WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:14.400 Okay, you all know I get these stories in people 2 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.239 just send me stories. I don't know hardly anyone who 3 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.440 sends me these stories, so I can attest to the 4 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:26.280 authenticity of a lot of stories, and I can't do 5 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.760 that with this one. However, if this one is true, 6 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:33.640 it is a remarkable, remarkable set of events, and I'm 7 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:36.719 going to share it with you, So the writer says, 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.200 let's see her. I've been wrestling with sharing this event 9 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.119 for a year now, but today will be as good 10 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:47.840 time as any. It's raining today and I don't feel 11 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.560 like fishing in the rain. This account of events will 12 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.759 be one of the most controversial reports ever told, but 13 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.479 needs to be spoken for the safety of our children. 14 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.920 My name is Sergeant Robert Woodford of the RCMP, or 15 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:10.560 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and I'm retired as of December 16 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.439 twenty nineteen after thirty five years of service, which ensured 17 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.680 me of a maximum pension. I now reside in the 18 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.079 Gulf side of Florida with my dog, Rocko, who was 19 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.640 my service canine that also retired from the RCMP with me, 20 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.920 and this is where we spend our time, enjoying the 21 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.640 warmth and offshore fishing. I was stationed for my entire 22 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.319 length of service in South British Columbia, just west of Princeton. 23 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.439 This job was the best fit for me. It's not 24 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.280 that I dislike people. It's just that I don't feel 25 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.480 comfortable in crowds and I enjoy my solitude where I 26 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.680 can read, fish, hunt, work on my cars, and just 27 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.959 do me this job or working alone in the International 28 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:03.159 Space Station, where both jobs I coveted. I've never been 29 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.200 married and even had a desire to date, nor hang 30 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:09.479 out with the guys at the bar, attend sporting events 31 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:14.759 or birthday parties or Christmas parties. Nothing with people. My 32 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:18.759 typical day would be patrolling the highways, search and rescue, 33 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.680 tracking runners, finding contraband, anything but the warm and fuzzy 34 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.680 encounters with school kids or the public. The day of 35 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:33.120 this event was Tuesday, June twenty seventh, two thousand and seventeen. 36 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.080 I was doing my routine patrol of the Crow's Nest 37 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:42.159 Highway and the Chiquilahala. Think I pronounced that right? He 38 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.159 makes a note here. I know you have difficulty pronouncing 39 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:50.719 different Indian words. No crap, but you know what. I 40 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:55.639 get a lot of emails and suggestions from people. You know, 41 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.840 you can use Google word pronounce or all these different 42 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:03.000 kind of things. I don't really care. You know, it 43 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.960 doesn't make me feel insecure that I can't pronounce some words. 44 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.680 I just can't, and you're gonna either take me or 45 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.639 leave me. It doesn't bother me a bit. So if 46 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.240 you guys can stand it, I'm just gonna keep mispronouncing words. 47 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:23.159 But this word is cocahallas cocahalla anyway. This is the 48 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:28.560 British Columbia Highway three and British Columbia Highway five. I 49 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.080 got a call from dispatch of a reported naked child 50 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.719 running in the field, kilometers away from any homes or 51 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:40.639 campers along the highway. I responded to the call, but 52 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:43.280 the caller didn't stay on the scene, and I had 53 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.039 no idea where to look. I spent the remainder of 54 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:49.560 the shift, plus a couple of hours, driving up and 55 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.680 down Highway three, looking into the clearings and along the 56 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:58.240 streams and waterways for any sign of this child. It's 57 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:02.120 darkness started to creep over the eastern horizon. I decided 58 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.479 to call it a day and head home and chalk 59 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.560 the call of someone either pranking us or seeing a 60 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:13.319 tan black bear or a moose calf. Wednesday morning, I 61 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.400 informed the Post that I was going to stay in 62 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.800 the area of British Columbia Highway three for the day. 63 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.319 I was happy that I did, because I received a 64 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.160 call from dispatch at at fourteen fifteen of a naked 65 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:31.240 child in a field. Again, I requested that Dispatch contact 66 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.000 the caller and have them remain on the scene until 67 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.079 I arrived. When I got to the location, I was 68 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:43.600 met by missus Godfrey. She's an elderly former schoolteacher from Edmonton. 69 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.959 The caller gave me details of where the child was playing. 70 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.240 It was one hundred meters off the highway, and she 71 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:53.920 stated that he ran into the bush and that she 72 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.879 had called out to him. The next comment she made 73 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.920 gave me some real concerns though. She stated that as 74 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.920 he was running back to the tree line, he started 75 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.360 to run on two legs, and then he dropped down 76 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:11.519 to all fours like an eight. I've read many accounts 77 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.639 of children being raised by wolves, apes and monkeys, even 78 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.639 a bear, but I've never believed it could be true, 79 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.480 and I wondered how this was going to play out. 80 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:26.199 I returned to my SUVN grabbed my tracking backpack that 81 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.920 contained three bottles of water, a couple of packs of jerky, 82 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:35.839 a milar blanket, a hatchet, para cord, a machette, binoculars, 83 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.839 a flare gun, and a distress beacon just in case 84 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.639 something should happen to me. I then took up my 85 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.720 C seven, which is the Canadian cult version of the 86 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:51.360 M four, and the long tracking leash for my dog. 87 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.079 Roco began to get excited now that I had his 88 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:59.079 working leash and got himself all hyped up and ready 89 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.600 to go to work. Rocco was eager to get to 90 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.000 the trail until we got to where the teacher had 91 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:09.160 told me that she had seen the child. Rocco became 92 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.959 reluctant to follow. Rocco was a relentless tracker, but three 93 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.680 years ago, Rocco and three other dogs refused to go 94 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.319 past the point on a track that we had been 95 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:23.920 on for an hour. None of us had ever seen 96 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.199 these dogs give up and refuse to proceed. As a result, 97 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.399 we lost a five year old little girl. She was 98 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:36.399 never found. Missing. A child carried the weight of guilt, 99 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.240 and this one had the effect on the whole department. 100 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:45.240 It still does this was different, though he was following, 101 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:49.560 but not in his normal eager self. We were into 102 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.720 the trail for an hour and Roco was following the 103 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:56.199 trail at a consistent pace, but not in a rush. 104 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.519 I realized that this kid had circled back on us 105 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.839 twice and then double backed once, and then traveled upstream 106 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:08.199 and then back. The kid was staying down wind from us. 107 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.920 It's pretty smart, but not like a child in distress. 108 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.439 I would have believed that I was on the trail 109 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.639 of an escape convict trying to evade me. He knew 110 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.000 he was being tracked, so I decided to sit tight 111 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.319 for some time before pushing on. I wanted to put 112 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.959 him at ease. But thirty minutes later we were back 113 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.240 on the scent and he must have thought that we 114 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.639 had given up on him, because he stopped the evasive maneuvers. 115 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.040 It had now been two and a half hours since 116 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.800 we began the track when I could see a clearing 117 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.759 start to open ahead of us the three meters from 118 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.720 the edge. Roco snapped to the ground to alert me 119 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.519 of danger, and I knelt down beside Rocko and looked 120 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.600 ahead to see the child three hundred meters away, where 121 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.680 he broke out of the thicket alone and started up 122 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:04.040 a small incline into the old growth timber. To my surprise, 123 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:08.040 several other people came into view. None of them wore 124 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:12.720 a stitch of clothing. I looked through my field glasses 125 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.879 and I could make out what appeared to be four 126 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:19.399 young women and one young male, and several smaller children. 127 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.279 As the child approached the group, I saw a large 128 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:26.759 black bear like beast charge at him on two legs, 129 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:31.399 closing the distance between them at a remarkable pace. The 130 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.440 child ran toward the females and they all laid over 131 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.799 him and shielded him from the aggressor. The bee stood 132 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.559 over the pile of females and he roared, and it 133 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.360 was a roar like I had never heard before. I 134 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:50.440 could feel it. Rocco was scared. He urinated spontaneously and 135 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.720 then tried to retreat back to the suv, but was 136 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:57.399 unable to do so with my grip on his leash. 137 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.200 I thought for a moment about taking a shot at 138 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.559 the beast, but I didn't believe that the five point 139 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.559 five six round would bring the beast down. That turned 140 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.519 out to be a good move, because I began to 141 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.559 make out several more of these beasts around the group, 142 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.000 and one crossing the clearing two hundred and fifty meters 143 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:20.360 up wind of us. After roaring several more times, the 144 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:23.360 beast grabbed one of the females and pulled her away 145 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:27.320 from the pile and began to molest her. That is 146 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.360 a subtle way to describe it. It was actually more 147 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:35.200 violent than that. It was horrible. There was no way 148 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.120 that I could take on the entire troop of Sasquatches, 149 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:43.519 that's what they were. There were too many. To sit 150 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:47.279 there and watch these beasts abuse these people. Cost me 151 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.639 great shame and anxiety, but I would need help to 152 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.159 rescue these people, and I would have to fight another time. 153 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.519 If I hit my beacon and call for reinforcements, they 154 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.799 would not arrive until after art, and even their approach 155 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:06.120 would give this group ample warning to retreat and evade us. 156 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.639 Looking up at the sun starting to drop in the west, 157 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.440 I decided to retreat and make a plan. I pulled 158 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.480 out my phone and I pinned my location on the map. 159 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.600 On our way back to the SUV, A million thoughts 160 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:25.960 ran through my mind. If I reported this to my superiors, 161 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.240 they might not believe me. I could be removed from 162 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.000 duty and lose my pension, or even be sent to 163 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.440 a mental health hospital. On the other side of my 164 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.559 dilemma was to just walk away like I saw nothing 165 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.159 and play it safe. But that wasn't my way to 166 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.279 leave people in need, especially children that would have haunted 167 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:51.360 me forever. It would any man. Back at my vehicle, 168 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.240 I called the Sergeant Major and requested that he meet 169 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.240 me at the post in Princeton that evening. Sergeant Major 170 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.600 knew something was amiss. I'd never made this type of 171 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.080 request since I had been a signed to my post, 172 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.440 and he agreed to meet me. After recounting my afternoon 173 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:12.639 with the sergeant Major, I was expecting to have to 174 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.840 surrender my weapons and dog, but he simply told me 175 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.000 to go home and get some rest and I would 176 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.639 be called in the morning. That night was restless for 177 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.600 both Roco and myself, with neither of us eating much, 178 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:29.960 and what sleep we did get was riddled with tossing 179 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.879 and turning, and yes, even Roco was one restless puppy. 180 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.279 But the next morning the call came at five am. 181 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.080 I was instructed to meet the Corps. Sergeant major and 182 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:46.440 his team had an abandoned logging site sixteen kilometers from 183 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.679 the location of yesterday's encounter, and recount my sightings with 184 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:56.440 the team. The team I thought with Rocco Kennel. I 185 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.840 drove to the logging site and it was now an operation. 186 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:06.200 I saw over forty black SUVs with horse trailers, several 187 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:13.080 marked rcmpsuvs utility trailers, along with two military grade assault helicopters. 188 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.960 There were several large barrack style tents set up, The 189 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:21.559 horses were in temporary corrals, and a number of men, 190 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:27.440 all in black gray Camo uniforms with RCMP patches, cleaning weapons, cooking, 191 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:32.240 or sitting in groups talking. I had no problem determining 192 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.200 which trailer the command center was, and I headed straight 193 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.840 for it. As I stepped inside and closed the door, 194 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.720 I heard a voice from my right, Well, Bobby, you 195 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.399 got yourself into a mess this time, didn't you. Well, 196 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.720 I've always hated the names Bob or Bobby. My name 197 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.279 is Robert. So I turned to see who the voice 198 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:56.799 belonged to, and to my delight, it was a familiar face. 199 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.320 He was the core made sergeant in charge of this operation, 200 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.279 a man I knew from my training. Thirty three years before, 201 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.440 and I had no problem recognizing him. Looks like the 202 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:13.559 years have been good to you, CSM, and a nice 203 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:19.759 promotion I see, I said. Core Sergeant Major or CSM 204 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.600 took me over to the round table and introduced me 205 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.240 to his leadership team of five other Mounties and two 206 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.360 Americans that were part of adjoint operations between the two countries. 207 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.159 I retold every detail from yesterday and answered so many 208 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.360 questions from this group. I didn't know if they believe 209 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.759 me or not. The time was O nine hundred when 210 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.000 the CSM asked me to follow them to another trailer 211 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:49.799 with several satellite dishes on the roof, and inside that 212 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.759 trailer were several monitors lined up on four walls with 213 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:58.279 numbers on each monitor and one large monitor at the end. 214 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.279 Instructed the young man who was manning the monitors to 215 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.360 pull up the map of the general location for my description. 216 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.320 They asked me to help pinpoint the location. That's what 217 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.919 I remembered that I had pinned the location on my 218 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:16.559 phone the day prior and pulled it out and gave 219 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.639 it to the young officer with the app open. There 220 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.679 was technology there that could detect any living thing from 221 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.799 a satellite to my amazement, I saw there on the 222 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:33.480 monitor several large highlighted figures, red figures and smaller orange figures, 223 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.120 which is CSM began to tell me what they meant. 224 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.320 The red figures were adult sized humans, and the small 225 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.600 orange figures were small children, and the large blue figures 226 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.840 they were the sisquatch. Well, I didn't expect them to 227 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:55.360 say the word sasquatch or bigfoot. I was surprised. Looking 228 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.679 at the detail of this imagery was nothing short of amazing. 229 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.159 I could see moving, We could tell if they were 230 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.519 squatted down or sitting. We could see that they were 231 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.200 standing or laying down, as well as walking on two 232 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:12.600 legs or four. The CSM told the team to analyze 233 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.399 the data and he would return in a few minutes, 234 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.000 and then asked me to follow him outside to a 235 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.080 camp table, where we sat down. He began to tell 236 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:27.000 me his experiences with these creatures. Ten years earlier, he 237 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.759 saw a creature while tracking a missing child. His dog 238 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.840 made great strides in getting close to the girl and 239 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:39.120 the abductor, and when he rounded a blind turn alone 240 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.159 on a cliff, he was attacked by a large, hairy 241 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.759 beast running on two feet and standing over a meter 242 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.159 taller than the mounte. The bigfoot knocked him to the 243 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.519 side and down the hill and then killed his dog. 244 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.600 This attack placing him in the hospital for three months 245 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.960 with a broken back and arm. Fortune, he was a 246 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.480 part of a larger group and was found by another 247 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.120 canine handler shortly after the attack. He stuck his hand 248 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.720 inside his shirt pocket at that time and pulled out 249 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.519 a laminated photo of a little girl. This is Lisa, 250 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.159 he said. She is the little girl that I just 251 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.320 told you about, and there isn't a day that goes 252 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.000 by that I don't think about her and what happened 253 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.000 on that day. He told me that he had been 254 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.320 following these tribes of Bigfoot with the mission to capture 255 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.960 or eliminate them, and for the past five years alone, 256 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.039 he could link fifteen abductions of children and women, as 257 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.240 well as the deaths of another six males in the 258 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:46.399 western part of North America to sisquatch. The CSM said, 259 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.679 we're always a step behind them. We don't know where 260 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.840 they are until they abduct a child, but within twenty 261 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.399 four hours they could have moved over twenty kilometers and 262 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.120 we have to be lucky to locate one of these troops. 263 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.319 They migrate from as far north as northern British Columbia 264 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.680 in the summer and to as far south as Arizona 265 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.440 in the winter, which makes tracking them almost impossible. The 266 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.480 information that you've provided us is great and it's going 267 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:17.720 to make our mission a success, and we thank you 268 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.440 for that. You can go back to your patrol and 269 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:25.160 forget everything that you saw here. Well, inside my pocket 270 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.319 I had a laminated photo of a young girl too 271 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.079 that I carried with me, and I showed it to 272 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:36.480 him and I said, I'm not leaving. The CSM then 273 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.920 spread out a topo map on the table, and soon 274 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.799 they had developed a plan to attack the tribe and 275 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:47.359 save the people being held there. Operations would begin shortly. 276 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.440 All but a few of the Mounties retired to the 277 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.680 oversized tents while CSM and I ate breakfast and spoke 278 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.480 for a couple of hours about how this team was formed, 279 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.960 including the horses that were conditioned to not react to 280 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:06.880 these beasts and buck their riders. The CSM then spoke 281 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.440 of the threat that these creatures possessed children and how 282 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.720 they are more abundant than what people realize. I was 283 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:17.279 always taught that monsters are not real and if a 284 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:21.720 person saw one, they must be crazy. The two of 285 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.720 us then hit the rack about three hundred, but at 286 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.319 about seven point thirty we were awakened by the officer 287 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:32.559 monitoring the tribe's movements, and he informed us that two 288 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.599 of the hairy men had left the group and then 289 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.440 split apart, with one catching what appeared to be a 290 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.559 moose calf and then returned to their camp to feed 291 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:44.079 the group. It looked like they were allowing the remaining 292 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:49.720 humans to eat. The other size squats travel five kilometers 293 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.359 from the group and had taken up a position behind 294 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:57.599 a small residence along the highway three. Darkness was coming 295 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.640 fast tonight with no moon in the He knew that 296 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.079 they would have to take this one out quickly before 297 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.680 the main plan could be executed, and then a plan 298 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:09.359 B was in place within just a few minutes with 299 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:14.160 three different six person teams, including a sniper with fifty 300 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.039 cow rifles. They were both fitted with night vision, thermal 301 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:25.039 imaging scopes and silencers. All teams saddled up with their 302 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.599 mounts and loaded them in the horse trailers along with 303 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:32.400 the two large draft mules known as mammoth jacks. These 304 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.480 mules were what old timers used to drag logs out 305 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:39.839 of the forests. The teams then scattered to their assigned 306 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:43.119 starting points, and all roads into the area were blocked 307 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:47.559 and manned. While they were en route, a CSM told 308 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:50.440 me what was happening. The house where the big mail 309 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:55.200 was located had one adult and three kids. He suspected 310 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.799 the sisquatch was looking to abduct one or more children. 311 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.400 He was able to acquire the phone number for the 312 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.160 house and call them, telling the mother to move all 313 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:07.880 her children into the interior of the house and stay 314 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.279 away from the windows, that there was a large, injured bear, 315 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.559 and that the mounties were tracking and going to kill it, 316 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:19.440 and that they needed to stay put until notified. While 317 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.400 this was taking place, the young officer was helping guide 318 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:25.279 the three teams three to four hundred meters away from 319 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:28.880 the creature and advancing to a shooting lane half the 320 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:33.880 distance between the horses and the beast. Within just thirty 321 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:36.799 minutes of the call to the residence, the team started 322 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.480 to report into the command center. As this was occurring, 323 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:44.599 the CSM and myself were watching it all take place 324 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.480 on the big screen. Other monitors around us showed the 325 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:54.039 body cams worn by the team members. This bigfoot was patient, 326 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:58.559 staying in the same spot for over an hour, but 327 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:02.400 the silence was broken and the radio cracked. Gold Team 328 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.680 target acquired. A few minutes later another radio transmission Blue 329 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.640 Team target acquired, but then we heard Red Team target 330 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:16.920 still dark. The young officer controlling the monitor replied Red 331 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:21.160 Team positioned twenty yards north. Three minutes later we heard 332 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:25.440 Red Team target acquired. The CSM gave the command to 333 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:31.240 execute the operation on Mark. The young officer then spoke 334 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:36.599 into the mic all teams on my Mark three two, one, 335 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.039 Mark and the rest of us in the command trailer 336 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:42.440 could see the white flashes of all three of the 337 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:46.720 rifles discharge on the large monitor, all at the same time. 338 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:51.960 The beast didn't even flinch as three fifty cow slugs 339 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.960 struck its head and it dropped to the ground dead. 340 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.200 The teams had rushed forward with their mounts and the 341 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.839 two mammoth jacks harnessed up the beast and dragged it 342 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.440 to one of the trailers. This off was over, the 343 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:12.440 teams headed back to the base. A uniform mounting was 344 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.680 sent to the house to tell the resident that the 345 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.359 bear had been killed and there was no longer a risk. 346 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.519 I was more than impressed at what I was witnessing, 347 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:28.319 watching this company's level of execution and precision. The camp 348 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:31.960 was now alive with excitement as the strike team returned 349 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:34.920 with their prize, and as they opened up the trailer 350 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:37.839 and drugged the beast out, a smell hit me in 351 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:42.920 the face and I had to gag. The creature was 352 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.880 over three meters tall and one and a half meters wide, 353 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.759 and it must have weighed seven hundred kilograms or fourteen 354 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:56.160 hundred pounds. The CSM congratulated the teams and gathered the 355 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.480 entire group of nearly one hundred mounties together and gave 356 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.160 a short speech that this was the reason they were 357 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:05.359 here to take out this group and recover all the 358 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:08.440 individuals that had been abducted, and that he was now 359 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.599 moving up the departure time to midnight, which was just 360 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:16.839 twenty minutes away. The mountains all went into business mode 361 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.880 and they sprang into action, doing gear checks and painting 362 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:24.079 their faces so that they were completely camouflaged, and then 363 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:26.440 the teams began to move out and get to their 364 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:32.559 assigned positions. At nearly five hundred and almost go time, 365 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.759 the young man monitoring the big screen said that he 366 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:40.000 had three new contacts not previously seen on the satellite images. 367 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.680 They were moving from the north toward the troop we 368 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:47.640 were about to hit. They were carrying something alive, but 369 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:50.599 he couldn't confirm whether it was another human or a 370 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:55.640 wild animal that they had killed. A team of operators 371 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.720 stood in their path. The CSN began giving orders for 372 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.000 some team members to move and give these new targets 373 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:05.720 a clear path to the group, and to hold and 374 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:11.279 wait for further orders. As the sun's first rays were 375 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:13.480 about to pop over the edge of the Earth at 376 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:17.319 five thirty, the three newcomers stopped one hundred meters short 377 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:20.279 of the main group and took up a defensive position, 378 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:25.759 seeming to realize that something was wrong. Realizing the operation 379 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.160 was in jeopardy, the CSM grabbed the mic and said 380 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:35.079 EGO status report, and the team snipers responded by calling 381 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:38.519 out to the command center again just like before, Goal 382 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:43.039 Team target acquired, Blue Team target acquired, and Red Team 383 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:48.519 target acquired. Then the CSM yelled into the mic, go 384 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.720 and the screen lit up like fireworks as the three 385 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.400 watchers were dropped where they stood and several members of 386 00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.440 the team threw flash grenades from as close as twenty 387 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.119 yards away into the group, while others identified the hairy 388 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:08.640 men began engaging the targets. The young officer was constantly 389 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:11.400 on the radio calling out directions as one of the 390 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.200 three newcomers had been able to retreat the way that 391 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.640 he had come, and he was heading north, putting distance 392 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:21.559 between him and his group at a fast pace. One 393 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:27.400 of our gunships intercepted him and cut him down. Another 394 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:30.319 creature from the group had also taken flight, running on 395 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.000 all fours and was already on the other side of 396 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.880 the clearing as the last line of Mounties made contact 397 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:39.519 and dropped him before he could escape to the safety 398 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:43.799 of the dark woods. The humans in the group were 399 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:47.799 altogether a different story for the Mounties as they shouldered 400 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.160 their rifles and attempted to gather them up, but they 401 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:55.000