Speaker 1: Now, I went on, you're putting. I got a string
Speaker 1: going on here. Something just killing my dog. Something killed
Speaker 1: your dog, my dog. We're flying through the or over
Speaker 1: the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, damn,
Speaker 1: and I'm really confused. All I saw is my dog
Speaker 1: coming over the fence, and he was dead once you
Speaker 1: hit the ground. I didn't have see any cars. All
Speaker 1: I saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat,
Speaker 1: what are you putting? We got someone or something prowling
Speaker 1: around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 1: It was standing enough. 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 the
Speaker 1: boddy out here?
Speaker 3: What quent on out there?
Speaker 1: Thought of a bit of about text four nine? I
Speaker 1: don't know easy him out there? Yeah, but woking right?
Speaker 3: Oh Hey, greetings is friend Alaska. Thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 3: What I wanted to share with you today comes from Douglas.
Speaker 3: What happened with Douglas occurred last year at the Savage
Speaker 3: River where the Stampede trail meets it. He went down
Speaker 3: there from Anchorage specifically to try to look for signs
Speaker 3: of Mary Wilson, someone who went missing there last year
Speaker 3: reported missing our last scene July twelfth, reported missing the fourteenth.
Speaker 3: They found her two year old grandson in the back
Speaker 3: of the truck, no sign of her except some belongings
Speaker 3: a mile further up to Stampede trails. It really sparked
Speaker 3: his curiosity. He had been going to that area for
Speaker 3: forty plus years, never had any weird occurrences, never, which
Speaker 3: really intrigued him because he had been there so often.
Speaker 3: So he took it upon himself. He goes out by
Speaker 3: four wheeler as he's coming up to where the trail
Speaker 3: comes to meet up with the Savage River. He had
Speaker 3: gotten a late start that day. He had planned on
Speaker 3: camping out anyway, so it was no big deal. He
Speaker 3: didn't care how far he got before he set up camp.
Speaker 3: He already knew the area. He was good to go.
Speaker 3: So as he's coming up to the area, he's contemplating
Speaker 3: camping at just ahead of him in the trail, you
Speaker 3: got to understand, everything is just dark, silhouetted underneath the
Speaker 3: canopy of the trees, especially that time of year. It
Speaker 3: was the beginning of August, probably about eight hours of
Speaker 3: darkness that time of year, and so it was getting
Speaker 3: on in sun had set. It was before twilight, but
Speaker 3: still light, getting in the dark. And from what he
Speaker 3: was saying, as he was coming up the trail, heard
Speaker 3: some weird noises, very loud up ahead of him, almost
Speaker 3: like someone partying or something like that, because he said
Speaker 3: it sounded like it allowed yell. So he slowed down,
Speaker 3: killed his motor on his four wheeler and was listening.
Speaker 3: As he was doing so, something crossed the path totally silhouetted.
Speaker 3: Couldn't make it out it was too dark. So he's
Speaker 3: like shit, So he fires it up, goes up, looks
Speaker 3: for any sign. Didn't see any tracks. So he decides,
Speaker 3: I'm going to camp right here, breaks off the trail
Speaker 3: and goes towards the Savage River to camp out. He
Speaker 3: didn't camp in the tents. He just laid his stuff
Speaker 3: out on the ground to each his own. I asked
Speaker 3: him why he did that, and he said he always did.
Speaker 3: He set up his camp real light, no big fire
Speaker 3: or anything like that. He went to sleep feeling watched
Speaker 3: how he fell asleep. I asked him. He said he
Speaker 3: didn't know. He was just tired. He just fell asleep
Speaker 3: and he was packing a three seventy five h and
Speaker 3: h a very high powered rifle. Very high powered, so
Speaker 3: he wasn't overly concerned about bears, moose, or anything else.
Speaker 3: He found a cluster of trees, picked his spot, used
Speaker 3: a little stero Bernard to heat up some some soup,
Speaker 3: and brooke some coffee. He laid there until it got dark,
Speaker 3: and as he was laying there trying to doze off,
Speaker 3: he heard weird noises coming from the direction of the river,
Speaker 3: which where he ended up camping. It would be to
Speaker 3: the northeast of him from that vantage point of where
Speaker 3: he was camped out, not very far, less than one
Speaker 3: hundred yards. He was hearing these weird noises and he
Speaker 3: had doze off. Wake up still those weird noises, still
Speaker 3: sounding like it's at the same distance. He's okay, I
Speaker 3: know where I'm going, first thing in the morning. So
Speaker 3: he ended up getting some fairly decent sleep about three
Speaker 3: or four hours, considering the environment what was going on.
Speaker 3: He gets up in the morning, way up before the
Speaker 3: sun came up, and started heating up coffee. As he's
Speaker 3: doing so, he hears those noises again. They start up.
Speaker 3: I asked him if he could elaborate on what those
Speaker 3: noises were. He said it sounded like children laughing, but
Speaker 3: in a deeper tone, a different octave. Just the thought
Speaker 3: of that sounds creepy as hell. He said. He'd drank
Speaker 3: his coffee and he's trying to stay calm because he
Speaker 3: was feeling excited, like he was going to find something.
Speaker 3: He felt encouraged. There's weird noises, weird circumstances of this
Speaker 3: person missing. He wanted to find something tangible during all
Speaker 3: his unpacking and everything. He has a video camera, he
Speaker 3: has microphones, he has all these things that stayed strapped
Speaker 3: to his four wheeler because he was setting up camp.
Speaker 3: He just left them in their waterproof bags and stuff
Speaker 3: on his four wheeler. It totally went out of his mind.
Speaker 3: Not him, but the thought of them went out of
Speaker 3: his mind. Hearing these noises and getting up the next morning,
Speaker 3: he gets up after drinking the coffee, still the weird
Speaker 3: kind of laughing sound coming from towards the river. So
Speaker 3: he grabs his rifle and heads that direction, totally ignoring
Speaker 3: that he brought the camera and all that stuff, all
Speaker 3: that gear, just totally ignored it, wasn't thinking about it,
Speaker 3: went about his way from what he explained. When he
Speaker 3: was coming up onto the river, he broke through the
Speaker 3: tree line, tall grass and stuff. He was walking through
Speaker 3: and he noticed different trails through the grass near the
Speaker 3: river's edge, and so he was following this one particular trail,
Speaker 3: the whitest one, looking for any sign of tracks, one
Speaker 3: for kids' boots, any sign of children. He wanted to
Speaker 3: knock that potential out of there, because people take their
Speaker 3: kids out there all the time. So he's lugging around
Speaker 3: this big, heavy rifle. He gets up to the river's edge.
Speaker 3: Looks like a little bit of an island. That's a
Speaker 3: gravel bar, he said. So if you look at that
Speaker 3: portion of the map, the way that its teardrop shaped
Speaker 3: just would be to the east side of that is
Speaker 3: this little nub. According to what Douglas was saying, where
Speaker 3: that little nub was was tall grass, and he was
Speaker 3: coming up. He was about two hundred yards from it.
Speaker 3: As he's coming up, he noticedes movement in the grass
Speaker 3: and stops down into the grass keeping a look holding
Speaker 3: his rifle. He had no headlamp, nothing like that. It
Speaker 3: was still twilight. There was light in the sky, but
Speaker 3: everything was dark and he could just make out movement.
Speaker 3: Couldn't make out definitive color, our, definitive shapes, just dark movement.
Speaker 3: So he's standing there. He's squatting down trying to get
Speaker 3: a better look. He doesn't want to move forward and
Speaker 3: potentially ruin anything. And it was at that moment he realized, crap,
Speaker 3: I don't have my camera. Let me go back and
Speaker 3: get my camera. So he starts backtracking, still looking in
Speaker 3: the direction he saw the dark movement in the grass.
Speaker 3: As he's doing so, something hits him. He tries to
Speaker 3: figure out what hit him, something through something adam hit him.
Speaker 3: He didn't see what it was, pebble or whatever, because
Speaker 3: it bounced off him and landed in grass. He couldn't
Speaker 3: find it, so it got his attention immediately he yells out, hey,
Speaker 3: don't throw stuff at me, I'm armed. Just as he
Speaker 3: says that something else lands near him. Couldn't make it out.
Speaker 3: It was still too dark, just light enough to make
Speaker 3: out darkness in the grass. Everything was just silhouetted light
Speaker 3: in the sky, but no daylight yet, no drag sunlight
Speaker 3: to light up everything a little more. So he's contemplating
Speaker 3: do I backtrack and grab my camera or do I
Speaker 3: wait here and see what comes of this. So he
Speaker 3: decides he's gonna wait right where he's at and maybe
Speaker 3: move towards it. So, from what Douglass said, he squatted down,
Speaker 3: he gathered up his nerves, made sure he had around
Speaker 3: in the chamber, had the safety on. He had an
Speaker 3: elevated scope that raises the scope above the open sights,
Speaker 3: so he could shoot open sight or through the scope.
Speaker 3: Not uncommon. I've used him. I'm not a fan. So
Speaker 3: he decides he's gonna push towards this thing and cause
Speaker 3: a situation. He wanted to provoke something, so he starts
Speaker 3: chopping through. He was intentionally being inspect He would swer
Speaker 3: back and forth in the grass, stand up all the way,
Speaker 3: lower back down, swer back and forth in the grass,
Speaker 3: going towards this dark object. He said, he had probably
Speaker 3: crossed another fifty yards going towards it in that two
Speaker 3: hundred yard estimation. Once he got to that point, he
Speaker 3: stood up all the way and started yelling, Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: right here, I'm right here, he said. At that point
Speaker 3: he had the rifle lowered down by his side, trying
Speaker 3: to block its view from whatever was over there. He said,
Speaker 3: when he did that, this thing stood up and a
Speaker 3: big grass clump of dirt and everything else that he
Speaker 3: didn't even see this thing throw hit him in the leg,
Speaker 3: startled to liv and shit out him. All he heard
Speaker 3: was the last few moments before it hit his leg.
Speaker 3: Just well hit his leg. He said, it hit pretty hard.
Speaker 3: Had it been a rock, it probably would have broke
Speaker 3: his leg, but it was just a dirt clump with grass.
Speaker 3: So he yells out, hey, stop throwing shit. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: shoot you. Now he's yelling out at one hundred plus yards.
Speaker 3: You got to understand that distance. It's one of those things.
Speaker 3: Because he was unsure of what he was dealing with.
Speaker 3: This thing obviously could throw that distance with some force
Speaker 3: because it hit his leg pretty hard. So he was
Speaker 3: in freak out mode. But he was heavily armed, so
Speaker 3: he felt confident in that three seventy five h and
Speaker 3: h that whatever this thing was, he was going to
Speaker 3: drop it. He said it was standing there. He thought
Speaker 3: it was standing up all the way. He said, it
Speaker 3: looked like the grass was about three foot tall, and
Speaker 3: it looked like it was about five foot taller than
Speaker 3: the grass initially. Now he starts pushing forward again, yelling, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm over here, stop throwing stuff. Stop throwing stuff, I'll
Speaker 3: shoot you. At this point, he said he was uncertain
Speaker 3: of exactly how big it was because he knew he
Speaker 3: was freaking out and he didn't want to unnecessarily point
Speaker 3: a gun at a person, and so he wanted to
Speaker 3: get closer. He wanted a visual confirmation outside of a silhouette.
Speaker 3: So he does the same thing again, starts lowering himself down,
Speaker 3: zigzagging back and forth, moving towards and he said, this
Speaker 3: thing stayed right there, perfectly still, and he got to
Speaker 3: within ninety yards or so eighty to ninety yards, yells
Speaker 3: out again, hey I'm over here, don't throw anything. I'm armed.
Speaker 3: I will shoot you. This thing doesn't move, doesn't make
Speaker 3: a sound. So he decides he wants to kind of
Speaker 3: circle half moon circle around because the vantage point, he
Speaker 3: said he had, he didn't feel comfortable with the lighting
Speaker 3: and with the low visibility. He wanted to get to
Speaker 3: where he could better have a site picture through his
Speaker 3: open sights. So he does this little half moon off
Speaker 3: to his right. He said he got about forty five
Speaker 3: feet doing this, keeping his eyes on this thing the
Speaker 3: whole time, watching his feeling with his boots as he
Speaker 3: moved along on even ground and grasses, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 3: So he gets to that point and as he does so,
Speaker 3: he squats down, and he's trying to talk. Hey, I'm Douglas,
Speaker 3: Who are you? Who are you? Not a sound? The
Speaker 3: word's a dead quiet, just real eerie feeling, he said,
Speaker 3: in that moment when he got to that point and
Speaker 3: squatted down, he felt imminent danger. And immediately he starts
Speaker 3: looking around behind him, because this whole time he was
Speaker 3: focused on this thing standing there and nothing else around him,
Speaker 3: he said, in that moment, he realized he had been
Speaker 3: making a very fatal mistake by moving towards this sing,
Speaker 3: circling around, and not paying attention to his backside. So
Speaker 3: he takes that moment, whips around, looks around, he's looking
Speaker 3: for anything, doesn't see anything out of the ordinary. Initially says,
Speaker 3: all right, looks back, no sign of this thing that
Speaker 3: he had been stalking. Basically, So what he does is
Speaker 3: he starts tromping directly towards the last spot he's seen
Speaker 3: this thing not the wisest thing. And those are his words.
Speaker 3: So you know, Douglas is just below mid sixties in age,
Speaker 3: all right, But a veteran of the woods, been going
Speaker 3: out that way forty something years. He knew the area.
Speaker 3: He wasn't intimidated. He was nervous, but not scared. More
Speaker 3: balls and brains in the moments with trumping straight towards
Speaker 3: where he had last seen this thing. He said, he
Speaker 3: got to within about thirty yards of where he last
Speaker 3: seen it, and he's hearing this weird noise and it
Speaker 3: dawns on what he's hearing. He's hearing the movement through
Speaker 3: the grass. It sounds like he's coming right Adams. He's
Speaker 3: got his rifle up and he was like, you better stop.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna shoot. Let's a round off. He didn't see anything,
Speaker 3: but he shoots just to let this thing know that
Speaker 3: he meant business. Bow racks in another round. After he shoots,
Speaker 3: he stands there a minute listening. It goes dead quiet
Speaker 3: off to his right hand side. He said, about less
Speaker 3: than fifty feet away, which would be he guests made
Speaker 3: approximately not quite thirty yards to the river bank. This
Speaker 3: thing stands up, and he said, this time when it
Speaker 3: stood up all the way and he guestimated it taller
Speaker 3: than ten feet. Immediately he's shocked. He was already nervous
Speaker 3: seeing it silhouetted at the height he thought it was
Speaker 3: now that is closer to him and standing up, he
Speaker 3: was really freaked out. He whipped that rifle, popped a
Speaker 3: shot off at this thing. He said, once it hit,
Speaker 3: it went down, but the grass moved like it went
Speaker 3: down on all fours. But he couldn't see. He was
Speaker 3: trying to rack another round and the movement. All he
Speaker 3: saw was a little bit of darkness on top of
Speaker 3: the grass and just movement. Heard splashing the river, and
Speaker 3: then immediately started running towards the river. After this, think
Speaker 3: to shoot it again, I asked him. I was like,
Speaker 3: were you trying to bring in a specimen? And he
Speaker 3: said when it stood up, he said, he felt in
Speaker 3: danger of his life and he wrecked the way he did,
Speaker 3: and he wanted to finish the job. He didn't want
Speaker 3: an injured animal potentially running around hurting somebody, so he
Speaker 3: was trying to finish the job. He runs over the river.
Speaker 3: He gets to where that little nub would be by
Speaker 3: that tear drop gravel bar was. He's looking down in
Speaker 3: the water, doesn't see nothing, doesn't see nothing here, splashing
Speaker 3: over to his left, looks over on the opposite side
Speaker 3: of that gravel bar. He sees it standing on the
Speaker 3: other bank.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. After these messages, he said, it
Speaker 3: was doing this swaying thing, and he couldn't tell if
Speaker 3: the sway was aggravation or if it was really mortally
Speaker 3: injured about to die. So he raises the rifle again
Speaker 3: to shoot. This thing takes off just gone, he said.
Speaker 3: It moves so fast it hit the tree line on
Speaker 3: the opposite side of the river and was gone. Douglas
Speaker 3: said he immediately felt like he weighed a ton. He
Speaker 3: basically claps down by the river bank there and just
Speaker 3: was trembling really hard. The reality of what just transpired
Speaker 3: freaked him out, and so he's digging in his pockets
Speaker 3: and he's adding the couple spent rounds that he had
Speaker 3: shot back into the rifle, so he was fully loaded.
Speaker 3: He gathers himself and heads back to where he had camped.
Speaker 3: When he gets back to where he was camped, his
Speaker 3: campsite was demolished. One of the front four wheeler tires
Speaker 3: was missing. It looked like it was somehow just ripped
Speaker 3: right off. The contents on it were strewn about all
Speaker 3: his other equipment. He didn't go in there super heavy.
Speaker 3: He went in there fairly light, so it wasn't like
Speaker 3: a whole shit ton of stuff was destroyed. So he's
Speaker 3: not sure if that happened during what he was going
Speaker 3: on or after he had shot and was chilling because
Speaker 3: he said he lost track of time a little bit
Speaker 3: on the riverbank calming down, He said he wasn't sure
Speaker 3: if it was a time slip or something like that.
Speaker 3: He didn't want to get into that. He just said
Speaker 3: the more time had passed than he had realized, and
Speaker 3: he didn't hear his stuff getting thrashed. At this point,
Speaker 3: it was one hundred yards wast what are you going
Speaker 3: to do? So he has to walk out. He gathers
Speaker 3: up this stuff. He's still freaking out. He's constantly watching
Speaker 3: his back trail heading back towards the road. As he's
Speaker 3: doing so, some people are coming in from when he
Speaker 3: had shot. Hours had passed to the point of where
Speaker 3: he's hiking out daylight. People are coming in off four
Speaker 3: wheelers and he asks one of the first people he saw, hey,
Speaker 3: can I get help? And he's he to go and
Speaker 3: meet up with some people I can't help whatever. All
Speaker 3: he told the people was is he wrecked his four wheelers,
Speaker 3: so he said, more people are coming. There was more
Speaker 3: people down there offloading their equipment or whatever. Just keep
Speaker 3: on truck and I'm sure someone will help you and
Speaker 3: stay on the trail. Of course, Douglas already knew that,
Speaker 3: so he hikes back, didn't get picked up by anybody.
Speaker 3: He gets to his truck, goes and retrieves his buddy
Speaker 3: and comes back the next day. When he comes back
Speaker 3: the next day with his friend to retrieve all his stuff,
Speaker 3: his friend's kind of leery about what he had told
Speaker 3: him and what transpired. His friend really was, okay, man,
Speaker 3: but if you said it, I believe you because you've
Speaker 3: never lied to me. But that's one hell of a
Speaker 3: tale you're telling me. They get back over to where
Speaker 3: he had his little campsite, couldn't find the four wheeler.
Speaker 3: What the hell, So they're assuming someone took it. They go.
Speaker 3: Douglas wanted to show his friend where the incident happened.
Speaker 3: He takes them to the spot, shows them the trail
Speaker 3: in the grass of where he walked, showed where he
Speaker 3: was when he shot. The empty shells are still in
Speaker 3: the grass and telling him everything, walks him through up
Speaker 3: to the river bank. They get to the river bank
Speaker 3: and he's I'm assuming it went in here, and as
Speaker 3: I was looking, it made noise over here. When they
Speaker 3: turned to look, they noticed something weird in the river.
Speaker 3: It was his four wheeler. So something, this thing, whatever,
Speaker 3: moved his four wheeler into the river. They got wet,
Speaker 3: they drug it out, They had to fight and get
Speaker 3: it back across, and it was a whole ordeal. But
Speaker 3: luckily his friend had a winch. They were able to
Speaker 3: cut a trail, drag it out, and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So with that, I asked him if he's going back
Speaker 3: out in the woods, and he said he is, just
Speaker 3: not in Alaska. He's in the process of not just
Speaker 3: because of this incident, but just being in his sixties,
Speaker 3: the winter suck. This was the little extra push to
Speaker 3: make him move down with some relatives down in the
Speaker 3: States and be closer to his son. I'm gonna thank
Speaker 3: Douglas for sharing that anyone going out into that area,
Speaker 3: this happened less than a year ago, just beware out
Speaker 3: there by the Savage River in that area. He's confident
Speaker 3: he hit it the way it moved after he shot it.
Speaker 3: He's confident, not saying for sure, but he feels very
Speaker 3: confident that this thing was shot and potentially aggravated. So
Speaker 3: be aware, Savage River area. Douglas had a hard time
Speaker 3: with it at first, but I understand. Like we talked
Speaker 3: about Douglas, it doesn't matter if anyone believes you. Dude.
Speaker 3: I want to share with you today is an email.
Speaker 3: I got it just last week. What I try to do,
Speaker 3: just so everyone's aware, I read your emails repetitively because
Speaker 3: I've been through some things. I relive it in my mind,
Speaker 3: the person's experience, so I could better explain it to you, guys.
Speaker 3: It's just how my mind works. I look at things
Speaker 3: from all sides. Gale, I don't know. Maybe it's OCD
Speaker 3: and I don't know it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: This happened on the Yetna River, right, which is just
Speaker 3: it's north little ways going towards Fairbanks. The exact place
Speaker 3: down the Yetna. I was asked to leave that part
Speaker 3: out of it. We'll say the Yetna ri Okay. Now
Speaker 3: where this particular incident occurred. It was approximately three years ago.
Speaker 3: It was at the end of caribou hunting, but they
Speaker 3: were back up in there doing trout fishing. They had
Speaker 3: a canoe, but most of the time it was at
Speaker 3: a narrow part of the river. They would drag it.
Speaker 3: Right now, it wasn't the main Yetna let means passed by.
Speaker 3: It was glorified river creek that fed into the Vietna.
Speaker 3: It was fairly shallow, fairly narrow, and the trout were
Speaker 3: in some deep pockets and that's where they were going
Speaker 3: for So they ended up parking their boat, their canoe,
Speaker 3: they get out and they walked along a grassy edge
Speaker 3: on either side of this creek. Now when they get
Speaker 3: to the point to start fishing, initially there's two of them,
Speaker 3: and as the day goes on, because they were there
Speaker 3: for three days before this incident occurred, so they were
Speaker 3: basically repeating the same thing they had been doing for
Speaker 3: a couple of days, going to this little honey hole
Speaker 3: for pan frying trout and loving it. They're having a
Speaker 3: great time. They had a successful hint. They're living the dream.
Speaker 3: You got your caribou meat for the winter. Now you're
Speaker 3: gonna go man land is a trout? Cook them over
Speaker 3: and open. Oh, it doesn't get much better. So they're
Speaker 3: doing their thing they got their little thing, they got
Speaker 3: a little rhythm down with their movements and stuff. And
Speaker 3: their third buddy shows up. He was in hip waiters,
Speaker 3: and he had just gloshed on through the water and
Speaker 3: took his time hiking around on some of the game
Speaker 3: trails to get back to where they were. They were
Speaker 3: very comfortable where they were at. There had been nothing
Speaker 3: out of the ordinary, not during the caribou, none of it.
Speaker 3: They were just having a great old lasting experience. They're
Speaker 3: all local. Okay, that's to leave that out because where
Speaker 3: they happen to live is a very small place, so
Speaker 3: i'll respect that. Now. As they were talking across this
Speaker 3: little creek, it's not very wide, and there's this one
Speaker 3: particular honey hole where there was some old either alders
Speaker 3: or willows that had been broken, and it hung down
Speaker 3: by this little creek. Now right off the side of
Speaker 3: this little glorified river creek. It was about ten twelve
Speaker 3: feet to where the alders and the willows got thick.
Speaker 3: So you had tall grass on either side at some
Speaker 3: scrub brush and some berry bushes and stuff. At this
Speaker 3: particular spot there was these willows or alders popular or something.
Speaker 3: They didn't go and inspect. It was about thirty feet
Speaker 3: from them, where these branches and stuff were going off
Speaker 3: into the water and just towards them from that little
Speaker 3: blockage hanging over the water. It created a shadow in
Speaker 3: the water and the trout would pock it up in
Speaker 3: there in the relative safety. So they're doing the fly
Speaker 3: fishing thing instead of just walking up the creek and
Speaker 3: scooping them out, and that they were fishing. So they're
Speaker 3: doing the thing. He's working his fly rod and as
Speaker 3: he's working it, his buddy on the opposite side is
Speaker 3: trying to time here while his fly lands, and then
Speaker 3: he's pulling it back. The other guy's trying to land
Speaker 3: his fly pull it back. They're just dicking around. They're
Speaker 3: just doing guys, just doing stupid shit, and so they're
Speaker 3: having fun and are laughing because eventually they started laughing
Speaker 3: at each other because it was going really well, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden they got tired up. They
Speaker 3: reap in so they're closer together and they can lash
Speaker 3: the lion. Now they're on opposite sides of this not
Speaker 3: very wide creek. It is about three times as wide
Speaker 3: as a canoe, so you're looking at sixhudred feet wide,
Speaker 3: not very wide at all. So they're reaching out, flinging
Speaker 3: their lionstone tagger. They got boots on, but they're just
Speaker 3: they're digging around. They were young early twice, so they're
Speaker 3: doing their thing. Third guy who had on chess waiters
Speaker 3: goes around. Let's call him Chris. The guy across the creek,
Speaker 3: we'll call him Doug. And we'll call the guy in
Speaker 3: the hip or chess waters, we'll call him Fred. Okay,
Speaker 3: just keep it simple. So Chris jugging Fred. Okay. So
Speaker 3: Fred goes around him and he's going up to check
Speaker 3: out that blockage and him he's laughing. He goes, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna see if I could massage one's belly and fling
Speaker 3: it out of the creek. He was gonna check his
Speaker 3: skills out see if he could do it. And so
Speaker 3: he goes. He starts moving the brush that was stuck
Speaker 3: in there, and he was like, is there beavers around here?
Speaker 3: And he holds up one of the branches and his
Speaker 3: freight and broke it. It wasn't chewed off like a beaver.
Speaker 3: Anyone ever see a beaver chew if you haven't googled it,
Speaker 3: it's very distinct. He can't mistake it for anything else.
Speaker 3: There was no beaver shoe mark, so they're like, what then,
Speaker 3: that's weird. It's almost like someone must have did this
Speaker 3: on purpose to make a little shadow area for the fish. Right,
Speaker 3: he goes, okay, I get it, So he stops destroying it.
Speaker 3: He respects the fact that, oh, someone intentionally did this,
Speaker 3: and that's why we're able to fish for these trout
Speaker 3: right here, because it's given them a sense of safety
Speaker 3: in the shade and the shadow from hocks and whatever.
Speaker 3: So he's okay, he fixes it, and he backs out.
Speaker 3: He gets out of the creek, and he goes okay.
Speaker 3: He recognizes he was about to destroy something that worked
Speaker 3: for somebody that could be potentially feeding him or whatever.
Speaker 3: So he backs up on the bank and they got
Speaker 3: their lines untied and stuff, and as they're discussing what
Speaker 3: they're going to do, kabluk, they hear something hit the
Speaker 3: water and they're like, who offs is nearby? Because where
Speaker 3: they were staying, you have to follow this creek dap
Speaker 3: back our river back down to where it meets the Yentna,
Speaker 3: and then you got to go back up river to
Speaker 3: where they were camping, where the cabin was where they
Speaker 3: were at, right, So they're a little ways away from
Speaker 3: the cabin, where remote as hell. And so as they're
Speaker 3: sitting there discussing who could possibly be thrown rocks in
Speaker 3: the creek and that type of thing, who would want
Speaker 3: to do that? One of them was armed. Only one
Speaker 3: of them had a twenty two pistol for spruce grouse.
Speaker 3: Small gay bears weren't on their radar. It didn't feel
Speaker 3: like a threatening environment. Nothing had happened, so they felt,
Speaker 3: we don't need a gun, nothing big. We got a
Speaker 3: twenty two. We'll make noise, it'll run whatever it is.
Speaker 3: So periodically rocks drop, and it's starting to get to
Speaker 3: the point where they're looking because they're figuring they would
Speaker 3: see the rocks fulling in like this, But these things
Speaker 3: were coming almost straight down, so whoever was throwing them
Speaker 3: was throwing them real high, so they'd come straight down
Speaker 3: into the water. Right. So they catch on to this,
Speaker 3: and they start looking in what they thought would be
Speaker 3: the direction they were coming, trying to figure out. As
Speaker 3: they're doing this, Fred and the chest waiters, he gets
Speaker 3: hit with one of these rocks and he gets hit
Speaker 3: in the back of his chest waiters. Right, he heard
Speaker 3: it hit didn't really feel it too much because they
Speaker 3: were really baggy. They blown out on it and with
Speaker 3: the straps anyway, so he did really feel the impact.
Speaker 3: But he heard the vocal against the niopried and he
Speaker 3: was like, hey, whoever, it has just hit me in
Speaker 3: the back with it. So they all turn around to
Speaker 3: look the direction that he got hit in the back.
Speaker 1: Front.
Speaker 3: Now as they're doing this beyhind them, they hear that
Speaker 3: canoe rip out of the water, if you can imagine that,
Speaker 3: a canoe leaving the water really fast, and they all
Speaker 3: whip them around to see what the hell is this.
Speaker 3: All they catch is a dark figure halfway into the
Speaker 3: tree line and the canoe just boom, impacting into the brush. Now,
Speaker 3: this all happened very fast, a whoosh down. They whip
Speaker 3: around things already halfway in the trees, canoes landing right
Speaker 3: just like that. And they're immediately like, what the hell
Speaker 3: is this because all the shit that was in that
Speaker 3: canoe is now raining down and decorating the opposite side
Speaker 3: of the creek where their canoe is now got a
Speaker 3: new home resting in the alders. They didn't know what
Speaker 3: the hell to do. They were stuck they were stuck,
Speaker 3: and they were trying to make out what did we
Speaker 3: see cut into those trees? What the what was that bigfoot?
Speaker 3: Harry Man? None of that was even on their radar.
Speaker 3: They never entertained the thought ever. And I asked him
Speaker 3: when I was talking to him about his experience, I said,
Speaker 3: what was your knowledge of the harry matter bigfoot before this?
Speaker 3: He's like, ah, you'd hear stuff. But he is like,
Speaker 3: that was garbage. There's no way I was going to
Speaker 3: rop my mind with that. He called it hell billy bullshit.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, okay, so pin you on
Speaker 3: no prayer experience with these kind of things. So they're stuck.
Speaker 3: They're looking at each other, but none of them have
Speaker 3: the words. None of them have the words to get
Speaker 3: out and express how they're feeling. It wasn't like PTSD traumatizing,
Speaker 3: but they were in a certain level of shock. I
Speaker 3: could imagine, You're in the middle of nowhere, don't believe
Speaker 3: in this thing. All of a sudden, your canue goes
Speaker 3: flying and you see a dark figure going into the trees.
Speaker 3: Canoes are not light. This was a sixteen foot marine
Speaker 3: grade canoe of coal mid Those things weigh g's almost
Speaker 3: two hundred pounds just in of themselves, plus it was
Speaker 3: loaded with cooler gear, all this stuff. This was their
Speaker 3: little base camp when they got away from the main camp,
Speaker 3: because they would spike camp along the river and stuff anyway,
Speaker 3: so they had some stuff in there. It wasn't just
Speaker 3: some empty, lightweight thing. This thing was long a good
Speaker 3: thirty feet. So these guys are obviously creaked. Their canoe
Speaker 3: went for freaking ride. They stuck on stupid on the
Speaker 3: opposite side of this creek because once this stuff went
Speaker 3: down and the rocks were being thrown, Doug on the
Speaker 3: opposite side of the creek from Chris and Fred got
Speaker 3: on the other side of the creek during the rock
Speaker 3: thrown before he got hit in the back and they
Speaker 3: kill went for a ride. So then being on the
Speaker 3: same side, they all look at each other. Doug is
Speaker 3: the one that had the little twenty two pistol for
Speaker 3: the shrub grouse or whatever the spursh chickens, and they
Speaker 3: immediately recognized, we need to freaking go or they were
Speaker 3: not going to go and retrieve that canoe because it
Speaker 3: was in the direction of that big whatever and the
Speaker 3: hell that just was and they weren't having none of that,
Speaker 3: So they start backing out of They're just real paranoid,
Speaker 3: understandably that all their funny games just went out the
Speaker 3: freaking door on a canoe ride into the shrubs, right,
Speaker 3: So they immediately recognized a threat. The way Chris had
Speaker 3: explained it to me was it was a very unspoken thereat,
Speaker 3: I asked him, but did seemed like it was in
Speaker 3: the air, And he said that was the closest kind
Speaker 3: of analogy he could come up with two and.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned for more. Sasquatch out to see. We'll be
Speaker 4: right back after these messages.
Speaker 3: So they start backing out of there. They're going back
Speaker 3: down this little river, glorified creek whatever to get to
Speaker 3: the Vietna and then hike back up to the cabin.
Speaker 3: And they were motivated. They were trying not to pettic
Speaker 3: because they didn't want to spark any kind of predator
Speaker 3: flight chase kind of thing. They get down to the
Speaker 3: Vietna and just as they meet where this glorified river
Speaker 3: connects with the Vietna, they're cut up because the trail
Speaker 3: kind of cuts off the point and then drops down
Speaker 3: onto the bank of the river and it cuts up
Speaker 3: onto the bank and then back down as you're going
Speaker 3: back up the river, just because brush will hang out
Speaker 3: too far and then you go around it and it
Speaker 3: just overtime becomes a game trail or whatever. So they're
Speaker 3: doing this number just as they get around on the
Speaker 3: jetna and they start down the bank a little bit,
Speaker 3: trying to discuss a little more because they're snapping out
Speaker 3: of their shock of what the hell through a canoe
Speaker 3: like that, And they're talking about it couldn't have been
Speaker 3: a bear? Could a bear do that? They were debating
Speaker 3: the bar thing, which is understandable they had no other reference.
Speaker 3: As they're starting to get up on the bank to
Speaker 3: go around this bundle of shrubs to get onto the
Speaker 3: other side of the bank and continue going towards the cabin,
Speaker 3: they heard a series of gruts and screams. Said he
Speaker 3: couldn't even put it in the words, but a woman
Speaker 3: being murdered is a close sound like a lion roar
Speaker 3: type deal, but same time. And so they're immediately even
Speaker 3: more motivated now because after this scream sounds, they hear
Speaker 3: something paralleling of just behind them in the tree line.
Speaker 3: But it's catching up fast, right, big impacts on the
Speaker 3: ground bump, bump, and they're like, oh sh So Doug
Speaker 3: with the twenty two, shoots two times in the air
Speaker 3: just to make noise bay Bane. Once he did that,
Speaker 3: the movement came even and it passed them just out
Speaker 3: of you. They're seeing trees and stuff shake. So they're
Speaker 3: on the river bank and they said it sounded like
Speaker 3: a bulldozer going eighty miles an hour through the trees,
Speaker 3: because it sounded like it was the biggest thing around
Speaker 3: and it was making a large show of whatever the
Speaker 3: hell it was doing. And as it got a little
Speaker 3: bit of ways away, they heard the crashing circling back
Speaker 3: a little further distance away. So they snap out of
Speaker 3: it and they say, okay, we need to get moving.
Speaker 3: Since this moving back this way, let's go that way
Speaker 3: and get to the cabin. So they're doing their thing.
Speaker 3: They're doing this little jump up the bank, follow the trail,
Speaker 3: get down on the river bank again, because that's how
Speaker 3: it is. You got shrubs hanging over. You're not going
Speaker 3: to take a swim. So they're doing what they have
Speaker 3: to do to get the hell out of dodge. Doug's
Speaker 3: in the rear with this twenty two, and he had
Speaker 3: no confidence in it. After hearing that whatever it was
Speaker 3: crashing and banging through the woods, he knew that it'd
Speaker 3: be better off shooting. Chris are redding the knee to
Speaker 3: get away. So they get to a point to where
Speaker 3: the trail cuts up onto the bank, and then it
Speaker 3: goes up this rise past some tundra and some muskeg
Speaker 3: and some black spruce, and then comes back. The trail
Speaker 3: cuts back down to the river, and there's four large
Speaker 3: rocks or something like that, kind of offset of each other.
Speaker 3: How to get back across the n at that point
Speaker 3: to get to their cabin about another a mile or
Speaker 3: so up the river, right, So they go up the
Speaker 3: rise and they get to the point to where the
Speaker 3: tundra and the black spruce meet the muskeg or whatever.
Speaker 3: They get to that point and they decide they're going
Speaker 3: to look back because the whole time there was noise
Speaker 3: going on, but it stayed in that general area when
Speaker 3: it circled back and they made their move. So they're
Speaker 3: at a higher raised area and they're trying to get
Speaker 3: advantage point to make out what is doing this because
Speaker 3: they felt they were at a safe distance. So as
Speaker 3: they're standing up there, they get the idea, because once
Speaker 3: they got and actually trying to started looking in that direction,
Speaker 3: all that show or whatever was going on, stop dead silence, right,
Speaker 3: So dug it again said I'll shoot one more time
Speaker 3: in the air, and he had reloaded. At this time,
Speaker 3: he'd took an out the two dead ones, put in
Speaker 3: two fresh ones. There's just little six shots, single six
Speaker 3: little ruger, single action. Any hunter out there knows exactly
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. So he goes, I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: one in the air and see if we can get
Speaker 3: a reaction out of it and get a look at
Speaker 3: this thing, because this was a good At this point,
Speaker 3: they're looking down into the trees and it's a good
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty yards away, and they felt very
Speaker 3: confident that they could just get out of there and
Speaker 3: have enough room to move anyway and make them move
Speaker 3: or defend themselves. Whatever. Okay, yeah, do it, do it.
Speaker 3: We'll keep an eye out. So they're looking bang, they're
Speaker 3: shoot in the air right the direction they have to go,
Speaker 3: because they came up a trail with the tree line
Speaker 3: on the left. They come up the rise, the tree
Speaker 3: line still on the left, it curves around and goes
Speaker 3: back down to the end. Now the ruckus is coming
Speaker 3: down where the trail meets the river where they gotta
Speaker 3: go in the tree trees just basically behind him when
Speaker 3: they shot. So they're looking over here, Bang, where's it? A, Oh,
Speaker 3: it's down here behind us, doing the same shit. Now
Speaker 3: they don't know what the hell to do. I wouldn't either,
Speaker 3: So they went off road, and so to speak, they
Speaker 3: started b learning across the tundra to the next little
Speaker 3: black spruce across the way, and what their plan was
Speaker 3: to get the frick out of there, get some clear
Speaker 3: tundra between there so they can see where it's moving,
Speaker 3: because they didn't see it moving. The trees to get
Speaker 3: back behind them basically now I wasn't directly behind him,
Speaker 3: was offset back to their right, but it's still behind
Speaker 3: them and they didn't hear it. They get across the
Speaker 3: way there, and from what he was telling me, when
Speaker 3: they got across there, he was having a panic attack.
Speaker 3: He had dealt with childhood asthma that it felt like
Speaker 3: a very bad asthma attack, so he had to meditate
Speaker 3: because he hadn't used halo in years. So he's trying
Speaker 3: to calm himself down. He's on his knees threading the
Speaker 3: chest waiters. He now has the twenty two pistol. Doug
Speaker 3: is relieving himself in the trees right. So they have
Speaker 3: no game plan. They just let their game plan follow
Speaker 3: the trail, get back to the cabin across the Vietna.
Speaker 3: They weren't having a good time at this point. Doug
Speaker 3: finishes his business, comes back out. He wants the pistol back,
Speaker 3: and Fred said no, he goes, I got it. Don't
Speaker 3: worry that way. You don't have to be the one
Speaker 3: in the rear. I'm a little bigger than you. You
Speaker 3: could lead the group. We'll keep Crispy twin us or whatever,
Speaker 3: and we'll make our go. So they come up to
Speaker 3: the game plan. We'll follow this tree line down, because
Speaker 3: they had like a V shaped wedge to their left
Speaker 3: in that tree line over there, about sixty yards or so,
Speaker 3: was where the ruck has happened behind them when they
Speaker 3: shot at the top of the rise. Now they're going
Speaker 3: down to their right, so it's a wedge shape, so
Speaker 3: noise over here. They're over here. They want to get
Speaker 3: down here and look for another way to cross further
Speaker 3: up the river. They want to continue to the cabin.
Speaker 3: So they work their way down, just edging the tree line.
Speaker 3: As they're going along the high bush, cranberries happened to
Speaker 3: be in season, and they had this weird odor too.
Speaker 3: If you've ever been out of the bush Alaska, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. Not a musty, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't smell ap peely, we'll put it that way. And
Speaker 3: so they're catching this whift of it and they're about
Speaker 3: half the distance they have to to make it down
Speaker 3: to the end because they're not moving fast. They're moving
Speaker 3: stopping and listening. Now, Fred having the gun, he's a
Speaker 3: little bolder. Don't know why. It's only twenty two, but
Speaker 3: because he had the gun, it was a mental thing.
Speaker 3: Far So he's a little bit further away from that
Speaker 3: tree line as they're paralleling each other going down. He's
Speaker 3: about ten feet away and he's stepping in the thunder
Speaker 3: and the marsh and stuff. They're making their way down.
Speaker 3: What Chris and Doug didn't know was Bred wanted to
Speaker 3: try to shoot it. That's what he learned later. Right,
Speaker 3: he's saying he's gonna get him a wild man dragging
Speaker 3: in make money or something. He found this album what
Speaker 3: they made to the cabin anyway. So they're doing their thing,
Speaker 3: and this guy's bold with the twenty two for no reason.
Speaker 3: He doesn't realize the day putting everyone in with this garbage.
Speaker 3: So they make their way down. They get down to
Speaker 3: the Vietna Now they were looking and paranoid and saw
Speaker 3: nothing move. However, at that particular side of the Yetna
Speaker 3: River there was about a three foot river bank that
Speaker 3: you could see down to the edge, but you can't
Speaker 3: see that three foot it's shielded. Unbeknownst to them, this
Speaker 3: thing had dropped down of the river and crawled and
Speaker 3: was now in the trees over parallel, you know, just
Speaker 3: as they were getting down to the Vietna River. So
Speaker 3: this thing didn't give a shit about up the gunshot,
Speaker 3: actively intimidating them and following them. Okay, not a good combination.
Speaker 3: Doesn't stir happiness and enjoyed friendship to me. So the
Speaker 3: realization of what the hell's going on came. No liver
Speaker 3: threads to the outside of them. You got Chris and
Speaker 3: then Doug. So they make like a triangle shape if
Speaker 3: you were to look down. If you're looking down at it,
Speaker 3: we got the tree line, dug Chris. Fred once they
Speaker 3: hear the noise and the grunt, they all turn to
Speaker 3: their right into the tree line. And on this tree
Speaker 3: line it's more broken and open, so you have a
Speaker 3: stunded growth black spruce, and then you have some willows
Speaker 3: next to it, a little more sporadic growth versus the
Speaker 3: denser on the opposite side where they just let their
Speaker 3: trail now when they recognize that danger, because they were
Speaker 3: just getting down to the river.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So this tree line as it comes down the river, understand,
Speaker 3: there's a distance of about fifteen to twenty feet between
Speaker 3: the river bank and where the tree line starts again.
Speaker 3: But you have all these little scrub alders and willows
Speaker 3: that line both sides of everything around, and so they're
Speaker 3: oriented where off their right shoulder, like at the apex
Speaker 3: of where they got to turn and start back up
Speaker 3: and find another way across. But now this thing is
Speaker 3: pretty much in front of them, and it starts doing
Speaker 3: the pacing thing again. They turn around and kicked the
Speaker 3: river bank back to across those four rocks to get
Speaker 3: across the river. So they're able to do that. He
Speaker 3: said everything was a blur because I asked them, okay,
Speaker 3: you're telling me that it was off following you, paralleling you,
Speaker 3: but yet you were at the apex of the turn.
Speaker 3: And then it started moving. He goes, I realized when
Speaker 3: we were coming down it actually paralleled U because if
Speaker 3: we kept hearing stuff, and then it came to a
Speaker 3: head when they got down to that trimming port. So
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, that makes more sense. Now they
Speaker 3: backtracked and they get across the rock. Now they still
Speaker 3: hear the movement right over there. And now when they
Speaker 3: get across these rocks and they get up on the
Speaker 3: other side, they're feeling a sense of relief. Now they
Speaker 3: got a natural barrier a little wider than that little creek,
Speaker 3: and they know they're on the right side of the
Speaker 3: river to get to the cabin. That was their motivation.
Speaker 3: So now Fred with the pistol, he's standing on the
Speaker 3: river bank and he had a false sense of security
Speaker 3: with this river dividing them right. So this yahoo puts
Speaker 3: around into the trees. He shot high, but from what
Speaker 3: Chris said, he had a look of yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: gonna draw it out kind of thing. He shoot high
Speaker 3: in the trees. That wasn't smart. Scream, loud scream, and
Speaker 3: then view from where they came across the tundra a
Speaker 3: little further up the rizon and came down this way
Speaker 3: and then came back. They had an open view of
Speaker 3: that little wedge shape. They first shot over to their right,
Speaker 3: and it was down here behind them. They ran across
Speaker 3: the tunder this way and came down to the left side,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So they had a view
Speaker 3: of this like wedge shaped alleyway going up the rise.
Speaker 3: This thing screamed, broke some trees and stuff on its
Speaker 3: way out of that tree line, and ran across in
Speaker 3: front of them, going towards where the whole shebang started
Speaker 3: further down river. So this thing was actually leaving the area.
Speaker 3: Smart Fred starts trying to pop shots at it as
Speaker 3: it's running because he just sees it. Freaks up. Pomp
Speaker 3: starts feathering there, dumb.
Speaker 4: Thing to do.
Speaker 3: This thing immediately hits the tree line that it was
Speaker 3: right to because it was moving fast. The tree line,
Speaker 3: you hear a bunch of breaking and stuff, and they
Speaker 3: could see the tops of the black spruce and some
Speaker 3: of the birch just whipping down hard. So this thing
Speaker 3: was smashing the shit down to the ground. They immediately
Speaker 3: turned and start running Now as they're running, they're yelling back,
Speaker 3: you dumb ass. They're cursing Fred out because Fred just
Speaker 3: start winging shots at this thing. It wasn't necessary. They
Speaker 3: were in survival model lists. Get out of here. So
Speaker 3: after winging the shot, they're running and they start hearing
Speaker 3: splashing in the river. Now Fred just emptied the six rounds.
Speaker 3: Doug is in the lead a good distance ahead of
Speaker 3: Fred because he was an idiot and stood behind. He
Speaker 3: has a twenty two animal, so he's got an empty gun,
Speaker 3: he's got a paperweight, and he's the last one in line,
Speaker 3: and he was the one winging shots at this Now
Speaker 3: they're hall ass. In this particular part of the trail
Speaker 3: was pretty well worn and they knew it well. They've
Speaker 3: been going on it forever, so they knew their way,
Speaker 3: and they were hauling ask and they hear it paralleling
Speaker 3: them in the river. Now where the cabin is on
Speaker 3: a bit of a rise. It's a single room cabin.
Speaker 3: He said, it's approximately twelve by twenty right on the
Speaker 3: dimensions of this cabin seven foot walls, cathedral like ceiling,
Speaker 3: just a shell basically with some two by four in
Speaker 3: tywood box with the low rollout mats on it. Just
Speaker 3: a glorified shack for sleep and to go hunting. You know,
Speaker 3: nothing more, You don't mean more. So they're allassing to
Speaker 3: get here. Meanwhile they're getting paralleled. Red's is one in
Speaker 3: the rear, and this thing is the splashing, is passing them.
Speaker 3: So the water at this particular part of the river,
Speaker 3: he said, was at least three to four feet deep,
Speaker 3: and this thing was splashed through it like it was
Speaker 3: a puddle. So they're shook. They are shook, and they're
Speaker 3: motivated with their running. They all make it back to
Speaker 3: that cabin right so as they get in the door
Speaker 3: and shut the door, Bred in the rear has a
Speaker 3: severe leg cramp. It's so cramped that they have to
Speaker 3: dugl and Chris have to grab him by the ankle
Speaker 3: and pulp his leg because it was trying to bend
Speaker 3: up and lock up on him. Off. Jeez, that kind
Speaker 3: of cramp that would just suck. So that so they're
Speaker 3: tending to Fred, they hear splashing out in the river
Speaker 3: and then a moment later they hear some hit the
Speaker 3: door of this cabin. And when this thing hit the door,
Speaker 3: it dawned on them. This isn't a very safe place.
Speaker 3: Immediately they let go of Fred's leg. He's on his
Speaker 3: own with his cramp. This asshole. His wingshots at this
Speaker 3: and that's why we're here. So they look out the
Speaker 3: window to see what the hell just hit the cabin right,
Speaker 3: and what it ended up being was this huge clump
Speaker 3: of grass that was eroded overhang, and it was basically
Speaker 3: have you ever worked with sod? It was similar to sod,
Speaker 3: but a big chunk with more dirt rocks stuck to
Speaker 3: the bottom and then the grass out the top.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So this huge thing had hit the door very hard.
Speaker 3: It must have weighed sixty pounds, this big choke of
Speaker 3: earth that was chucked out the cabin. So now they're
Speaker 3: looking for it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Inside the cabin they have a shotgun and they have
Speaker 3: a couple other big boar rifle.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll be
Speaker 4: right back after these messages.
Speaker 3: So immediately they're getting the big boy guns out. No
Speaker 3: more twenty two is for Fred, and so he gets
Speaker 3: this tramp corked out and they're all looking out the windows.
Speaker 3: Now it's not dark yet, but they know darkness is coming.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm not trying to draw this out. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to be thorough and get all these little nuances in.
Speaker 3: So time goes by and they're getting very uneasy because
Speaker 3: it's dead quiet, and so they don't want to stay.
Speaker 3: And now they have a little bit of a ways
Speaker 3: to go before the trail that will lead a few
Speaker 3: miles to where they had parked their rig to get
Speaker 3: out of there. So if you got something that big
Speaker 3: chasing you, you don't want to be on that kind
Speaker 3: of journey. You don't even want to be on a
Speaker 3: ten foot journey, let alone a couple of miles through
Speaker 3: the Alaskan wilderness with this thing pissed off. So at
Speaker 3: their options, we got food, we got sheltered, we got
Speaker 3: ammo here. We're good. We'll hold out. If it keeps
Speaker 3: us in here, someone will eventually come. But we can
Speaker 3: defend this place. There was three windows into the place,
Speaker 3: one on each of the walls, and then there was
Speaker 3: a narrow window next to the doorway, and it was
Speaker 3: a solid steel door, and they had some kind of
Speaker 3: bear detoried nail boards and stuff that they would put
Speaker 3: over the windows and on the door to keep bears
Speaker 3: from breaking in and tear it up. Their shit. So
Speaker 3: they had all that bareboard stuff stacked in a neat
Speaker 3: way right outside the door against part of the windbreak
Speaker 3: of the porch. Right where it particularly had to be
Speaker 3: was the stairway down to the ground, so when you
Speaker 3: went out, you had to step around all these bare boards.
Speaker 3: So they decide, we got these guns, screw the sing
Speaker 3: let's kill it. That's what they think. We're gonna kill
Speaker 3: it and get the hell out of here and then
Speaker 3: we'll get help and then come back. Because it was
Speaker 3: big when they saw it moving. He said he didn't
Speaker 3: want to guess the size, but he said it was massive,
Speaker 3: massively tall. He guesstimated because he only saw it in
Speaker 3: the water really well, when it was standing in the
Speaker 3: river and the water was just above its knees, and
Speaker 3: he thinks that particular spot was at least four to
Speaker 3: five feet deep where it was standing and it was
Speaker 3: barely up just past its knees. Of this creature at
Speaker 3: this particular point, it went from it through the clup
Speaker 3: of grass. They freak all that, they check it out.
Speaker 3: They all armed up. Moments later during their discussion, it
Speaker 3: was Doug looking out the narrow window out the front
Speaker 3: door that looks down to the river when they saw
Speaker 3: it standing in the water, and that's when they all
Speaker 3: went over and Tommy took a look out the window.
Speaker 3: They saw us up what they're dealing with. They said,
Speaker 3: we're gonna kill it. They go out and I'll bring
Speaker 3: up the bearboards because it comes into play in just
Speaker 3: a moment. So they go out and there's a good
Speaker 3: gap in between these bare boards and the stairway because
Speaker 3: it's thirty six inch wide stairway right, so they easily
Speaker 3: get by it as they're sitting and they're going down
Speaker 3: discussing which direction they go because it was no longer
Speaker 3: standing in the river. It was nowhere in sight. It
Speaker 3: was just caught. So they're standing out there a moment.
Speaker 3: Now at this point, it is starting to get to dusk,
Speaker 3: and in the trees it's really dark shadows, but there's
Speaker 3: still plenty of daylight up in the sky and in
Speaker 3: the grass and stuff. But anything in the tree line
Speaker 3: is damn near pitch black. So they figure out, okay,
Speaker 3: it must have ran over the trees. Dug with the
Speaker 3: shot good wing some rounds over to those trees. Let's
Speaker 3: see if we can get it to move. Everyone be
Speaker 3: sure we don't accidentally shoot each other. So they're standing
Speaker 3: kind of shouldered the shoulders so they don't swing into
Speaker 3: each other's fire. Great planet, right. He lets a couple
Speaker 3: shots off across the river. Boom, boom, not a sound.
Speaker 3: They hear nothing, So they decide, maybe we'll use one
Speaker 3: of the big boar rifles and wing a shot a
Speaker 3: little further down the trees that way. Let's see if
Speaker 3: we can coax it out. It came before we've got shots,
Speaker 3: so see if we'll do it again. Boom, shoots a
Speaker 3: round off. They hear or something behind that, something coming
Speaker 3: from behind the cabin. So they turn around immediately, and
Speaker 3: they're looking because the cabin's elevated. It's about a foot
Speaker 3: and a half in the front elevated, and it drops
Speaker 3: off a little bit so it's up to about two
Speaker 3: and a half three foot on the pilots of the back.
Speaker 3: So they could bed down and look underneath the whole place.
Speaker 3: And they do that and they see nothing. They see
Speaker 3: nothing that would have made the noise that smacked or
Speaker 3: hit the cabin. So they figured, oh, it's throwing stuff
Speaker 3: like it did at the cree Yeah, through something, and
Speaker 3: it landed on the cabin, and that's what got our attention. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: this thing's sart. So they think they got to figure
Speaker 3: it out, and they turned around. They're looking for the
Speaker 3: direction this thing whatever was thrown, and they hear that
Speaker 3: noise together and they ignore it because they think they're
Speaker 3: being tricked. They think they're being tricked, that something's making
Speaker 3: that noise intentionally to distract their attention that way while
Speaker 3: it does something in front of them. So they want
Speaker 3: to be ready. They're not follow for it. They're not dumb.
Speaker 3: They're doing their thing. They hear a screen across the river,
Speaker 3: just like they right, oh yeah, okay, it's right over there.
Speaker 3: Try to pinpoint it. Put another big caliber rock around
Speaker 3: straight that direction. You're not gonna hit it. It's gonna
Speaker 3: hit a tree, But should it that direction? Let them
Speaker 3: know we mean business. Right wings the shot, they hear
Speaker 3: another noise behind them at the cab. They're ignoring that
Speaker 3: noise at the cabin, ignoring it. We're not followed for
Speaker 3: that crap. We know it's over here. So Doug, who
Speaker 3: operated the shotgun couble more rounds put back in that
Speaker 3: bad boy. He decides, I'm done with this. The shotguns
Speaker 3: short range. I'll go inside and way. He turns around
Speaker 3: to go just short distance to the stairs up the walkway.
Speaker 3: The bare boards were all turned nail's facing out, leaned
Speaker 3: up and stacked up in front of the door. This
Speaker 3: thing distracted them because they were smart, went and turned
Speaker 3: the bareboards around, nail sticking out to them from getting
Speaker 3: back into that freaking cabin. What like, dude, Yeah, So
Speaker 3: when they saw that, the realization was we're being freaking played.
Speaker 3: Guess what. They didn't go back in the cab. They
Speaker 3: took their happy asses with the ammal they had and
Speaker 3: the guns they had, going in the dark. Three soldiers
Speaker 3: out of there. They said they thought it sounded like
Speaker 3: they're being paralleled. A couple of different times they would
Speaker 3: fire affle volley of shots. Now they're doing this, it's
Speaker 3: going in the darkness. They got no gear other than
Speaker 3: their guns and a bunch of animal they do in
Speaker 3: their pockets to accost this thing. And they're getting the
Speaker 3: hell out of dodge. It's accumulated about three and a
Speaker 3: half miles to go from where this particular cabin was,
Speaker 3: through the muskeg in the trails and the black spruce
Speaker 3: on into higher ground, then lower ground then higher ground
Speaker 3: up into where they parked the truck troopers. They did it,
Speaker 3: they stomped out. The main reason I'm going to share
Speaker 3: that with you is the cunning turned the bairboards around. Dude.
Speaker 3: That's genius kick keep them from being able to run
Speaker 3: back in easily. Wow, just wow, What are you doing
Speaker 3: in the situation like that? What can we make of that?
Speaker 3: That's just on some other level. That's like imitating the
Speaker 3: baby crying, laurying my cousin Elizabeth out. They're gonna pray
Speaker 3: on a woman's instinct and nature to lure them out. Dude,
Speaker 3: There's more going on with these things. We know they're smart,
Speaker 3: we know they're very smart. But I think they're smarter
Speaker 3: and just as cunny as we are. They just go
Speaker 3: about it in a different way because we live in
Speaker 3: a different world, not ooh oh yeah they come out
Speaker 3: of a portal, No, the woods being the different world.
Speaker 3: They're there twenty four to seven. I'm sure they've been
Speaker 3: around who knows how long they live, what they've seen,
Speaker 3: so this thing new enough. I'm assuming it was one
Speaker 3: distracted by one another. One did something. I don't know.
Speaker 3: They didn't see it, but they heard the noises and
Speaker 3: they ignored it. Hit I tell you what, Chris, Doug
Speaker 3: and Fred they will never ignore a noise behind them again.
Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to make light of it. I'm
Speaker 3: just like, can you imagine your escape is right there?
Speaker 3: You feel your safeties right there, and lo and behold
Speaker 3: it's turned on. Yet you got this man made porcupine
Speaker 3: facing you to get in the door. Oh jeez, man,
Speaker 3: they still go there. This was just two or three
Speaker 3: years ago, I think he said, not very long ago.
Speaker 3: Be safe when you go, bro, and keep the bear
Speaker 3: boards somewhere else to where you don't get porcupined out
Speaker 3: of your own damn cabin when you got one of
Speaker 3: these things ticked off at you because your buddy wants
Speaker 3: to wing shots at it. I'm not making light of it.
Speaker 3: Me and him laughed about it on the phone conversation.
Speaker 3: So take no offense, buddy. No disrespect is just holy shit,
Speaker 3: What do you do with that? I'm sure these guys
Speaker 3: will never look at bear boards as the same again.
Speaker 3: Oh jeez. Anyway, thanks for listening. Sorry for laughing at you, guys.
Speaker 3: I'm pictures to have to think you're gonna kill this
Speaker 3: thing and all of a sudden, this move, it's behind you,
Speaker 3: just setting a trap for you all. Jeez. I'll be
Speaker 3: safe out there. Guys. We'll talk to you later.
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Speaker 2: And I don't want to be alone.
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