Speaker 1: Now one of your putty. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here something just because my dog. Something killed your dog.
Speaker 2: My dog.
Speaker 1: We're flying through the or over the tree. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm really confused.
Speaker 1: All I saw was my dog coming over the fence
Speaker 1: and he was dead. And once you hit the ground, like,
Speaker 1: I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my
Speaker 1: dog coming over the fence. Set what are you putting?
Speaker 1: We got some wonder or something crawling around out here?
Speaker 1: Did you see what it was? Was? It was standing enough.
Speaker 1: I'm out here looking through the window now and I
Speaker 1: don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Chraice,
Speaker 1: you better hello, get somebody out here. Quent on out there.
Speaker 1: I thought of a bit about sixty nine.
Speaker 2: I don't know easy him out there, yeah right, oh hey,
Speaker 2: greetings Fred and Alaska.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2: What I wanted to share with you today comes from
Speaker 2: Nathaniel and Teresa. Nate and Teresa, they're in their seventies. Okay,
Speaker 2: they've been married really long time, like over forty years
Speaker 2: something right around in there. They used to homestead and
Speaker 2: remote Alaska down towards Copper River, Valley. Now it wasn't
Speaker 2: in Copper River Valley proper, but it was in that direction.
Speaker 2: They had sold out to some family members and they
Speaker 2: didn't want the place put on blast. I respect it now,
Speaker 2: going back in time, when they first started a homestead
Speaker 2: in this place, it took them a number of years
Speaker 2: to get things logistically laid out. They had to get
Speaker 2: the road in access road, they had to clear in
Speaker 2: some of the lot so they could build, and it
Speaker 2: was a process. But over the course of those initial
Speaker 2: years there was a lot of strange things that they
Speaker 2: didn't know what the hell was causing it, with stuff
Speaker 2: coming up missing, different things just showing up being random places.
Speaker 2: A couple of the tree stumps were ripped out of
Speaker 2: the ground, and Nate specified that the ones that were
Speaker 2: ripped out of the ground were the ones that were
Speaker 2: cut off higher because at one point he was going
Speaker 2: through with the cat and some of the trees he
Speaker 2: was just cutting off his eight foot He had intended
Speaker 2: on using those stumps as beginnings of a lean two
Speaker 2: shed for firewood and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: He was just pre planning and doing his thing.
Speaker 2: He said, there was a couple of those over the
Speaker 2: first few years that ended up getting ripped out of
Speaker 2: the ground and turned upside down with the roots exposed.
Speaker 2: He was like, who in the hell's doing this? How
Speaker 2: the hell did they rip it out with ball and
Speaker 2: all yeah and turn it upside down? It was like
Speaker 2: and there was no mechanical marks. There was you know,
Speaker 2: other heavy equipment signed in the area.
Speaker 3: So he was just it was like, what the hell?
Speaker 2: But things like that were happening and he had no
Speaker 2: answer for you, and what do you do with that shit?
Speaker 3: And from what he was saying, there was a multitude
Speaker 3: of things.
Speaker 2: Screams in the mo He said those were the most
Speaker 2: jarring because it reverberated through the whole place, made it real,
Speaker 2: like what the hell's going on?
Speaker 3: Which I could totally understand.
Speaker 2: That's some jarring to the system, especially when there's not
Speaker 2: any wheelhouse about the Harryman. Okay, they're not alasking natives,
Speaker 2: but they're alasking. So when things end up coming to
Speaker 2: a head, all right, they're about seven years in and
Speaker 2: there's things happening here and there. It's nothing constant, continuous,
Speaker 2: but enough happens often enough to where it's like, what
Speaker 2: the hell's going on? And so they started asking some
Speaker 2: of the people they were meeting that live nearby near
Speaker 2: glenn Allen and some other places, Lake Louise and what
Speaker 2: have you. Has anyone else's experienced this? Do you know
Speaker 2: of anyone doing any hyjinks out here or whatever? And
Speaker 2: one Native man pulled them aside at one point they
Speaker 2: were coming out of the lodge there eating at Lake
Speaker 2: Lucille and told them, hey, you got to be very careful.
Speaker 2: The Harryman will cause problems, are vindictive. You got to
Speaker 2: be careful. And Harry, what is this? It wasn't in
Speaker 2: their wheelhouse, So he broke it down for him and said, hey,
Speaker 2: is what it is.
Speaker 3: You'd believe me or not.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're dealing with it, so you look at your
Speaker 2: evidence and get real. And so after explaining it to
Speaker 2: him and everything, they were like, wow, that's crazy. At
Speaker 2: the same time, they had stuff happening at their place
Speaker 2: and they could not account for it whatsoever. So they
Speaker 2: were leaning more towards it being in reality because at
Speaker 2: the time they hadn't seen anything, no visuals, no, not
Speaker 2: in just strange activity. Within a month of having this conversation,
Speaker 2: Teresa went out in the morning. They had started their
Speaker 2: chickens and all that right when she went out to
Speaker 2: the coop. This was early spring, it was plenty of daylight.
Speaker 2: She always carried a shotgun because there was some bear
Speaker 2: activity and stuff. They weren't horribly far from the Copper River,
Speaker 2: salmon NERVs.
Speaker 3: There's bears.
Speaker 2: It was Alaska, over forty thousand plus brown bears everywhere.
Speaker 2: So she goes out carrying a gun was religious because
Speaker 2: of these natural predators and whatever have you.
Speaker 3: It wasn't for the Harryman per se.
Speaker 2: But as she goes out, the chicken coop's about sixty
Speaker 2: feet off the front steps of this little house that
Speaker 2: they built, and as she's walking towards.
Speaker 3: It, she looks up.
Speaker 2: As she's looking, she notices something behind it that shouldn't
Speaker 2: be there. Okay, because when you're going out, you know
Speaker 2: your property. You know when there's something out of place,
Speaker 2: something extra. There's some extra, and it was a lot extra.
Speaker 2: What ended up happening is as she's looking at it,
Speaker 2: she stops and just without even thinking, it was like autopilot.
Speaker 2: She unslings the shotgun, is holding it. It clicked the
Speaker 2: safety off. From when she clicked the safety, it came
Speaker 2: out from behind the coop right and Now, the roof
Speaker 2: of this coop is.
Speaker 3: One sided roof. It was at least ten foot.
Speaker 2: Now this thing was roughly, from her guestimation, a couple
Speaker 2: of feet taller. So in essence, she saw a rounded
Speaker 2: off head and shoulders right, no neck, it appeared, but
Speaker 2: it was silhouette because of how the light was coming
Speaker 2: up and the sun was coming up and everything, and
Speaker 2: so it came out and when it came out from
Speaker 2: behind there, it was looking right at her, and that's
Speaker 2: when she swung the shotgun up and it took off.
Speaker 2: It ran to her left, and she's following with the shotgun,
Speaker 2: and she didn't know what the hell. She was scared,
Speaker 2: and she popped a shot off in the air like
Speaker 2: in that direction, but not trying to hit it. No,
Speaker 2: sooner she takes that shot. Nate already coming out of
Speaker 2: the house right he comes out. He's in his boxers,
Speaker 2: he's cussing and fussing, and he's got another rifle seven
Speaker 2: million meter mag and he comes out, is what the hell,
Speaker 2: where's it at? Where's that he's sinking bear? And of
Speaker 2: course he wants to protect his wife. He's not going
Speaker 2: to play that shit. Well, Nate said, when he came
Speaker 2: out and saw her standing facing the coop, about half
Speaker 2: the distance between the house and the chicken coop, about
Speaker 2: twenty five thirty feet away. She was looking off to
Speaker 2: the right, so he turned and looked at the right,
Speaker 2: and he saw it hit the trees, come circle back
Speaker 2: around and stop.
Speaker 3: It made noise going in, he said. But when he was.
Speaker 2: From his perspective up on that porch, when he was
Speaker 2: looking at the top of the stairs, he saw it
Speaker 2: loop back.
Speaker 3: Around, made noise going in.
Speaker 2: Then it went dead quiet, and he watched it come
Speaker 2: and get low to the ground in the brush where
Speaker 2: she couldn't because from her perspective is all brush and
Speaker 2: trees over there. From his perspective, he saw because being
Speaker 2: earlier in the year, it hadn't all that undergrowth, hasn't bloomed.
Speaker 3: And taken over. The undergrowth hadn't just walked all the view.
Speaker 2: And so as this is going on, he's watching, and
Speaker 2: he starts yelling at Teresa, get in the house and
Speaker 2: get in the house, and he's aiming the rifle over
Speaker 2: that way, and he says, I see you, I see you.
Speaker 2: This thing realizes it's being spoken to and then looks
Speaker 2: over it and it stands up right, because he watched
Speaker 2: it crawl behind the brush and then saw it coming
Speaker 2: through the brush towards the front edge of it, and
Speaker 2: was watching Teresa like in an ambush position to see
Speaker 2: what she was gonna do. Ran in noise, dead quiet,
Speaker 2: even crawling up. He said, he didn't hear a thing.
Speaker 2: He yelled at it, and when it looked back up
Speaker 2: at him from the brush, he said, immediately he recognized, oh,
Speaker 2: he's holding the gun at me. Jumped up right. And
Speaker 2: when this thing, he said, when this thing jumped up,
Speaker 2: it blew the bushes apart and took off into the trees.
Speaker 2: Now as that's happening, Teresa's already on her way back.
Speaker 2: She heard this grumble growl bushes when she immediately turned
Speaker 2: swing to the shotgun that way and start pumping and
Speaker 2: dumping boom boo, and Nate's yelling at her, stop shooting, and.
Speaker 3: So she stopped. She's what does that? Comes running up,
Speaker 3: passes him, gets in the house.
Speaker 2: Slam the door before Nate can get back inside, right
Speaker 2: behind her, and he's pounding let me and let me
Speaker 2: indemn it. And so she came back unlocked the door
Speaker 2: because in her panic she shut and locked the door,
Speaker 2: and poor Nate would standing out there. But anyway, nothing
Speaker 2: funny about it. But I'm just envisioning marry couple and
Speaker 2: getting the door slammed the face and locked out, especially
Speaker 2: with what was happening. But anyway, so they get into
Speaker 2: the house, they retreat in there, they lock everything up.
Speaker 2: They screwed this dresser up in front of the door
Speaker 2: because they didn't know what this thing was going to do.
Speaker 2: And it just so happened that on that side of
Speaker 2: the cabin that was where the biggest windows were, it
Speaker 2: was oriented in such way that they could see that
Speaker 2: tree line easily from any of the windows on that side.
Speaker 2: So Nate took up position, had the window open, had
Speaker 2: the rifle ready, and was scanning the area.
Speaker 3: They were hyped up.
Speaker 2: They started remembering what that old native guy was telling
Speaker 2: them about the harry Man and how they can be
Speaker 2: vindictive all this other stuff and watch out for their
Speaker 2: small animals and dogs and things of this nature. So
Speaker 2: after that calms down, some time passes a few months
Speaker 2: and they're into the throes of summertime and the front
Speaker 2: of theirs has a fish wheel, so they're processing fish.
Speaker 2: They're doing the homesteading thing, right, they're jarring up preserves
Speaker 2: and getting the garden going, and it.
Speaker 3: Just homestead life, just day to day life.
Speaker 2: Trust me, they hadn't forgotten shit about what had happened
Speaker 2: with the chicken coop and everything, because they'd end up.
Speaker 2: What had happened was is they lost about half their
Speaker 2: chickens during that episode. The aftermath when she finally went
Speaker 2: back on checked half the chickens were gone. There's a
Speaker 2: bunch of feathers and blood back behind the coop because
Speaker 2: on the back side is where they would breach in
Speaker 2: and grab the eggs listening and just went through just
Speaker 2: snatching the mouth and tear them up.
Speaker 3: Theyan forgot that.
Speaker 2: So what they did after that and over the course
Speaker 2: of the summer and doing their garden and building stuff,
Speaker 2: is they put up a nice big fence around that
Speaker 2: coop and they went and got a mass stiff dog.
Speaker 2: So the dog was only kept in there when they
Speaker 2: would be brought out and put on a chain every
Speaker 2: once and whatnot, but it wasn't allowed to run off.
Speaker 2: The dog Over time got used to being in that area. Now,
Speaker 2: not a whole lot of time has transpired, okay, because
Speaker 2: we're going into the fall after that initial spring when
Speaker 2: shit hit the fan and they had the visual and
Speaker 2: the chickens died. So coming into that fall they had
Speaker 2: this dog now and everything right, and the fence is
Speaker 2: built and all that.
Speaker 3: Even though the dog's a puppy, it's pretty large.
Speaker 2: It's massive and they get big quick, being an adolescent
Speaker 2: pupp basically, it was still.
Speaker 3: Learning and it happened to be on the chain.
Speaker 2: This one morning, it was getting to the end of September,
Speaker 2: Nate went out was like, all right, we're going to
Speaker 2: put you in the fence because he was just having
Speaker 2: a weird feeling all morning. He said the energy was off.
Speaker 2: There was something in the air. He just couldn't quite
Speaker 2: place it. But he was like, I'm going to get
Speaker 2: you put back behind that fence. So he gets a
Speaker 2: dog put away. They don't go anywhere without someone being
Speaker 2: armed or gunn very nearby. Over this time as well,
Speaker 2: they also cleared out a bunch of the brush and
Speaker 2: the underbrush and limb the trees up to six foot
Speaker 2: some foot high so they have further view into the trees, right,
Speaker 2: which smart thing to do anyway, And that morning gets
Speaker 2: the dog put away and it's coming back into the house,
Speaker 2: and he's looking towards his house and off to the
Speaker 2: right hand side of it, back to the back end
Speaker 2: of the clearing that had a big old burn pit
Speaker 2: back there, and there was still some smoldering going on
Speaker 2: because there were burning stumps and stuff like that. And
Speaker 2: he noticed something big back by that burn pit, and
Speaker 2: it was like, what the hell is that amount of dirt?
Speaker 2: Because the coloration of brown, he thought it was a
Speaker 2: mound of dirt, and he was like, did we move
Speaker 2: fresh dirt over there? He was trying to like, why
Speaker 2: is there brown dirt? So he takes a seven millimeter
Speaker 2: mag off his shoulder and clicks his safety off because
Speaker 2: again the energy was off.
Speaker 3: He couldn't understand.
Speaker 2: And another thing he remembered in hindsight was the way
Speaker 2: the dog was acting when he unchanged. The dog was
Speaker 2: happy to see him as usual, but it was a
Speaker 2: little extra anxious. So when he unleashed it and brought
Speaker 2: it and put it in the fence, it couldn't scurry
Speaker 2: in fast enough. And typically the dog wanted to play,
Speaker 2: wanted to bounce around and get attention, did and it
Speaker 2: went in there quick, and so it was that was
Speaker 2: playing in his mind the odd feeling, and so he
Speaker 2: starts walking back there, and as he's walking past the house,
Speaker 2: the windows were open, and he yells up at Teresa, hey,
Speaker 2: you grab your gun and come here. And so in
Speaker 2: the meantime, the shotgun was still there, but he got
Speaker 2: Teresa thirty out six right, and so she comes out
Speaker 2: with a rifle and.
Speaker 3: Is following him.
Speaker 2: She's about twenty feet behind him as he's walking towards
Speaker 2: the burn pile. The burn pile's a good seventy feet
Speaker 2: back past their house, and as he's walking towards it,
Speaker 2: you got to understand there's smoldering and stuff going on,
Speaker 2: so it's obscurre in his view. But as he's getting closer,
Speaker 2: he notices this brown what he thought was a mount
Speaker 2: of dirt, fresh dirt because of the coloration, started moving
Speaker 2: real slow and then dropped lower and then started moving fast.
Speaker 3: So immediately gun up.
Speaker 2: He's looked the hell and they watch it, and it's
Speaker 2: like doing that spider cral thing. Now, from where that
Speaker 2: burn pit was approximately about one hundred and twenty feet
Speaker 2: to where it's opened, they cleared a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff back and that was back towards where their gardens.
Speaker 2: They're building a larger garden and a greenhouse in the feet.
Speaker 2: But this scene cleared that one hundred and twenty his
Speaker 2: feet in no time. And they just they watched it happen.
Speaker 2: They're like, what the hell that was? Like it freaked
Speaker 2: him out. So they retreat back in the house. Teresa
Speaker 2: grabbed the dog first, brought the dog with into the house.
Speaker 2: Right they could lose chicken, and she didn't want to
Speaker 2: lose the dog. So as they're in the house and
Speaker 2: they're talking to each other, about twenty five minutes had passed,
Speaker 2: and it reached out to the local neighbors that they've
Speaker 2: become really close with and stuff, explain what had happened.
Speaker 2: The guy, the neighbor guy was going to be on
Speaker 2: his way shortly, had just gotten moving and what have you.
Speaker 2: So they got back up coming and other potential witnesses
Speaker 2: to see what's happened to try to help them.
Speaker 3: As they're sitting there and he just.
Speaker 2: Got off the phone, Teresa brought over some more coffee,
Speaker 2: and so he was just pouring his coffee and right
Speaker 2: beside him where his kitchen the table was. So if
Speaker 2: you go the doors in the middle of the house.
Speaker 2: There's a window off to the side when you step in.
Speaker 2: From what he was saying, it's thirty five feet going back.
Speaker 2: There's one room that was built into the back left
Speaker 2: side as you're standing facing in, there's three windows that
Speaker 2: run along that side, and between the first window and
Speaker 2: the second window is a kitchen table because right inside
Speaker 2: the doorway, right off to the left is the kitchen
Speaker 2: counter area.
Speaker 3: And then immediately off to the.
Speaker 2: Right, because he was twenty feet wide, was refrigerator, stove
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So they maximizing space and storage
Speaker 2: and whatnot. And again, rustic build. It wasn't the Todd mall.
Speaker 2: That's not how it goes down. So where he was
Speaker 2: sitting at the table between the two windows, dam something
Speaker 2: smacked the outside of the wall really hard, so hard
Speaker 2: as he was porn of coffee, he dropped both broke
Speaker 2: the coffee pot, spilled coffee all over himself. But he
Speaker 2: was in such like shock of what was going on
Speaker 2: that didn't face him at first at first. And so
Speaker 2: immediately Teresa's looking out the window because she was closest
Speaker 2: to that first window as you come in the door,
Speaker 2: and she's like, it's out there, it's out there, and
Speaker 2: so he jumps up and runs over the second window,
Speaker 2: meanwhile grabbing his rifle that was leaning against that wall
Speaker 2: right behind him. Slid over and fell, but he picked
Speaker 2: it up, ran the other one, slit it open. And
Speaker 2: this thing was about fifteen feet away, walking away, and
Speaker 2: stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see, will be
Speaker 2: right back after the east messages. And he said the
Speaker 2: way it was walking was with such confidence and was
Speaker 2: so wide and so thick. He said, it was real muscular.
Speaker 2: The hair was it was even, but it wasn't like
Speaker 2: real thick. He could see to the skin and it
Speaker 2: was like a not all the way black, but that
Speaker 2: ashen gray. And I asked him if it was like
Speaker 2: a couple of shades darker than wet cement, and he
Speaker 2: said not quite. So it was about the color of
Speaker 2: wet seamen in like an off gray. And as he's
Speaker 2: watching it, he could see and it's that dirt brown hair,
Speaker 2: like the reddish brown, and it's walking away with such confidence,
Speaker 2: and so as he's aiming the rifle, he's like stuck
Speaker 2: because he's seeing.
Speaker 3: It full getting a really good look at it.
Speaker 2: He said, as it was walking, it stopped and turned
Speaker 2: all the way around and faced him when I got
Speaker 2: about twenty five three feet away. As he's looking, Teresa's
Speaker 2: not immediately on his mid because she's obviously inside in
Speaker 2: a safe place, but she had opened the other window
Speaker 2: and she has a thirty odd six. He's not even
Speaker 2: thinking about that because he's trying to figure out he's
Speaker 2: looking at this thing.
Speaker 3: And he said it looked at him and just gave
Speaker 3: him this glare. How dare you like? He was the
Speaker 3: most disgusting thing in the world.
Speaker 2: And Nate was like, what the hell because it was
Speaker 2: all happening so fast, and all of a sudden, damn,
Speaker 2: Teresa's shoots this thing right and she shot it in
Speaker 2: the gut. Immediately it tumbled down, jumped up, took off
Speaker 2: poem and the gun shot startled Nate and he had
Speaker 2: a negligent discharge boom.
Speaker 3: He just squeezed.
Speaker 2: He wasn't even aiming at it, he just had the
Speaker 2: gun up out the window, but it ended up popping
Speaker 2: a shot too, didn't hit nowhere closer to the creature,
Speaker 2: but it takes off right after it took.
Speaker 3: The gun shot, and just file for the next five nights.
Speaker 2: The neighbor shows up a little while later, but within
Speaker 2: a couple hours, they hear this howling, this howling way
Speaker 2: off in the distance. He guesstimates some mile ish away,
Speaker 2: a mile and a half because his sound moves weird
Speaker 2: in the wilderness. But the neighbor's hearing it too, and
Speaker 2: they're explaining everything that happened to the neighbor, and neighbors
Speaker 2: a holy shit, we've seen a couple of them, but
Speaker 2: they never did anything like what's happening with you, guys.
Speaker 2: And so they talked for a while. But five days,
Speaker 2: every so often this scream and hollering would be going
Speaker 2: off off in the distance. And after the second third
Speaker 2: day of this five day period, they started getting calls
Speaker 2: backers right, there's started being more and more sounds around.
Speaker 2: After that five day period of that craziness going on,
Speaker 2: and more and more answered calls back and forth, this
Speaker 2: thing reappeared and they knew it was the same one
Speaker 2: because it's gut you could see the dried blood. Its
Speaker 2: attitude was real bad, which I mean they shot him,
Speaker 2: Oh of course, yeah, it's gonna have a shitty attitude
Speaker 2: about that. But what they did was is they went
Speaker 2: out there and they both pointing guns at it. They
Speaker 2: were yelling their dog, the puppy because they came out,
Speaker 2: Teresa didn't fully shut the door all the way and
Speaker 2: the dog is after so much going on, the dog
Speaker 2: got desensitized and whatnot and got very protective of Teresa.
Speaker 2: So dog comes flying out behind them, starts barking. Teresa
Speaker 2: immediately holds her gun up and just calling the dog back.
Speaker 2: The dog comes back to her because she had been
Speaker 2: training it. Dog comes back to her. But it's just
Speaker 2: it's once after this thing, and may's let's get back
Speaker 2: in the house because they're going to both go out
Speaker 2: and just open fire on this thing. We're not going
Speaker 2: to live in terror and be trapping her own house.
Speaker 2: We're going to just drop it. But they didn't because
Speaker 2: of the dog coming out interrupting things. They retreat back
Speaker 2: into the house. That's when the thing stood there for
Speaker 2: about roughly a half an hour. Meanwhile, when they're inside,
Speaker 2: Nate's on the phone with the neighbor again, and his
Speaker 2: neighbor was up and dressed and happened to have his
Speaker 2: truck already running.
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, he says, I'm on my way.
Speaker 2: So during the course of everything, just as a neighbor
Speaker 2: They can hear him coming down the access road that
Speaker 2: they cut in, which is a cat cut road and gravel.
Speaker 2: They could hear the neighbor of falling ass. Well, this
Speaker 2: thing just turns and walks off into the trees. The
Speaker 2: neighbor comes pulling up next to the house, talking from
Speaker 2: his truck window to their window, and he was like,
Speaker 2: is walked over that way?
Speaker 3: He walked over that way.
Speaker 2: The neighbor had an fal right pulls up over where
Speaker 2: the flower beds and stuff were for the garden. A
Speaker 2: little raised beds pulled up beside there and had his
Speaker 2: window down just open.
Speaker 3: Fire. Boom boom dumped his twenty round box mag in
Speaker 3: that thing.
Speaker 2: All they heard was screaming and hollering, just thrashing the
Speaker 2: movement going away.
Speaker 3: He didn't shoot at it.
Speaker 2: He shot a tree off near where this thing was,
Speaker 2: just nonchalantly walking like it on the place. So a
Speaker 2: neighbor backs up, pulls back up to the house, runs inside,
Speaker 2: rings his gun and extra ammal with them. They discuss
Speaker 2: everything that happened. They were like, did you shoot it?
Speaker 2: Do we need to go and put it out of
Speaker 2: his misery? And he was like, no, I shot the
Speaker 2: tree that was near it just to get it moving,
Speaker 2: and they're like, we went out just a little bit
Speaker 2: ago to kill this thing.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so they just let it go.
Speaker 2: After that, the neighbors stuck around for most of the day,
Speaker 2: hanging out, just gonna be there for him. They're gonna
Speaker 2: handle business, and it comes back. Nothing ever happened after that.
Speaker 2: It went quiet, nothing was disturbed, nothing got funky, that
Speaker 2: the energy wasn't off. And for a number of years
Speaker 2: after that, nothing not a peep, until shortly before they
Speaker 2: sold the property to some family members who were well
Speaker 2: aware of everything, the history of everything. Only the last
Speaker 2: couple of years that they lived there that in the
Speaker 2: spring in the fall they would hear Howl's way off
Speaker 2: in the distance and they recognized that tone as that creature.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I came out and to sitting there drinking coffee. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to laugh, Nate, I'm not trying to make fine.
Speaker 2: I'm just envisioning poorn coffee and then bam and spilling
Speaker 2: all that hot coffee on yourself. He ended up with
Speaker 2: like second degree burns on his thighs. That's not funny.
Speaker 2: I'm just the whole vision of that, in my mind
Speaker 2: is like I had to chuckle because Nate chuckled when
Speaker 2: he was telling me when he was looking out the
Speaker 2: window at this thing, and all of a sudden, Teresa
Speaker 2: cracks a shot with a thirty odd to six.
Speaker 3: He says, scared the shit out of him, which I
Speaker 3: could rully understand.
Speaker 2: He's lost in a trance and then bam, I could imagine.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm going to thank Nate and Teresa for sharing that.
Speaker 2: God bless them for stepping forward, especially being of that
Speaker 2: age where back in the time where they weren't so
Speaker 2: keen on sharing. But I appreciate them sharing that. What
Speaker 2: I wanted to share with you today comes from Jacob.
Speaker 2: Jacob is from a small village on the coast of Alaska.
Speaker 2: He's still there and there's still some ongoing things, and
Speaker 2: he didn't want specifics on his exact location, which is irrelevant.
Speaker 3: That's final me.
Speaker 2: It's all about the behaviors prior to something going crazy.
Speaker 2: Jacob has rad dogs most of his life, grew up
Speaker 2: around him and everything like that, and over the years
Speaker 2: it's dwindled down to where they're not so prevalent. He
Speaker 2: only has a couple dogs around the house and they've
Speaker 2: transferred over to mainly using snow machines to do the
Speaker 2: running around. Where they have to go to get firewood
Speaker 2: is thirty five forty miles at minimum to go and
Speaker 2: collect firewood, and a lot of times they'll all pitch
Speaker 2: in and get a barge a little wood.
Speaker 3: Brought in and use it like that.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so Jacob and his cousin right up their
Speaker 2: snow machines because it was approximately three years ago, and
Speaker 2: they headed out to just get firewood, pretty basic stuff.
Speaker 3: And as they get out to the area.
Speaker 2: Where they're going to be clicking this firewood, they're looking
Speaker 2: around for beetlekill and some sap trees.
Speaker 3: Comes to that nature.
Speaker 2: As soon as they get into the area, they start
Speaker 2: snow machining around, making tracks, packing the trail down because
Speaker 2: they've come across a little group of trees that they figure, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll whack and stack these ones and be on our way.
Speaker 2: So him and his cousin are doing this, going around
Speaker 2: in a circle. As they're doing so, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: he's paying attention to what he's doing. He's steering the
Speaker 2: snow machine and trying to stay on trail and pack
Speaker 2: it down and As he's coming around, he almost hits
Speaker 2: the back end of his cousin sled because his cousin
Speaker 2: had stopped. He looks up and he's yelling to get
Speaker 2: his cousin's attention, but his cousin had already pulled his
Speaker 2: rifle out of his scabbard and it's aiming it off
Speaker 2: in the distance. He can't see what his cousin is
Speaker 2: seeing the way the trees and everything were set up,
Speaker 2: so he kills a snow machine. He grabs his rifle
Speaker 2: out of the scabbard and comes and joins his cousin,
Speaker 2: and his cousin's telling them, hey, over there, it's right
Speaker 2: over there. And Jacob was like, what's right over there?
Speaker 2: Are you thinking of wolves? Maybe something like that. He
Speaker 2: steps up onto the sideboard on the snow machine, and
Speaker 2: his cousin's pointing his rifle in the direction. That's when
Speaker 2: Jacob sees it in between these two trees, the big, dark,
Speaker 2: hulking figure. He gets me it's about ten foot tall,
Speaker 2: because the spruce trees that they were dealing with were
Speaker 2: about twenty five is feet tall, and so knowing that,
Speaker 2: he was like, what the hell is that?
Speaker 3: And his cousin said harry Man.
Speaker 2: He wasn't arguing at that point because obviously it was
Speaker 2: a harry Man, and so as the Havid in this
Speaker 2: little standoff. Jacob said that all of a sudden they
Speaker 2: heard a very sharp, crisp, loud whoop from behind them,
Speaker 2: and he.
Speaker 3: Said it was so powerful it startled him.
Speaker 2: They both whipped around and there was nothing there, and
Speaker 2: then they turned back around and the other one was gone.
Speaker 2: So they're sitting there. His cousin's snow machine is still
Speaker 2: running and stuff. His cousin's yelling, let's get out of here,
Speaker 2: let's go. Jacob wasn't disagreeing at all, so he goes
Speaker 2: back over to this machine, fires it up. His cousin's
Speaker 2: leading the way back out the way they came, he said.
Speaker 2: Once they cleared the tree line, his cousins circled around
Speaker 2: big and came back and was facing back towards the trees,
Speaker 2: and so he followed too, pulled up beside him, and
Speaker 2: they're both looking now. They were riding with their rifles
Speaker 2: across their laps. So his cousins standing up with his
Speaker 2: rifle and he's aiming through the scope, looking through trying
Speaker 2: to spot what they were just looking at a minute ago.
Speaker 2: Think of it as that they were looking in the
Speaker 2: wrong area. Initially, they were looking at their tracks as
Speaker 2: they came out. Now, when they went into the woods,
Speaker 2: they went in a little ways and then they hooked
Speaker 2: hard off to the right, and everything happened further off
Speaker 2: to the right. But they're looking back, just straight ahead
Speaker 2: on the tracks they came out and went in and
Speaker 2: came out on. Jacob said that when he started scanning
Speaker 2: over to the right, that's when he saw one of them.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: The one he saw was shaking a tree, and that's
Speaker 2: one of the things that caught his t He said.
Speaker 2: The tree was just like going back and forth, and
Speaker 2: it started cracking. The more and more of the harder
Speaker 2: swing it went, the louder it was cracking. That caught
Speaker 2: his cousin's attention, and he moves his cope over that direction.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it stops right Because Jacob wasn't
Speaker 2: looking at it through his rifle or anything.
Speaker 3: He was just.
Speaker 2: Looking with his naked eyes. He wasn't holding his rifle
Speaker 2: up like his cousin was. But when his cousin swung
Speaker 2: his rifle direction, it stopped, and this thing moved in
Speaker 2: between the trees, moving back and forth. His cousin was like,
Speaker 2: I've seen it. I've seen it. It looks like a man.
Speaker 2: And Jacob was like, wholla, we should just get out
Speaker 2: of here because the last thing we need is to
Speaker 2: be dealing with a harry man. And he's in shock
Speaker 2: because he's heard stories and had relatives share certain encounters
Speaker 2: and stuff over the years, but he didn't dismiss it
Speaker 2: or discounted or not believe him. It was one of
Speaker 2: those when I see it with my own eyes, not
Speaker 2: that I don't believe you, but when I see it
Speaker 2: with my own eyes. So now he's in shock over
Speaker 2: what the hell.
Speaker 3: His cousin was like, we gotta go, we gotta get
Speaker 3: out of here.
Speaker 2: They need firewood, right, So it was I know, let's
Speaker 2: just go around this and go further about another five
Speaker 2: ten miles. There's another spot. We can click wood, avoid
Speaker 2: these things over here and still accomplish a mission. And
Speaker 2: his cousin was like, hell no. But Jacob of course
Speaker 2: to him to say, come on, we got we need
Speaker 2: the firewood. We got to keep our families warm, and
Speaker 2: his cousin couldn't really argue there, so out of necessity
Speaker 2: only and not out of necessarily desire. So they take
Speaker 2: off heading to this other area. Now, from what Jacob said,
Speaker 2: the whole time they were on their way to this
Speaker 2: next area where they were going to be colleckeding the
Speaker 2: firewood and stuff, there was weird noises and snow machines
Speaker 2: are loud. I don't know if you guys have ever
Speaker 2: been on two stroke snumb machines, and even four strokes,
Speaker 2: they're loud, they're moving, they're engines. So as his cruising along,
Speaker 2: he would hear noises every once in a while. But
Speaker 2: at this point they're in wide open tundra, snow just everywhere,
Speaker 2: snow the trees that they were dealing with before or
Speaker 2: far behind them. But he kept hearing these noises and
Speaker 2: he couldn't make it out as he was driving along
Speaker 2: at helmet on and everything. When they get up to
Speaker 2: this other area, his cousin stops shy up going into
Speaker 2: the trees for obvious reasons. He didn't want any kind
Speaker 2: of accidentally run into one of these things or.
Speaker 3: Anything like that.
Speaker 2: Right as they get up to this tree line, his
Speaker 2: cousin stops and he pulls out his rifle, and he's
Speaker 2: standing there and he goes, I don't know, maybe I
Speaker 2: should just stand watch when you cut the trees, load up,
Speaker 2: and then we'll switch and we'll do it like that.
Speaker 3: And so he agreed made sense.
Speaker 2: Jaco's like, yeah, let's do it like that, and so
Speaker 2: they decide that's the best course of action. So when
Speaker 2: Jacob pulls up, he doesn't go far into the trees
Speaker 2: at all. He just pulled around right there along the
Speaker 2: front edge, and they dropped a couple that were beetle
Speaker 2: killed right there at the edge, and then there was
Speaker 2: a few others spotted and darted back in between there.
Speaker 2: And so he went through and his cousin was right
Speaker 2: there behind him, constantly looking as he's dropping these trees.
Speaker 2: He goes through and he limbs them and he starts
Speaker 2: bucking them up into about six foot sections. Now he
Speaker 2: goes through and he bucks them all up for because
Speaker 2: he's not going to just continue running the saw back
Speaker 2: and forth, turn on off and on all that. So
Speaker 2: he just runs through, bucks it all up, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, he's getting the first load. He's got
Speaker 2: one six foot log on his shoulder. He's just packing
Speaker 2: it back out, putting it on the sled, moving the
Speaker 2: straps out of the way and stuff like that. His
Speaker 2: focus was getting the woods so they can get out
Speaker 2: of there. All of a sudden, he hears his cousin's
Speaker 2: rifle go off.
Speaker 3: Boom.
Speaker 2: Just startled the shit out of him. He said he'd
Speaker 2: never been startled like that in his life. He wasn't
Speaker 2: expecting it. There was no warning, no nothing, just bam.
Speaker 3: Gunshot.
Speaker 2: Two whips around, and his cousins had worked the action
Speaker 2: on the rifle, on the bolt action, and is like
Speaker 2: panning to his right, shoots again.
Speaker 3: Damn. And he starts screaming, hey, well, what's going on?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? And his cousins like it was
Speaker 3: over there, It was over there, It was looking up.
Speaker 2: Something like he was gonna throw it at me, and
Speaker 2: that's when I shot. So Jacob had nothing to say
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: What do you do? You know, we're going to defend yourself.
Speaker 2: After a second shot and they have that little discussion,
Speaker 2: they hear thrashing and crashing, and he said, did you
Speaker 2: hit it?
Speaker 3: And he goes, my first shot, I think I hit
Speaker 3: it real good.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, way off in the distance, because
Speaker 2: these noises that were being made as this thing took
Speaker 2: off to the trees after the second shot and everything
Speaker 2: he said. It was demonic sounding, it was loud, it
Speaker 2: was powerful, and it was just on this weird kind
Speaker 2: of level where they felt it through their whole body.
Speaker 2: Even though it didn't seem like overly loud like a scream,
Speaker 2: it was very powerful and way off in the distance
Speaker 2: they heard a scream, like a real loud like air
Speaker 2: raid siren type scream, and boom. They're like, lisz, get
Speaker 2: the hell out of here. So with just the two
Speaker 2: logs that he had loaded up, he's trying to strap
Speaker 2: them down so they don't fall out, and he's getting
Speaker 2: a saw loaded up and everything like that, and his
Speaker 2: cousin's fired up his snowb machine. Jacob jumps into his
Speaker 2: and fires it up. Now they've been running for a while.
Speaker 2: One of the issues was his cousin's snow machine typically
Speaker 2: would overheat, and there was an older Skindy we call
Speaker 2: him Skid. Don'ts stay tuned for more sasquatch out to
Speaker 2: see we'll be right back after the east messages, so
Speaker 2: he had to stop as soon as they were turned around.
Speaker 2: They hadn't gone anywhere yet really, so as soon as
Speaker 2: he's turned around. All of a sudden, his cousin, snumb
Speaker 2: Mashine is overheating, so he's killed it, popped the calling
Speaker 2: he stone snow upon it, and Jacob was like, don't
Speaker 2: cool it down too quick, you'll crack the block. They're
Speaker 2: having this discussion, but in the background, in the trees,
Speaker 2: there's this wicked noise.
Speaker 3: Going on, and Jacob said it.
Speaker 2: I almost sounded like death rows, but he wasn't sure
Speaker 2: because he didn't see his cousin shoot it. He didn't
Speaker 2: see where it was hit or anything of that nature.
Speaker 2: According to what his cousin was telling him when he
Speaker 2: was trying to cool off the snum machine. Because Jacob
Speaker 2: started questioning m like, hey, what the hell was it doing?
Speaker 2: He said it lifted up a log and was acting
Speaker 2: like he was going to throw it at me. And
Speaker 2: he goes, what kind of log? And he goes a
Speaker 2: look like aspen or something in the birch. Random questions.
Speaker 2: He wasn't like interrogating him. He was just trying to
Speaker 2: get information As they're having that discussion.
Speaker 3: He asked him, are you sure you got a good
Speaker 3: hit on it? He goes, yeah, I shot it good
Speaker 3: in the chest.
Speaker 2: He said that when the bullet hit because he when
Speaker 2: he fired through the scope, he was only he only
Speaker 2: had a two seventy.
Speaker 3: But he said when he put.
Speaker 2: The scope back because of recoil, as soon as he
Speaker 2: got it back in position, he saw it leaning forward
Speaker 2: a little bit and he could see a patch of
Speaker 2: the hair missing from where it hit upper chest. And
Speaker 2: he said that's when it turned and and that's when
Speaker 2: he's seen it holding that log again and it took
Speaker 2: off running, and that's when.
Speaker 3: He took that follow up shot.
Speaker 2: So with that information, he saying there wondering, man, I
Speaker 2: wonder if this thing's over here dying. We're heard the
Speaker 2: screen from back wherever. We got to get a call
Speaker 2: for help. We can't just be sitting here. We gotta
Speaker 2: get going now. Understand, in the wintertime in Alaska, he
Speaker 2: only have sat amount of hours where there's daylight, and
Speaker 2: then you're traveling in the dark. We will get real sketchy,
Speaker 2: real fast. Like I say, it gets real fast right now.
Speaker 2: And so they finally close off his machine. They're going
Speaker 2: back and forth about he's going to follow his cousin
Speaker 2: so his cousin's machine doesn't overheat on him, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't know it because he's hauling ass. He said, he's
Speaker 2: going to follow his cousin and they're just gonna go.
Speaker 2: They're gonna go back to the village. So they get
Speaker 2: on their way. Now, on their way back, they have
Speaker 2: to go right back past where they initially had the
Speaker 2: first encounter and decided to go elsewhere. As they were
Speaker 2: going getting close to that area, his cousin's snow machine overheated.
Speaker 2: At this point, Jacob said his cousin needed to jump on,
Speaker 2: get in the sled or jump on the back of this.
Speaker 2: We're not staying. We'll come back for that. We'll come
Speaker 2: back for the machine. His cousin agreed. It's getting dark,
Speaker 2: the sun is set and it's getting the dusk, and.
Speaker 3: They're in a very bad area.
Speaker 2: So his cousin jumps on with him, has his rifle
Speaker 2: across his lap, and they take off right left a
Speaker 2: snow machine there. Took the perdinance stuff, saw and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff with him through it in the sled.
Speaker 2: But they take off. They get back to the village.
Speaker 2: There's no problem, nothing else happen. They just haul an ass.
Speaker 2: They got there the following morning. His cousin was going
Speaker 2: holl he wants this snow machine. Doesn't want to leave
Speaker 2: it out there in the village. You don't leave your
Speaker 2: assets just everywhere. You got to go right back and
Speaker 2: get it. And so Jacob was like, hell, yeah, the
Speaker 2: clear out the sligh this, grab everything and we'll bring
Speaker 2: tools and make sure you got what you need. So
Speaker 2: they take off out of there. It's just as it
Speaker 2: got light enough outside right now. They shake off. They
Speaker 2: got traveling to do. So once you get back towards
Speaker 2: the area, they're not seeing a snow machine where it
Speaker 2: should be standing out by itself, just a little ways
Speaker 2: off this tree line. It should be standing out in
Speaker 2: the snow. They're not seeing it, and they're seeing bits
Speaker 2: of something. So as they get closer, it's just getting
Speaker 2: light enough outside where they can easily see. When they
Speaker 2: get closer, the snow machine isn't there. There's bits and
Speaker 2: pieces of it and it's been drug over into the trees.
Speaker 2: He said, is twisted up beat the shit. It was
Speaker 2: upside down and there wasn't much salvaging on it. Everything
Speaker 2: was the tunnel of the track. Everything was just torn apart,
Speaker 2: torn apart. They never found the sid that was attached
Speaker 2: to it. They found a couple of little binding pieces
Speaker 2: for it on the way over to the tree line.
Speaker 2: So his cousin lost his snow machine. It was cooked,
Speaker 2: no and they could do. What they did attempt to
Speaker 2: do is savage it, get it out of there. They
Speaker 2: didn't want to contaminating the woods or whatever. But as
Speaker 2: they were then they're trying to wrestle this destroyed snow
Speaker 2: machine in pieces and put it on the sled and
Speaker 2: try to strap it down and try to drag it back.
Speaker 2: They heard this tremendous growl, and he said, this growl
Speaker 2: was so powerful that it almost made him lose control
Speaker 2: of his bladder. He almost wet himself because it was
Speaker 2: so powerful and just immediately hit him in his spirit,
Speaker 2: he said, and it freaked him out. His cousin was
Speaker 2: already armed, so they stopped wrestling the snow machine and
Speaker 2: they just left it. They decided they would tend to
Speaker 2: it another time with more people, so they got the
Speaker 2: hell out of Dodge. Eventually went back. It was a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks later with three or four other the villagers.
Speaker 2: Everything was fine. They got all the junk out of there.
Speaker 2: I want to thank Jacob for reaching out sharing that
Speaker 2: I know it's been hit and miss, but I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: Jacob getting over this viral pneumonia bullshit.
Speaker 3: And it was miserable, but it'll be all right. Keep
Speaker 3: your eyes and ears out.
Speaker 2: We'll cut you guys on the next one.