WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to 25 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:12.840 kill your dog? 26 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.040 My dog. 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.159 We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know 28 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.439 how it did it? Okay, damn, I'm really confused. All 29 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.239 I saw was my dog coming over the fence and 30 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.400 they would dead once you hit the grill. I didn't 31 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.319 see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 32 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:46.959 over the fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:57.640 some wonder or something crawling around out here? Did you 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.680 see what it was? It was enough here looking. I'm 35 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:02.359 new to the window now and I don't see anything. 36 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.840 I don't want to go outside. It's point you're kara 37 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:12.280 here y hello, hit somebody out here? What quin on 38 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.439 the out there's thought of a bit just about sixty 39 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.199 forty nine. I don't know, easy, I'm out there. Yeah, 40 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:18.199 I'm welcome right away. 41 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.159 Oh, thanks for joining me today. What I want to 42 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.439 share with you it comes from Tina. Tina is originally 43 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.280 from the yk Delta, which is Yukon Cuscokwum Delta for 44 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.479 those who don't know. She reached out and wanted to 45 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.159 share what it was like for her back when she 46 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:39.159 was watching her cousins. This was back in nineteen eighty two. 47 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.560 She was in town from. 48 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:45.080 College on a summer break to help with the fishing activities, 49 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:49.800 and she got roped into watching the three younger relatives 50 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.000 of hers that were staying at her grandma's house. 51 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:53.800 She stayed the whole season. 52 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.719 She helped put away the fish, the smokehouse of the 53 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.800 whole family deal. As she was wrapping up her visit, 54 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.919 her grandma asked her if she would stick around for 55 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.319 berry picking because some of the people were going to 56 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.639 be meeting her to watch the kids if she was available. 57 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.439 So she agreed because she had some time. Her grandma 58 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:17.319 ended up having to go into town for a doctor's visit, 59 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.800 and so basically she was roped into watching these other 60 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:24.919 kids because grandma was going to be gone. The way 61 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.400 it worked out, she was unhappy with it, but she 62 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:29.240 liked her little cousin, so it was no big deal. 63 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.400 As she made her arrangements to extend her stay out 64 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.400 a couple weeks, one of the younger cousins asked her 65 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.199 if they could go berry picking, and she was all 66 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.000 for it. There was really not a whole lot of 67 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.360 people in the village, and where her grandma's house was 68 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.560 the furthest away from all the other buildings of the village. 69 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.560 Very small village. She didn't want to share the name, 70 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.879 still small to this day. The kids asked if they 71 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.199 could go berry picking. She had no problem with it 72 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.759 because wheeler trail went right by her grandma's place out 73 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.000 onto the berry picking patch. 74 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.039 She gathered them. She was eighteen. 75 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.120 She always wanted to be a mom, so she really 76 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.479 doated on the kids and really took the time to 77 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.639 try to teach them what she knew about berry picking 78 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.400 and the plants, and what berries not to pick when 79 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.360 they're not ready, and just going through the whole bit. 80 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.120 They got about a half mile away. They were not 81 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.879 too far a lot of tundraut that way. There was 82 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.839 like these little islands of black spruce here and there. 83 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:23.680 They were near one of these islands of black spruce 84 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.920 picking the berries, and she was teaching them how to 85 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.959 put more in the bucket than in the mouth, so 86 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.480 they had something show when they got home. So she 87 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.319 was having a giggle with the kids, and one of 88 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.040 the older ones of the three said, Hey, who's that 89 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.680 man watching us. She immediately said, what man, because most 90 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.360 adult males were on the river doing into season stuff, 91 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.879 getting ready for hunting, stuff like that, so she was 92 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.279 shocked to hear that there was actually someone an adult 93 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.319 male around. She turned and looked at where he was pointing. 94 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:01.360 In approximately she's guestmating about two hundred year yards. This 95 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.279 kid was pointing at this figure standing in the trees. 96 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:07.800 As soon as she looks up and seen it, it 97 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.879 started moving just inside the tree line that she could see. 98 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.959 It wasn't a very big group of trees, and she 99 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.519 could see it moving at repositioned and squatted down looking 100 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.199 back at them. Immediately, she felt sick her stomach and 101 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.319 asked the kids to gather up their stuff quickly, that 102 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.560 are are berry pickings done? They did that, and she's 103 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:28.879 trying to keep the kids in front of her without 104 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:32.279 freaking out. She grew up hearing Harryman stories and stuff. 105 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.000 She was aware, but she didn't realize how real the 106 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.199 stories were. Even though she'd heard her older uncles and 107 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.199 stuff talking about seeing them before and this and that. 108 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.639 She just always chalked it up to the way to 109 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.279 control kids and keep them near home. That was her 110 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:51.399 overall attitude about it initially, So she's hurrying the kids along, 111 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.319 and again, they're about a half mile from the villa. 112 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.720 She could see her grandma's house off in the distance, 113 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.920 so they kept going. She saw What struck her about 114 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.160 it is when she looked over it and saw it 115 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:03.800 moved along the tree lur and it seemed like when 116 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:05.959 it turned back to look at them as soon as 117 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.680 it made eye contact with her and at that distance, 118 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.199 because I asked, I was like, two hundred yards's pretty. 119 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.160 Are you sure it was just not looking at your 120 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.120 group or whatever? She goes, it looked me in the eye. 121 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:16.920 I could feel it looking me in the eye, which 122 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.079 is a creepy thought. But every time she walking the 123 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:21.920 kids along, every time she turned around and look back 124 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.800 at that group of trees, it was still right there. 125 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.160 Until she got out of view of it. Just because 126 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.639 of the lay of the land, there was a little 127 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.160 bit of a rolling hill. She lost sight of it. 128 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.720 So she's hurrying the kids along because she can no 129 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:36.959 longer tell where it's at, and she's trying not to 130 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.000 freak out and scare the kids, but making a game 131 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.120 of it. Let's play race to Grandmas and whatnot. Just 132 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.279 getting the kids moving, so she makes a game of it. 133 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:48.600 The kids tick off running and as they're running along, 134 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.959 she's keeping distance between her and the kids, so she 135 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.680 could turn around and look every once in a while 136 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.199 and then tell the kids, I'm gaing on you, you know, 137 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.759 just to encourage them to run faster without scaring them. 138 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.720 Make a game of it. 139 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.800 So she said she was about half the distance back 140 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:07.240 to her grandma's house, so within a quarter mile of 141 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:10.240 her grandma's house, she felt something weird in the ground, 142 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.240 so she said she stopped to turn and look back, 143 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.199 and it was about half the distance from before, so 144 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.079 about one hundred yards further back from where they just 145 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.199 were running and playing. This thing was standing there, squatted down, 146 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.839 almost like a football player. This movement its upper body 147 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:26.959 kind of back and forth a little bit, sizing the 148 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:31.600 situation up. So she's really freaking out. Encourages the kids 149 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.759 to all out run. She grabbed one of the smaller ones, 150 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.680 held it, grabbed the other second smallest one, and drag 151 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.279 it along. Basically, poor kids, they didn't understand what was 152 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.800 going on, but she was panic stricken and getting them 153 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.879 really moving. And the oldest one was capable and was 154 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.519 staying ahead of them as they ran. So she gets 155 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.639 back to her grandma's house. She shuts and locks the 156 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.240 windbreak door and then gets inside and shutting locks the 157 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.240 inside door. She gets all the kids shuffled into the room. 158 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.079 It's a two room cabin. The big main room is 159 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.120 kitchen living room combined, and the second room is basically 160 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.959 one big bedroom with three beds in it. She got 161 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.480 the kids in there. There's two windows in there. They 162 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.639 were up higher just above the ceiling, and down just 163 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:19.720 I think she said there were two feet by four 164 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.360 feet windows on each wall in the corner. She got 165 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.439 the kids to play a game of hide and go 166 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.639 seek and get under the bed. She's trying not to panic, 167 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.080 but she gets the kids under the bed. She makes 168 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.720 sure the curtains are drawn, and she goes back out 169 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.799 into the living room area. Right next to the door 170 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:41.759 is their shotgun for bears. She grabs at she makes 171 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.200 sure it's loaded, and then she retreats herself back into 172 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:49.320 the bedroom. She heard, or she felt the footsteps of 173 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.720 this thing coming along. She jumped on the VHF radio 174 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.200 real quick and made a call, Hey, so and so 175 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:56.919 at Gram's house. 176 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.480 Anyone around just dead? Quiet on the air. 177 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.559 A few moments past and she hears movement outside, but 178 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.639 she can't bring herself to look out the window because 179 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.960 she's freaked out. She makes call again on a VHF radio, 180 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.799 anyone around when I'm at my grandma's house, anyone around, 181 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.039 basically making a call out to the village, and there 182 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.360 was no response. She goes back into the bedroom with 183 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.080 the kids and is trying to talk to them, discuss 184 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.000 just random topics things to keep them calm because she 185 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:29.200 was feeling herself freaking out. She's heard something brushing against 186 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.600 the by the front door, by the windbreak area, and 187 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.200 she was listening really close. And now that she's holding 188 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.840 the shotgun, the kids are like, is there a bear? 189 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.120 Is there a bear? Because that shotguns for bears. 190 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.639 Kids are smart, and she goes, yes, there was a 191 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.960 bear and it was following us, and I don't want 192 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.360 it to come in, so be quiet, so listen to 193 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.159 draw its attention to us. Kids all immediately get under 194 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.879 the bed. All three kids are under the bed. She 195 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.399 peeks out past the little curtain that divides the two rooms. 196 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.480 She's looking out into the living area. She doesn't see anything, 197 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.919 but she notices looking out the curtain off to her 198 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.440 right hand side, which would be the kitchen side. She 199 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.159 notices a shadow moving on the floor from the light 200 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.600 coming in. That just told her that something's outside that window, 201 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:18.279 moving back and forth. So she goes out of the bedroom, 202 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.919 peeks around that corner, and by the time she got there, 203 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:22.200 there was nothing in the window. 204 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.919 Immediately turns looks past. 205 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.720 The doorway to the window that was on the other 206 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.320 side of the room, and there it was looking in 207 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.519 at her. She said it had all black complexion, black 208 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:36.039 beady eyes. She said the skin looked wrinkly, but she 209 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.279 looked so quick and was so startled she didn't get 210 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.559 a really good thorough look at it because this thing 211 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.639 started growling. So she ran into that little room with 212 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.039 the kids and slid under the bed with them, holding 213 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.840 that shotgun pointing towards the opening between the two rooms, 214 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:57.240 freaking out. She said the growling was so terrifying because 215 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.360 everyone could feel it in the floor as they were 216 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:02.639 laying on their bed. Ellie's this thing was growling last died. 217 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:04.480 She said, she don't know how long, but she was 218 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.360 trying to keep the kids from screaming because they were 219 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.320 squealing every once in a while and as they were squealing, 220 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:11.360 the growling, which she said, it didn't sound like it 221 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.720 was moving from that one to almost like it found 222 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:15.519 a place to look in at him, or something was 223 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.399 trying to keep an eye out for him, is the 224 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:21.559 feeling she got. After a little while passed, the kids 225 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.480 were crying and stuff and really freaked out. She hears 226 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.919 the VHF radio. It was one of her relatives that 227 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.440 had a rover that was upriver started calling back to 228 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.840 her saying, we heard you. We just weren't able to 229 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:37.919 get enough signal to reach you, but we heard you. 230 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.480 She stuck under that bed and all she could do 231 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.600 is listen to this. So she built up all her courage, 232 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.000 gets out from underneath the bed, slowly peeks out the window. 233 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.279 She doesn't notice it out the window that she'd just 234 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.279 seen it in a little while before. Grabs the VHF 235 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.120 and says, there's a bear outside of Grandma's house. 236 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:55.639 I need help. 237 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.360 They said, we're on our way. However far away is 238 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.840 going to be X amount of time day. Inside there's 239 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.080 a shotgun all that stuff. She goes, I got the 240 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.759 kids under the bed, I got the shotgun, and as 241 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.840 she's on the VHF relaying this to one of her 242 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:12.679 relatives there starts to thumping against the wall and it's 243 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.240 a boom. I mean, it was shaking the whole place 244 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.840 as she's just telling him, hey, I think it's trying 245 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.759 to break in. It screamed outside. Blood crewing screamed. She 246 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.360 said she felt it through her whole body. The kids 247 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:28.480 shrieked and squealed underneath the bed and were crying real loud. 248 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.000 She basically dropped the vhf's little hand mike and retreated 249 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:33.159 under the bed with the kids. 250 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.759 She said she sat there. She didn't even know how long. 251 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.759 She ran in there so quick because she had the 252 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.919 shotgun leaning against the wall by the VHF radio. She 253 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:47.080 left it there on her retreat and was too scared 254 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.000 to get up and go get that shotgun. They basically 255 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:55.720 stayed there. It wasn't until she heard human voices outside. 256 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.759 She doesn't remember exactly how much later because she was 257 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.519 crying herself the banging on the door and them saying 258 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.000 open up, open up, and she recognized the voices. So 259 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.200 she got up, came out, grabbed the shotgun on her way, 260 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.799 unlocked the doors and let them in. They were telling her, hey, 261 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:13.679 we didn't see any sign of bear. There was a 262 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:15.840 hairy man outside. What she saw was a hairy man, 263 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.240 not a bear. She didn't want to say that in 264 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.159 front of the kids. She didn't want to startle them 265 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.840 or whatever. But now that the other adults came, they 266 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.080 brought it up and so the kids were super freaked out. 267 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:28.519 Nothing else happened during her trip there. She went back 268 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.879 once since then, since she graduated college some years later. 269 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.360 She said her grandma's house is no longer there. There's 270 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.639 a few other homes that were what she would call 271 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.480 landmarks of the village that are no longer there. There 272 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:43.759 were some newer hut homes and stuff like that, but 273 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.840 she hasn't been back since that one trip. I want 274 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.039 to thank Tina for reaching out because it was hard 275 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.159 for her. It was the first time she shared it. 276 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.000 I thank her for coming forward. I wanted to share 277 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:59.039 with you. Comes from We'll just we'll call them Caleb. 278 00:13:59.559 --> 00:13:59.919 Caleb. 279 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.039 He just got back from an attempted moose hunt. It 280 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.399 was an attempted hunt because of what I'm going to 281 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.600 share with you. He got a hold of me night 282 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.919 before last when he called me, he had just gotten 283 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.039 in from this experience and was pretty freaked out. So 284 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.159 I had him explain what happened, and I had him 285 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.759 called back after he calmed down a little bit, just 286 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.039 so he didn't glass over any details, because a lot 287 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:26.919 of people will get caught up and not remember everything immediately. 288 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.639 So after a couple of conversations he got back hold 289 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.039 of me. Now what happened with Calebs is he borrowed 290 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:38.120 his stepdad's four wheeler. He had been to the spot 291 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.240 south of the Naley Highway once or twice, not far 292 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.279 from Swede Lakes. It's a place of many encounters actually, 293 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.799 so he went back in there and he went alone. 294 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:53.320 He realized almost immediately the folly in that thought, that 295 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.639 wind of thinking of I could do everything alone. He 296 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.600 was a younger guy, and he fully admitted he took 297 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.759 on more than he could chew alone. 298 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.799 Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll be 299 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.600 right back after these messages. 300 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.519 He drops down to the north fork of the Gulcana 301 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.919 from that high ridge on the Sweet Lake side, which 302 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.120 would be the north side of the north Ford. Once 303 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.759 he gets down to the bottom that basically starts at 304 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.360 shanty Town, he said there wasn't as many people there 305 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.279 as he initially thought there was going to be. What 306 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:29.840 he did is he crossed and started going out towards 307 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:33.919 the Alphabets. Now, he said, once he came up onto 308 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.840 the upper Plateau from the little valley there, this little 309 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.759 upper plateau, you know, well basically the Alphabet Mountains, which 310 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:45.320 are a series of really high buttes. And he gets 311 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.840 up in there and he decides he's going to wheeler 312 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.960 back up to one of these buttes camp at the 313 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.600 bottom of it, because the last time he was there 314 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.840 he saw activity as far as game in that area. 315 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.120 He spotted a couple of bull moose from that perch, 316 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.879 many Cariboo, and so he decided that's what he was 317 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.919 going to do. He had it all figured out in 318 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.320 his mind. So he gets back up in there. This 319 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.759 is a journey that took multiple hours. It's not like 320 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.080 he just unloaded and all of a sudden he was 321 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.759 right there. No, it's quite a journey, multiple hours by 322 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.919 four wheeler. The weather had been utter shit. He finally 323 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.840 gets back up in there, he got himself a fire going. 324 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:27.679 It was just after dark. Once he got basically set up, 325 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.240 he was just using a little two man pop tent. 326 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.879 He was going light, just get in and out was 327 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.399 his thought process. So he goes to bed that night 328 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.080 after eating and tending to the fire a little bit 329 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.039 where he was. It wasn't raining horribly hard, so he 330 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.360 tried to set up the fire. 331 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:45.960 To where it would burn all night at. 332 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.639 Least to have some embers in the morning to rekindle 333 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.639 the fire easily instead of fighting. 334 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.799 A bunch of wet wood. So he went to sleep. 335 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.080 He said, he doesn't know what time it was exactly 336 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.159 when he first heard the initial noise that woke him up. 337 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.320 He said it sounded like something big walking along the 338 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.319 rocks near where he was, and it immediately woke him 339 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.960 up because he was scared of bears. He sits up 340 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.039 and he listens, and he tries to figure out what 341 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.799 exactly he's hearing. So as he's sitting there thinking about 342 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.200 it and trying to listen, he decides he grabs his flashlight. 343 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.640 He's using a seven millimeter mag He unzips a tent 344 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.319 and goes out and starts beaming around. Doesn't see anything 345 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:28.000 now when he steps out of the front of the tent. 346 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:33.079 To his immediate right is the beginnings of this basically 347 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.720 sheer drop from it's actually a wall beside him of rock, 348 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.440 and to his left it drops down little steps like 349 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.440 a declining rise, down to the alders and willows. So 350 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.039 he looks off to the left. He sees nothing at first, 351 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.240 and he's panning back and forth, and he could. 352 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:52.839 Hear a real low grunting. He said. 353 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.839 The grunting reminded him almost like an elk when it 354 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.880 initially gets startled. But we don't have any elk cup here, 355 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.000 at least not in that area. 356 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:00.240 Yeah. 357 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.799 I know there's some of the Roosevelt heard down southeast 358 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.839 and whatnot, and some over by a Kodiak on Raspberry 359 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.400 Island or whatever, none up here. So he's confused and 360 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.839 he doesn't know what to make of it. So he figures, Okay, 361 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.160 it must be a moose sound I've never heard. They're 362 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.559 going into the rut. That's probably something along those lines. 363 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.839 So he just he looks around a little bit. All right, 364 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:23.839 you know what, I'm gonna rekindle this fire. Since i'm 365 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.000 up anyway, I can get an earlier start than what 366 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.519 I was going to. So he gets a fire going, 367 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.359 gets it nice and bright, and he's warming up some 368 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.920 coffee and doing some various things getting ready. He has 369 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.079 his rifle laying on the rear rack of the four wheeler, 370 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:40.839 which is five feet from the fire, and as he's 371 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.400 sitting there, he's resting, leaning back against the rack. He 372 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.880 didn't want to hunt for his stump to sit on 373 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.559 that he had put behind the tent under some tarps 374 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.319 so didn't get wet. As he was sitting there, just 375 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.599 leaning against the rack and just be yawn and stretching, 376 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.240 sipping on some coffee, he hears this grunt again. So 377 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.079 he had his flashlight right beside him. He just immediately 378 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.519 turns it on and starts beaming around, and initially he 379 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:09.680 catches a little bit of eyeshine, and he said it 380 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.079 was just the slightest, almost like as soon as. 381 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.440 The light hit the eye, it shielded its view. 382 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.359 He thought that was weird because typically you'd be him 383 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.599 a moose or anything like that, we'll just look at you. 384 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.160 But again he just chalked it up to a moose 385 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.839 turning its head when he turned on the light. Now 386 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:29.200 he goes back over the fire and he's stoking the fire, 387 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.680 and he said, as he took about the second step 388 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.359 from the wheeler and was just leaning over to add 389 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:37.599 a piece of wood, he heard a. 390 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:39.680 Very low, guttural growl. 391 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.680 He said that the rocks he was standing on they 392 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.839 were broken up and stuff almost shale light. He said 393 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.480 he felt the growl in his feet when he felt 394 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.559 that growl, he said, it was barely audible, but you 395 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:57.880 could feel it. And so immediately he plunges back, grabs 396 00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:59.640 a hold of his rifle off the rear rack, and 397 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:02.240 he starts beaming around again. This time he sees the 398 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:06.480 eye shine again, but about fifty yards further away and 399 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.559 just at the edge of the realistic use of his beam. 400 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.839 The lumens of his beam didn't have enough candela to 401 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.720