WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.600 Now, I went on, you're putting. I got a string 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.639 going on here. Something just killing my dog. Something killed 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.560 your dog, my dog. We're flying through the or over 4 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:13.359 the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, damn, 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.640 and I'm really confused. All I saw is my dog 6 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:17.559 coming over the fence, and he was dead once you 7 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.480 hit the ground. I didn't have see any cars. All 8 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:37.880 I saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, 9 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.920 what are you putting? We got someone or something prowling 10 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:51.560 around out here? Did you see what it was? 11 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:51.920 Was? 12 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.200 It was standing enough. I'm out here looking through the 13 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:56.079 window now and I don't see anything. I don't want 14 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:03.960 to go outside. Jesus quiet, you better Hello, hit the 15 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:04.760 boddy out here? 16 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.000 What quent on out there? 17 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.599 Thought of a bit of about text four nine? I 18 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.200 don't know easy him out there? Yeah, but woking right? 19 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.920 Oh Hey, greetings is friend Alaska. Thanks for joining me today. 20 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.200 What I wanted to share with you today comes from Douglas. 21 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.719 What happened with Douglas occurred last year at the Savage 22 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:25.799 River where the Stampede trail meets it. He went down 23 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:31.239 there from Anchorage specifically to try to look for signs 24 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.359 of Mary Wilson, someone who went missing there last year 25 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:39.200 reported missing our last scene July twelfth, reported missing the fourteenth. 26 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.920 They found her two year old grandson in the back 27 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:45.239 of the truck, no sign of her except some belongings 28 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:49.040 a mile further up to Stampede trails. It really sparked 29 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.760 his curiosity. He had been going to that area for 30 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.359 forty plus years, never had any weird occurrences, never, which 31 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.760 really intrigued him because he had been there so often. 32 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.560 So he took it upon himself. He goes out by 33 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.480 four wheeler as he's coming up to where the trail 34 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.280 comes to meet up with the Savage River. He had 35 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.199 gotten a late start that day. He had planned on 36 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.199 camping out anyway, so it was no big deal. He 37 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.520 didn't care how far he got before he set up camp. 38 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.759 He already knew the area. He was good to go. 39 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.000 So as he's coming up to the area, he's contemplating 40 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.599 camping at just ahead of him in the trail, you 41 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:31.000 got to understand, everything is just dark, silhouetted underneath the 42 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.039 canopy of the trees, especially that time of year. It 43 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.719 was the beginning of August, probably about eight hours of 44 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.759 darkness that time of year, and so it was getting 45 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.560 on in sun had set. It was before twilight, but 46 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.719 still light, getting in the dark. And from what he 47 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.120 was saying, as he was coming up the trail, heard 48 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:55.000 some weird noises, very loud up ahead of him, almost 49 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:58.960 like someone partying or something like that, because he said 50 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.800 it sounded like it allowed yell. So he slowed down, 51 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.120 killed his motor on his four wheeler and was listening. 52 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.759 As he was doing so, something crossed the path totally silhouetted. 53 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.319 Couldn't make it out it was too dark. So he's 54 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:14.800 like shit, So he fires it up, goes up, looks 55 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.719 for any sign. Didn't see any tracks. So he decides, 56 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.599 I'm going to camp right here, breaks off the trail 57 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.879 and goes towards the Savage River to camp out. He 58 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.599 didn't camp in the tents. He just laid his stuff 59 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.479 out on the ground to each his own. I asked 60 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.599 him why he did that, and he said he always did. 61 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.240 He set up his camp real light, no big fire 62 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.919 or anything like that. He went to sleep feeling watched 63 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.719 how he fell asleep. I asked him. He said he 64 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.919 didn't know. He was just tired. He just fell asleep 65 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.719 and he was packing a three seventy five h and 66 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:50.000 h a very high powered rifle. Very high powered, so 67 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.479 he wasn't overly concerned about bears, moose, or anything else. 68 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.280 He found a cluster of trees, picked his spot, used 69 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.560 a little stero Bernard to heat up some some soup, 70 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:05.120 and brooke some coffee. He laid there until it got dark, 71 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:08.479 and as he was laying there trying to doze off, 72 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.960 he heard weird noises coming from the direction of the river, 73 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.919 which where he ended up camping. It would be to 74 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.040 the northeast of him from that vantage point of where 75 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.079 he was camped out, not very far, less than one 76 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.879 hundred yards. He was hearing these weird noises and he 77 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.720 had doze off. Wake up still those weird noises, still 78 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.399 sounding like it's at the same distance. He's okay, I 79 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.279 know where I'm going, first thing in the morning. So 80 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.160 he ended up getting some fairly decent sleep about three 81 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.079 or four hours, considering the environment what was going on. 82 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.040 He gets up in the morning, way up before the 83 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.279 sun came up, and started heating up coffee. As he's 84 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.319 doing so, he hears those noises again. They start up. 85 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.240 I asked him if he could elaborate on what those 86 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:57.040 noises were. He said it sounded like children laughing, but 87 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.639 in a deeper tone, a different octave. Just the thought 88 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.560 of that sounds creepy as hell. He said. He'd drank 89 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:05.560 his coffee and he's trying to stay calm because he 90 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:09.519 was feeling excited, like he was going to find something. 91 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:13.680 He felt encouraged. There's weird noises, weird circumstances of this 92 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:19.040 person missing. He wanted to find something tangible during all 93 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:23.079 his unpacking and everything. He has a video camera, he 94 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:27.199 has microphones, he has all these things that stayed strapped 95 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.680 to his four wheeler because he was setting up camp. 96 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.839 He just left them in their waterproof bags and stuff 97 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.000 on his four wheeler. It totally went out of his mind. 98 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.000 Not him, but the thought of them went out of 99 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.560 his mind. Hearing these noises and getting up the next morning, 100 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.319 he gets up after drinking the coffee, still the weird 101 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.560 kind of laughing sound coming from towards the river. So 102 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.120 he grabs his rifle and heads that direction, totally ignoring 103 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.160 that he brought the camera and all that stuff, all 104 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:00.000 that gear, just totally ignored it, wasn't thinking about it, 105 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.720 went about his way from what he explained. When he 106 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:06.360 was coming up onto the river, he broke through the 107 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.240 tree line, tall grass and stuff. He was walking through 108 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.839 and he noticed different trails through the grass near the 109 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:17.399 river's edge, and so he was following this one particular trail, 110 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.560 the whitest one, looking for any sign of tracks, one 111 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.439 for kids' boots, any sign of children. He wanted to 112 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.240 knock that potential out of there, because people take their 113 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.279 kids out there all the time. So he's lugging around 114 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.879 this big, heavy rifle. He gets up to the river's edge. 115 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.920 Looks like a little bit of an island. That's a 116 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.120 gravel bar, he said. So if you look at that 117 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.560 portion of the map, the way that its teardrop shaped 118 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:44.839 just would be to the east side of that is 119 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:49.160 this little nub. According to what Douglas was saying, where 120 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:51.879 that little nub was was tall grass, and he was 121 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.959 coming up. He was about two hundred yards from it. 122 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.439 As he's coming up, he noticedes movement in the grass 123 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:02.240 and stops down into the grass keeping a look holding 124 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.360 his rifle. He had no headlamp, nothing like that. It 125 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.879 was still twilight. There was light in the sky, but 126 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.480 everything was dark and he could just make out movement. 127 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:17.079 Couldn't make out definitive color, our, definitive shapes, just dark movement. 128 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.879 So he's standing there. He's squatting down trying to get 129 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.240 a better look. He doesn't want to move forward and 130 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:28.639 potentially ruin anything. And it was at that moment he realized, crap, 131 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.759 I don't have my camera. Let me go back and 132 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.959 get my camera. So he starts backtracking, still looking in 133 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.160 the direction he saw the dark movement in the grass. 134 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.439 As he's doing so, something hits him. He tries to 135 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.560 figure out what hit him, something through something adam hit him. 136 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.839 He didn't see what it was, pebble or whatever, because 137 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.120 it bounced off him and landed in grass. He couldn't 138 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.959 find it, so it got his attention immediately he yells out, hey, 139 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.439 don't throw stuff at me, I'm armed. Just as he 140 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.560 says that something else lands near him. Couldn't make it out. 141 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.399 It was still too dark, just light enough to make 142 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:10.240 out darkness in the grass. Everything was just silhouetted light 143 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.560 in the sky, but no daylight yet, no drag sunlight 144 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.800 to light up everything a little more. So he's contemplating 145 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.680 do I backtrack and grab my camera or do I 146 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.519 wait here and see what comes of this. So he 147 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.000 decides he's gonna wait right where he's at and maybe 148 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.319 move towards it. So, from what Douglass said, he squatted down, 149 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.000 he gathered up his nerves, made sure he had around 150 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.200 in the chamber, had the safety on. He had an 151 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.639 elevated scope that raises the scope above the open sights, 152 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.399 so he could shoot open sight or through the scope. 153 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.639 Not uncommon. I've used him. I'm not a fan. So 154 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:51.639 he decides he's gonna push towards this thing and cause 155 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:55.840 a situation. He wanted to provoke something, so he starts 156 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.639 chopping through. He was intentionally being inspect He would swer 157 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.759 back and forth in the grass, stand up all the way, 158 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.120 lower back down, swer back and forth in the grass, 159 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:09.679 going towards this dark object. He said, he had probably 160 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.559 crossed another fifty yards going towards it in that two 161 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.840 hundred yard estimation. Once he got to that point, he 162 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.960 stood up all the way and started yelling, Hey, I'm 163 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.639 right here, I'm right here, he said. At that point 164 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.039 he had the rifle lowered down by his side, trying 165 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.720 to block its view from whatever was over there. He said, 166 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.240 when he did that, this thing stood up and a 167 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.120 big grass clump of dirt and everything else that he 168 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.039 didn't even see this thing throw hit him in the leg, 169 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.279 startled to liv and shit out him. All he heard 170 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.240 was the last few moments before it hit his leg. 171 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.799 Just well hit his leg. He said, it hit pretty hard. 172 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:47.120 Had it been a rock, it probably would have broke 173 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:50.039 his leg, but it was just a dirt clump with grass. 174 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:53.639 So he yells out, hey, stop throwing shit. I'm gonna 175 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:58.279 shoot you. Now he's yelling out at one hundred plus yards. 176 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.279 You got to understand that distance. It's one of those things. 177 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.919 Because he was unsure of what he was dealing with. 178 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.440 This thing obviously could throw that distance with some force 179 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.480 because it hit his leg pretty hard. So he was 180 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:14.720 in freak out mode. But he was heavily armed, so 181 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:17.279 he felt confident in that three seventy five h and 182 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:19.960 h that whatever this thing was, he was going to 183 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.639 drop it. He said it was standing there. He thought 184 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.080 it was standing up all the way. He said, it 185 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.840 looked like the grass was about three foot tall, and 186 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:29.840 it looked like it was about five foot taller than 187 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:35.279 the grass initially. Now he starts pushing forward again, yelling, hey, 188 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.320 I'm over here, stop throwing stuff. Stop throwing stuff, I'll 189 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.480 shoot you. At this point, he said he was uncertain 190 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.240 of exactly how big it was because he knew he 191 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:48.519 was freaking out and he didn't want to unnecessarily point 192 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.200 a gun at a person, and so he wanted to 193 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.080 get closer. He wanted a visual confirmation outside of a silhouette. 194 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.200 So he does the same thing again, starts lowering himself down, 195 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.840 zigzagging back and forth, moving towards and he said, this 196 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.399 thing stayed right there, perfectly still, and he got to 197 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.639 within ninety yards or so eighty to ninety yards, yells 198 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.960 out again, hey I'm over here, don't throw anything. I'm armed. 199 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.879 I will shoot you. This thing doesn't move, doesn't make 200 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.399 a sound. So he decides he wants to kind of 201 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:25.279 circle half moon circle around because the vantage point, he 202 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.480 said he had, he didn't feel comfortable with the lighting 203 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.679 and with the low visibility. He wanted to get to 204 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.639 where he could better have a site picture through his 205 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.519 open sights. So he does this little half moon off 206 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:39.679 to his right. He said he got about forty five 207 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.840 feet doing this, keeping his eyes on this thing the 208 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.080 whole time, watching his feeling with his boots as he 209 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.679 moved along on even ground and grasses, you gotta be careful. 210 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.840 So he gets to that point and as he does so, 211 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:55.720 he squats down, and he's trying to talk. Hey, I'm Douglas, 212 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.279 Who are you? Who are you? Not a sound? The 213 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:02.559 word's a dead quiet, just real eerie feeling, he said, 214 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.720 in that moment when he got to that point and 215 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:09.639 squatted down, he felt imminent danger. And immediately he starts 216 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.279 looking around behind him, because this whole time he was 217 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:17.559 focused on this thing standing there and nothing else around him, 218 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.039 he said, in that moment, he realized he had been 219 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.519 making a very fatal mistake by moving towards this sing, 220 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:27.000 circling around, and not paying attention to his backside. So 221 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.080 he takes that moment, whips around, looks around, he's looking 222 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.679 for anything, doesn't see anything out of the ordinary. Initially says, 223 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.759 all right, looks back, no sign of this thing that 224 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.639 he had been stalking. Basically, So what he does is 225 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.159 he starts tromping directly towards the last spot he's seen 226 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:47.000 this thing not the wisest thing. And those are his words. 227 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:51.320 So you know, Douglas is just below mid sixties in age, 228 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.600 all right, But a veteran of the woods, been going 229 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.960 out that way forty something years. He knew the area. 230 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:00.200 He wasn't intimidated. He was nervous, but not scared. More 231 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.279 balls and brains in the moments with trumping straight towards 232 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.399 where he had last seen this thing. He said, he 233 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.080 got to within about thirty yards of where he last 234 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.360 seen it, and he's hearing this weird noise and it 235 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.200 dawns on what he's hearing. He's hearing the movement through 236 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.720 the grass. It sounds like he's coming right Adams. He's 237 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.559 got his rifle up and he was like, you better stop. 238 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.759 I'm gonna shoot. Let's a round off. He didn't see anything, 239 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.960 but he shoots just to let this thing know that 240 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:30.039 he meant business. Bow racks in another round. After he shoots, 241 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.360 he stands there a minute listening. It goes dead quiet 242 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.120 off to his right hand side. He said, about less 243 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.120 than fifty feet away, which would be he guests made 244 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:44.440 approximately not quite thirty yards to the river bank. This 245 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.840 thing stands up, and he said, this time when it 246 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.399 stood up all the way and he guestimated it taller 247 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.159 than ten feet. Immediately he's shocked. He was already nervous 248 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.159 seeing it silhouetted at the height he thought it was 249 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.480 now that is closer to him and standing up, he 250 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.000 was really freaked out. He whipped that rifle, popped a 251 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.279 shot off at this thing. He said, once it hit, 252 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.279 it went down, but the grass moved like it went 253 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.120 down on all fours. But he couldn't see. He was 254 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.840 trying to rack another round and the movement. All he 255 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.039 saw was a little bit of darkness on top of 256 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.879 the grass and just movement. Heard splashing the river, and 257 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:25.559 then immediately started running towards the river. After this, think 258 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.960 to shoot it again, I asked him. I was like, 259 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.679 were you trying to bring in a specimen? And he 260 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:33.960 said when it stood up, he said, he felt in 261 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.679 danger of his life and he wrecked the way he did, 262 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.000 and he wanted to finish the job. He didn't want 263 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.799 an injured animal potentially running around hurting somebody, so he 264 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.879 was trying to finish the job. He runs over the river. 265 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.120 He gets to where that little nub would be by 266 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.519 that tear drop gravel bar was. He's looking down in 267 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:54.080 the water, doesn't see nothing, doesn't see nothing here, splashing 268 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.480 over to his left, looks over on the opposite side 269 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.960 of that gravel bar. He sees it standing on the 270 00:14:59.000 --> 00:14:59.480 other bank. 271 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.960 Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. 272 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:09.799 We'll be right back. After these messages, he said, it 273 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:11.879 was doing this swaying thing, and he couldn't tell if 274 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:14.879 the sway was aggravation or if it was really mortally 275 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.879 injured about to die. So he raises the rifle again 276 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.799 to shoot. This thing takes off just gone, he said. 277 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:24.120 It moves so fast it hit the tree line on 278 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.120 the opposite side of the river and was gone. Douglas 279 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.799 said he immediately felt like he weighed a ton. He 280 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.759 basically claps down by the river bank there and just 281 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.600 was trembling really hard. The reality of what just transpired 282 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.360 freaked him out, and so he's digging in his pockets 283 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.559 and he's adding the couple spent rounds that he had 284 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.960 shot back into the rifle, so he was fully loaded. 285 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.559 He gathers himself and heads back to where he had camped. 286 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.960 When he gets back to where he was camped, his 287 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:57.440 campsite was demolished. One of the front four wheeler tires 288 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:01.720 was missing. It looked like it was somehow just ripped 289 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:06.720 right off. The contents on it were strewn about all 290 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.039 his other equipment. He didn't go in there super heavy. 291 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.000 He went in there fairly light, so it wasn't like 292 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.000 a whole shit ton of stuff was destroyed. So he's 293 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.679 not sure if that happened during what he was going 294 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:19.519 on or after he had shot and was chilling because 295 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:21.799 he said he lost track of time a little bit 296 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.159 on the riverbank calming down, He said he wasn't sure 297 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.519 if it was a time slip or something like that. 298 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.440 He didn't want to get into that. He just said 299 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.159 the more time had passed than he had realized, and 300 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.360 he didn't hear his stuff getting thrashed. At this point, 301 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.919 it was one hundred yards wast what are you going 302 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.960 to do? So he has to walk out. He gathers 303 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.879 up this stuff. He's still freaking out. He's constantly watching 304 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.120 his back trail heading back towards the road. As he's 305 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.320 doing so, some people are coming in from when he 306 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.039 had shot. Hours had passed to the point of where 307 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.360 he's hiking out daylight. People are coming in off four 308 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.559 wheelers and he asks one of the first people he saw, hey, 309 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:00.480 can I get help? And he's he to go and 310 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.159 meet up with some people I can't help whatever. All 311 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.240 he told the people was is he wrecked his four wheelers, 312 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.319 so he said, more people are coming. There was more 313 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.680 people down there offloading their equipment or whatever. Just keep 314 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.079 on truck and I'm sure someone will help you and 315 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.640 stay on the trail. Of course, Douglas already knew that, 316 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.880 so he hikes back, didn't get picked up by anybody. 317 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.839 He gets to his truck, goes and retrieves his buddy 318 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.880 and comes back the next day. When he comes back 319 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.279 the next day with his friend to retrieve all his stuff, 320 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.359 his friend's kind of leery about what he had told 321 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:35.160 him and what transpired. His friend really was, okay, man, 322 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:36.880 but if you said it, I believe you because you've 323 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.640 never lied to me. But that's one hell of a 324 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.599 tale you're telling me. They get back over to where 325 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.119 he had his little campsite, couldn't find the four wheeler. 326 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.319 What the hell, So they're assuming someone took it. They go. 327 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.559 Douglas wanted to show his friend where the incident happened. 328 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.680 He takes them to the spot, shows them the trail 329 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.160 in the grass of where he walked, showed where he 330 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.279 was when he shot. The empty shells are still in 331 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.079 the grass and telling him everything, walks him through up 332 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.759 to the river bank. They get to the river bank 333 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.480 and he's I'm assuming it went in here, and as 334 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:12.559 I was looking, it made noise over here. When they 335 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.680 turned to look, they noticed something weird in the river. 336 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:21.359 It was his four wheeler. So something, this thing, whatever, 337 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.519 moved his four wheeler into the river. They got wet, 338 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:27.440 they drug it out, They had to fight and get 339 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.319 it back across, and it was a whole ordeal. But 340 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:32.480 luckily his friend had a winch. They were able to 341 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:34.759 cut a trail, drag it out, and all that stuff. 342 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.319 So with that, I asked him if he's going back 343 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.599 out in the woods, and he said he is, just 344 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.279 not in Alaska. He's in the process of not just 345 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.480 because of this incident, but just being in his sixties, 346 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.240 the winter suck. This was the little extra push to 347 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.839 make him move down with some relatives down in the 348 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.880 States and be closer to his son. I'm gonna thank 349 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.680 Douglas for sharing that anyone going out into that area, 350 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:05.799 this happened less than a year ago, just beware out 351 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.880 there by the Savage River in that area. He's confident 352 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.240 he hit it the way it moved after he shot it. 353 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:14.920 He's confident, not saying for sure, but he feels very 354 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.759 confident that this thing was shot and potentially aggravated. So 355 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.519 be aware, Savage River area. Douglas had a hard time 356 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.119 with it at first, but I understand. Like we talked 357 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.640 about Douglas, it doesn't matter if anyone believes you. Dude. 358 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.079 I want to share with you today is an email. 359 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.359 I got it just last week. What I try to do, 360 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.519 just so everyone's aware, I read your emails repetitively because 361 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.119 I've been through some things. I relive it in my mind, 362 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.839 the person's experience, so I could better explain it to you, guys. 363 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:45.160 It's just how my mind works. I look at things 364 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.480 from all sides. Gale, I don't know. Maybe it's OCD 365 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:48.319 and I don't know it. 366 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:48.960 Now. 367 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:52.680 This happened on the Yetna River, right, which is just 368 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.960 it's north little ways going towards Fairbanks. The exact place 369 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:58.319 down the Yetna. I was asked to leave that part 370 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:01.839 out of it. We'll say the Yetna ri Okay. Now 371 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:07.400 where this particular incident occurred. It was approximately three years ago. 372 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.039 It was at the end of caribou hunting, but they 373 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:13.079 were back up in there doing trout fishing. They had 374 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:15.599 a canoe, but most of the time it was at 375 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.119 a narrow part of the river. They would drag it. 376 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.119 Right now, it wasn't the main Yetna let means passed by. 377 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.720 It was glorified river creek that fed into the Vietna. 378 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.240 It was fairly shallow, fairly narrow, and the trout were 379 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:34.160 in some deep pockets and that's where they were going 380 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:39.440 for So they ended up parking their boat, their canoe, 381 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:41.640 they get out and they walked along a grassy edge 382 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.440 on either side of this creek. Now when they get 383 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.680 to the point to start fishing, initially there's two of them, 384 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.720 and as the day goes on, because they were there 385 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:55.400 for three days before this incident occurred, so they were 386 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:57.759 basically repeating the same thing they had been doing for 387 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.279 a couple of days, going to this little honey hole 388 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.680 for pan frying trout and loving it. They're having a 389 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.119 great time. They had a successful hint. They're living the dream. 390 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.119 You got your caribou meat for the winter. Now you're 391 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.400 gonna go man land is a trout? Cook them over 392 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:16.559 and open. Oh, it doesn't get much better. So they're 393 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:18.400 doing their thing they got their little thing, they got 394 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:21.119 a little rhythm down with their movements and stuff. And 395 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:24.000 their third buddy shows up. He was in hip waiters, 396 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.920 and he had just gloshed on through the water and 397 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.079 took his time hiking around on some of the game 398 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:29.880 trails to get back to where they were. They were 399 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.680 very comfortable where they were at. There had been nothing 400 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:37.319 out of the ordinary, not during the caribou, none of it. 401 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.519