WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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What I wanted to share with you today 33 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:43.480 comes from a retired bush pilot Craig. This experience he 34 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.599 thought he was gonna take to his grave because the 35 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.640 people he initially shared with back in nineteen eighty three, 36 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.040 fellow bush pilots and whatnot, only a couple of them 37 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:54.439 were receptive, and the overall vibe was, you know, I 38 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.560 keep that down. You don't want to lose your pilot's 39 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.680 license over that. You know, up here, when you're a 40 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.959 bush isilot, reputation is everything, especially in those circles. I'm 41 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.319 not in that circle, so I couldn't tell you who 42 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.000 were the reputable ones at this time, because there's so 43 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.240 many air services that have sparked up since nineteen eighty three. 44 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.000 We'll leave it at that. It spoke to one of 45 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.319 his friends after it had happened, and his friend relaid 46 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:20.240 a couple things that made him feel a little better, 47 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.520 but he still just packed it away. He retired some 48 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.159 years ago now lives in a warmer climate. He loves Alaska. 49 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:28.599 He shared photos, but he wants to remain anonymous so 50 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.360 that those are for my viewing only, not of this incidence. 51 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.280 He didn't have a camera or anything. All he had 52 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.800 with him was a shotgun and a twenty two little 53 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.800 six shot Ruger single six. That's what it was. He 54 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.400 was basically out flying around. He had landed in Dillingham refueled. 55 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.280 He had time before he had to fly back up 56 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:47.639 the New Sheigak and pick up some clients and then 57 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.400 bring them back to Dillingham Airport. As he was just 58 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.199 killing a little bit of time, he decided to circle around, 59 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.680 so he left Dillingham Airport started flying due east back 60 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:00.479 towards the New Sheigak River, and he saw the Withlaw River, 61 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:04.960 which is the headwaters in between these two small little 62 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.159 dome like mountains. I don't know if they're tall enough 63 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.560 to be mountains. I think they're marked that, but it 64 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.240 ends in there, and he noticed a little valley in 65 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.719 there that was just beautiful, so he made a mental note, Hey, 66 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.199 I want to check that place out. He had been 67 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.080 flying in the area for a couple of years, but 68 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.039 it was all a grind. He was just going here 69 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.319 to there. He didn't have a whole lot of free 70 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.159 time because the season was short and he was trying 71 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.960 to pack in as much money as he could. So 72 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:29.879 he was actually going to have some free time because 73 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.000 there were free of clients. He did his job. He 74 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.439 went up New stew picked up to people, and then 75 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.199 flew him to Dillingham Airport, dropped them off, grab a 76 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.719 little more fuel. He was in a little piper cup 77 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.360 he takes off. Anyone wondering how he carried two people. 78 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.120 He was able to carry two people in their two backpacks. 79 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.439 That's all he had room for in that little piper cup. 80 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.439 He wasn't packing a bunch of gear or anything like 81 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.680 that was coming down in the skiff. But the guys 82 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.120 had a fight to catch, so they just had personal 83 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.199 bags in themselves and got out of there. Anyway. He 84 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.360 takes care of business and there's still about eight hours 85 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:06.000 of daylight left, so he heads over to the wila. 86 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.719 As he's circling around, he's got tunder of tires on 87 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.879 and stuff, so he's looking for a little place to land, 88 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.039 and he search us for a little while and finally 89 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:17.240 finds a nice little spot. He's basically facing due north 90 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.360 at this spot, right next to a creek at that point, 91 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.759 not that far away from him. He decides, I'm going 92 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.040 to go hike up onto that little dome shaped mountain 93 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.360 over there off to my right. Just take a look around. 94 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.279 But he has his shotgun. He make sure he has 95 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.879 extra ammal for his twenty two and all that grab 96 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.680 a little day pack, had himself a little lunch earlier 97 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.639 in the day, but he also had some survival food 98 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.560 in case he had to camp out overnight. He left 99 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.680 his piper cup. He said he got about a mile 100 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.959 into this hike and as he was going along, he 101 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.920 broke through some willows and alderbrush, and he came out 102 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.399 onto a little patch of tundra as it was starting 103 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.839 to gain elevation on this little mound. So he's looking 104 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.600 and he's like, ah, I don't want to hike up 105 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.959 right here. I'll circle around and find a little bit 106 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.000 of a gully and just go up that, and you 107 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.000 take a look around like that. So he continues around, 108 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:11.600 heading due north, basically wrapping around this little mountain. He said. 109 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.319 He got about halfway to where he had visualized cutting 110 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.360 up to, and he took a break. He started eating 111 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.800 his lunch. Now he's just above the willow line. There 112 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.800 wasn't a lot of huge trees out that way. A 113 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.639 few black spruce here and there, but it was mainly 114 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.680 alders and willows and scrubbrush and very brush. He was 115 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.959 just above it to where he was free and clear 116 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.959 of any obstruction, and he's looking down into the vegetation. 117 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.600 He said that as he was sitting there, he was 118 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.160 trying to figure out how long he wanted to stay 119 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.480 because he didn't have a whole lot of daylight left. 120 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.560 He had been almost three hours into this. Because of 121 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.680 the grueling hike, it was far more than he had 122 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.600 anticipated from the air, and so he decides, I'm gonna 123 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.399 go a little further and then I'll turn back. He 124 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.560 commences to enjoying his lunch. From what he was saying, 125 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.480 he kept hearing a very loud squirrel. He said, the 126 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.879 squirrel noise was unreal. He was like, this has got 127 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.639 to be a world record squirrel. If I see it, 128 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.279 I'm gonna shoot it with my twenty two and show 129 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.120 people look at the size of the squirrels up here 130 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.560 in Alaska. Right. So he's looking around for the origin 131 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.000 of this squirrel sound, just to chatter. And as it's 132 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.560 going on and he stands up, he's looking around. He's 133 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.560 enjoying his sandwich a little bit. He notices brown movement 134 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.240 and it was real low to the ground and just 135 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.240 out of view because the rise fell away from him, 136 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.560 so whatever was back there was obscure. But he saw 137 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.279 a little bit of brown movement and he was like, okay, 138 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.759 the squirrels over in that direction. Let me finish my sandwich. 139 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.519 I'll keep my eyes over that way. I'll go get 140 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:41.279 the scroll after I'm done eating. As he's sitting there, 141 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.680 he started thinking back, and he was like, that squirrel 142 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.480 noise is so intense. There's no way, even if it 143 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.720 was a large squirrel the size of a badger could 144 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.279 have been making that loud of a noise. So he 145 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:55.199 started second guessing his thoughts on going after this squirrel. 146 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.319 Craig said, as he was sitting there. He just finished 147 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.480 up his sandwich and he was putting in his little 148 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:04.199 tupperware dishes and stuff back together into his pack. That's 149 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.319 when he heard a click and a pop sound. He 150 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.079 said it was just one click, one pop, but it 151 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.360 was it was crisp, it was loud, and it was 152 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.399 in quick succession, quickpop, and he was like, what the 153 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.040 hell is that? So he starts looking back the direction 154 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.519 of his airplane because it sounded almost like something hit 155 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.160 his plane. The pop sound almost sounded like something whacked 156 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.480 into his piper cub right, but it was a lot closer. 157 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.079 But just in the moment, it was so odd. He 158 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.480 looked back and he could barely see his plane through 159 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:37.240 the brush and stuff, but he could see part of it, 160 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.279 white and red piper cup. It was all right. That 161 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.120 sound happened again off to his right hand side as 162 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.519 he's facing his back trail. Now, as he's facing his 163 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.399 back trail, it's downhill to his right to the brush, 164 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.040 and that's where he heard it again for the second time. 165 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.360 But it was click pop, click, pop and then pop click, 166 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.000 just a weird cadence of clicks and pops. So he's 167 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.720 really intrigued he said, he wasn't scared in that moment. 168 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.040 He was concerned that he couldn't recognize what the sound was. 169 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.079 So he decides, all right, I'm gonna walk to the 170 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.399 edge of this rise where it drops down into this 171 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.040 brush and see if I can get a better bird's 172 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:15.720 eye view. Because the way it was sloping down, there 173 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:17.879 was a horizon line where it dropped down a little 174 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:20.399 further before it started the brush, and he couldn't see 175 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:21.879 past that. So he was going to go up to 176 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.480 that horizon line there right in front of him and 177 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.480 look down into the shrubs and see what the hell. 178 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.759 So grabs his shotgun, slung his pack on. Again. He 179 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.399 wasn't scared at that moment. As he gets up to 180 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.759 that edge. Up behind him on that mountain, he was 181 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:39.440 attempting to climb up in a little gully. Up at 182 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.960 the top of it, he saw this black thing. He said. 183 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.519 The distance was probably half mile away, but it was 184 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:49.080 big and black, and he heard a scream, so it 185 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.320 caught his attention and he said, what the hell is that? Now? 186 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.080 As soon as that one screams on the other mountain 187 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.399 just right across the way, not that far what fifteen 188 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:02.080 hundred yards maybe a little more. At this point where 189 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:06.159 he was at, there's a return scream. It was scream 190 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:09.519 caught his attention by time his head turned to check 191 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.600 out where the noise was coming from and saw the 192 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.879 black figure up there. Couldn't make it out. A return 193 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:17.559 scream came from across the way. Initially he thought it 194 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.480 was an echo because it so happened where that other 195 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.720 mountain was. There was a little ravine, and he thought 196 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.600 maybe it echoed back right until he saw a movement 197 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.559 towards the top of that one big and black, very large. 198 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.960 It wasn't a bear, and the scream, he said, was horrifying. 199 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:38.440 He's never found anything quite like it. Air raid, siren type, 200 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:44.200 murdering a woman type death scream. Right, so he's really perplexed, 201 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.440 and he's really concerned. Where he was at was between 202 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.879 the McClung River and the Cockwalk River, and both those 203 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.480 rivers have a history of sightings. Where he was at 204 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:59.120 was dead center. He recognizes after that second scream, that 205 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.480 follow up scream, and sees the dark figure moving, now 206 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.039 large in comparison to the distance he was looking. Keep 207 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.240 that in mind. He didn't want to guess maya, he 208 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.440 said it had to have been very large in order 209 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.320 to be that pronounced. It was not close enough for 210 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.799 him to get features or anything else but other than 211 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.399 a black dot, right, He said, his attention first of all, 212 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.120 was drawn away from that little ravine, little drop off 213 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:25.480 where he was going to look into the willows for 214 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.039 this clicking and popping sound. Right. All that went out 215 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.279 the window with the screams, So he's totally not even 216 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.320 thinking about that as he turns to head on his 217 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.080 back trail to go back to his piper cub to 218 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:36.840 get out of there because he wanted no part of 219 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.759 whatever the hell was happening. He said, he sensed it 220 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:41.600 had to do with him, and he didn't like it. 221 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.200 As he was turning around to go on his back 222 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.240 trail off to his right hand side, as he started along, 223 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.679 before he went down into the willows where he came 224 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.039 out of, he heard movement in the brush. He got 225 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.840 really concerned because he said his spidy senses was going 226 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.480 off and he felt in danger. At that point, feeling 227 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:01.399 like he was in danger, he didn't want to waste 228 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.360 any shotgun rounds. He thought it might be a bear. 229 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.399 He pulls out his little twenty two single six right 230 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:10.000 start screaming and hollering, Hey bear, he's calling out for bear. 231 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:12.559 Has no idea what these things are. They're far enough 232 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:16.080 away where the screams came from that he feels he's 233 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.480 in a safe distance, so he's not panic stricken by 234 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.559 anything just yet, right, but assumes there's a bear over here. 235 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.600 So he fires a single shot up in the air, 236 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.200 just over the brush, just to make a snapping sound 237 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.799 or to startle this bear out. It startled whatever it was, 238 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.679 and at that moment he didn't know, but it started 239 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.360 thrashing in the direction he was heading and not away. 240 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.879 He's like, crap, I just scared it into my path, 241 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.080 you know. He assumed he scared a bear into his path. 242 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.480 So he's like, crap, it's probably going to backtrack right 243 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.480 on me. He was beating himself up. Yeah, smooth move, Craig. 244 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.519 So he puts aways twenty two and gets his shotgun 245 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:53.559 in a ready position pointing down. Made sure he was 246 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.919 ready to go with the slugs, and he said something 247 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.200 odd happened as he was just getting to the brush 248 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.279 line where he would have to duck and push willows 249 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.559 out of the way to break through. Because he was 250 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.240 smart enough to backmark his trail where he came out 251 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:09.559 of the brush, so he put just a little tie. 252 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.360 It was an old piece of handkerchief. It was red 253 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.960 and brown, and it blended in perfectly to the area. 254 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.840 But he was able to see it because of the 255 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.000 way it was moving in the wind. So as soon 256 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.240 as he gets to that area and he's untying it, 257 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.120 he notices something dark just off to his right hand side, 258 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.840 down in the brush, and he said, he thought, black bear. Okay, 259 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.039 it's a curious black bear. All right, I'm good. I'm 260 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.200 not worried about this black bear because it's gonna make 261 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.840 its presence known before I have an opportunity to shoot it. 262 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.679 I don't want to, so let me just pick up 263 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:43.879 my pace. He was trying to think logically. He didn't 264 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:45.679 want to hurt animals. He just wanted to go on 265 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.440 outside of the squirrel. He continues on down his trail, 266 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.919 and he's making no qualms about looking over and watching 267 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.840 this blackness. This darkness off into the brush and it 268 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:57.480 was just out of you to where he couldn't make 269 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.480 it up. But he said, initially he thought it was fur, 270 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.200 but every time he was looking he would look a 271 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.720 little longer. You'd take a few steps look a little longer. 272 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.000 He said, it looked like black hair that was about 273 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.759 four inches long. And he was like, that's really weird 274 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:10.960 for a black bear. I wonder if it's just a 275 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:14.080 hold over Jeane or something whatever, because it's Alaska. Maybe 276 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.639 they're a little longer hair and they stay warmer. Whatever. 277 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:19.559 He said. He continued down his trail and he augmented 278 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.759 his way back just a bit. He had to make 279 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:25.200 an elongated sea off to the left hand side, because 280 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:29.240 he said something told him don't continue down his trail. 281 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.120 There was no mind speaking, it was just something he 282 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.960 felt within himself. Change your trail a little bit, and 283 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.360 it just so happened. There was a game trail on 284 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.679 the tundra in between the willows and stuff that he 285 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:40.919 was navigating through to go off to the left just 286 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.519 a little bit, and he said it was like an 287 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:46.320 elongated sea. And he said, about halfway through that point, 288 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.679 which was about fifty yards long, before it cut back 289 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.480 onto this kind of main game trail he was checking through. 290 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.320 He said, at the halfway point, he heard that squirrel 291 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.600 sound again, but this time it sounded like it was 292 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.120 right on top of him, so he swings around, pulls 293 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.720 up the shotgun looking he's not seeing it. He's looking 294 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.799 into the brush. He sees darkness down there, but he's 295 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:08.519 not seeing really anything. He can't make it out. So 296 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.240 he takes a step back or two, and then he 297 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.399 notices above the brush, which is well over seven foot 298 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.720 where he was standing, he saw shoulders in a head 299 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.360 because of the sunlight. So he looks up sees this thing, 300 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.639 and he said it had all black skin. The skin 301 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.240 looked really tight to the cheekbones, sparse hair around the 302 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.039 lower part of the jaw, real wide jaw, black eyes, 303 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:37.519 had pointed head, but looked almost emaciated, skinny. He said 304 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.919 it was making the scroll sound looking right at him. 305 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.519 He could see its wide mouth making this sound, and 306 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:45.399 he yells at it, get out of here, Get out 307 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.440 of here. It turns and drops down into the brush, 308 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.120 and he's trying to look into the brush. Now there's 309 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.200 leaves and stuff, so he's not seeing much. But here's 310 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.320 it moving away. So he continues down the path. But 311 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.039 he knew immediately what he was looking at it was 312 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:59.159 a big foot. He didn't realize they had black skin 313 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.360 in certain places, so he was only familiar with the 314 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:04.080 paddy footage everyone had seen at that point, so he 315 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.200 was shook. He was like, that's got to be a bigfoot, 316 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:08.440 and so he picks up his paste. The other two 317 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.720 dots I must have seen and heard are also bigfoots, 318 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.399 so there's at least three. I need to really get moving. 319 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:16.559 I don't know what they're doing. This one seems to 320 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:17.240 be following me. 321 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.799 Stay tuned for more sasquatchy out to see. 322 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:27.240 We'll be right back after the these messages. So he continues. 323 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.360 He's picked up his pace considerably. He said. He fell 324 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.480 about three or four times, had to stop, take the 325 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.919 round out of the chamber of his shotgun, take a 326 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.519 willow branch and run it down through the action out 327 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.600 the end of the barrel to unplug in the moss 328 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.559 a couple of times because he was panic stricken. He 329 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.519 was getting the hell out of dodge, he said. When 330 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.120 he came out of the game trail down by the creek, 331 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.120 the upper end of the Lowhititlaw River, the brush got 332 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.799 thick again, real dense, and he knew that the one 333 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.320 part was bigger rocks that were slippery that he came 334 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.440 up initially, he knew a little further down to his left, 335 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.000 there's a more clear way, and he chose that way 336 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.559 to go. He said. He cut through the brush and 337 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.559 he got caught up a couple times because it was 338 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.519 just spaghetti web just laced in there, all the branches 339 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.519 growing every which way. It was hard to just push 340 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.960 through it was so thick. He said. He made his 341 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.039 way through. He lost his hat, lost a pair of 342 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.960 work gloves out of his back pocket somehow, doesn't know how. 343 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.320 So he gets out into the clearing. There's still brush. 344 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.080 There's tall grass and stuff around, so he's not out 345 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.000 of the woods, but he's not that far from his plane. 346 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.000 He can see it. So he has a little bit 347 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:38.039 of relief, and he looks up the creek back to 348 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.559 the direction where his original trail cut up. He looked 349 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.000 back to see how much distance was between where he 350 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.279 chose to come out and where he had actually gone up. 351 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.039 He said it was about twenty twenty five feet. He 352 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.120 was taking a moment to be proud of himself for 353 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.240 recognizing his back trail. So as he was having his 354 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:57.519 little moment and looking up that way, he said, this 355 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.320 thing slid down the rock came out in the full 356 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.000 view twenty five feet away from him. He said it 357 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:06.079 was every bit of nine foot tall, real skinny, and 358 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:10.240 did the squirrel chat just chattered at him. At that point, 359 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.319 he said, he turned the gun and pointed it at 360 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.039 it and said get out of here. He said, this 361 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:19.000 thing just looked at him like what This thing obviously 362 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:23.200 had never dealt with firearms before or was not intimidated 363 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:26.000 at all. He said, he wasn't going to shoot, he 364 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.359 was bluffing. Maybe this creature sensed that and was like, yeah, 365 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.759 you know, maybe that was it. Who knows, It's speculation. 366 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.359 He said it stood there and just kept doing that 367 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.799 As he continued. He started peppin his step getting across there. 368 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.279 He said, when he got up to the piper cub, 369 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.119 he knew once he fired it up, it'd make a 370 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.759 lot of noise and that would probably get him to 371 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.000 back off. He makes his way, gets up on his 372 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.680 back trail, constantly looking behind him. This thing, he said, 373 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.279 it stayed right where it slid out onto that creek bed, 374 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:55.319 and every time he looked at it, it would do 375 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.119 the squirrel chatter at him. Real odd didn't try to 376 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.160 follow him from that point. Fourth he gets in the cub, 377 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.480 fires it up, He's got to let it warm up 378 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.039 and get up to operating temperature. So as it's doing that, 379 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.920 he's angled up. You got to understand, but he's looking out. 380 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.200 He had the door open, still in the upper window 381 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.559 clicked up in the place. The direction is just off 382 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.279 to his right hand side, just underneath his wing, off 383 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.160 to his right, and the thing's standing there, he says, 384 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.440 about forty yards away at that point, and it just 385 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.079 was standing there looking at him, just giving weird looks, like, 386 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.519 what the hell's that weird noise coming from this thing? 387 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.319 He said. Once he was at operating temperature, he gunned up, 388 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:35.079 turned around and took off. He said. Once he got 389 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.480 airborne and got enough altitude, he circled back and came 390 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:42.720 in low, real low, and it was gone. He flew back. 391 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.200 He gained altitude and went up to where he'd been, 392 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:49.400 couldn't see anything. Circled around to the mountain to the left, 393 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.640 come back around, and he said, as he was coming 394 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.400 back around, he was gaining altitude as he was climbing. 395 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.039 As he circled around that the mountain, he chose to 396 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.039 look at first where he saw the first screen from, 397 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:01.400 and as he came around it, he said, up in 398 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:04.599 that little that gully going up to that second mountain. 399 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:08.680 He said, it looked like they reached a small rock 400 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.839 face and disappeared into it. From his vantage point, he 401 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:13.960