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Speaker 2: Now, what are your reporting? I got a string going
Speaker 2: on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to
Speaker 2: kill your dog, my dog. We're flying through there, over
Speaker 2: the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn,
Speaker 2: I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
Speaker 2: over the fence, and name was dead once you hit
Speaker 2: the grill. I didn't see any cars. All I saw
Speaker 2: was my dog coming over the fence. Happen? What are
Speaker 2: you reporting? We got some wonder or something crawling around
Speaker 2: out here? Did you see what it was? It was
Speaker 2: enough out here. Look, I'm new to the window now and
Speaker 2: I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Speaker 2: Jesus quiney, charl see hello, get somebody out here? What
Speaker 2: quin announced their? I's thought of a bitch of about
Speaker 2: sixty foot nine? I don't know, easy announcer. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: looking right away.
Speaker 3: M hmm.
Speaker 4: Greetings. Thank you for joining me today. What you just
Speaker 4: listened to that opening minute eight seconds or whatever. The
Speaker 4: first thirty two to thirty four seconds is the original,
Speaker 4: and I got it on a loop to where it
Speaker 4: plays the amplified version in the last thirty four seconds
Speaker 4: of that. Just to illustrate, I had to have my
Speaker 4: tech guy pull out the generator of background noise isolate
Speaker 4: those noises so you can actually hear what. We'll give
Speaker 4: her the name of Miss Sally, what she heard that
Speaker 4: day when she recorded it. Now, obviously those weren't al
Speaker 4: hoots because al's if you notice, for she hooted back
Speaker 4: in the amplified portion, you could hear one just go.
Speaker 4: Owls don't do that. They just don't. Not that I've
Speaker 4: ever heard. That comes from the Delta Clearwater River up
Speaker 4: in the interior. It's just an example of that alhut
Speaker 4: high pitch whistle, al hoot, the scream. Hear a lot
Speaker 4: about the scream. I'm working on a couple of encounters
Speaker 4: with some people from the village that had some pretty
Speaker 4: horrifically horrible things going on. I'll pre warn people, but
Speaker 4: it involves dogs being killed and some other stuff, pretty
Speaker 4: horrible shit. The video comes from Miss Sally. Like I said,
Speaker 4: she lived up in the Delta Clearwater area. She didn't
Speaker 4: specify exactly when that was recorded, but it was either
Speaker 4: between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen ish, give or take.
Speaker 4: She was unavailable to go over some of the finer
Speaker 4: points of what happened during her ordeal up there, So
Speaker 4: I'm going to give you what I have already pre
Speaker 4: apologize to her if I get some things out of Lye. Chronologically,
Speaker 4: it started in December twenty fifteen. Her and her boyfriend
Speaker 4: at the time. She was in a rental house there
Speaker 4: right on the river. They had their own personal hot
Speaker 4: tubs set up on this little knoll next to their rental,
Speaker 4: not twenty five feet away. If that they get into
Speaker 4: the hot tub, they're enjoying it cold minus ten. I
Speaker 4: don't get into hot tubs in that temperature. I don't care.
Speaker 4: It's the getting out that's the hard part. As they're
Speaker 4: sitting there trying to relax or whatever, they hear this
Speaker 4: high pitched scream type whistle coming from the river roar
Speaker 4: type scream whistle. Unless you've heard it, it's hard to explain.
Speaker 4: It is loud on multiple octaves all at once. It's jarring.
Speaker 4: It'll jar your system. Even if you hear it a
Speaker 4: mile away, something will strike you inside. They heard that,
Speaker 4: and what the hell, what the hell is this? A
Speaker 4: rock gets thrown, bounces off of the hot tub. Her
Speaker 4: dogs would not go out use a bad She would
Speaker 4: typically let them out the back door. They wanted no
Speaker 4: part of going out the back door towards the hot tub.
Speaker 4: You got to understand, they're approximately seventy five feet off
Speaker 4: the river. I'm not far from the river. From that
Speaker 4: video footage, you could tell they're not far from the river.
Speaker 4: That's not a pond, that's just a slow moving river.
Speaker 4: Dogs won't go out back. She has to force them
Speaker 4: out the front to the bottom of the stairs. They
Speaker 4: won't leave the bottom of the stairs. They handle their business.
Speaker 4: Not too many days later, she notices fresh tracks and
Speaker 4: the snow going towards her power pole. She figured meter
Speaker 4: reader went over there to read, but then at Donna onder,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, the meter is not over there, that's
Speaker 4: just the pole. Upon investigating, she noticed in line tracks
Speaker 4: going right down the bank of the river and disappearing
Speaker 4: along the bank of the river. Just sorryings, tracks and
Speaker 4: whoops and haulers as their time goes on. There she's
Speaker 4: dealing with things like that, and of course the recording
Speaker 4: that you guys heard the al hoots. On top of that,
Speaker 4: she had made mention that she was really paying attention.
Speaker 4: She said it seemed like activity would ramp up around April,
Speaker 4: die off over the summer, and ramp up again into
Speaker 4: the fall. Rocks being thrown in the river, all the
Speaker 4: al hoots, the screams. In twenty seventeen, her and her
Speaker 4: boyfriend bottle land bout half mile upriver from their rental.
Speaker 4: They're clearing a lot. As they're clearing a lot, there's
Speaker 4: rocks being thrown. There's more hoots, whistles, high pitch whistles,
Speaker 4: the dogs acting unlike themselves. Anytime these things come around,
Speaker 4: they just wouldn't act like themselves. The hardest part was
Speaker 4: the rock throwing thing, because it was random. They get
Speaker 4: it built on what have you. They no longer live there.
Speaker 4: I didn't get a straight answer on whether it was
Speaker 4: because of these things are just life circumstances separated them
Speaker 4: from the area. Thank you, miss Sally for sharing that
Speaker 4: audio making it available for us to check out so
Speaker 4: people can get an idea of what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: When we say the imitation ol hoots, there's no mistaking
Speaker 4: what you're hearing. Once you're hearing something imitate an owl,
Speaker 4: it's not a bear imitating an owl to lure in
Speaker 4: an owl to get and none of that crap. Only
Speaker 4: these things do that. Just keep that in mind. I
Speaker 4: got a report of recently a guy coming back from
Speaker 4: snow machining up off the Donaley Highway. He had some
Speaker 4: trailer issues. One of his tie downs came loose. He
Speaker 4: stopped and he was approximately he said, about two miles
Speaker 4: from Paxson, coming from the Donaley's side towards the Glen
Speaker 4: Allen side, going towards the Richardson Highway. As he stopped
Speaker 4: to check his trailer because a couple of people were
Speaker 4: honking and flashing. He looked was tighthounds messed up. So
Speaker 4: he gets out immediately. When he stops his truck, a
Speaker 4: couple other people pass him. He waits for it to
Speaker 4: be cleared. He waited till he was on a straight stretch.
Speaker 4: Smart guy. He doesn't want to be on the bend
Speaker 4: of somewhere and someone come around the corner in the
Speaker 4: snow and slide into him. So he's being responsible. Well,
Speaker 4: he waits for the traffic and he hops out. He
Speaker 4: goes back and he's ondoing a little sense strap and
Speaker 4: a little ratchets deal getting things cinched back down. He
Speaker 4: gets this eerie feeling like he's being watched. So he
Speaker 4: looks around to see if there's a snow machine or
Speaker 4: park somewhere, just you know, taking a break watching him.
Speaker 4: He didn't see anything. He turns around to directly behind him,
Speaker 4: there's scrubbrush and a couple of the black spruce that
Speaker 4: are starting to get up into the hills there. He
Speaker 4: gets a creepy feeling. It's just he's just scanning the
Speaker 4: tree lined so he turns on and goes back to
Speaker 4: what he was doing. Alho, very similar to what the
Speaker 4: amplified version of that audio was, but he said it
Speaker 4: was much louder. He said it would have been like
Speaker 4: something a thousand pounds plus imitating an owl. He felt
Speaker 4: it in his body, the woo. He said, he felt
Speaker 4: a stirring in his spirit. Something told him he needed
Speaker 4: to pray right. So he's doing his ratchets strapped thing.
Speaker 4: He starts praying out loud, Lord Jesus, please help me.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on, but I don't feel right.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: Sooner that he says that, he hears al hoots and
Speaker 4: a whoop, and he turns around and he sees something
Speaker 4: dark in those trees moving away up the hill. And
Speaker 4: as it's moving away up the hill, it's letting out
Speaker 4: this weird scream, like that xylophone weird sound, and it's
Speaker 4: breaking stuff as it's moving away. One of the things
Speaker 4: he said stuck out to him was after the initial
Speaker 4: hoots that he felt and he got quiet and started
Speaker 4: to pray. It got dead quiet everywhere, he said. At
Speaker 4: one point he could hear snow machines off in the
Speaker 4: distance and stuff. But he said, in those moments, everything
Speaker 4: got dead quiet. He said his prayer, and then he
Speaker 4: said it out loud, and then noise erupted in this
Speaker 4: thing moved away. Just food for thought. That to me
Speaker 4: speaks volumes again. Thanks miss Sally. Truck driver with the
Speaker 4: snow machines, what we'll just call him Chuck. Thank you
Speaker 4: Chuck for sharing that. He just wanted anonymity. He didn't
Speaker 4: care if I shared what happened. He just basically helped
Speaker 4: me out to get a pinpoint on the map so
Speaker 4: people are aware. That's another thing. Check out the map,
Speaker 4: the interactive map. Getting around to an update of Vincent
Speaker 4: Wassly's experience. When I initially had shared his experience up
Speaker 4: up the Cayagilic River, I hadn't spoken to his sister
Speaker 4: personally since the video uploaded, I've had a chance to
Speaker 4: speak to her. He dug out some photos from a
Speaker 4: year or two after with the tracks and the tundra
Speaker 4: and whatnot, which is at the beginning of this video.
Speaker 4: Also a little screenshot of the map on exactly where
Speaker 4: the location was. Separate from Vincent's experience, I also heard
Speaker 4: from some different villagers about some very picking incidences. So
Speaker 4: back in twenty eleven, in the fall, Vincent, his sister, Grace,
Speaker 4: and another relative they went out moose hunting. They were
Speaker 4: a good distance away from the village. What ended up
Speaker 4: happening is Vincent didn't eat that day. So where they
Speaker 4: ended up shoring up on the river bank. He decided
Speaker 4: to go up on the tundra, find a berry patch
Speaker 4: and eat some berries. He was about one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty two hundred feet away from the river bank whereas
Speaker 4: sister and cousin were. As he starts to pick berries,
Speaker 4: he hears this long drawn out He says, it sounded
Speaker 4: like a cow moose call, just drawn out. He realized
Speaker 4: after hearing it that moose don't make that kind of
Speaker 4: long drawn out noise. Bears sure, don't a man. A
Speaker 4: person just isn't capable that long and that loud, because
Speaker 4: he said it echoed around the lake, which if you
Speaker 4: look on the map, it's a fairly large lake. But
Speaker 4: as he was sitting there eating his berries, he came
Speaker 4: to the conclusion of it probably a hairy man, and
Speaker 4: he got freaked out. While that was going on, his sister, Grace,
Speaker 4: and their relative were up on this little rise off
Speaker 4: in the distance. They saw what, she said looked like
Speaker 4: something tall and skinny and brown. She was expecting it
Speaker 4: to be a moose. This thing was going up the
Speaker 4: rise a little ways, like at a forty five degree angle,
Speaker 4: and coming back down by this tree. She kept expecting
Speaker 4: it to turn broadside see the moose, but it didn't.
Speaker 4: After watching it a little bit, she realized it was
Speaker 4: a hairy man going back and forth. She said, it
Speaker 4: looked like it was looking for something, because it would
Speaker 4: come down by this little tree and just stand by
Speaker 4: the tree like it was looking at the tree for something,
Speaker 4: and then it would go right back over to where
Speaker 4: it was just real odd behavior, she stated. Her cousin
Speaker 4: didn't say much different as far as that was concerned,
Speaker 4: but once vincent gets back to the skiff from where
Speaker 4: he was, they just kept it on the hush because
Speaker 4: Vincent was a little freaked out by it. Totally understandable
Speaker 4: for something to make that loud of a noise at
Speaker 4: that distance, for it to echo around. These are native villagers.
Speaker 4: They know their area. Just look at the map. They
Speaker 4: go around there all the time without a map. They
Speaker 4: know their area, they know what's in it, they know
Speaker 4: where to go for berries for fishing. When Vincent gets
Speaker 4: back to the skiff asked, hey, did you guys hear that,
Speaker 4: they left it alone and said no. When Vincent until
Speaker 4: about a week or so later, heard a similar sound
Speaker 4: on a Bigfoot show, he was like, that was it.
Speaker 4: And that's when his sister and cousin came forward and said,
Speaker 4: we heard it too, but you were freaked out and
Speaker 4: we didn't want to keep you going kind of deal,
Speaker 4: which is totally understandable. Something to understand about a lot
Speaker 4: of natives. They don't typically share these things. So I'm
Speaker 4: very thankful to Vincent for coming forward and be willing
Speaker 4: to share, because there's a lot of natives that want
Speaker 4: to remain anonymous, which I totally understand. They have to
Speaker 4: live there, regardless if everyone knows it's there, there's still,
Speaker 4: for some reason, there's still this It's almost like a
Speaker 4: shame type of deal, even though it's not anyone's fault
Speaker 4: any of these experiences that I've shared with you guys,
Speaker 4: it's no one's fault that they were put in that position.
Speaker 4: Separate from Vincent, in twenty twenty one, there was a
Speaker 4: group of women and children near the same area that
Speaker 4: a year or two after that experience Vincent had with
Speaker 4: his sister and cousin. They were further up the I
Speaker 4: believe he said it was a Johnson River near the
Speaker 4: Kowskag Mountains, and that's where the track came from. They
Speaker 4: thought it was a bear track initially, they followed it
Speaker 4: through the brush to the opening, saw what kind of
Speaker 4: track it was. Tracking was over. If you look at
Speaker 4: those tracks, the amount of weight to break through to
Speaker 4: the soil that's immense, So you're talking thousand pounds plus.
Speaker 4: I doubt if all three of them that were there
Speaker 4: at the time jumped on each other's back, they could
Speaker 4: have impressed the ground that deeply. Very compelling stuff. I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's a lot of other villagers with a whole
Speaker 4: lot of stuff out there. It just doesn't get shared around.
Speaker 4: We might see a blip on Facebook here and there,
Speaker 4: but typically because immediately people will start saying they're fake
Speaker 4: or whatever. Most natives they just don't post just because
Speaker 4: of the ridicule. And I don't blame them. Why I
Speaker 4: put yourself out there just to be shot down or
Speaker 4: made fun of or called the liar. Things of that nature.
Speaker 4: Separate from Vincent. These other villagers in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: They were approximately three point six miles outside of the village.
Speaker 4: There was a group of women and children. The males
Speaker 4: that were in the party were off berry picking. The
Speaker 4: women and children were in this one area near the gifts,
Speaker 4: doing their thing, hanging out.
Speaker 1: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. Well,
Speaker 1: be right back after these messages.
Speaker 4: Way off in the distance, they see this dark thing
Speaker 4: moving backwards and forwards. One of the first things asked
Speaker 4: to an elder is do we look that tall at
Speaker 4: that distance? Because it was a younger person in the group.
Speaker 4: They all said no, So they all start watching this thing.
Speaker 4: It's just going back and forth. I asked if there
Speaker 4: was any creepy feelings, and it was more of a
Speaker 4: curiosity thing, because I think the distance alleviated the immediate fear.
Speaker 4: This went on for a while. They wanted to holler
Speaker 4: and get the attention of the guys that were in
Speaker 4: the group just down a ways, but they didn't want
Speaker 4: to draw attention to the people bury picking, pretend give
Speaker 4: the hairy man a reason to look after him, or
Speaker 4: basically didn't want to draw attention to the berry pickers,
Speaker 4: so they just stayed quiet. Once the people made their
Speaker 4: way back to the skiff, they pointed out they all looked, well,
Speaker 4: this thing came and dropped down in the tundra. Whether
Speaker 4: it was hiding or disappeared somehow, they couldn't tell because
Speaker 4: of the distance, but it was definitely not a villager.
Speaker 4: It was too big. I'm just mentally envisioning this scene
Speaker 4: moving back and forth and then dropping down in the tundra.
Speaker 4: There's little drops, it's very uneven on the tundra. You'll
Speaker 4: have little mounds, you'll have smaller rises with maybe some
Speaker 4: black spruce, all this kind of thing. So it's a
Speaker 4: very terrain. Even though it may look flat on a map,
Speaker 4: that's not the case. Once you get down to the ground,
Speaker 4: you got the spongy moss, the tundra, the berry bushes.
Speaker 4: It's a bumpy terrain. This thing had just dropped down.
Speaker 4: It was either hiding or something else. All they know
Speaker 4: is that it disappeared. My first thought when I heard
Speaker 4: that was the spider crawl deal. Some creepy shit. Regardless,
Speaker 4: a lot of my fellow natives that share their experience,
Speaker 4: their integrity is such that if I missed up on something,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hear from Vincent on this, because out from
Speaker 4: the village, you need to know exactly what batcha tundra,
Speaker 4: what this and that is. There was another barry picker
Speaker 4: during that same thing where the one disappeared. Once they
Speaker 4: talked to this person later, which was right in the
Speaker 4: immediate area, just not right with the women and children
Speaker 4: and such. He had his own skiff and was doing
Speaker 4: his own thing, but near there he reported feeling watched
Speaker 4: and got creeped out and left out of there soon.
Speaker 4: So I didn't forget that part. Vincent almost did. My
Speaker 4: point being is very meticulous with the integrity of what
Speaker 4: they're sharing. If I missed anything, I'm sure I'll get
Speaker 4: a text or a call from Vincent. He'll set me
Speaker 4: straight on it. So I apologize ahead of time. Vincent's
Speaker 4: experience happened in twenty eleven. The following year or the
Speaker 4: year after, He's not quite sure sure was when they
Speaker 4: got the photos on the tundra. The last part of
Speaker 4: this experience happened to separate villagers in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: three point six miles away from the village. Vincent is
Speaker 4: reaching out to other villagers to see if they'll come forward.
Speaker 4: It can be tough just because of the amount of ridicule.
Speaker 4: There's people that will post on Facebook and immediately get
Speaker 4: ripped the shreds by others. It's really unfortunate because a
Speaker 4: lot of people doing that, dishing out the ridicule moren't
Speaker 4: likely have never gotten off their lazy ass and been
Speaker 4: out in the woods or anywhere remote. You got to understand,
Speaker 4: this is west of Bethel, north of Nunapitchuk. It's the
Speaker 4: epitome of remote. You can't get any more remote than that.
Speaker 4: I make a joke, and I say it jokingly, but
Speaker 4: you step off the road anywhere in Alaska, you're automatically remote.
Speaker 4: It's just how it is. We have moots that come through,
Speaker 4: we have bears that come through, fox you name it.
Speaker 4: There's wildlife everywhere. It's one of the few places like
Speaker 4: I know down in the States there's black bear problems,
Speaker 4: stuff like this deer will come in. But up here,
Speaker 4: when the wildlife comes through, it's wildlife. There's no tameness
Speaker 4: to a moose. A moose will stomp you to death.
Speaker 4: I got a moose that's been coming around for the
Speaker 4: past few days. I gotta make sure I watch out
Speaker 4: for the dogs. Go outside first and take a look
Speaker 4: around with the flashlight. Make sure there's not a moose
Speaker 4: betted down in your yard, because if you let your
Speaker 4: dogs out, they're immediately going to run towards the moose.
Speaker 4: Most is gonna stand up in Benji's life. You don't
Speaker 4: want that. That's an ugly scene. Trust me, you don't
Speaker 4: want that at all. Thanks to Vincent, thanks to those
Speaker 4: other villagers, I also encourage other villagers who have had
Speaker 4: experiences go ahead and share. I'll keep your name out
Speaker 4: of it. If you want the exact locations left out,
Speaker 4: I've already done that several times for others. But let's
Speaker 4: get these things shared with everybody so that way it's
Speaker 4: more known and less likely to run into ridicule in
Speaker 4: the future. Again, I'm gonna think Vincent. Although those others
Speaker 4: who have shared, I want to thank all my fellow
Speaker 4: Natives that have been reaching out sharing. I know it's
Speaker 4: not easy and I appreciate you coming forward again those
Speaker 4: who want to share and keep your name out of it,
Speaker 4: exact location out of it. I view it more public safety.
Speaker 4: So if you have something to share, just reach out,
Speaker 4: no judgment. Let me hear it. Even if I don't
Speaker 4: share it with others. It's good to get it off
Speaker 4: your chest, for one, but I'd prefer to be able
Speaker 4: to share with everybody under public safety. We all go
Speaker 4: out in the woods up here. Today's share is a
Speaker 4: perfect example of that. Doug first Nations his wife Claire.
Speaker 4: He's been living in Anchorage for the last fifteen years
Speaker 4: since he got out of college. Now, his adventure started
Speaker 4: not this last fall, but the year before, where he
Speaker 4: went hunting outside of his traditional homelands where he's used
Speaker 4: to hunting. They ended up in a very familiar place
Speaker 4: to me, which is south of the d Nale Highway
Speaker 4: along the north fork of the Golcana River. Would be
Speaker 4: south to Swede Lake, just north of the alphabet. Says.
Speaker 4: We call him the Alphabet Mountains on his hunting trip.
Speaker 4: That initially sparked his curiosity about the place. They had
Speaker 4: a great caribou hunt trip and he loved it. So
Speaker 4: he told himself when he made it back from that trip,
Speaker 4: I told his wife Claire that next year, I want
Speaker 4: you and his fifteen year old son to go with him.
Speaker 4: We'll just us three go. Because when he went, they
Speaker 4: saw a black bear, they saw some moose, and they
Speaker 4: saw the cariboos. So in his mind's eye, it was
Speaker 4: a relatively safe place. Of course, he'd go bloated for bear,
Speaker 4: so to speak. He got a good vibe about the
Speaker 4: area and what was going on. He felt totally comfortable
Speaker 4: that this last fall, taking Claire and his fifteen year
Speaker 4: old son back out there. Once they got to the
Speaker 4: hunting grounds, that parking lot was packed, very packed, a
Speaker 4: lot of trailers and everything, and so he was thinking
Speaker 4: the worse. He had invested money in new four wheel
Speaker 4: it won for his wife and son to ride on,
Speaker 4: went for him to tow basically their equipment. Just spend
Speaker 4: a good four or five, maybe even six days depending
Speaker 4: on how well it went out there. Well, he was like, yeah, dang,
Speaker 4: we're here, let's make the best of it. So they
Speaker 4: load up and it's a few hours, taking their time
Speaker 4: getting down to the north fork of the Golcna where
Speaker 4: they crossed again. Once you pass Swede Lake on this
Speaker 4: particular trail, you have to drop down to the north
Speaker 4: fork of the Gold Cana. They had gotten to the
Speaker 4: crest to drop down to the river at daylight. It
Speaker 4: was frosty. It was nerve wracking getting down there. New
Speaker 4: equipment to him, he's an avid four wheeler rider, but
Speaker 4: just learning the quarks of the new machine. His wife
Speaker 4: not being very experienced, so he had a lot of concerns.
Speaker 4: So he went down first with the trailer, and then
Speaker 4: they had a little handheld walkie talkies and he radioed up,
Speaker 4: come on down, ride the brake because it's a pretty
Speaker 4: steep drop. They get down there, they find a good
Speaker 4: crossing spot. It wasn't overly high because it hadn't been
Speaker 4: raining too much. They get a cross and it's shantytown.
Speaker 4: Anyone who's been there knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: If it looks like Somalia with all little shannies and
Speaker 4: little makeshift hunting sites, and it literally runs along the
Speaker 4: trail all the way up to the foothills of the alphabets.
Speaker 4: Damned sing I've ever seen so. Once they crossed, he decides,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be in shantytown. He decides he's
Speaker 4: going to head basically due west. He picked a trail
Speaker 4: that was not the best trail that went right along
Speaker 4: the river, and it'd been obviously not well used or
Speaker 4: anyone to maintain, so as he's going along he'd have
Speaker 4: to stop hack stuff down. It was work. So he
Speaker 4: finally gets to a spot and they cut across the
Speaker 4: tundra to the bottom of one of these buttes. Now
Speaker 4: out there, it's basically rolling hills. I don't consider o mountains,
Speaker 4: but whatever, big rolling hills and some of these butte
Speaker 4: like structures coming out of the tundra. He sees one
Speaker 4: off in the distance and says, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: I know right where to find the river. We won't
Speaker 4: get lost, easy to find camp at the end of
Speaker 4: the day. We'll go there. They break trail, find some
Speaker 4: old trails and fight through and finally get there. After
Speaker 4: getting well familiar with this winch getting unstuck in everything.
Speaker 4: They pick a spot basically on a small shelf, and
Speaker 4: there's other shelves above them. Going up this butte now
Speaker 4: where he picked, he scouted first. Once they got there,
Speaker 4: the wife and the boy, Claire and his son were
Speaker 4: eating lunch. They had premade some sandwiches or whatever, and
Speaker 4: he took a sandwich and went for a little walk,
Speaker 4: looking to make sure there wasn't big loose rocks, any
Speaker 4: kind of hazards that may come down on them. There
Speaker 4: was nothing. It was a shale like rock. Nothing to
Speaker 4: be concerned about as far as anything tumbling down on him.
Speaker 4: Satisfied with that, they break out camp now. He invested
Speaker 4: in a ten x twelve heavy duty canvas tent from
Speaker 4: Alaska Tent and Tark also bought a three four hundred
Speaker 4: dollars a little wood stove. He wanted his family to
Speaker 4: be comfortable because he was cold the year before and
Speaker 4: wasn't going to have that for his family. He wanted,
Speaker 4: you know, comfort, go hamping, as he called it. They're
Speaker 4: all set up. It's just past midday when they're fully
Speaker 4: set up, maybe closer towards evening. He doesn't remember offhand,
Speaker 4: because there's so much going on with unpacking and getting
Speaker 4: stuff right and all that. His wife, Claire starts cooking
Speaker 4: they brought a couple different ways to cook. One was
Speaker 4: to cook directly on the stove with the cast iron
Speaker 4: skillet or standard Coleman for burner. His wife's cooking on
Speaker 4: the four burner and they have it on the back
Speaker 4: of the kerfour wheeler. As she's cooking, he said, he
Speaker 4: kept carrying a weird, very sharp piercing whistle way off
Speaker 4: in the distance. It was the damnedest thing he ever heard,
Speaker 4: because it wasn't a whistle that he had ever heard
Speaker 4: in all of his years in Alaska. You know, he
Speaker 4: chalks it up till I'm from up north. It's probably
Speaker 4: just something I haven't experienced down here, and it just
Speaker 4: didn't happen last year for whatever reason. So he's dismissing things.
Speaker 4: It gets to a point of this whistling over time,
Speaker 4: it's not happening out of regular cadence. It sounds like
Speaker 4: it's getting closer, and he's this is the Dana sing
Speaker 4: and it sounds like it's okay. In that area, there's
Speaker 4: a small little bit of a valley from the north
Speaker 4: fork of the Gold Canna to the Alphabets. It's those
Speaker 4: a few beaver ponds. They got the river on the
Speaker 4: far side of the valley, various scrub rush and stuff,
Speaker 4: so he's thinking it sounds like it's coming from just
Speaker 4: up on our side of the valley, but who knows,
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a hunter. They're lost. They got a whistle
Speaker 4: to get someone's attention. So he's like, all right, since
Speaker 4: you're cooking, I'm gonna jump on my wheeler, since I
Speaker 4: had the more powerful four wheeler, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: go over that way, and I'm going to see who's
Speaker 4: whistling and they might need help. And his wife's all fours, yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead. He grabs his firearms, puts he had a
Speaker 4: four to fifty four cussole on his hip. I believe
Speaker 4: he just had a thirty out six rifle over his
Speaker 4: shoulder that our a three hundred win mag He had
Speaker 4: named both, but he said he brought one and I
Speaker 4: forget exactly which one. Anyway, high caliber rifle. He rips
Speaker 4: on out there, doesn't hear anything again, sees nothing, gets
Speaker 4: to a point where he just gets this overwhelming feeling
Speaker 4: he's being washed and gets the creeps. He said he
Speaker 4: wanted to flee his skin, so he followed his gut,
Speaker 4: turned around and went right back to camp. He only
Speaker 4: went back about a mile and a half. Once he
Speaker 4: gets back to camp, the food has been done. It's
Speaker 4: getting cool. His wife warms it up a little bit
Speaker 4: for him, and they all took into the canvas tent
Speaker 4: and he's looking over topographical maps on where he wants
Speaker 4: to take the three of them first light, go looking
Speaker 4: for these caribou because he had a few spots he
Speaker 4: had picked out the year before that. Oh, that would
Speaker 4: be a good spot kind of thing. He eats. They're
Speaker 4: all lounging around, just talking family stuff, just family talk.
Speaker 4: He went outside of the tent to use the bathroom.
Speaker 4: They brought one of those little five gallon bucket lovable loes.
Speaker 4: I actually got one over on my porch, basically a
Speaker 4: five gallon bucket with a makeshift toilet seat on the
Speaker 4: top that latches shut. They had one of those. So
Speaker 4: he went off to do his business. It's gutting on
Speaker 4: in the dark, about twilight. As he's sitting taking care
Speaker 4: of his business, he hears a scream. It sounded way
Speaker 4: off in the distance. He said. The scream gave him
Speaker 4: the shivers from head to toe. He didn't feel it
Speaker 4: was natural. He finishes his business and commences to set
Speaker 4: up a tarp around this little porta potter area for
Speaker 4: his wife's privacy. Trying to think ahead. Just Board really
Speaker 4: gets it all set up, goes back in the tent.
Speaker 4: Now it's on into full on dark. He said. It
Speaker 4: had been about forty five minutes had passed and darkness
Speaker 4: has set in. There's just the slightest twinge of twilight
Speaker 4: in the sky. He hears another scream that sounds like
Speaker 4: he's coming right up at the top of this butte
Speaker 4: that they're basically at the base of. And he was like,
Speaker 4: what the hell? He said. It was so ear piercingly loud,
Speaker 4: but yet low. It sounded like there was a couple off.
Speaker 4: There's one real high, one real low. It just reverberated
Speaker 4: across the valley. He was like, Wow, that's going to
Speaker 4: wake a lot of people up. As he's sitting there
Speaker 4: contemplating the scream, he starts thinking back to his childhood
Speaker 4: and stories of the Harryman. He thought to himself. Initially, No,
Speaker 4: there's young hunters out there whooping it up, partying. They'll
Speaker 4: calm down. So he dismisses that. About another hour, he said,
Speaker 4: goes by his son out of boredom, Battery's dying on
Speaker 4: his little handheld video game. Decides he's gonna go out.
Speaker 4: They were going to start a campfire, roast some marshmallows
Speaker 4: before calling it at night. He goes out, him and
Speaker 4: his boy. His mom's getting all the ground crackers and
Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff ready for the s'mores. They're
Speaker 4: building the fire and they hear another scream. This one
Speaker 4: sounded a little bit closer than the other scream, but
Speaker 4: he said it really spooked his son. His son didn't
Speaker 4: want s'mores anymore. He didn't want to be outside of
Speaker 4: the tent. He didn't even want to be there, but
Speaker 4: he especially didn't want to leave the inside of the tent.
Speaker 4: In his young mind, that was a false sense of security, basically,
Speaker 4: I get it. So as Doug is sitting there talking
Speaker 4: to his wife, because his wife heard it very clearly,
Speaker 4: comes out and goes another scream that's not a closer,
Speaker 4: and so they're discussing this. As they're talking about it,
Speaker 4: they had just gotten the fire going. He says, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna let this burn out. I'll watch it. I'll
Speaker 4: keep watching and keep listening. You guys can stay in
Speaker 4: the tent. Or whatever, and she goes, no, I'll sit
Speaker 4: out here with you for a little bit. So as
Speaker 4: they're sitting out there, he told her some of the
Speaker 4: hairy man stories he had heard, but he was still
Speaker 4: basically on the fence. He goes, I heard the stories
Speaker 4: and I met people that told them to me, but
Speaker 4: I haven't seen anything, so I don't know. They sit there,
Speaker 4: they do their thing. The fire dies down enough where
Speaker 4: he feels comfortable putting it out. They had limited fresh
Speaker 4: water with them and not an immediate water source to
Speaker 4: douse it, so he basically let it burn down a
Speaker 4: little more so he didn't have to use as much
Speaker 4: water to kill the flames. It had been not recently raining,
Speaker 4: but the ground was wet enough, but still just being responsible.
Speaker 4: As he's pouring the water and it's steaming and everything. Immediately,
Speaker 4: without the light of the fire, it starts getting real
Speaker 4: dark around him. He has to pause what he's doing,
Speaker 4: go on in the tent, put on a headlamp, comes
Speaker 4: back out with his headlamp. On is doing his thing,
Speaker 4: kicking around the little pieces of log left and everything.
Speaker 4: His wife and son were inside and they were reading
Speaker 4: some book together. As he's standing by the fire. He
Speaker 4: said he heard what he thought was a rock tumbling
Speaker 4: down the side of this butte through the brush. He
Speaker 4: got small willows and alders and stuff all through there.
Speaker 4: He was like, oh crap, there's a rock tumbling. I
Speaker 4: checked earlier. There was nothing loose. So he stopped and
Speaker 4: he's listening. He noticed that the sound wasn't coming directly down.
Speaker 4: It was going crisscross back and then forth with the noise.
Speaker 4: Once he started paying attention, it was easy for him
Speaker 4: to discern what direction the noise was going. It was
Speaker 4: something real heavy making, crashing and thrashing that happening. He
Speaker 4: gets this eerie feeling of being watched again. This time
Speaker 4: it's three times as bad, four times as bad as
Speaker 4: what he felt on his little four wheeler trip. He
Speaker 4: goes inside the tent, tells his wife keep a firearm
Speaker 4: near you. I don't know what's going on, but there's
Speaker 4: something big moving around just up the hill from us.
Speaker 4: His wife wanted no parts of that. Shoe was like,
Speaker 4: we'll lead this shit here, We'll get on the wheelers
Speaker 4: and we'll get out of here. He calmed her down
Speaker 4: and said, we can't necessarily do that safely in the
Speaker 4: dark and then cross the river in the dark. We
Speaker 4: can do it first light. She calms down. She grabs
Speaker 4: one of his firearms that he had brought for her
Speaker 4: to have protection if she stayed in camp or whatever.
Speaker 4: They had a king sized cot she's sitting on that.
Speaker 4: He's sitting on one end, but where the zipper for
Speaker 4: the door is. They're sitting there. They had a couple
Speaker 4: of those led lanterns on each side of the tent.
Speaker 4: Up at the peak. Doug and his wife Claire were
Speaker 4: discussing what they were going to initially bring on their
Speaker 4: way out in the morning. Doug was telling her who
Speaker 4: he was going to get help to come and retrieve
Speaker 4: all the stuff. As they were discussing it, their son
Speaker 4: was in the corner of this tent area on his
Speaker 4: sleeping bags, just leaned back reading this book, but he
Speaker 4: would look over and watch his parents. And as he
Speaker 4: was doing so, he notices movement on the tent canvas.
Speaker 4: Something was pushing it in and moving along on it.
Speaker 4: He immediately started pointing and was like, Hey, what's that, Dad,
Speaker 4: what's that? So Doug turns and looks and it's off
Speaker 4: to his side and it was just behind where the
Speaker 4: woodstove was. He saw the movement and said, hey, we're
Speaker 4: in here. Yells, and then here's stood and crashing into
Speaker 4: the brush. Everyone was freaked out. They ended up sitting
Speaker 4: in the center of the tent with guns nearby. His
Speaker 4: son knew how to shoot, so he made sure his
Speaker 4: son was armed. They were basically all back to back
Speaker 4: periodically looking for movement on the tent. They heard the
Speaker 4: thrashing in this sho when he said hey, we're in here.
Speaker 4: It was dead quiet. The rest of the night. None
Speaker 4: of them slept until just before dawn. His son fell asleep,
Speaker 4: Claire was starting to doze. Just as they were starting
Speaker 4: to doze off up that beaute from where they were,
Speaker 4: he heard that scream again. Immediately everyone's back up. That
Speaker 4: was the last thing they heard and saw nothing this
Speaker 4: whole time. They saw on nothing first, like comes they
Speaker 4: had the pertinent stuff. They wheelerd on out of there. Doug,
Speaker 4: I want to thank you for sharing. That not his
Speaker 4: real name. It was hard for him to share because
Speaker 4: it involved his wife and son in the situation. He
Speaker 4: has a different emotional reaction to that, that protective papa
Speaker 4: bear kind of thing, which I totally understand and respect,
Speaker 4: But it was hard for him to share it. It
Speaker 4: was hard for him because it made him feel less
Speaker 4: than even though he did all the right things and
Speaker 4: was a man about it in my opinion, but in
Speaker 4: the moment he said, he felt very little. I get it,
Speaker 4: you know again, thanks to Doug and Claire for sharing.
Speaker 4: Like I've said before, I like to speak to the
Speaker 4: people a few times just to catch little nuances of
Speaker 4: what goes on, to share it in the right light,
Speaker 4: so to speak.
Speaker 1: And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back after these messages.
Speaker 4: For those of you who live in Alaska, I've been
Speaker 4: talking to We'll say his name is Rick. I've been
Speaker 4: talking to Rick for about three months off and on.
Speaker 4: Not my buddy Rick, and mean this guy Rick. He
Speaker 4: used to run a little guide service just to rinky dink,
Speaker 4: just enough to get him by. He did it on
Speaker 4: the Nishgek River for approximately ten years. Why he stopped
Speaker 4: was over the course of that ten years he had
Speaker 4: four different experiences. First experience was by Sophie's landing. Second,
Speaker 4: same area keeper cutoff that little islands between Portage and
Speaker 4: Black Bluff. He basically had three sightings and weird sounds
Speaker 4: in this area. But the fourth one that got him
Speaker 4: to stop was a charter Someone paid for charter service,
Speaker 4: basically freight. The guy was going up to the molchat
Speaker 4: in a river. Now, this guy wanted to get dropped
Speaker 4: off up there for two months with contact and whatnot.
Speaker 4: Whenever he was in the area, Rick would go by
Speaker 4: or whatever. Let me start by sharing what initially happened.
Speaker 4: It was near Sophie's landing. He had a group of
Speaker 4: three people. They were fishing for nat kings. One of
Speaker 4: them caught one and had it on, and so everyone
Speaker 4: else reeled in their lines to not get it tangled,
Speaker 4: because those kings liked to fight and run around. So
Speaker 4: he was doing his thing. He drops the anchor because
Speaker 4: they were drifting down and he wanted to stay put
Speaker 4: because he knew a little further down there was a
Speaker 4: bunch of dead fall in the water where the sama
Speaker 4: could get caught. So he dropped the anchor. And as
Speaker 4: he's dropping the anchor and he's tying it off on
Speaker 4: the front cleet, one of his passengers says, there's a
Speaker 4: bear on the bank. They're about twenty five feet from
Speaker 4: the bank and the bank is about four feet taller
Speaker 4: than them. At that point, they were on the west channel,
Speaker 4: so don't worry about the bear. Were in the river,
Speaker 4: they can't get to us. He was just trying to
Speaker 4: call him a client and this person goes, that's not
Speaker 4: a bear. So he turns and looks and sees this
Speaker 4: black figure go from basically hunched over to standing up
Speaker 4: and walk off into the trees. And he was just stuck.
Speaker 4: He is that, what the hell was that. One of
Speaker 4: his clients is still fighting his fish at the time,
Speaker 4: so he just chalked it up. He goes, someone must
Speaker 4: be doing something in the woods or whatever. And the
Speaker 4: client that initially saw it was like, that's no bear.
Speaker 4: That wasn't a bear. Guy catches his salmon. They get
Speaker 4: out of the area that was into that one second.
Speaker 4: One those little islands, which is basically a bunch of
Speaker 4: different runoff spots for when the ice backs up and
Speaker 4: stuff the little channels through there. I've shared there was
Speaker 4: a guy whose neck got twisted up in the same area.
Speaker 4: Area is known for activity. He gets screamed at with
Speaker 4: a group of five clients. The second time. All they
Speaker 4: heard was a scream, but it was coming from up
Speaker 4: one of those sleus they were fishing for a northern pike.
Speaker 4: He didn't know what to make of it first time
Speaker 4: he had heard that and left it alone. Third sighting
Speaker 4: he had was on the opposite side of the river,
Speaker 4: just upriver from Portage. On the Portage side where the
Speaker 4: high bluff comes down basically cuts back down the river level,
Speaker 4: which is a little ways up. It's been a minute
Speaker 4: since I've been up there. So they're up on that
Speaker 4: side and they're in the deeper channel again. His client
Speaker 4: gets his attention, points out, hey, there's a very big
Speaker 4: black bear up on the riverbank. Now at this point,
Speaker 4: they're about forty feet from the river bank. What he's
Speaker 4: done is he's anchored off in a little bit shallower
Speaker 4: part of the channel and he's having the people feed
Speaker 4: and run their lines down the deeper channel where the
Speaker 4: kings are. So he looks over and he sees a
Speaker 4: black mass up there. He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a good sized one or some hunter's going to be
Speaker 4: happy if he comes across him. This year, he's talking
Speaker 4: to clients about bears he's seen and everything right, and
Speaker 4: then Rick gets this feeling of being watched, so he
Speaker 4: turns it around immediately because he's got clients behind him
Speaker 4: as well, and he thought maybe one of them was
Speaker 4: staring at him or something. Couldn't hear what he was
Speaker 4: saying because he was talking to a group of three
Speaker 4: and there's still a couple behind him, So he turns around.
Speaker 4: They're focused on their lines and what they're doing. He
Speaker 4: looks back over to the bank and he sees a
Speaker 4: face in the grass. He couldn't make it out very well,
Speaker 4: ashen gray, looked like someone had to park a hoodie
Speaker 4: on around the face, very broad nose, but what threw
Speaker 4: him off was the size of the head, and he
Speaker 4: was trying to make out you might see things. It's
Speaker 4: like paradoia or something. He was trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4: When it recess back into the grass, he's like, that's
Speaker 4: really weird. One of the clients sitting there said, hey,
Speaker 4: I saw the black mass. That client saw it as
Speaker 4: well and asked, is that what the face of a
Speaker 4: black bear looks like? He said no. Immediately everyone stands
Speaker 4: up and they're looking back over to the bank because
Speaker 4: everyone there caught this feeling. He said, it was really weird.
Speaker 4: It was all at once. Everyone's attention to the river
Speaker 4: bank as this thing it stood up. When it stood up,
Speaker 4: it had two pieces of a broken spruce tree, black
Speaker 4: spruce beetle kill. Obviously, because it's so you can see
Speaker 4: the bark torn on it from the beatles. So he said,
Speaker 4: this thing was holding two chunks and just looks at
Speaker 4: the people, kind of starts doing the swaying back and forth,
Speaker 4: lowers its arms and drops the piece as it turns
Speaker 4: around and walks off into the trees. Everyone there was
Speaker 4: just like stuck, because he said, the weirdest thing about
Speaker 4: that experience was is everyone in an instant felt its
Speaker 4: presence and were drawn immediately to it. Everyone was chattering
Speaker 4: and immediately no one said hey, look, none of that.
Speaker 4: Everyone just felt it and Boop immediately had their attention.
Speaker 4: So they got out of the area. On the drift
Speaker 4: back Doren, no one was really fishing much. They talked
Speaker 4: amongst each other a little bit about what they saw.
Speaker 4: It basically was quiet ride, he said. The rest of
Speaker 4: that day. Now, the ferry service, the freight service up
Speaker 4: to the Mulchatna. Now it's a river ride, trust me.
Speaker 4: From Dillingham to the Mulchattna by river, it takes a minute.
Speaker 4: You're just not doing it like immediately, especially laiden down
Speaker 4: with supplies and stuff. This guy was going to prospect,
Speaker 4: which not the first time people have gone up there
Speaker 4: to do that. People do it all the time. Anyone
Speaker 4: who's been there, Hey, hit me up, let me know
Speaker 4: what you've dealt with on the ferry ride up there,
Speaker 4: or taken him in the supplies up there. He explains
Speaker 4: to him what I just explain to you guys, and
Speaker 4: told him to be careful and asked him what he
Speaker 4: had for protection. The guy had a twenty two pistol
Speaker 4: for grouse small game to eat off of, had a
Speaker 4: bunch of canned goods, and he had a twelve gage shotgun,
Speaker 4: had a single box of rounds slugs. And Rick goes,
Speaker 4: you can't just have those five shots. You may use
Speaker 4: up two chasing a bear away, and then you have three.
Speaker 4: What if another one comes, you got to scare that away,
Speaker 4: then you're down to one or none. So he gives
Speaker 4: him a good dozen of his buckshot in twelve gage slugs.
Speaker 4: They get up to the mouth of Malchatna and they're
Speaker 4: starting to go up to Malchatina. You know the Mulchatna
Speaker 4: rivers one hundred and forty three miles or something like that.
Speaker 4: That's the second largest tributary to the Nushigak next to
Speaker 4: the nu Yekuk. They get up there, and then once
Speaker 4: you get up above Kalignik, just up from their little ways,
Speaker 4: there's a bunch of what they look like islands, but
Speaker 4: what they are is just where water kind of passes
Speaker 4: around ground ends up cutting channels. So it looks like
Speaker 4: they're islands now, but they didn't start out as islands.
Speaker 4: It was overflow from the ice They want have been
Speaker 4: through there, and he was just showing him some of
Speaker 4: a beautiful scenery. Right. They come back around and they
Speaker 4: start up the mouth of the Maulchata and the guy
Speaker 4: is looking at topographicals Rick slows down and asks to
Speaker 4: see where exactly are you trying to go? Rick knew
Speaker 4: the area. He wanted to make sure he gets the
Speaker 4: guy where he wants to go. Guy's paying good money,
Speaker 4: gets the map from him, sees the spot, he goes, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I know where you're going. So he gets up there
Speaker 4: little ways to where this guy's given information by whoever
Speaker 4: to go there to pan again. It's going to take
Speaker 4: him back to the Mulchattna hills, but where he wanted
Speaker 4: a camp was closer towards the mouths of the Mulchattna,
Speaker 4: not that far up. He wanted to take photos or
Speaker 4: do whatever. So they get there, he ties off and
Speaker 4: he starts helping this guy unloaded stuff. Guy brought a
Speaker 4: canvas tent, little potbelly's stove to keep the place warm
Speaker 4: if he needed it. This was in June. It wasn't
Speaker 4: overly cold, but the guy wasn't from Alaska. Gets him
Speaker 4: and his supplies up on the ground, decides to give
Speaker 4: him a heads up because he's been that way before,
Speaker 4: and he goes, come with me, Graby twelve. Gage Rick
Speaker 4: had his fire arm on his hip. They walk up
Speaker 4: the river bank away until the trees parted out. You
Speaker 4: could see some muskeg and then you can see the
Speaker 4: Mulchattna hills off in the distance.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: He goes, what you want to do and be aware
Speaker 4: of is on that side you're going to get lost.
Speaker 4: You stated this side of the hills, you'll always be
Speaker 4: able to fire in the Mulchatna River. You won't get lost.
Speaker 4: Guys like I have a g I'm good, he says again.
Speaker 4: GPS batteries die things happen, he could lose it whatever,
Speaker 4: Just be aware. Stayed on this side of the hills.
Speaker 4: You always be able to see the river and find
Speaker 4: your way back to camp. Giving them life saving advice.
Speaker 4: Guy's like, hey, okay, I appreciate that. Rick feels better
Speaker 4: that he gave him information. They're heading back to this
Speaker 4: guy's camp. Nothing has been set up, everything's been laid out.
Speaker 4: He had a bunch of small, easy compacted packable mining stuff,
Speaker 4: panning and all that. As they're getting back to camp,
Speaker 4: this dark figure is on the opposite side of all
Speaker 4: the gear and walks off into the trees. The guy
Speaker 4: that he was bringing saw at the same time Rick did.
Speaker 4: The guy immediately was like, that's a big bear. Rick goes,
Speaker 4: that's not a bear, that's a hairy man. That's a
Speaker 4: sasquatch over there. The guy laughs and he laughs real hard,
Speaker 4: and Rick goes, I don't think it's a good idea
Speaker 4: for you to stay here. They had stopped their walk.
Speaker 4: They're about twenty five five yards from the campsite when
Speaker 4: they spotted it, and it walked off. When he's talking
Speaker 4: to the guy on the trail not far from the riverbank,
Speaker 4: telling him I think you should rethink staying here, and
Speaker 4: maybe someone in Koligniki can pay to ferry you across
Speaker 4: it and once every three days or something. He was
Speaker 4: trying to give him out, and the guy was like, no,
Speaker 4: I think I'll stay. So as they're having this conversation,
Speaker 4: the trees just inside the tree line starts shaking. A
Speaker 4: scream comes from it, a bunch of crackings. If anyone's
Speaker 4: ever heard a beetle killed spruce tree, a dead one
Speaker 4: getting cracked, it's imagine taking three or four two by
Speaker 4: fours snapping them all at once. It is a loud noise.
Speaker 4: So they're hearing that going on. In the screams partial roar.
Speaker 4: The guy is down on his knees with his hands
Speaker 4: over his ears, freaking out, trembling. Rick says, we need
Speaker 4: to get out of here. The guy said, everything important
Speaker 4: to me is in my backpack on my back. He goes, well,
Speaker 4: come with me, let's retreat out of here. We'll go
Speaker 4: camp out of click, Nick, and we'll come back tomorrow
Speaker 4: and gather up your gear when this thing has hopefully
Speaker 4: gone on its way. Guy agrees he has no argument
Speaker 4: at this point because he heard everything. The guy's freaking out.
Speaker 4: So he stands up. He's basically dragging his twelve gauge,
Speaker 4: holding it by the barrel and just dragging it. Rick
Speaker 4: said the guy was totally defeated. He could talk, but
Speaker 4: he had all his words were tongue tied. He was
Speaker 4: trying to ask Rick what is that? That was the
Speaker 4: other thing that was coming out was what was that?
Speaker 4: And he goes, I told you that that's a hairy man.
Speaker 4: Then he starts asking him have you seen him before?
Speaker 4: He goes, I told you of the experiences on the whip.
Speaker 4: He goes, I thought you were talking trash. He goes, no, no,
Speaker 4: I wasn't, just trying to regale you with the lasking
Speaker 4: tails and whatnot. So the guy was like, okay, let's
Speaker 4: just go. So they start walking together. The guy's dragging
Speaker 4: his twelve gage and Rick tells him put that damn
Speaker 4: shotgun on your shoulder and make sure you got to
Speaker 4: do it on safety till we get in the boat
Speaker 4: and we get away. As the guys racking around into
Speaker 4: the shotgun and putting it on safety, some more screams come,
Speaker 4: but there are a little bit closer, but still just
Speaker 4: behind where they stacked all his equipment. He said. It
Speaker 4: was a burst of brush and the little alder willows
Speaker 4: and stuff. A whole portion of this guy's gear just
Speaker 4: gets flung out. Some of it landed in the skiff,
Speaker 4: some of it landed in the river, and another scream.
Speaker 4: Then this dark mass retreats back into the trees. Another scream,
Speaker 4: and they saw trees shaking and moving away from them,
Speaker 4: and guys trembling again. Rick realizes this guy is mussling
Speaker 4: with his shotgun, so he grabs a barrel of the
Speaker 4: guy's shotgun and tells him, hey, like goes the gun,
Speaker 4: takes a shotgun from the guy, slings it over his
Speaker 4: shoulder and goes, come on, just follow me, stay behind me.
Speaker 4: There was crap in the end of the barrel he
Speaker 4: saw when he grabbed it. It was all plugged up
Speaker 4: with shit. That scene for the guy, so he gets
Speaker 4: the guy to follow him down. Has the guy get
Speaker 4: in the skiff. The guy, at this point didn't give
Speaker 4: a crap about his stuff, gets in the skiff unties
Speaker 4: they start drifting away. He gets backed past. Guy fires
Speaker 4: up the engine to outboards, starts turning around. He's letting
Speaker 4: the current kind of swing the bow around as he's
Speaker 4: doing so and giving it a little bit of throttle
Speaker 4: to help ease it around. Some more of the guy's
Speaker 4: stuff comes flying out. Some of it went all the
Speaker 4: way across, and some of it landed in the river.
Speaker 4: Some more screams. He got clear got out of there.
Speaker 4: Once they cleared the mouth. Clignik was just down river,
Speaker 4: but across the river. He asked him, do you want
Speaker 4: to camp out? And Klignik will get your stuff tomorrow. Hey,
Speaker 4: He's like, just to take me to the airport. So
Speaker 4: that's what he did. But because of that situation, the
Speaker 4: next time Rick tried to go out, he felt such
Speaker 4: a burden of keeping them safe that he couldn't do
Speaker 4: it anymore. He couldn't put himself in a position to
Speaker 4: where he's responsible for their lives but yet truly ignorant
Speaker 4: to what could happen. He didn't want that on him,
Speaker 4: He didn't want that on his conscience. He didn't want
Speaker 4: that to be part of anyone's experience with him. He
Speaker 4: essentially quit. Rick no longer does that. He still goes
Speaker 4: out in the woods, but he doesn't bring people along.
Speaker 4: He just his passion is lost. And I understand that
Speaker 4: one completely. I really do I go out in the woods,
Speaker 4: but my passion has gone from it. Yeah, I do it,
Speaker 4: but it's not like he used to be. Where before
Speaker 4: my experience in six I would yeah, let's go over
Speaker 4: that next hill. Nowadays, yeah, let's go over the hell,
Speaker 4: let's go see what's going on over there kind of thing.
Speaker 4: I know how it is to lose the passion. There's
Speaker 4: so many that suffer in silence. So again, if you
Speaker 4: need to get off your chest and don't want to
Speaker 4: share it on the channel, whatever, just hit me up.
Speaker 4: Get it off your chest. Don't walk around with that
Speaker 4: burden because some people it's not all, but some people
Speaker 4: self medicate. They get in a bad way and you
Speaker 4: just don't want that. We'll catch on the next one.
Speaker 4: They say, you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to feel.
Speaker 4: World open.
Speaker 5: Side Stasie.
Speaker 3: Try this chart. That chart, Everything came in right back,
Speaker 3: right back, joy from me, joy staying right there, come
Speaker 3: in right away.
Speaker 5: Still stop stas stas sat still stout sasstssssssssss