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Speaker 2: Open up to an odyssey, or there's something in the woods.
Speaker 2: Anatoye what you're about.
Speaker 3: To see you?
Speaker 2: Or there's something in the woods. Knock in the park,
Speaker 2: con changerry. The oldman said, don't go outside. There's something
Speaker 2: in the woods tonight. I hear rim knocking, shaking bushits footprints,
Speaker 2: howlt on my lung. Open up to an odyssey, something
Speaker 2: in the woods.
Speaker 4: No one to hear? Bring I got a screen going
Speaker 4: on here. Something just killed my dog. Something killed your dog,
Speaker 4: my dog. We're flying through here or over the tree.
Speaker 4: I don't know how it did it. Okay, damn, I'm
Speaker 4: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 4: the fence, and they was dead when he hit. The
Speaker 4: girl got in the teeny cars. All I saw was
Speaker 4: my dog coming over the fence. What are you reporting?
Speaker 4: We got some wonder something falling around out here. Did
Speaker 4: you see what it was? It enough. I'm out here
Speaker 4: looking through the window now and I don't want to
Speaker 4: see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus quite,
Speaker 4: you're h hello, get somebody out here. What's que announcer,
Speaker 4: let's go up a bit of about second fort nine.
Speaker 4: I don't know, do you see announcer? Yeah, I'm working
Speaker 4: right away.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, greetings, is fread Alaskas. Appreciate your time to
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Speaker 5: I want to share with you Joseph's family as a
Speaker 5: cabin on the Nushigak River. If I gave the exact location,
Speaker 5: it would be real easy because everyone back home knows
Speaker 5: whose cabins are where or whatever. We'll just leave it
Speaker 5: at a cabin on the Nushigak. This experience happened to
Speaker 5: Joseph back when he was in his early twenties. He's
Speaker 5: roughly my age. It was back in the nineties, pre
Speaker 5: two thousand, well, part of this cabin when they were
Speaker 5: finished building it. From what Joseph was telling me, they
Speaker 5: were having a hard time getting someone dependable to run
Speaker 5: the skiff with supplies up when they would need something. Inadvertently,
Speaker 5: he ended up there alone at some point. Now, when
Speaker 5: he ended up there alone, he knew he was going
Speaker 5: to overnight by himself. He had gun for bear and
Speaker 5: all that stuff was not concerned at all. This place
Speaker 5: did not have windows yet. As the evening progressed, he
Speaker 5: got done cooking on a cook stove. He cashed all
Speaker 5: the food in a safe place to where the bears
Speaker 5: wouldn't be attracted to come inside the cabin and what
Speaker 5: have you. As he explained it to me, he did
Speaker 5: everything right as far as bear aware and everything made
Speaker 5: sure that what he had in the cabin wouldn't attract
Speaker 5: any bears. As the night went on, he started hearing
Speaker 5: a weird howl. It sounded like an imitation wolf howl,
Speaker 5: way off in the distance. He said, it sounded like
Speaker 5: it was miles and miles away, but it was just
Speaker 5: real loud. It was concerning to him because he was
Speaker 5: there alone, and he was worried about wolves. Fair enough,
Speaker 5: you know, you hear a wolf howling, it's gonna get
Speaker 5: your attention regardless. So he sits out on the little
Speaker 5: steps in front of this cabin that they're working on.
Speaker 5: He's got his rifle with them. He's not really concerned.
Speaker 5: He's enjoying a cigarette just as it's getting into dusk.
Speaker 5: This is roughly this time of year that this happened
Speaker 5: early fall. So he's sitting there and he's enjoying the
Speaker 5: cigarette and he starts hearing that howling again, but this
Speaker 5: time it's will nearby. He said he would have guessed
Speaker 5: less than two hundred yards away. Now, where this particular
Speaker 5: cabin sits is on the west side of the Nishigak River.
Speaker 5: It backs up to trees and the river bank roughly
Speaker 5: about forty feet from the front of this cabin. It's
Speaker 5: a little bit of a cut bank. He has to
Speaker 5: go down a little further to shore up the skip
Speaker 5: or whatnot. When they go there, as he's contemplating what
Speaker 5: he's gonna do, he gets nervous. He feels like he's
Speaker 5: being watched, and he'd hear something moving. But it's getting dusk, man,
Speaker 5: and this time of year, when it starts getting dark,
Speaker 5: you ain't seeing squat out in the trees like this.
Speaker 5: Even with the bright light, things can easily evade you.
Speaker 5: He tucks back inside, and since there's no windows, he figured,
Speaker 5: I'll smoke cigarette out one of these open windows. It's
Speaker 5: well vented. He didn't want to disrespect who he was
Speaker 5: helping build a cabin and whatnot. He sits there and
Speaker 5: As time goes on, he notices that it got dead quiet.
Speaker 5: There's no more howling, there's no more nothing. He said,
Speaker 5: it sounded like he was in a big glass dome
Speaker 5: of just quiet, and it's like everything was muffled. And
Speaker 5: then he hears the howling again, but this time it
Speaker 5: sounded like it was directly off the back side of
Speaker 5: the cabin where there was no windows, any openings or whatever.
Speaker 5: Instantly he was on point. He had the rifle out
Speaker 5: the window. He was looking around real quick for his flashlight,
Speaker 5: got the flashlight, He's got the rifle. He's looking around,
Speaker 5: sees nothing. It goes dead quiet. Now he backs up,
Speaker 5: gets into a corner where he can see all three windows.
Speaker 5: They're well above what a wolf could jump in because
Speaker 5: they're about four or five feet off the ground. So
Speaker 5: as he's sitting there and he's contemplating, he's nervous, so
Speaker 5: he's smoking a cigarette and he ends up lighting up
Speaker 5: the it a Coleman lantern. He ends up lighting that
Speaker 5: and then hangs it up on a hook and is
Speaker 5: sitting there. He's contemplating, with the wolves come in or whatever.
Speaker 5: I'll shoot a wolf. Screw that. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 5: food to anything. So as Joseph sitting there, he's got
Speaker 5: this little palette on the floor with a duffel bag
Speaker 5: and a sleeping bag and stuff, and he's just overwhelmingly nervous,
Speaker 5: but he can't pinpoint why he's feeling so nervous. So
Speaker 5: he's sitting there and he knows that the wolves are
Speaker 5: too short for him to just easily from his vantage
Speaker 5: point and tucked in the back corner place to look
Speaker 5: out the windows, it is just physically impossible. So periodically
Speaker 5: he would take his flashlight and his rifle and he
Speaker 5: would look out and check every opening because he didn't
Speaker 5: want to be wolf food. Basically, he'd done that a
Speaker 5: few times and it's gotten down in the pitch black. Now,
Speaker 5: this lantern was identical to the type of white gas.
Speaker 5: You pump it up and it just horrible hissing sound.
Speaker 5: I hate those things. I can't stand them. But he
Speaker 5: was relating he had to do the same thing and
Speaker 5: pumping it up, and when he was pumping it, he
Speaker 5: said it was dying down, so he knew he had
Speaker 5: to pump it pretty quick, so he got up. He
Speaker 5: stood up and he's pumping away. And as he's pumping
Speaker 5: it's getting lighter and lighter, and so he tightens back
Speaker 5: down the screw and he turns and he catches a
Speaker 5: glimmer of eyeshine out of the corner of his eye
Speaker 5: from the window about five feet off to his right.
Speaker 5: The eye shine, however, was up at the upper corner
Speaker 5: of that window, so that would have to be approximately,
Speaker 5: according to his guest mitt ten to twelve feet off
Speaker 5: the ground for this eye shine for him to have
Speaker 5: noticed it immediately. He dropped to the ground, grabbed his
Speaker 5: rifle and felt overwhelmingly. He said, it wasn't scared, He
Speaker 5: said it felt like imminent demise of some kind. He
Speaker 5: couldn't pinpoint where the feeling was coming from. So he's
Speaker 5: hyper hyper vigilant. He's down on the ground, he's shaken
Speaker 5: a little bit. He just saw this eye shine. He
Speaker 5: heard some kind of movement. He felt the place jostle
Speaker 5: a little bit from something big and heavy bump in it.
Speaker 5: So he was thinking, crap, that could be a big bear.
Speaker 5: And it was standing up to look into the window.
Speaker 5: It saw me, and now it's leaving. So he painted
Speaker 5: that picture in his mind that the bear, what he
Speaker 5: assumed was a bear, looked in caught the eye shine
Speaker 5: dropped down bumped the cabin as it was leaving. That's
Speaker 5: what he was telling himself. So he's sitting there in
Speaker 5: the quiet, really not liking where he's at. At this point,
Speaker 5: he was chain smoking and running low on cigarettes just
Speaker 5: from stress. He was lighting one with the other, and
Speaker 5: he kept getting the sense of being watched. From his
Speaker 5: vantage point, he can easily see these openings, the windows
Speaker 5: without the windows in place, just the rough openings, but
Speaker 5: he can't look at all of them at the same time.
Speaker 5: So if his attention is verted to the right, he
Speaker 5: can't fully see the one off to the left, but
Speaker 5: he could still see the one in front of him,
Speaker 5: a little smaller one next to the door. As he's,
Speaker 5: you know, just juggling back and forth with which way
Speaker 5: do I look? Which way do I look? His attentions
Speaker 5: cast towards this one on the right hand side, and
Speaker 5: he keeps leaning up, pushing up, looking over the seil
Speaker 5: to see if you know, anything's looking in or whatever.
Speaker 5: And as he was sitting back down, he catches a
Speaker 5: glimmer out of his left eye from the window off
Speaker 5: to his left, and he looks and he sees two
Speaker 5: eyes looking back at him, just above the windowsill, and
Speaker 5: he said it was pitch black, real big thick brow ridge.
Speaker 5: The eyes were like I've explained before, like translucent black
Speaker 5: marbles and eyeshine, just the pinpoint eye shine coming off
Speaker 5: of them. Immediately once he makes eye contact, it drops
Speaker 5: below the window and hears shuffling going to the backside
Speaker 5: of the cabin. Immediately he knew it wasn't a bear.
Speaker 5: It had no snout. It was right up against the
Speaker 5: window stills, so he saw basically from here up. He
Speaker 5: said it was mostly gray with the black eyes and
Speaker 5: the black hair. That's the best description he had of it,
Speaker 5: because that's all he saw. Now. Immediately he jumps up
Speaker 5: and he's got the rifle pointed at that window, yelling, hey,
Speaker 5: it ain't funny. You're gonna get shot. You don't mess
Speaker 5: with people out in the woods. We have guns. You're
Speaker 5: gonna get shot. There's not a sound. So he's walking
Speaker 5: over to the window that's off to his left, keeping
Speaker 5: his firearm like that at the ready. He hears movement
Speaker 5: behind him, directly behind him out the other window where
Speaker 5: he originally saw the eyeshine, so he turns expecting to
Speaker 5: really not see anything, but he sees a big black body.
Speaker 5: He couldn't make it out, it was too dark, but
Speaker 5: he saw a hair covered body of something move in
Speaker 5: front of that window that took up almost a whole window.
Speaker 5: And this was a approximately four foot by five foot
Speaker 5: opening along those lines. So immediately he felt his heart
Speaker 5: pounding in his chest, just like holy shit, you know.
Speaker 5: So he goes and sits down in the middle of
Speaker 5: the room, and he's very emotional. At this point. He
Speaker 5: said that he wasn't a religious guy. He never actually
Speaker 5: prayed or anything, so he was doing little rudimentary prayers,
Speaker 5: God protect me, God, please get me out of this,
Speaker 5: and things of this nature. As he was saying these prayers,
Speaker 5: he said, he felt a little sense of relief. But
Speaker 5: as he stopped the prayers he was saying, felt a
Speaker 5: calming peace come over him. He said, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: there is this this boomb boom, sounded like something was
Speaker 5: trying to break the whole cabin in on him. Now,
Speaker 5: the log cabins are a very sturdy structure. It was shaking,
Speaker 5: like bombs going off nearby, just shaking everything, and it
Speaker 5: was just pounding on the wall. Immediately, he's back to praying.
Speaker 5: As he starts praying, he remembers, maybe I should pray
Speaker 5: to Jesus. Right. He stands up and he starts looking
Speaker 5: out the windows, and he starts crying out for Jesus
Speaker 5: to help him. As he's doing so, he said he
Speaker 5: could feel darkness around him. Now these are his words.
Speaker 5: I'm just sharing what Joseph said. He said he felt
Speaker 5: the darkness around him, and he stopped crying out for Jesus,
Speaker 5: and he pops some shots out the windows. Boom, like
Speaker 5: going in a circle, firing off a couple shots out
Speaker 5: the windows. It was hyper paranoid. He was yelling and cussing,
Speaker 5: you know, you keep messing with me, You're going to
Speaker 5: get shot. Just all of that stuff. And he's reloading.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a whole lot of ammal, and so
Speaker 5: as he's emotionally working through this mini breakdown, he was
Speaker 5: having an emotional breakdown in those moments. He ended up
Speaker 5: back on his knees in the center of this floor
Speaker 5: with the window he originally saw the eyes shine out
Speaker 5: higher up off to his left hand side now and
Speaker 5: the other window off to his right, and there was
Speaker 5: a small window behind him. The lamps in front of
Speaker 5: him where his cubby was right over here, off to
Speaker 5: his left in the corner, so basically his perspectives different.
Speaker 5: He's looking this direction because the banging came from that
Speaker 5: side and he wanted to have clear lines of fire.
Speaker 5: He's back on his knees, contemplating what the hell am
Speaker 5: I going to do? He leans forward, he's getting back
Speaker 5: into prayer, and all of a sudden he's hit with
Speaker 5: something in the back. It was a small rock. It
Speaker 5: got his attention. He turned around and saw darkness move
Speaker 5: from that small window. Now he's feeling toyed with, so
Speaker 5: he gets back up, goes over by the lamp, brings
Speaker 5: the lamp down and shuts it off. Now he still
Speaker 5: has this flashlight, but he shut off the lamp. He
Speaker 5: felt that he was a bright beacon in darkness. He
Speaker 5: wanted to be in the darkness, maybe have the flashlight
Speaker 5: ready and catch something out the windows. But as he's
Speaker 5: doing that, he's literally shaking. He said he wasn't sure
Speaker 5: if he got all sweaty or if he wet himself.
Speaker 5: He didn't know for sure. He assumes he wet himself
Speaker 5: from the fear. As he was sitting there now with
Speaker 5: his back against the wall with the lamp above him
Speaker 5: that he had shut off. He can't see anything. It's dark,
Speaker 5: so his eyes are acclimating to the darkness as the
Speaker 5: light dims down. He's acclimating. He can hear movement out
Speaker 5: both sides of the window, but it's not right up
Speaker 5: on the window. It's at a little bit of a
Speaker 5: distance way that he's hearing these noises as he's progressing
Speaker 5: with his breakdown. Basically, he was mentally, he was really shook,
Speaker 5: shaking hard. He just didn't know what to do with himself.
Speaker 5: He could hear, he guestimated probably twenty feet out the window.
Speaker 5: Off to his right hand side, he could hear mimicking
Speaker 5: of his sobbing from a few minutes earlier. Something was
Speaker 5: mimicking him, and he said it sounded like himself, but
Speaker 5: it was mimicking his sobbing when he was down on
Speaker 5: his knees when he was just getting back into prayer.
Speaker 5: So he immediately heard that and he got upsett, so
Speaker 5: upset that he immediately stood up and fired at what
Speaker 5: out the window, he assumed, but he ended up shooting
Speaker 5: the window seal because he couldn't see. It was so dark.
Speaker 5: He couldn't have acclimated his sight boom, so what kind
Speaker 5: of splin us from the window seal? And he hears
Speaker 5: a screaming off in the distance. That was he said
Speaker 5: it was a mix of the imitation wolf howl and
Speaker 5: a woman being murdered. And he said that was further
Speaker 5: off to the right outside of the window where that
Speaker 5: scream came from. When he shot, that scream happened behind
Speaker 5: him in the window that would have been off to
Speaker 5: his left. He heard like a scampering kind of noise,
Speaker 5: like something was messing around within the window seal. So
Speaker 5: he turned around. Of course, he couldn't see anything. He
Speaker 5: turned on his flashlight, saw nothing. He backs up to
Speaker 5: the wall, sits back down and continues to pray, but
Speaker 5: this time when he's praying to Jesus directly to help him.
Speaker 5: He said no. Sooner than he said, the Lord forgive
Speaker 5: me goes through his prayer. Whatever he was getting right
Speaker 5: with Jesus, he said, immediately once that prayer was done,
Speaker 5: he could hear noises of things moving away from the cabin.
Speaker 5: I asked him if he felt like it was the
Speaker 5: praying directly that had caused them to leave. He said,
Speaker 5: I suspect there was at least two. He firmly believes
Speaker 5: that directly praying to Jesus had stopped whatever was happening there.
Speaker 5: He didn't sleep the rest of the night. Of course,
Speaker 5: he ran out of cigarettes not too long after that,
Speaker 5: but he said he was at peace. He was able
Speaker 5: to at least sit back and relax. His appetite came back,
Speaker 5: he was able to finally eat something. He did not
Speaker 5: take a nap until the following morning when the sunlight
Speaker 5: was up. He crashed out for a couple hours until
Speaker 5: the supplies and the rest of his family showed up.
Speaker 5: That happened. I mean, it's been a minute pre two thousand,
Speaker 5: but that whole area has those kind of things happen.
Speaker 5: This is the first where someone has shared with me
Speaker 5: them directly praying to Jesus had caused whatever was going
Speaker 5: on to stop. So there's something to it. Joseph, Sorry,
Speaker 5: it took a minute to get this out. Appreciate you
Speaker 5: being patient sharing with me. Also to people, anyone who
Speaker 5: reaches out to me, I get back a hold of them.
Speaker 5: I'm the same guy on camera off camera. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: I get phone calls all the time from down in
Speaker 5: the States. People who have once lived up here, and
Speaker 5: people who have never lived up here and just curious
Speaker 5: with questions. Don't ever be embarrassed to ask a question,
Speaker 5: because I answer all that I can. I'm just some
Speaker 5: dude in Alaska, though, so any answer I may have,
Speaker 5: I'm not an expert on shit. Keep that in mind
Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 5: I wanted to share with you is what happened with
Speaker 5: one of my relatives up the Nushgak River in a
Speaker 5: place called Henry Slough Now Henry Slu is just south
Speaker 5: of New Stuyawk. The way the Nushgak River runs, you
Speaker 5: got these little islands that get cut out from ice
Speaker 5: back and up and overflow, and he got these little
Speaker 5: places in the middle of the river up in that area,
Speaker 5: Henry Slu cuts from one side of the river to
Speaker 5: the other. On the main channel side. You have to
Speaker 5: portage pull your skiff over into the channel if you
Speaker 5: want to get in there. So they did that. This
Speaker 5: was approximately about ten years ago, So they had to
Speaker 5: skiff pulled over and the slough their cruise along. One
Speaker 5: of his buddies was standing up on the bow because
Speaker 5: they were lower than the bank. So buddy standing on
Speaker 5: the bow was looking above the bank looking for any moose.
Speaker 5: As they're cruising along, just puttering along. His buddy turns
Speaker 5: back and gives the universal sign antlers over here, so
Speaker 5: they slow down. His buddy jumps off the bow of
Speaker 5: the skiff, holds it, sets the anchor in. When I
Speaker 5: say set the anchor in, they had a four foot
Speaker 5: piece of rope basically an old steak for concrete, just
Speaker 5: to temporary, just to hold the skiff from going because
Speaker 5: they were in the slough. It wasn't moving water, so
Speaker 5: he shoves it in the mud. This is mud and grass.
Speaker 5: You get up, you're onto some muskeg and some other
Speaker 5: mud and grass and some alders and willows. So get
Speaker 5: up to the top of this bank. My relative makes
Speaker 5: his way up to the bow, and as he's jumping
Speaker 5: off the bow, his buddy is real excited, saying, it's
Speaker 5: right over there, it's right over there. It's a good one.
Speaker 5: It's a good one. So my relative hands him his rifle.
Speaker 5: He grabs his cause there's bears around. They both get
Speaker 5: up onto the river bank. From what he told me,
Speaker 5: they could see the moose moving behind some alders. They
Speaker 5: could see the antlers pushing branches aside, and it was
Speaker 5: just doing its thing, and they heard more noise than
Speaker 5: they figured it was another bull. The two bulls, they
Speaker 5: assumed were coming to meet up and settle it up.
Speaker 5: And so they figured, let's wait a minute's let's move
Speaker 5: position down a little ways. Maybe we each get one.
Speaker 5: But as they do that, they are whispering, slouching along,
Speaker 5: getting along through the grass. And they come to a
Speaker 5: point to where they figure, okay, there's an opening between
Speaker 5: the alders here. The noise is coming from over here
Speaker 5: and over here, so off to the right and off
Speaker 5: to their left they hear this basically antlers sound rattling
Speaker 5: through the trees. So my cousin takes a knee, and
Speaker 5: he's just being patient, waiting. He trusts what his friend
Speaker 5: said that it's a good sized one, at least the
Speaker 5: one they saw was. So they were waiting for it
Speaker 5: to just show itself for a good kill shot. We
Speaker 5: don't like to chase our food after we shoot it.
Speaker 5: We prefer to drop dead right where it's at, because
Speaker 5: otherwise your meat gets all gamy and adrenalized. As they're
Speaker 5: talking and discussing. His Buddi's concerned that the other movement
Speaker 5: they heard had stopped. He was worried that they had
Speaker 5: spooked that animal. They're discussing, should we continue stalking that
Speaker 5: way because once we shoot this one, that one's probably
Speaker 5: gonna take off. So his friend says, I'm going to
Speaker 5: go further down. Just keep me in sight. Once you
Speaker 5: got a clear shot, take your shot. I will spot
Speaker 5: for this one over here. This one over here that
Speaker 5: he's referring to, no one's seen yet. So he agrees, okay,
Speaker 5: just stay within eyesight because I don't want to accidentally,
Speaker 5: you know, shoot you, and I don't want you to
Speaker 5: accidentally shoot me. Fair enough, so his buddy goes along.
Speaker 5: As he's sitting there just patiently waiting because he can
Speaker 5: see the antler's moving in the willows and alders and stuff.
Speaker 5: He knows it's right there. He's got maybe forty yards
Speaker 5: to it maybe, So he's just patiently waiting for this
Speaker 5: thing to come out to where he can get a
Speaker 5: good shot on it. He's just periodically looking over seeing
Speaker 5: his buddy, and his buddy's crouching and lurking along. He's
Speaker 5: doing his stock. He's getting back around and his buddy
Speaker 5: is approximately about one hundred to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: feet away. He watches his buddy slouch down and pull
Speaker 5: his rifle up, and his buddy's adjusting his scope. His
Speaker 5: friend is waiting for him to take a shot before
Speaker 5: he took a shot, or at least that's what they
Speaker 5: had planned, so he could see him adjusting his scope,
Speaker 5: and he stops paying attention to him because the moose
Speaker 5: starts moving again, but this time it's moving back off
Speaker 5: to his left, so he gets the attention of his friend,
Speaker 5: and his friend is looking over at him, glancing back
Speaker 5: and forth real quick, and it's telling him stay stay down,
Speaker 5: and he's like trying to point that this one's moving.
Speaker 5: They're getting their hand signals mixed up because at that
Speaker 5: distance with vegetation in a way a little bit, they're
Speaker 5: trying to use hand signals and they're not communicating the best.
Speaker 5: So he stands up from where he was crouched down
Speaker 5: to get a better view, and he sees his friends
Speaker 5: looking through the scope again, just adjusting it, like he
Speaker 5: couldn't adjust his scope side or something. He knew his
Speaker 5: friend had a three by nine. He just seen him
Speaker 5: adjusting it, just constantly, just keeping the gun in one direction,
Speaker 5: and it was off in the direction it heard the noise.
Speaker 5: So he assumes he's just trying to get a good
Speaker 5: read on the overall size of this bull moose because
Speaker 5: it's spiking fork or fifty inch plus right at least
Speaker 5: in that area. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 5: one side has a spike and the other side has
Speaker 5: a fork and whatnot. So young bull or one over
Speaker 5: fifty inches which means outmost time to out almost time
Speaker 5: fifty inches and at least three brow tines on the front.
Speaker 5: So he's caught up on watching his buddy adjusts his
Speaker 5: scope and he's getting concerned that he's not moving. He
Speaker 5: makes it a couple quick claps with his hand just
Speaker 5: to get his attention. Now he hasn't been paying attention
Speaker 5: to this bull moose. He hears it moving, so he
Speaker 5: knows it's just over here. So as he's getting his
Speaker 5: friend's attention, he finally looks over and is telling him
Speaker 5: just hold on. Finally, his friend stands up and comes
Speaker 5: back over and he's like, there's something big and brown
Speaker 5: over there. I can't make it out. He goes I
Speaker 5: thought I saw antlers, but then there was some movement,
Speaker 5: and then it wasn't antlers. It was just the trees,
Speaker 5: my cousins. That's it's easy to pick out moose antlers.
Speaker 5: You're not going to confuse it with anything, especially with
Speaker 5: these small, wispy willows and alders. He was like, what
Speaker 5: is it? Was it a bear? He goes it could be,
Speaker 5: so automatically their concern goes towards maybe it's a bear.
Speaker 5: Now as they're having this little discussion. The reason I
Speaker 5: keep giggling is they're looking in the direction of this bear.
Speaker 5: While often the alders and willows he guesstimated probably sixty
Speaker 5: yards ish something like that. It was hard to make
Speaker 5: out exactly because where they were at you can hear
Speaker 5: the part of the river, and you can hear things
Speaker 5: echoing off both sides of the trees. On both sides
Speaker 5: of the river. You could hear outboard way up above them.
Speaker 5: They hurt some outboards below them, so hunters were in
Speaker 5: the area, so they have this little bit of sound
Speaker 5: going on as they're focusing over in that direction. Out
Speaker 5: of the corner of his left eye, he noticed his
Speaker 5: movement twenty five yards away from him. This bull moose
Speaker 5: that they were watching is now looking the same. So
Speaker 5: you got the two hunters and a moose off to
Speaker 5: their left, and they're all looking over in this direction
Speaker 5: because something is drawing their attention over there. My relative realizes, oh, hey,
Speaker 5: snap out of it. He turns, bam, puts a shot
Speaker 5: on that moose and drops it. Startled his front because
Speaker 5: his friend wasn't expecting it, but they were there to hunt,
Speaker 5: and it was like, whoa, I didn't even know it
Speaker 5: was out whatever. So immediately they hear some thrashing and
Speaker 5: they assume, oh crap, we lost the other one. They
Speaker 5: immediately get too down to business. They cut it all open,
Speaker 5: They sit back, they smoke a cigarette, just chilling out
Speaker 5: for a minute, letting the body relax, so to speak.
Speaker 5: As they're doing so, and they're smoking their cigarette, they're
Speaker 5: talking about how they're going to process it out. One's
Speaker 5: going to cut, one's going to pack, and then they're
Speaker 5: going to switch out. Up here in alaskas natives, we
Speaker 5: usually use a little three and a half inch folding
Speaker 5: knife to quarter up our moose. We do it every year.
Speaker 5: So they're discussing it. They grab their gear, they bring
Speaker 5: their pack up. They were getting the game bags out.
Speaker 5: As they were discussing who's going to start packing first,
Speaker 5: they hit a real guttural grunt like grown, just real low,
Speaker 5: and it caught their attention because it almost sounded like
Speaker 5: a similar sound of bull moose and make one is aggravated,
Speaker 5: it has to get up off the ground. It makes
Speaker 5: this a little kind of like, what are you getting
Speaker 5: me up for? So they hear that and their attentions
Speaker 5: focused back over in that area. They decide, let's investigate
Speaker 5: a little closer to make sure we're not going to
Speaker 5: get in the middle of this and get charged by
Speaker 5: a bear, because they were just too close to the
Speaker 5: foliage to be able to re spawned fast enough. Bears
Speaker 5: are super fast, so they decide, okay, we'll go peep
Speaker 5: it out together. Since the moose is down, we don't
Speaker 5: have to worry about that one. Let's go over there.
Speaker 5: Maybe we get too. His friends in the lead he
Speaker 5: had shot, but he hadn't chambered another round yet. They
Speaker 5: were going along, and as soon as they got to
Speaker 5: the edge where they could lean down and see through
Speaker 5: the willows and the alders, they noticed the brown movement
Speaker 5: moving off to their left back towards where they just
Speaker 5: dropped the bull moose. Now, this is all in the
Speaker 5: small area. It's not like they went hundreds yards this
Speaker 5: way or that. It's in the very limited area. So
Speaker 5: they figure, okay, let's back away from these and see
Speaker 5: where it pops out, and we can drop that one too.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's convenient for us. It'll get closer to where
Speaker 5: our skiff is and we could drop it closer to
Speaker 5: the other one. We'll check it out. So they back off.
Speaker 5: They're both watching. His friend gets ahead of him again
Speaker 5: because it's his turn to shoot a moose, so he
Speaker 5: lets him take the lead, and again he fired a shot.
Speaker 5: He hadn't chambered another round yet. He kept repeating that
Speaker 5: to me. That's why I'm repeating it to you. So
Speaker 5: they get back up towards where the antlers were from
Speaker 5: the one they just dropped we're at. They noticed just
Speaker 5: pasted it, which would be to the left of their skiff.
Speaker 5: There was brown movement just inside the wallow, just inside,
Speaker 5: but there was no antlers. They were like, what the
Speaker 5: hell is that? So his friend goes up to about
Speaker 5: where the moose was, and the moose is in between
Speaker 5: his friend and this brown thing that they saw moving
Speaker 5: in the willows, and he's trying to get a bead.
Speaker 5: He's looking through the scope. My cousin asks him, what
Speaker 5: is your scope not working? And he goes, no, it's working.
Speaker 5: I just don't know what I'm looking at. So he goes, well,
Speaker 5: where exactly are you know? What are you looking at?
Speaker 5: He goes, well, any points you know right over there
Speaker 5: you'll see the alders move, and there's something in there
Speaker 5: I can't make out. So relative pulls up the rifle
Speaker 5: and he does the same thing, and what he sees
Speaker 5: startles him. He saw what looked like a flash of
Speaker 5: a human like face, really ashen gray, but with an
Speaker 5: oranguting orange brown color. When he looked through the scope
Speaker 5: and saw that it had moved, so he only saw
Speaker 5: it for the second, but he said it just the
Speaker 5: black eye that he did see, there was no white
Speaker 5: to it, and it just it startled him. And immediately
Speaker 5: he was like, that's got to be a harry Man.
Speaker 5: And his friend laughs goes, that ain't a harry Man.
Speaker 5: It's just we're looking at the wrong side of a moose.
Speaker 5: He goes, that's no moose, there's no antlers. Let's back off.
Speaker 5: So they back off, and again the moose is right
Speaker 5: there on the ground and they're backing off and they
Speaker 5: hear this guttural sound again. And as they're hearing this
Speaker 5: guttural sound kind of wind up. It progressively went from
Speaker 5: real low up to ear piercing loud. He said it
Speaker 5: was almost so loud he had to almost drop his
Speaker 5: rifle to cover his ears.
Speaker 4: Loud.
Speaker 5: And then there was thrashing, just like he said, it
Speaker 5: sounded like a bulldozer that had a real high gear,
Speaker 5: just thrashing through back and forth. So they back off
Speaker 5: even further. Now where they backed off from the moose
Speaker 5: is in front of them. Their skiff is off to
Speaker 5: their left and it's down the bank, So they're approximately
Speaker 5: about sixty yards from where they originally started because they
Speaker 5: backed off so much so quickly because of the noise,
Speaker 5: and they lowered back down to the where the sleugh
Speaker 5: is down the bank a little ways because they were
Speaker 5: going to cut low and sneak back over to the
Speaker 5: skiff to get out of there. So as they're doing that,
Speaker 5: they're still not fully committed on what they saw. They're
Speaker 5: not fully committed on is it a harry Man bear moose, whatever,
Speaker 5: both aware of the harry man. He said he didn't
Speaker 5: feel the immediate, like primal fear that he'd normally feel
Speaker 5: when he would spot one. They were intimidated by the noise,
Speaker 5: but he wasn't feeling that imminent kind of death. So
Speaker 5: they're creeping along the bank. It dawns on him and goes,
Speaker 5: we still need to get our moose, so we can't
Speaker 5: go too far. Let's get down by the skiff, maybe
Speaker 5: stand up on a bow, look and see what's going on.
Speaker 5: Maybe firesome shots to scare it off if it hasn't
Speaker 5: left the area. They creep along and all this takes
Speaker 5: a few minutes because they're walking along a mighty bank
Speaker 5: and they're trying to move slow and quiet, and they're
Speaker 5: a little shook up from the growling in the scream.
Speaker 5: But once they were out of sight below the bank,
Speaker 5: a lot of that thrashing and noise stopped. They could
Speaker 5: hear movement, but the vocalization of the scream, growling and
Speaker 5: all that had ceased once they were basically out of sight.
Speaker 5: So they get back to the skiff and his friend
Speaker 5: jumps up on the bound looks and he's like, where's
Speaker 5: the moose? The moose was literally where they ended up shooting.
Speaker 5: It was not even twenty yards up the bank, so
Speaker 5: he should have been able to see the antlers, and
Speaker 5: they didn't. So they both look up, they're not seeing
Speaker 5: the moose. They jump back up onto the bank and
Speaker 5: they're looking around. They're like, the moose was right there,
Speaker 5: and they could see a drag mark go right over
Speaker 5: into the willows, and then they saw the brown lump
Speaker 5: of the moose just inside the willows. So they're like,
Speaker 5: what the hell, we can't lose our moose. So immediately
Speaker 5: their mindset changes on, let's go run this whatever it
Speaker 5: is off. It's a bear steal in our stuff. So
Speaker 5: they get over there. There's nothing around the moose, but
Speaker 5: one of the moose's front legs had been ripped off
Speaker 5: and there was no sign of it. He said, it
Speaker 5: looked like something had just plucked it right off, because
Speaker 5: it didn't look cut. It looked tore and tattered at
Speaker 5: the edges of the hair, the moose hair, and he
Speaker 5: just shook his head. He was like, I've never seen this.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, as they're checking out this corpse
Speaker 5: of this moose with the missing leg, his friend fires
Speaker 5: a shot startled the shit out of my relative. Kaboom.
Speaker 5: He stumbles and what the hell, and he goes, it's
Speaker 5: over here, it's over here. Immediately after his friend's shot,
Speaker 5: there was this loud noise, no screaming or nothing, but
Speaker 5: just thrashing going back and forth and his zigzag going
Speaker 5: away and then started coming directly at them. So his
Speaker 5: friend's trying to fumble with the bolt action. Immediately, my
Speaker 5: relative pulls his rifle up and realizes he doesn't have
Speaker 5: one chambered either, so he's going to work his action.
Speaker 5: And as they do that, this thing stops and stands
Speaker 5: up to full height. This thing had when his friend
Speaker 5: shot it been down on all fours, creepy when it
Speaker 5: thrashed around and stuff. After he shot, it came back
Speaker 5: and then stood up. So now they're approximately twenty feet
Speaker 5: away from this thing, just inside the alders, and he
Speaker 5: said it was every bit of about eleven twelve foot tall,
Speaker 5: and it just looked down on him. I'm like, really,
Speaker 5: he said that was the look it had on his face,
Speaker 5: was like you want to shoot at me? And of
Speaker 5: course that's speculation because we don't know what that thing
Speaker 5: was thinking. So immediately they backed the hell off. He
Speaker 5: finally got a round chambered, but he was stumbling running back.
Speaker 5: They jumped in the skiff, they pulled their little anchor.
Speaker 5: They scootered on down the slough. Now the sleugh is
Speaker 5: half moon shaped. The one side on the main channel
Speaker 5: side had been burroled up to where you had to
Speaker 5: portage over, and on the back side, if there wasn't
Speaker 5: enough water in the river, you weren't going to get
Speaker 5: out because it just gets too flat and too muddy
Speaker 5: and what have you. So as they go over, they
Speaker 5: noticed it's a little low on that side, and they
Speaker 5: don't want to deal with what they were dealing with.
Speaker 5: So he turned around, which wasn't easy to do in
Speaker 5: this pretty narrow slow It was widen up for them
Speaker 5: to turn around. He rips back the other direction and
Speaker 5: then turns around into speeds, and as they get closer
Speaker 5: to the burro, they lift up the motor so the
Speaker 5: outboard doesn't hit and flip over on top of them.
Speaker 5: But they lifted and they skiff over and then get
Speaker 5: onto the lesser channel to the east side. So as
Speaker 5: soon as that's done, they skiff back around, go around
Speaker 5: this island, back around to where they ported the skiff
Speaker 5: over and they anchored their started walking back to see
Speaker 5: about if there was any moose left. They got about
Speaker 5: ten fifteen feet into their excursion and got screamed at.
Speaker 5: He said, the scream was so loud. They got out
Speaker 5: of there, but when they took off, they went up
Speaker 5: noose tow shook it up. Of course, one of the
Speaker 5: guys on the beach that wasn't from there, It was
Speaker 5: from Ekwok. He was dropping off some supplies for some
Speaker 5: relative of his there in New STUDIOC was like asked him,
Speaker 5: did you guys hear that scream? What was that? Holy cow?
Speaker 5: They just kind of yeah, we heard it. They left
Speaker 5: it at that. I could just imagine being in that
Speaker 5: situation where you're doing one thing and all of a
Speaker 5: sudden it turns into something else. That being said, we'll
Speaker 5: catch you on the next one.
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