 That time of year there's not a lot of water. 108 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.600 So I got in there, snapping branches right, getting myself 109 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.439 pucked in there, take my bag off, set it up 110 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.319 so I can shoot off that. I was just sitting back. 111 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.600 It was a little early yet I was set up, 112 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.040 probably an hour before the deer might start moving. I 113 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.240 could hear this noise, and usually I'll hear a noise 114 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.199 on everything. Something right in turn. Note I did know 115 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.519 what it was. It sand hill cranes. They sound odd 116 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.519 when they're way off in the distance. I was looking 117 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.519 for and I saw him. That's cool. I'm listening to 118 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:03.800 those unwinding Then I'm hearing another noise. This is the 119 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.439 thing that bothers me is how long it took until 120 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.680 my brain registered there was something wrong. It starts out 121 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.720 as this clicking noise. Now I've heard ravens. It's almost 122 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.800 start communicating back forth with these clicks, the clucks and whatnot. 123 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.800 So I was listening to this for fifteen minutes. It 124 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.519 dawned on me that if there's a raven around, there's 125 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.800 gonna be a carcass around because there's not going to 126 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.959 be one raven around, there's gonna be several. I haven't 127 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.199 seen a raven. I start looking around. That's weird. And 128 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.199 then it clicks on my head and that's not a raven. 129 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.480 It's soundly when somebody makes a noise with their mouth, 130 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.120 like pressing their tongue, but it's really loud. Because I 131 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.040 thought it was birds, right, it sounded something was going 132 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:40.680 back and forth. I'm sitting there like, wait, what the 133 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.319 hell is this? Then I hear a whistle. I think 134 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.399 to myself, maybe my dad's gone way around to come 135 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.160 back down. I thought he'd scare them up to me, 136 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.040 but he's gonna whistle let me know he's there, so 137 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:53.160 I'm not pointing my gun down the hill. I stand up, 138 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.759 I whistle. Then immediately something just starts smashing a bunch 139 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.600 of branches, breaking shit. I can't see anything in my head, 140 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.079 and maybe some hunters came in because nobody could come 141 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:06.519 up the side we came. They would have had to 142 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.600 come in off of the other highway. It's a hell 143 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.800 of a long drive in there. That doesn't make sense. 144 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.720 Nobody would have walked in four or five miles to 145 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.040 come to talk with me. Right to stand up. I whistle. 146 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.399 Then I yelled dad. As soon as I yelled that, 147 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.079 something just busts off to my right. I froze there 148 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.439 for a minute. I had my rifle up, my feet 149 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:26.879 were kind of screwy. I was not standing in a 150 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.240 way to swing my rifle. I'm looking. I'm not comprehending 151 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.360 the speed. It literally sounds twenty feet clean footballs, is 152 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.680 what I'm thinking. At that point, I'm something at right here. Now, 153 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.360 I start shuffling my feet. I'm turning that way, and 154 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.519 I hear something on the other side from where I 155 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.959 said I'd heard stuff breaking down there. Now something's going 156 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:49.439 the other direction. So I turn. I start looking back 157 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.839 because that's closer to me. At that point, I'm something 158 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.480 ain't right here. Now I've turned that way. That's the 159 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:56.000 good side for my gun. And so I've got my 160 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:57.959 gun there. I'll shooting the three hundred wind meg with 161 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:01.000 two hundred grain nouz or partitions. There's nothing up here 162 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.279 that I can't shoot. I'm looking that way, and then 163 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:06.720 from the side the first thing went. I hear this noise. 164 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.120 That's how the damn baseball bat wood on woodker wrap. 165 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.319 Now I'm back looking that way again. As soon as 166 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.560 I look that way, I turn around because I hear 167 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.279 whatever was on the other side is started to move again. 168 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.879 Both are running to where I came in. Where I 169 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.759 came in was a high bank, both sides a little 170 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.079 skid trail. By this time, I'm going to guess on 171 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.480 the top maybe four thirty something of that, sun's starting 172 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.399 to go down. Out in the landing where I am, 173 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.759 it's wide open. I don't know why, I just I'm 174 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:35.159 going to run. So I started running. Picked up my 175 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.559 bag first, I swung it over one shoulder. I started running. 176 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.960 One thing I didn't mention is when I was looking 177 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.240 at the trees, it was replanted. So I'm going to 178 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.799 guess around sixteen to eighteen feet high pine, pretty tight together. 179 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:51.200 I could see something moving through there, but I couldn't 180 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:53.320 see it. I could see something, but I couldn't see it. 181 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.039 I was tracing the noise, right, I was tracing, and 182 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.840 I don't see you, but I can see the limbs moving. 183 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.639 And that's when I started running. In my head, don't 184 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.240 run you look pray. The other part of me is screaming, 185 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.799 who cares? So I start running that first thing again. 186 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:09.639 I'm saying thing because I don't know what it is. 187 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:12.440 Has busted down, hit the far corner of that slack. 188 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.360 It's rounding coming around back up. It's a long ways. 189 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:19.000 I don't know how anything moved that fast. I can 190 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.840 hear it coming up the bush that's about two hundred 191 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.679 and seventy five yards away. I'm going, I guess I 192 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:25.840 put my gun up. There's the big fir trees. I 193 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.279 just thought I'm gonna shoot around at that tree. I'm 194 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.639 just picturing shittle flyery where right everything will run away, 195 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.960 it will be quiet. As soon as I put my 196 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.960 gun up started pointing it, I got a thought come 197 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.519 through my mind that said, put that gun down right now. 198 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:40.879 Then I went through this big struggle where I was 199 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:42.519 trying to throw my gun on the ground, but I 200 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.279 wasn't letting go of it. I had no clue what 201 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.960 was going on. At this point, I'm so beyond freaking out. 202 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.159 I was in full blown fight or play. I've never 203 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:52.440 experienced that in my life. Before I start running through 204 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:55.399 the road, there's something on either side. I know it's there. 205 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.480 I can hear it. It's I run, I stop, stops 206 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:02.080 both sides. I was point the gun one way as 207 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.720 you're walking, look the other. But the problem is my 208 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.320 right side was the high bank. Unless I walked all 209 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.519 the way over to the other bank, something could be 210 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.720 ten to twelve feet away from the top, I wouldn't 211 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:13.879 see it. I keep going and then I can hear this, 212 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.399 and it literally sounded at this point I was being 213 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.559 toyed with. It was somebody had a big branch. Just 214 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.559 that's what it seemed like. Something was just breaking it smaller, smaller. 215 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.799 So I'm swearing into the woods. My voice is cracking. 216 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:27.799 I'm just leave me out. 217 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:28.600 What do you want? 218 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.000 Because I think it's people at this point, right. But 219 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.639 I get out and I see the trailer. I said, 220 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.240 is dark in there? There's a sun setting. I can 221 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.200 see the trailer. So I start running again. I got 222 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.960 to the truck, the truck's log. There's key under the 223 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.799 gas cap, so I got the key out and I 224 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:46.320 don't even know why. I opened the door through my 225 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:47.919 bag and there took my right when I ran up 226 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.799 to the middle of the mainline road because it was 227 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.919 a little lighter there both sides of me. Still, it 228 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:55.879 just sounds something to stop, and I'm being toyed with. 229 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.960 It's cracked on both sides. I'm looking around. My Dad's 230 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.759 nowhere to be seen. Then I start walking up the 231 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.240 slash on the other side, because that's a fresh one. 232 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.200 I just thought, if I'm out here, I can see 233 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.240 three hundred and sixty degrees around me. Son's going down 234 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:13.279 and they're starting to get shadow everywhere. Then I hear 235 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.240 a whistle. That's my dad. He's seen me. He walks 236 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.559 down the hill. I get there. I'm huffing, huffing. I 237 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.759 can't remember exactly what he said to me because I'm 238 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.480 turned off at this point. I'm just oh, there's something 239 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.080 in the bush following me out of there, and he 240 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.799 looks at me, I'm an idiot, starts ejecting the shells 241 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:30.080 out of my gun. I'm sitting. It goes you're gunloaded. 242 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.919 I said, yeah, unload that, you knowing thing. I don't. 243 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.720 Let's go have something to eat. No, I'm serious. He stopped. 244 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.399 He listens, He here kat. He goes on, it'll just 245 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.480 be a couple of moose. I'm a moose. Oh moose, okay, 246 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.639 and then no, I was followed both sides. He's oh, yeah, 247 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.120 they'll do that, and no, they won't. Anyways, we get 248 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.720 back to this trailer. We don't have flashlights, because that's 249 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.720 how my dad is. He doesn't take a compass, nothing. 250 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:54.519 The one time we were going to go get a 251 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.759 search party for him, he ended up shooting two gears 252 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:58.519 goutted him out. He's it was going to be too dark, 253 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.919 so he just walked straight up over the mountain to us. 254 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.000 He got back at nine o'clock at night, pitch block. 255 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.360 He don't care. So we get back to the trailers, 256 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.960 start cooking dinner. I'm clearly shaking. I've got my rifle 257 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.000 in there. You've ever been in one of them trailers, 258 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.480 There's not much room, especially when you have the bed 259 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.960 set down. As my dad will say, your part, it's crowded. 260 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.840 So we're making some dinner. He's what are you planning 261 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:22.000 on keeping that gun in here with you? I said, yeah, 262 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.080 I am. Shakes his head. He says to me, what 263 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.240 do you think the Sam Squatch is going to get? 264 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:26.360 You know? 265 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.679 I looked at him, I said, yeah I do. I 266 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.200 don't know if you've ever seen Trailer Park Boys. That's 267 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.679 a Canadian show, but they had the Sam Squatch, but 268 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.639 it turned out to be a mountain lion. It was 269 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.759 eating their weed that they're growing, so we end up 270 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.200 eating dinner. I'm just done. My eyes want to close. 271 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.399 I'm so tired. The only light we have in there 272 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.320 is a crappy little incandescent camper balls two of them. 273 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.240 My dad's the kind of guy he says, when it's dark, 274 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.919 it's time for bed, So that would have been about 275 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.559 seven forty five lights out. I sleep with earplugs I 276 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.679 always have, and I put earplugs in. I had that 277 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.000 and your wind mag land next to me, a handful 278 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.120 of shells on the little counter up next to me. 279 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.320 The bolt open. I just fell right asleep. I'm guessing 280 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.360 on time again. I didn't have a cell phone, we 281 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:12.480 didn't have a clock. I don't know what time it was, 282 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:17.120 but I'm going to see it was probably eleven, maybe twelve, 283 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.519 I said. When my eyes closed, I passed right out. 284 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.679 Normally I take forever to fall asleep, but I think 285 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:23.879 I just had such an adrenaline dump that I was 286 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.519 just done. I wake up. I pull out an earclub. 287 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.399 There's a little coat rack here. Everything's shaken, and then 288 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:32.639 my dad's kind of grumbling and growing in and he's 289 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.519 got nothing I said, what the hell are you doing? 290 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.559 He goes, huh, and what are you doing? He looks 291 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:39.120 at me and he goes, what are you talking about? 292 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:40.960 And then he gets up. He sits up on his 293 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:42.600 bed and I'm trying to talk to him. He doesn't 294 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.159 say nothing. He goes to open the door. He's just 295 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:47.879 sitting there. What are you doing? He's like, huh, just 296 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.519 nothing makes any sense. He opens the door and pokes 297 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.759 an eye out there. He's looking. I said, what are 298 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.600 you doing? He goes, I'm going to see if the 299 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.879 moon is out? And what the moon? That don't make 300 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.879 any sense to me. He takes a week, opens the door. 301 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.840 He's peering around. He goes back, and I fell right 302 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.080 asleep again. Wooll cup. I don't know what time it was. 303 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.600 It was just going to get light. He's sitting on 304 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.519 the edge of the bed with his boots on. I 305 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.440 wake up, you know, says, Oh there you are. He says, 306 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.200 so what do you figure I didn't see any trucks 307 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.440 up there yesterday. Do you figure we should head on 308 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:24.080 somewhere else? He says, I know you don't want to 309 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.480 be here all I said, yeah, I want to leave. 310 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:28.879 So he says okay, we'll leave. I get out. He 311 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.200 fires up the truck. He's hooking up the trailer again, 312 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.200 just dropping the tongue down right, figure on my rifle. 313 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.720 I get out. I turned around, close the door, and 314 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:38.080 I look at the side train and said, what the 315 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.799 hell is that? He says, what? Then point right where 316 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.519 my seat are. There's no window now right. I looked 317 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:47.519 at it. I said, that was a goddamn hand. It 318 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.720 was in several spots in your hand. You've got all 319 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.720 your little and you know you call him. I know 320 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.360 I've heard the word dermal ridge, but all the creases everything, 321 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:57.519 he can see it on there. But you can also 322 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:00.159 see down. You can see where I would say it 323 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:01.039 was hair touching. 324 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.320 And stay tuned for more sasquat chattasy. We'll be right 325 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:06.840 back after these messages. 326 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.240 But this is like a frigging canoe cattle man in 327 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.879 four spots you can see looking back now, I feel 328 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.960 something was going back because you could see where it 329 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:22.120 look a palm had had slid. The reason I know 330 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.559 that this isn't something that was on the trailers because 331 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.399 that trailer was parked at my house under a larch tree. 332 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.399 We drug it four hundred kilometers. One hundred of it 333 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.600 was gravel road, which is dusty. It's covered in dust 334 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.639 when you get there. This was due so it's fresh. 335 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.840 Everything's fresh. You could see where the dew had run. 336 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.840 I wish if I had annoying anything, I would have 337 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.879 taken pictures of that, maybe started looking at the ground. 338 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.639 That was that first thing there. Ended up. We went 339 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.600 to another valley over. I felt safe, but it is 340 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:54.120 the crow flies. He's like, that's range over there. You 341 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.399 named that barbelly. It was probably only a mile a 342 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.000 half as a pro flies to the next road over. 343 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.879 It's knowing what I know now, it's twenty minutes it's there. 344 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.799 I ended up. I got a deer the next day, 345 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.480 and I went home, and my dad stayed there himself 346 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:09.000 and didn't he ended up getting deer. 347 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:09.519 That was that. 348 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.279 Even though I'd gone, I got that deer the next day. 349 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.159 I didn't even want to go again. For a few years, 350 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.360 I didn't know what it was. I had no clue. 351 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.240 All I know is I was scared. And then I 352 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.159 think it was about three years later. Again, apologize because 353 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.480 you're going back so many years now. I don't know 354 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:31.720 what year it was, but my dad went up right 355 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.320 near where we were, the first time he's up there, 356 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.240 his first day. He goes out, there's a buck there, 357 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:39.919 he said it. He got up on it. It was 358 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.759 about seventy yards away. He figures there was a big 359 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.399 brush file there that they burned them in the ball 360 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.200 of the late ball up there. So he just took 361 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:49.879 a few steps over to it and used it as 362 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:52.720 a rest because he was going to just go for 363 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.919 a behind the shoulder shot. He thought, like seventy yards 364 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.639 all had shoot it, but he wanted a rest. So 365 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.519 he puts his rifle up, clicks the safety off, pulls 366 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.880 the chegger. It does the typical the legs go out. 367 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.480 It just goes into a heap on the ground. He 368 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.839 turned around, cut his tag because he got it, he 369 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:12.920 decided because I think he said it was a nine 370 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.880 am or nine thirty something of that. So rather than 371 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.559 getting into it, because he a lot of times skin him, 372 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.640 break him down, hack them out right there, so you're 373 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.480 gonna have your little lunch before you get all covered 374 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.160 in blood guts. He does that. He goes over to 375 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:31.599 get his ear. He goes it's gone. He looked around, 376 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.519 it was gone. He was telling me about this after 377 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:36.279 he goes, yeah, it must have got up run away. 378 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.880 I know I spine shot it. He could tell at 379 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.559 seventy yards, and he's our good shot at seventy yards 380 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.839 with those handloads. He knows right where the bullet went, 381 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.200 the way it piled up on the ground. That he 382 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.599 didn't stay there locked to confirm it was dead. But 383 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:51.960 he looked at it long enough to cut his tag, 384 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.839 make the decision, and I'm going to cut my tag. 385 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.559 Then turns his back, has his lunch for fifteen minutes, 386 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:01.960 it's not there. So he said he must have missed 387 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.119 it ran away. He looked for four hours that day, 388 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:10.240 went back, was perplexed. Then he went the next morning. 389 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.920 He waited because he'd already cut his tag. He can't 390 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.160 shoot another bear, so he said he would just wait 391 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:18.240 a little later in the day because he figured it'll 392 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.759 be around there somewhere. He'll just look for the ravens. Nothing. 393 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.880 Then he came home, went back the week. Labor never 394 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:28.640 saw it, so I don't know what that means. Then 395 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:33.119 you fast forward two years from that, we go up 396 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:36.599 that same area, so you're about four or five years 397 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.960 after that first thing. So now I'm almost willing to 398 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.240 go in the woods again. We get up pull the 399 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.960 trailer in this area. I'd been up in there before. 400 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:47.640 I knew the lay of the land. They'd logged a 401 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.640