Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog.
Speaker 1: My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 1: the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
Speaker 1: the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
Speaker 1: saw was my dog coming over the fence. Happen? What
Speaker 1: are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling
Speaker 1: around out here? Did you see what it was? Or
Speaker 1: was it was? Standing up? I'm out here looking through
Speaker 1: the window now and I don't see anything. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go outside. Jesus quice, you better, hello, het,
Speaker 1: somebody out here?
Speaker 2: What went on out there?
Speaker 1: I thought of a bit of about sixty forty nine.
Speaker 1: I don't know you see him out there? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: bulking right away.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, greeting Sanks for joining me today. What I
Speaker 2: wanted to share it to you comes from We'll name
Speaker 2: him Bruce. Bruce and his brother will name him David.
Speaker 2: So Bruce and David they were at their grandfather's cabin. Now,
Speaker 2: this particular cabin is on the new sek rif back home.
Speaker 2: We'll leave it at that. This happened about twenty five
Speaker 2: years ago. Bruce and David were doing some repairs at
Speaker 2: this cabin after their uplet passed away. Over the course
Speaker 2: of this summer, the first few trips they were bringing
Speaker 2: some materials, wood materials and stuff, just fixing, patching things up.
Speaker 2: There's a hole in the roof. It was not taking
Speaker 2: care of in a while, so it was a little disheveled.
Speaker 2: Little TLC needed nothing two majors. So over the course
Speaker 2: of the summer they took a break for the salmon season.
Speaker 2: At the end of the salmon season, they wanted to
Speaker 2: hunt from that cabin like they grew up doing. So
Speaker 2: they figured, we'll go up there early prior to hunting
Speaker 2: and we'll get everything situated. So they end up bringing
Speaker 2: a new woodburning stove up. The other one just rusted down,
Speaker 2: just used up, just stuff like that, and they were
Speaker 2: using fifty five gallon drum like they would in the
Speaker 2: steam bath. So they get all this done. They were
Speaker 2: just getting settled in. It was still a week out
Speaker 2: before the hunting season started, so what they were doing
Speaker 2: is getting up real early peruising. It just going up
Speaker 2: and down the river and checking out some spots he were,
Speaker 2: and maybe they would want to pick a spot hopefully
Speaker 2: loose around that type of thing, just scout in the
Speaker 2: area basically, And this one particular morning they get up
Speaker 2: to do that, and again it was about a week
Speaker 2: out from hunting, he said. David was running the skiffs
Speaker 2: and they went up to where Jim slout, which is
Speaker 2: up above Portage on the Nushiach there. So they go
Speaker 2: up there, they do the anchor and was sitting there
Speaker 2: just relaxing really as they were discussing the years past
Speaker 2: of hunting and all that kind of stuff, they hear
Speaker 2: this what Bruce described as this wallowing who was like
Speaker 2: a moaning kind of not necessarily a scream, but like
Speaker 2: just this real loud pronounced something sorrowful, something very painful
Speaker 2: sounding like something large was in emotional pain. Freaked him
Speaker 2: out because mouse don't do that, and bear sure as
Speaker 2: hell no. So they pulled the anchor and were drifting
Speaker 2: away across the river from Jim slu there, which I've
Speaker 2: been in that area. The crazy shit happens around there.
Speaker 2: But anyway, as they were drifting, they were looking across
Speaker 2: the river because the sound sounded like it was coming
Speaker 2: from that side, and the cabin of their grandpa's is
Speaker 2: on that side of the river as well. They were like,
Speaker 2: what the hell is that. They powered up, went across,
Speaker 2: and then we're drifting down on the opposite bank and
Speaker 2: listening for this sound. At the time. Of course they've
Speaker 2: heard of the Harryman and stuff like that, these some
Speaker 2: at the Baskins, but it wasn't anything that was in
Speaker 2: their wheelhouse as far as these noises. So they pulled
Speaker 2: up to the river bank just a little bit down
Speaker 2: from Jim's sluice side. They stuck the anchor in the
Speaker 2: ground or just sitting there listening trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what it was. Bruce said he was holding his rifle.
Speaker 2: David jumped up onto the bank and was just looking around,
Speaker 2: and Bruce said, don't go too far. I don't want
Speaker 2: to have to come find you that kind of thing,
Speaker 2: And David just shined him on. Whatever. He walks off
Speaker 2: out of sight from the river bank from Bruce's perspective,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, he said, it wasn't even
Speaker 2: two minutes. He yelled, hey, what's going on? He heard
Speaker 2: the thrashing off in the distance. And here comes David
Speaker 2: sliding off the river bank. He fell into the water
Speaker 2: just in front of the skiff and then jumped up
Speaker 2: and pulled himself up over the bow on the line
Speaker 2: right he's pulling and getting the anchor. He was like, oh, go.
Speaker 2: So Bruce fires up to motor. He has to push
Speaker 2: off because the way the water is pushing him. He's
Speaker 2: got the outboard running, but it's not in gear. He
Speaker 2: pushed the outboard back into the muddy bank there, so
Speaker 2: he pushes off and then they get turned around. They're
Speaker 2: facing down river. Bruce gives us some gas and they
Speaker 2: get up on the step and David is down low
Speaker 2: in the skiff and he's got his gun out of
Speaker 2: his gun bag. He keeps looking back past Bruce and
Speaker 2: Bruce just everyone's well started. He's like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2: What's going on? David's is the goal, so he keeps going.
Speaker 2: They got a little bit of a distance before they
Speaker 2: get to the cabin we come up on. It's basically
Speaker 2: a bunch of little islands that were created by the
Speaker 2: ice when it comes and goes in the spring. They
Speaker 2: stop at the first one they come up to, which
Speaker 2: is real thick wood brush that time of year, all
Speaker 2: around it. They pull off in there because David's like,
Speaker 2: I got to use the bathroom bad. So he goes,
Speaker 2: gets up onto the bank there on this little island
Speaker 2: and walks back a little ways and Bruce here is
Speaker 2: David throwing up. He's like, hey, what's going on? And
Speaker 2: he goes, you didn't see it. He finishes what he
Speaker 2: was doing, comes back to the skiff. You didn't see it.
Speaker 2: Bruce is like, see what I heard some thrashing, But
Speaker 2: all I saw was you slide off the river bank
Speaker 2: the water, jump back into the freaking skiff loose. All
Speaker 2: happened so fast. He goes there was a harry Man
Speaker 2: back there. He was like harry Man. He goes, what
Speaker 2: was it doing? David said, I don't know, but it
Speaker 2: started coming towards me so I could freak me out
Speaker 2: and I ran. He was like, okay, we're good. He
Speaker 2: looks back up river and doesn't see anything. So they
Speaker 2: continue on their way. They go back to the cabin.
Speaker 2: All this happened before noon because they left early. They
Speaker 2: went up, they scouted around a little bit and they
Speaker 2: just happened to just drop anchor it. Jim slew there
Speaker 2: from what Bruce said, when they got back to the cabins,
Speaker 2: everything felt weird. The energy felt really weird. There was
Speaker 2: some relatives of his little further down around the bend
Speaker 2: a little ways. They had a cabin there. He heard activity,
Speaker 2: so Bruce decided, Hey, I'm going to go and say
Speaker 2: hi to the relatives. And Day was like, yeah, just
Speaker 2: don't be gone too long. So Bruce leaves in the
Speaker 2: skiff and goes down river a little ways to go
Speaker 2: visit with the relatives. There was a cousin that had
Speaker 2: showed up to get their cabin ready for moose hunting,
Speaker 2: and so he talked to him a little bit. Bruce said,
Speaker 2: as he was talking to his cousin, probably about twenty
Speaker 2: minutes half hour, so all of a sudden he hears
Speaker 2: gunshots coming back from up with their cabin. It was
Speaker 2: a holy shit. So he takes off and his cousin
Speaker 2: follows him. He jumps off, he ties off and everything.
Speaker 2: He hears yelling inside the cabin and he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: David is Bruce. I'm out here. Don't choose we're out here.
Speaker 2: He said. It was on the roof, is on the roof,
Speaker 2: and so they're looking around and they're like trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what. The cousin goes around one side and
Speaker 2: Bruce goes along the riverbank side to cut around that backside.
Speaker 2: He said, when he came around the corner, he saw
Speaker 2: something dark moving off into the brush right because the
Speaker 2: trees came almost right up to the cabin at that point.
Speaker 2: The cousin saw this thing moving off and saw it
Speaker 2: swaying an arm. It had brownish reddish brown hair. It
Speaker 2: was just moving away. He saw its arms sway. He
Speaker 2: didn't get a good look at the face, but he
Speaker 2: could see the figure of it was humanoid. Cousin comes
Speaker 2: back yelling, hey, it's here, you man. Let's get out
Speaker 2: of here. David inside, he comes out out because there's
Speaker 2: two more people now. He's yeah, let's go. Bruce is
Speaker 2: a wait a minute. You know, let's not just run
Speaker 2: off here. This is our cabin kind of thing. And
Speaker 2: David wanted no part of it. He didn't want to stay.
Speaker 2: The cousin was like, hey, I don't want that thing
Speaker 2: following me back to my cabin and start in trouble there.
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave. You guys, be careful. I would
Speaker 2: leave too if I was you guys, and he jumped
Speaker 2: in his hip and he went back to kinish doing
Speaker 2: what he was doing down river. So Bruce is telling David, hey,
Speaker 2: let's just hold our ground. Did you shoot it? And
Speaker 2: David said no, I was just shooting to try to
Speaker 2: scare it off, and goes, okay, if you didn't shoot it,
Speaker 2: so it really has no reason to be mad at us.
Speaker 2: Let's keep calm, let's not overreact because in essence, they
Speaker 2: live there, that's their place. Now, Bruce wasn't willing to
Speaker 2: just give it up like that, which should I understand,
Speaker 2: I say shoot them off. That's just my own personal views.
Speaker 2: So David calms down. They relax a little bit. They
Speaker 2: had some vodka with them, so they had some mixed
Speaker 2: drinks and whatnot, and they relaxed, and Bruce was just
Speaker 2: livening up the energy from being so dreary and David
Speaker 2: so paranoid about talking about old funny stuff they had
Speaker 2: enjoyed right there where they were, and pointing out, hey,
Speaker 2: we never had issues here. Let's not make this what
Speaker 2: it's about, because remember all the times was uppud and
Speaker 2: all this and that winter caribou hunt. They'd parked their
Speaker 2: snow machines there and it was just a base cap
Speaker 2: with tons of family memories. So they just enjoyed themselves
Speaker 2: drinking that hunter Proof Smirnoff, been there, done that. It
Speaker 2: gets on into dusk, they decide they're going to bring
Speaker 2: in some more firewood from outside because it's starting to
Speaker 2: drizzle and starting to rain. It got socked in. It
Speaker 2: was getting a little chilly, especially on the river Man
Speaker 2: it gets chilly. So they go out and they're bringing
Speaker 2: in from the little more of a lane to Arctic entry.
Speaker 2: It wasn't fully enclosed, but they were bringing in firewood
Speaker 2: from there, and they brought in good stack just so
Speaker 2: they had some extra for the next day if it
Speaker 2: was real cold. The next morning, they left the door
Speaker 2: kicked open just a little bit to let fresh air
Speaker 2: in because David and Bruce were basically chain smoking while
Speaker 2: they were drinking. They had their firearms nearby. From what
Speaker 2: Bruce was saying, it was all like the energy was
Speaker 2: much better. It wasn't as heavy. They were joking, chopping
Speaker 2: it up, having a good time, talking about the old
Speaker 2: days and relatives that had since passed, but to good
Speaker 2: times they had with them and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: burry picking in the area and just all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2: And they were in the midst of this conversation when
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, that door wings open hard, just
Speaker 2: damn so hard. It almost popped off with the hinges
Speaker 2: and stuff. There was no wind. They immediately jump up.
Speaker 2: They each grabbed their guns. Again, this is just getting
Speaker 2: into dark, not fully dark yet, right in the fall,
Speaker 2: So they grabbed the flashlights they had. They were modern
Speaker 2: for the time, They work decent enough, and they go
Speaker 2: out and they're looking and they're looking on the ground
Speaker 2: for tracks, and there wasn't done. They're both looking around
Speaker 2: the corner to the tree side and then around the
Speaker 2: corner to the river bank side, and they're not seeing anything.
Speaker 2: And so they walk straight away from the cabin a
Speaker 2: little ways together, turn around and face back towards the
Speaker 2: cabin to make sure it's not back up on the roof,
Speaker 2: because David had heard it on the roof earlier. That's
Speaker 2: what got him shooting. Bruce said that when they were
Speaker 2: looking back, they noticed eye shine like towards the farther
Speaker 2: the backside of the cabin from where they were standing,
Speaker 2: and they noticed the eye shine duck down once the
Speaker 2: light hit right the eye shine went away, and so
Speaker 2: they decided they're going to take that tree side walk
Speaker 2: along the cabin back towards that direction, keep an eye
Speaker 2: out on this thing or look for it, and potentially,
Speaker 2: if opportunity, maybe to shoot the damn thing. He said.
Speaker 2: As they were going along, David was about two paces
Speaker 2: behind him, just steady, keeping his rifle up and glancing
Speaker 2: back and forth. And Rius was like, hey, don't get
Speaker 2: excited and accidentally shoot me. Damn it. He's no, I'm
Speaker 2: keeping my rifle up. You keep your straight I won't
Speaker 2: let mine come down below. They're aiming at the roofline. Now,
Speaker 2: this roof isn't overly high. It's about maybe six and
Speaker 2: a half feet off the ground is the eave the
Speaker 2: drip edge, And so as they're going along, they're not
Speaker 2: that like far away from the drip edge. The drip
Speaker 2: edge is like literally above their heads, maybe off a
Speaker 2: put or two. They weren't quite far enough over to
Speaker 2: look straight up at the angle of the roof right
Speaker 2: because of the trees and everything. They didn't have that
Speaker 2: open kind of they couldn't just take another step over
Speaker 2: and easily be able to see up there. So they
Speaker 2: go along and all of a sudden they hear a
Speaker 2: noise and then they hear trees rustle crash, So they
Speaker 2: immediately their attention goes there. As Bruce is pointing his
Speaker 2: flashlight and rifles in that direction, they hear a growl
Speaker 2: that startles them both. As soon as they heard the growl,
Speaker 2: Bruce said he passed David, who was already hauling ats
Speaker 2: trying to get I don't mean to laugh. I giggled
Speaker 2: with Bruce at this point, because when he brought it up,
Speaker 2: he said that they both hit that front door at
Speaker 2: the same time and stopped each other through stooges type
Speaker 2: shit boom. They both fell down, jumped up, and then
Speaker 2: went in. But just the visual of that was just funny.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so they shut the door, they put some
Speaker 2: stuff to barricade and whatnot. At that point they got
Speaker 2: out the Coleman lanyards. Right up until then they were
Speaker 2: using the ambient light coming in the window, which there's
Speaker 2: no curtains on the windows. There was one on the
Speaker 2: river bank side that was a good sized one that
Speaker 2: had been basically put in by hand. It was an
Speaker 2: old from the old school, one of the old schools
Speaker 2: that used to be in downtown telling him that was
Speaker 2: transformed or changed into the basically City Hall now. But
Speaker 2: back in the day that window came from there. Right
Speaker 2: they got the lanterns going and they're looking out that window.
Speaker 2: There was also a smaller window that was about a
Speaker 2: foot and a half square, just a smaller window. It
Speaker 2: was a single pane, and it was between where the
Speaker 2: woodstove was a short little bit of a counter. There
Speaker 2: was an old stove like propane maybe that used to
Speaker 2: be there that was no longer there, so it's like
Speaker 2: a gap in the counter and then there's a board
Speaker 2: across it just to extend the countertop. And it was
Speaker 2: just above that. There was no makeshift sink, and they
Speaker 2: would take water in buckets and do it like that
Speaker 2: as far as dishes. They're keeping an eye on that
Speaker 2: big window. They're not really thinking about this smaller one
Speaker 2: because it's right behind them. They're on that side of
Speaker 2: the cabin with a little bit of distance between them
Speaker 2: and that big window. At the time, they didn't have
Speaker 2: anything to cover it, so they basically, let's just keep
Speaker 2: an eye on it. And they got the door off
Speaker 2: to their right and then the window in front of them,
Speaker 2: and they weren't thinking about this window like less than
Speaker 2: three feet behind them, right, So as they're sitting there,
Speaker 2: they're still enjoying drinks, but not enjoying them. It's more
Speaker 2: like taking some shots to stop shaking because that growl.
Speaker 2: They both been discussing it once they went back inside
Speaker 2: and everything they felt to reverberate through their bodies. They
Speaker 2: felt their insides jiggle. It's not a good feeling.
Speaker 1: And stay tuned for more sasquat job to see what
Speaker 1: right back after the East messages.
Speaker 2: So as they're sitting there discussing, hey, what do we
Speaker 2: do if and they're getting a game plan on if
Speaker 2: this happens, we'll do this. If this happens, we'll do that.
Speaker 2: If it comes through the door at us, we'll jump
Speaker 2: out the window. They're kind of just lining up a
Speaker 2: game plan because initially they wanted to leave in the skiff,
Speaker 2: but in the dark it's so dangerous. They had lost
Speaker 2: relatives previously to such things skiffing at the wrong time.
Speaker 2: If they were weighing their options, should we just maybe
Speaker 2: drifting down the ways to their cousins cabin because his
Speaker 2: cousins should be there. So they decided, you know what,
Speaker 2: we should do that. We can just drift down. We
Speaker 2: know the channel enough to where once we see the
Speaker 2: lights on in their cabin, we could just fire up.
Speaker 2: And they know the river bank enough to know where
Speaker 2: to pull up and not bottom out or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So they decide that's what they're going to do, So
Speaker 2: they gather up the stuff they're gonna need. Bruce craps
Speaker 2: another box of AMMO, so did David. They were just
Speaker 2: getting ready to start putting out the lanterns. They had
Speaker 2: three of them going. They put out two, and they
Speaker 2: were going to keep one to use to see going
Speaker 2: back down to the river bank. Just keep one for
Speaker 2: going just because and use their flashlights. But before they
Speaker 2: went out the door, as they were standing there facing
Speaker 2: that large window, and they just put out two of
Speaker 2: the lannards, all of a sudden that window behind them
Speaker 2: shatters like startling the hell out of them. A piece
Speaker 2: of birch, it had to have been, from what Bruce said,
Speaker 2: at least fifteen feet long, comes pushing through, shatters and
Speaker 2: push it through. It just goes right between them both
Speaker 2: to where the little table they were drinking at. It
Speaker 2: was hopped up on that and then it ran outside
Speaker 2: and it was dark outside already, so they couldn't see
Speaker 2: the end of it. But they both turned around and
Speaker 2: the birches standing between them, and they're like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: because it was so fast, it was so violent, how
Speaker 2: quickly it went right between them both. So they didn't
Speaker 2: know if this thing was trying to spear one of
Speaker 2: them with it or whatever. They didn't know. And as
Speaker 2: they're looking at her, like what the hell, they went
Speaker 2: to the opposite side of the table, looking back, shining
Speaker 2: their flashlight out, and they saw a movement. Bruce took
Speaker 2: a shot out the window that's now broken. He actually
Speaker 2: hit the birch. It made an impact and kind of
Speaker 2: splintered a little bit when it busted through or whatever,
Speaker 2: and they start yelling, hey, get out of here, get
Speaker 2: out of here, and all of a sudden, that piece
Speaker 2: of birch gets yanked back out, Bruce said, very violently.
Speaker 2: He said, the last about maybe four feet of it
Speaker 2: was caught like it had been pulled out and then
Speaker 2: turned before it had enough time to clear the window,
Speaker 2: and he caught about four feet of it and it
Speaker 2: broke and then it flopped out the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: Bruce said. At that point We're getting the hell out
Speaker 2: of here. They gathered their stuff. They condensed the stuff
Speaker 2: into one bag. Bruce put that on little backpack style.
Speaker 2: It was actually a small duffel bag. He just put
Speaker 2: his arms through the loops the handles, makeshift backpack out
Speaker 2: of that. David was making sure that he had his
Speaker 2: magazine full for his rifle. David was using a two
Speaker 2: seventy and Bruce had a three hundred wind meg. They
Speaker 2: were making sure everyone was full up on ammal. Bruce
Speaker 2: replaced around. He had shot into the birch, and David
Speaker 2: just kept looking out that window and looking out that window.
Speaker 2: Bruce was like, hey, snap out of it. Let's get
Speaker 2: to the skiff. We'll drift down. David was like, I'm
Speaker 2: scared to go outside. Bruce totally understood why the growled.
Speaker 2: Then this fricking javelin basically comes crashing through and then
Speaker 2: rip back out. He said, there was noises going on outside,
Speaker 2: but they were so terrified in the moment he couldn't
Speaker 2: say exactly what they were. He said, he vaguely remembers
Speaker 2: some growling, but there's also other noises being made. Nothing
Speaker 2: recrete that he could discern. In a moment David was like,
Speaker 2: what if we fire our rifles, maybe our cousin will
Speaker 2: come up here. Bruce is like, there's two of us,
Speaker 2: there's one of him. That would be unfair to draw
Speaker 2: him up into something. Maybe he could get hurt. Let's
Speaker 2: just go to the skiff drift down. It was less
Speaker 2: than a mile down river. So after discussing in a minute,
Speaker 2: David said, okay, let me go first. You carry the lantern.
Speaker 2: I'll have my rifle with the flashlight ready and stuff,
Speaker 2: and then we'll go. So they start moving towards the door.
Speaker 2: They made sure a couple of things were tended to.
Speaker 2: They turned down the woodstove because they had to wide
Speaker 2: open because they had the door opened a little bit
Speaker 2: up until this moments before. So as they're heading to
Speaker 2: the door, all of a sudden, bam, something hits against
Speaker 2: the door. It was more than three times, but he
Speaker 2: couldn't say if it was like five because it happened
Speaker 2: in rapid succession, but it was very hard. It was
Speaker 2: like something was trying to break in the door. So
Speaker 2: they both were stuck in their tracks for a second,
Speaker 2: and then they both shot at the door at the
Speaker 2: same time. They didn't say, hey, let's shoot. It was
Speaker 2: just independently boom boom. They make some shots through the
Speaker 2: door and it's just dead quiet. Bruce said. At that
Speaker 2: point he could sense something was watching him, and so
Speaker 2: he looks over to the big window off to his left,
Speaker 2: a little bit behind him, over his shoulder. He couldn't
Speaker 2: make out anything because the lantern that they had in
Speaker 2: their hand was low. It was pretty much mirrord effect.
Speaker 2: He couldn't really see anything out of it. However, in
Speaker 2: that mirror effect, he saw across the room something was
Speaker 2: looking in the window, the small one that was broken out.
Speaker 2: Bruce said. He swung around and lifted his rifle looked
Speaker 2: when David saw a move. David was the one at
Speaker 2: that moment that had that lantern, even though Bruce was
Speaker 2: going to be carrying it or whatever. It was a
Speaker 2: bang in that caused him to grab it and hold
Speaker 2: it up. He swings around and Bruce said, he's looking
Speaker 2: at this thing looking back at him. As David's holding
Speaker 2: up the lantern out that direction, Bruce was like, it
Speaker 2: was looking right at me, so I was going to
Speaker 2: shoot it. He raised the rifle and clink kids shot
Speaker 2: all his ammo on the jumble for David to set
Speaker 2: down the lantern without kicking starting a fire or whatever,
Speaker 2: and then raise his rifle. The thing was gone. At
Speaker 2: this point, they're both freaking out and they decide okay.
Speaker 2: Bruce reloaded his rifle, David made sure his was ready
Speaker 2: to go. Bruce takes the lannarn. David is going to
Speaker 2: go first, So David goes out and Bruce is right
Speaker 2: behind him, and Bruce has the lantern in his hand,
Speaker 2: but he's also got the flashlight kind of holding both
Speaker 2: at once, so he's holding the lantern like this, keeping
Speaker 2: the brightness of the lantern out of his face while
Speaker 2: shining the flashlight. He's got his rifle slung over his shoulder.
Speaker 2: It's not a very thought out thing. While David is
Speaker 2: freely moving with his flashlight, they don't see anything. They
Speaker 2: back over to the river bank where the skiff is.
Speaker 2: So at that point when they get to the riverbank,
Speaker 2: they're still facing the cabin, the back corner of it
Speaker 2: on the riverbank side. This thing was leaning out peaky,
Speaker 2: and it was real low, almost like it had squatted
Speaker 2: down in with lenou and then it stopped doing that.
Speaker 2: Because they were both trying to figure out and get
Speaker 2: a shot on this thing. David said, the next time
Speaker 2: it leans out, I'm going to shoot the bastard. Bruce
Speaker 2: is like, I'll join you. He had set the lantern
Speaker 2: down and had his flashlight ready. They're not seeing anything now.
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, i believe, Bruce said, David
Speaker 2: was moving his flashlight around. They caught a gleam of
Speaker 2: eyeshine above the roofline, right on that back corner. So
Speaker 2: they both raised their flashlights up a little higher and
Speaker 2: sure enough to sing is looking over the roof and
Speaker 2: down at them. Bruce said they did not fire because
Speaker 2: of how freaking big it was. He said, when it
Speaker 2: was peeking out and leaning out, it looked smaller, but
Speaker 2: once it had stood up and they saw how fall
Speaker 2: it was back behind there, he said it was at
Speaker 2: least minimum ten feet tall. The flashlights they were using,
Speaker 2: while they weren't super modern, and they were good and
Speaker 2: they worked. When he said that it had a like
Speaker 2: a tanned leather kind of colored skin. At the distance,
Speaker 2: which was like he said, about maybe forty feet ish
Speaker 2: somewhere in there. They couldn't make out really good the features,
Speaker 2: but the eyes just black, and when the light would
Speaker 2: hit him it would glow with the red the hye shark.
Speaker 2: He said it was freaky because it was pissed, it
Speaker 2: was mad. It's facial expression, he said, was one of
Speaker 2: severe anger, really ticked off. But he said, what was
Speaker 2: weird is it showed its teeth at one point, but
Speaker 2: it looked out of place. He said, the showing of
Speaker 2: teeth was so vastly different from what you would envision.
Speaker 2: It was like massive. He said. The showing of the
Speaker 2: teeth was like it just didn't stop because of how
Speaker 2: large the mouth was. And he said after it did
Speaker 2: that and they snapped out of their like holy shit moment,
Speaker 2: they picked up the lantern. They got down, they pulled
Speaker 2: the anchor. They had some stuff that they had set
Speaker 2: up over the years to tie off to, but with
Speaker 2: the anchor line wrapped around whatever like you would a clee. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they untied that. They get in the skiff and they
Speaker 2: drift away. They killed the lantern as they were drifting away.
Speaker 2: David would turn on his flashlight every once in a
Speaker 2: while as they were drifting, shut it off, and they
Speaker 2: were hearing stuff, so they would both flash light the
Speaker 2: riverbank as they're drifting. Because they got roughly a mile.
Speaker 2: I was were moving fast enough. They weren't sitting still,
Speaker 2: but it's not like they were going down the rapids either.
Speaker 2: They kept hearing brushing stuff moving up on the river
Speaker 2: bank next to him, and so periodically David would turn
Speaker 2: on the flashlight and look, and they wouldn't see anything.
Speaker 2: They might see some movement in the brush. So they
Speaker 2: both decide, let's shoot the next time we hear that
Speaker 2: rustling to discourage this thing from following us. So the
Speaker 2: next time it did it, they both clicked on their
Speaker 2: flashlights and shot at the same time. They didn't see
Speaker 2: anything when they turned on the flashlight. It was just
Speaker 2: the brush back off the river bank, moving And they
Speaker 2: said they did that about two to three times and reloaded,
Speaker 2: made sure they were good to go. It finally went
Speaker 2: quiet and they drifted. He's guessing probably all that when
Speaker 2: they decided to fire, and everything was probably within a
Speaker 2: half mile of drifting, and then they had rough another
Speaker 2: half mile, maybe a little more before they got their
Speaker 2: family's cabin down the way. He said. Once he got quiet,
Speaker 2: they still periodically flash light up on the river bank.
Speaker 2: No movement, no nothing. And then when they come into
Speaker 2: view of the cousin's cabin. Just as it comes into view,
Speaker 2: they saw a light was on inside and then the
Speaker 2: light went off, so they're like, well, shit, that was
Speaker 2: a reference points. David had both flashlights at this point,
Speaker 2: hold them up so Bruce could see the river bank,
Speaker 2: and they got over to where they wanted to be
Speaker 2: in stuff, and David tied him off. They went and
Speaker 2: banged on the door. They heard their cousin. Their cousin
Speaker 2: had a shotgun, and they heard him the shotgun and
Speaker 2: said get out of here, real loud, and they said, hey,
Speaker 2: it's us, it's us. He goes, oh shit, sumbs and
Speaker 2: opens the door for him, and he was like, hey,
Speaker 2: that thing was down here peeking in the windows man,
Speaker 2: and just told him that basically it came down. They
Speaker 2: peeked in the windows a couple times and then left,
Speaker 2: and so he thought nothing of it, and so when
Speaker 2: they started banging, he thought it was back. They shared
Speaker 2: everything that had happened. Let's just say the cousin was
Speaker 2: not happy that they potentially brought it to him, but
Speaker 2: nine else happened. The next morning they went and extensively
Speaker 2: David and Bruce looked and searched tracks try to figure
Speaker 2: out where it was coming and going from, and it
Speaker 2: basically once the tracks they did find reached the inside
Speaker 2: the trees, that done with they couldn't track it anymore. Again,
Speaker 2: this is a little more twenty five years ago. I
Speaker 2: want to thank Bruce for sharing that. Bruce isn't his
Speaker 2: real name. I've known him shit since I was little.
Speaker 2: I appreciate him willing to share it because initially he
Speaker 2: didn't want to share it all. His brother David since
Speaker 2: passed a voting accident. Actually at night in the skiff.
Speaker 2: Initially he brought it up and shared it with me
Speaker 2: a few times, just in conversation. Nothing to ever go
Speaker 2: public with. He was watching a few of the videos.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like to follow this stuff because he doesn't
Speaker 2: like it. He would rather not hear about it. He
Speaker 2: decided to allow me to share this just so people
Speaker 2: are aware I wanted to share with you today. Comes
Speaker 2: from Craig, who was with his wife, Sheila and their
Speaker 2: two young daughters. They were out by Johnstone Bay, which
Speaker 2: is the middle ground between Prince William Sound and Gulf
Speaker 2: of Alaska. They were out on their boat recreationally. They
Speaker 2: were doing a little bit of rock fish and some
Speaker 2: other stuff like that, just family time. This was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. It was early August. They're out there, they're
Speaker 2: doing the fishing thing. They're near Johnstone Bay and the
Speaker 2: weather started picking up. So, according to what Craig said, Shila,
Speaker 2: his wife, was getting nervous with their daughters on board.
Speaker 2: It was rocking a little more than she had liked.
Speaker 2: So they headed inland just to wait out the storm.
Speaker 2: They were out for a few days anyway, so it
Speaker 2: was no big deal. As they're getting closer to shore,
Speaker 2: there's this little Johnstone Bay where they're pulling into and
Speaker 2: there's a river that leads back to Johnstone Lake. It's
Speaker 2: a very large lake. As they were getting closer to shore,
Speaker 2: Craig said that they saw some what they thought were
Speaker 2: people going back and forth on the beach and they
Speaker 2: were looking around for a boat and there was not right.
Speaker 2: So they were like, geez, maybe these people are trapped here,
Speaker 2: maybe they need rescuing, so let's go check on which
Speaker 2: is the Alaskan thing to do people in distress. Fellow
Speaker 2: Alaskans immediately jump in, unless they're just a pos then
Speaker 2: they need to go away. But anyway, so they're on
Speaker 2: a rescue mission. Basically in their mind's eye, they're heading
Speaker 2: towards shore. He's making sure he's not going to run aground.
Speaker 2: He's very studious when it comes to safety, So Craig said,
Speaker 2: as they were approaching, they noticed as they got closer
Speaker 2: he had an air horn, and he started airing the airhorn,
Speaker 2: getting these people's attention, letting them know, hey, we're coming.
Speaker 2: So he gave three short as he was heading in.
Speaker 2: The closer they got, Craig said, these people fled the
Speaker 2: beach and went into the up into the brush, and
Speaker 2: for the life of them, he couldn't understand it because
Speaker 2: he saw at least three right. So as they get
Speaker 2: closer and closer, he decides, okay, this is close enough.
Speaker 2: He didn't want to run aground in all that very
Speaker 2: expensive boat, so he stops. He drops anchor, He gets
Speaker 2: the dinghy down, the little nine horse or ten horse
Speaker 2: outboard whatever they had threw it on there, grabbed his firearm,
Speaker 2: grabbed first aid kit, water and some food and put
Speaker 2: it on in. Now, you got to keep in mind
Speaker 2: there's a storm moving in behind him, so they're fairly protected.
Speaker 2: The swells aren't so bad there. Sheila feels a lot
Speaker 2: more comfortable. So she's waiting on the boat with the
Speaker 2: two girls. The girls, by the way, were under ten.
Speaker 2: We'll just leave that out of it. So they both
Speaker 2: had air horns because the walkie talkies they had the
Speaker 2: batteries were dead. So what they decided to do is
Speaker 2: they worked out Okay, one blast, I'm on my way back,
Speaker 2: three blasts, emergency call for help. Whatever. They had this
Speaker 2: all pre planned out many times over. Stay tuned for
Speaker 2: more sasquatch out to sea, we'll be right back after
Speaker 2: these messages. So what ended up happening is he starts
Speaker 2: into shore. Now when he's getting closer to shore, he
Speaker 2: keeps looking back at the boat the storm coming, because
Speaker 2: he didn't want to get caught in this little dinghy,
Speaker 2: but he wanted to get to shore and see if
Speaker 2: these people needed help. From what Craig said, as he
Speaker 2: kept looking back, he started getting a real strange feeling
Speaker 2: the closer to shore he got, and he said he
Speaker 2: couldn't explain it. He said he felt like he was
Speaker 2: going to need rescuing, which seemed real weird because he's
Speaker 2: sitting there just simply going to check on some people
Speaker 2: and he's not understanding why they fled into the woods.
Speaker 2: So all the stuff is going on, and he's trying
Speaker 2: to basically figure it out on the fly, like what's
Speaker 2: causing it, what scenario has these people hiding? Are they okay?
Speaker 2: Are they safe? For all this stuff? He gets to
Speaker 2: shore as soon as he jumped out and pulled the
Speaker 2: dinghy up so the water wouldn't wash it away and stuff,
Speaker 2: and he tied it off around a medium sized boulder.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 2: He grabbed his rifle and his trauma pack started hollering, Hey,
Speaker 2: come out, come out. I'm here to help. I'm here
Speaker 2: to help. And he's looking around and he comes across
Speaker 2: some of the tracks in the gravel beach, and what
Speaker 2: have you? He said. When he got up over there
Speaker 2: and started looking at the tracks, he was dump boundered
Speaker 2: at how large they were. Harry Mann sasquatch, all that
Speaker 2: was not even in his wheelhouse. Craig is a professional
Speaker 2: man and very straightforward, no time for nonsense kind of guy,
Speaker 2: very serious. So he's examining these prints and he watched
Speaker 2: these things, these people make these tracks. He watched them
Speaker 2: walking and flee off into the brush. Right, So he's
Speaker 2: looking and it's starting to dawn on him. That these
Speaker 2: tracks are huge. He sat down and his airhorn can
Speaker 2: is approximately eight inches tall, so he used the can
Speaker 2: as a marker. One of the tracks was three of
Speaker 2: the air horns, another one was three and a half,
Speaker 2: and one was two. He's this, holy crap, he realizes
Speaker 2: these are very large people. He didn't feel comfortable anymore.
Speaker 2: They were barefoot tracks. He yelled out a couple more times,
Speaker 2: just to check right, so, he said, as he basically
Speaker 2: assessed the situation and realized he's dealing with something he
Speaker 2: has no clue about. He's paying attention to these tracks.
Speaker 2: He's trying to work through the scenarios in his head
Speaker 2: or what the hell's happening with these people, he said.
Speaker 2: At that time, he heard the airhorn from his wife.
Speaker 2: So he looks back at the boat and she's just
Speaker 2: three blasts, three blasts, three blasts, so obviously she's really
Speaker 2: wanting his attention. He said that as he's trying to
Speaker 2: look back towards the boat, which is one hundred yards
Speaker 2: way at this point, he can't make out what's going on,
Speaker 2: so he decides, I'll get out of here. He walks
Speaker 2: back and he unties the dingy and he's pushing it out.
Speaker 2: He said. When he got in the dinghy and turned
Speaker 2: around back and looked, it looked like a very large
Speaker 2: brown mound down just back behind him. He said, it
Speaker 2: was probably maybe sixty feet maybe, just out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: There's this big brown mound there. He couldn't, for the
Speaker 2: life of him, figure out what he was looking at.
Speaker 2: He wasn't sure if it was something he didn't notice
Speaker 2: when he first got there, like a piece of basically erosion,
Speaker 2: a big clump of brown dirt or whatever, just washed up,
Speaker 2: because that does happen in certain places. It looks shaggy
Speaker 2: and what have you. But then he saw it move
Speaker 2: and it freaked him out because it was massive. He said.
Speaker 2: He saw it move. It just from what he could
Speaker 2: make out, was just a big brown mound at first,
Speaker 2: and it moved, and it moved back and forth a
Speaker 2: little bit. He was in shock, trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what the hell he is looking at. Craig said that
Speaker 2: in that moment he realized, whatever, this is obviously alive.
Speaker 2: It's way big. It's huge. He said. It was like
Speaker 2: a Volkswagen going back and forth. And he said the
Speaker 2: way it was going back and forth was sporadic. It
Speaker 2: jolped this way a little bit, and it joked back
Speaker 2: this way, and he couldn't make out what he was seeing.
Speaker 2: So he's steadily pushing the boat out. He's unnerved. He
Speaker 2: gets on the boat and he's turned around. He fires
Speaker 2: up the motor and he goes into small circle so
Speaker 2: he could circle around and look back because there's no
Speaker 2: reverse on the little outboard. So he does that, and
Speaker 2: as he's looking back at this brown thing, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, this thing stands up. He said, when it
Speaker 2: stood up, it looked as wide as it was tall.
Speaker 2: He said it was humongous. He said it was over
Speaker 2: ten foot tall, very wide, very like matted like, just
Speaker 2: almost like dreadlocks looking to it, like a real dirty
Speaker 2: dog whipd to it with long hair. He was trying
Speaker 2: to figure out what the hell he was looking at.
Speaker 2: And he said when it stood up, it wasn't facing him.
Speaker 2: It was quartering away. As far as how it was positioned,
Speaker 2: it was facing away from him at a forty five
Speaker 2: degree angle. He said. He was in shock. So he
Speaker 2: kept going in the circle looking and as he's doing so,
Speaker 2: back behind this thing, he noticed movement in the brush.
Speaker 2: And now He's super curious what the hell is really
Speaker 2: happening here, because what he said he saw seemed much
Speaker 2: larger than the three what he thought were people just
Speaker 2: moments ago that caused them to come in here. He said,
Speaker 2: as he's doing this checking out this other movement, this
Speaker 2: thing let out a roar. He said it was like
Speaker 2: a mix between a lion, a bear growl, a woman
Speaker 2: being murdered. Just got awful guttural. Sounded like someone with
Speaker 2: a real bad chest cold. At the same time, it
Speaker 2: was very powerful. He felt it vibrate the boat. He
Speaker 2: was just in a little rubber dingy. So he's instantly
Speaker 2: turned around and started going back to the boat. Now,
Speaker 2: during this time, his wife is running out of her
Speaker 2: air horn. She exhausted it trying to get his attention
Speaker 2: to get him the hell back to the boat. She
Speaker 2: was freaked out. He gets back to the boat, his
Speaker 2: wife and two daughters are scared. They thought he was
Speaker 2: going to get eaten because what he didn't realize is
Speaker 2: when he was checking out the tracks and measuring them
Speaker 2: with his air horn, this thing had come down the
Speaker 2: beach behind him and was basically sniffing his tracks. His
Speaker 2: wife told him when he knelt down and was doing
Speaker 2: the measurements. So she started blaring the airhorn. It was
Speaker 2: to try to get his attention, and he would just
Speaker 2: glance back over his shoulder back at the boat, and
Speaker 2: he wasn't looking back behind him where she needed him
Speaker 2: to see what was happening. And she said, it came
Speaker 2: out standing, got down on all fours and then started
Speaker 2: going back and forth. It looked like it was sniffing
Speaker 2: for something. The only thing Craig could figure out is
Speaker 2: it was smelling his tracks, trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: he was. So as she's telling him this, he's trying
Speaker 2: to did you see it, he's looking around for a
Speaker 2: cell phone. They put their cell phones in one of
Speaker 2: those dry bags and it was somewhere down underneath in
Speaker 2: the hold, and so he sent his daughters, Hey, go
Speaker 2: find that dry bag so we can get my cell phone.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get some photos of this and try
Speaker 2: to record some of this. And his wife's let's just go.
Speaker 2: Let's just go. We can beat the storm and we'll
Speaker 2: head towards seward. Get somewhere else other than here right now.
Speaker 2: I want to go, and they're offshore. But she's really
Speaker 2: freaked out because she thought she was about to watch
Speaker 2: her husband get eaten. Essentially, she thought it was a
Speaker 2: bear at first, but obviously it was no bear, And
Speaker 2: so his daughters couldn't find the dry bag with the
Speaker 2: cell phones. It ended up being hanging just inside where
Speaker 2: the little cabinet is for this little cruiser, just inside
Speaker 2: on a hook, and they were looking everywhere else and
Speaker 2: it was like right there in front of him. But anyway,
Speaker 2: so he pulls anchor, he circles around, and he heads
Speaker 2: towards shore a little bit more. He didn't want to
Speaker 2: get too close because he didn't want to ground out
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But he said he got fairly close,
Speaker 2: and his wife started getting real mad at him, yelling
Speaker 2: at him. We got to get out of here, because
Speaker 2: by this point there was only a smaller one on
Speaker 2: the beach. And he said he was trying to get
Speaker 2: a better visual of this thing, and he said it
Speaker 2: looked like the arms were way too long for the body.
Speaker 2: The way it moved was very different. He said, the
Speaker 2: torsol was longer than the legs. The arms hung real
Speaker 2: low this thing. But once he got to a certain
Speaker 2: point and turned, he was adjusting his outboard and adjusting
Speaker 2: him up and it got to a point to where
Speaker 2: the exhaust started cork. Anyone been on a boat, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. So the exhaust got a
Speaker 2: little louder, and once that happened, this thing took off.
Speaker 2: It was gone, And he said it disappeared into the
Speaker 2: trees so fast he couldn't even calculate how quickly.
Speaker 1: It was going.
Speaker 2: It was just there and then that noise happened and
Speaker 2: it was gone. So with that they headed away. They
Speaker 2: got up around the bend and they heard another This
Speaker 2: was at a distance because they got up around the
Speaker 2: bend just out of Johnstone Bay. He powered off and
Speaker 2: dropped the anchor again and was trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what their next move was. At that point, when they
Speaker 2: were sitting there trying to figure it out, they heard
Speaker 2: another almost identical growl, howl, scream coming from basically the
Speaker 2: same area, and he said it was just so unreal.
Speaker 2: They headed off. They ended up going to Seward. I
Speaker 2: want to thank Craig for being patient. A lot of times,
Speaker 2: there's other people that I'm in contact with. I try
Speaker 2: to get all the details to share with you. Guys.
Speaker 2: Any sounds you can recognize if you're in a similar situation,
Speaker 2: you can figure things out. I want to thank him
Speaker 2: for being patient. I want to thank him for getting
Speaker 2: back to me and for sharing with us. There's a
Speaker 2: lot more to come, but I want to think his wife.
Speaker 2: She didn't say much when I talked to her, other
Speaker 2: than she told me that she thought her husband was
Speaker 2: going to get eaten in front of her and their daughters.
Speaker 2: And that's just a horrific thought anyway, And that's it
Speaker 2: for now. I want to tak thank you guys for
Speaker 2: joining me, and we'll catch you on the next one.
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