WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to 25 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.280 kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over 26 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:20.079 the tree. I don't know how it did it. Okay, Damn, 27 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.640 I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming 28 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.480 over the fence and they would dead once you hit 29 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.560 the ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw 30 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:45.120 was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what are 31 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.959 you reporting? We got some wonder or something crawling around 32 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:58.640 out here? Did you see what it was? It was 33 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.480 enough out here looking him new the window now and 34 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.079 I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside 35 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.479 this point. You're right, Sarah here, hello, hit somebody out here? 36 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:13.520 What quent on out there? It's thought of a bit 37 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.400 just about sixty ft nine. I don't know easy, I'm 38 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.120 out there. Yeah, I'm walking right, Ahady, Oh. 39 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.199 Hey, thanks for joining me. Is Fred and Alaska. What 40 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.560 I wanted to share with you today comes from Brad. 41 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.680 Brad is his real first name, Brad and his eight 42 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.879 year old son at the time. This was back in 43 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:31.919 two thousand and four, so this was twenty years ago 44 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.120 now his son was finally old enough to start getting 45 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.080 out in the wilds with him. At the time, Brad 46 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.759 had an amphibious a stall I believe it was one 47 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.439 eighty five. Amphibious means it has floats and wheels, so 48 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.680 he could take off from a runway and land in 49 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.000 the lake. Just for those who don't know, Brad had 50 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.000 been up the Salta River a few times on a 51 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.039 buddy's airboat. There's a whole lot of traffic of airboats 52 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.240 up there nowadays, where it's just hillacious man. So he 53 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.639 started looking at maps and stuff, and he decides he's 54 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.960 going to go up past the splits on the Salta 55 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.840 and go to the beginnings of the north fork of 56 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:12.479 the Salta River. There's a cabin there. He researched it. 57 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.479 He flies out there alone one time, checks it out, 58 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.919 make sure it's accommodating enough for him to get in 59 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.599 and out in the plane or whatever. He decides, okay, 60 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.680 this is a spot. So he goes does this thing, 61 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.439 and he waits till after the hunting season to make 62 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.240 the trip happen. He wanted to go sooner when his 63 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.240 son was not in school, but it couldn't work out 64 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.000 that way, so he said, screw it, I'll take him 65 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.599 out of school for a week and he's going to 66 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.280 go a dad. He gets everything planned out. He's over 67 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.199 visiting with his uncle. Brad has an Alaska, Nada background 68 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.479 at the basket and he had happened to be talking 69 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.039 to his uncle about a week before his trip. He 70 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.599 remembers his uncle telling him to beware of the harry man, 71 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:53.599 and he thought his uncle was just giving him shit. 72 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:55.680 He had heard of the hairy man. He knows the 73 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.439 oral tradition. He wasn't naive to it. He just never 74 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.319 experienced outside of his uncle. Hadn't known anyone in his 75 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.199 family who had, so he was just like, all right, uncle, 76 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.319 I'll keep that in mind. His uncle warned him, if 77 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.280 you hear his screams and stuff, be aware, keep your 78 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.800 boy clothes, don't play yourself cheap. You want to be aware. Honestly, 79 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.360 at the time, Brad said he was more concerned about 80 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.959 bears versus some hairyman, some story. He believed his uncle, 81 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.800 but he had never seen it, so it wasn't a 82 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.879 reality to him. He had planned on being there for 83 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.800 a total of approximately five days. He went through the 84 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.759 proper channels for all the reserving and all that kind 85 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.439 of stuff, because a lot of times you got to 86 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:39.319 reserve one of these steak cabins just in case someone 87 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:41.439 had already reserved it or what have you. So it 88 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.439 was free and clear of whatever. His plan was to 89 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.839 be there four days, five nights, a day of flying in, 90 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.319 day of flying out, because he was trying to give 91 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.959 his son the whole picture, not just oh fly in, 92 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.360 boom boom, you're just right here. He flew around showing 93 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.360 his son the sights and all that stuff, which was 94 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.720 great for his son. Now this experience I'm going to 95 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.319 be sharing from his point of view, and some of 96 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:06.879 it from an eight year old's point of view that 97 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.560 he remembers. Something to keep in mind. This is remote Alaska. 98 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.959 Anywhere you go remote Alaska, it is what it is. 99 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:16.160 Man. 100 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.600 You got the whole gambit of grizzly bears, moose. There's 101 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.560 serious predators out there. So he gets in there. He 102 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.079 said the first night beautiful, that he could see clouds coming. 103 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.920 He had a satellite phone that was outside of getting 104 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.360 in his plane and firing up his radio, gaining altitude 105 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:39.199 to reach somebody. Those were his forms of communication. He 106 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.279 said that when they got there, he had pulled the 107 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.560 plane into a little bit of an eddy spot to 108 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.360 where he could tie it off and it not be 109 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.680 pulled too hard by the current break a tree or 110 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.079 a branch that is tied off to and float away 111 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.560 while he's sleeping. Fair enough, the last thing you want 112 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.959 is your expensive airplane floating away. He gets everything done, 113 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.040 and he keeps his son right by him, and we'll 114 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:03.959 just call him his son. We won't even give him 115 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.000 a fake name. So him and his son they do 116 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.079 their thing. He's teaching him how to tie knots and 117 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.160 just a total learning experience for his boy. Now they 118 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.720 get up to the cabin and he said, there's approximately 119 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:17.600 three steps you go in. There's a standard waft right 120 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.399 in front of you. There's a wood stove off to 121 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.000 the left, next to a window. Off to the right, 122 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.160 it was another window, and then you got two bunks 123 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.680 in the back below the loft with the little table 124 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.120 in between and a small window right there above it. 125 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.199 So he came prepared. He brought a little Dwalt drill 126 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.839 thing with the screws so he could hang up temporary 127 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.480 curtains and whatnot. Just because he just didn't like the 128 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.800 idea of open windows, which, hey, I'm all for it. 129 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.480 I don't need to have something staring at him, he said. 130 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.639 The first night was great. When they got up the 131 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.519 following morning, while he was making breakfast, it started raining 132 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.720 like real hard. His crap. He wanted to get his 133 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:56.680 boy out and fish, and he goes, okay, we brought 134 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.959 rain gear, so I'm gonna ring gear him up. We're 135 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.160 gonna take this little trail that goes just up a 136 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.319 little ways to the river's edge near where the plane 137 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.319 was follow the game show a little further, there's a 138 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.040 nice deeper depression in the river where there's potentially some 139 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.639 nice trout laying in there. So it's raining there may 140 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.839 probably be more active. So he all right, cool, I 141 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.240 got a game plan for me and the boy. Now, 142 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.839 as he's cooking this breakfast, it's twilight in the morning. 143 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:25.800 His son is a sleep up in the lock, just 144 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.240 crashed out from all the excitement and traveling fresh air. 145 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.879 So as he's cooking, he hears this clink dingdingk was 146 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.560 what the hell is that? He was like, something must 147 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.439 have fell off a branch off a tree, or something 148 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.240 fell onto the metal roof and rolled off. Okay, no problem. 149 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.480 Continues doing what he's doing and making up some bacon 150 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.480 and eggs and stuff and some bright potatoes. He's using 151 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:49.879 one of those little twin burner Coleman stove, so he's 152 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.120 doing his thing on that. He just focused on cooking, 153 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.720 and again he hears clank, dank, clink. Taxs, what the 154 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.279 hell is that? And it's still fairly it's twilight on 155 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.319 the horizon, still dark in the brush, and so he is, 156 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:04.600 what the hell. He had the stove set up on 157 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.680 one of the bunks if you're facing inside the door. 158 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.600 He said, it was over on the left hand bunk, 159 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.319 which is right near the wood stove and the window. 160 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.399 The reason he didn't have it set right on top 161 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.360 of the wood stove, it was it got a little 162 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.920 chilly before bedtime and he lit a fire in there 163 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.519 overnight and it was still a little warm, and he 164 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.439 didn't want propane, and he was just avoiding excess heat 165 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:30.480 and potentially a bad situation. So he said, he went 166 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.600 around this little wood stove and looked out the window, 167 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.240 and all he saw was darkness in the trees, light 168 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.720 on the horizon, the mountain off to his left, and 169 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.320 it was trees off to the right and stuff, and 170 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.519 so he was like, man, that's weird. Maybe the wind's 171 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.759 blown higher because of the rain and it's knocking pine cones. 172 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.000 It must be pine cones, right, So he decides it's 173 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.559 pine cones. A little while later, clankd ink, and he's man, 174 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.120 that sounds like a rock, not a pine cone. So 175 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.720 now his curiosity's really peaked because this is three in 176 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.759 a row. There's not really any wind. There's more of 177 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.480 a drizzly rain. It's not like a storm going on. 178 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.240 So he's like, all right, grabs his gun. He had 179 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.000 a forty five seventy. He had a four to fifty 180 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:14.200 four casule chess holster. He wasn't playing any games. He 181 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.039 had dealt with bears in the past, had some bad experiences, 182 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.639 and he said he would never be caught off guard 183 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.120 with the bear again. Forty five seventy and a four 184 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.960 to fifty four, you're doing all right, especially when it 185 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.799 comes to bears. So he goes out. He has a flashlight, 186 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.440 a real nice one. From what he said, it was 187 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.240 a surefire or weapon light. Right when they were coming out, 188 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.200 they had some good ones, even though the batteries didn't 189 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.120 last long. They had some really good lumens Candela power. 190 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.600 He goes out, He goes to the side to where 191 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:43.840 the rocks were hitting, which would if your face in 192 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.720 the cabin, it would be the left side which he 193 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.159 was on cooking and stuff where the stove was. He said, 194 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:50.960 when he got outside and went around, he was just 195 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:53.320 using a flashlight padded around. He had the four to 196 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:56.720 fifty four and he said when he hit the tree line, 197 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:00.720 it was about twenty five yards away. He thought he 198 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.879 saw dark movement. He wasn't sure. It could have been 199 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.200 a shadow from a tree with the light and stuff 200 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.919 moving as he moved. So he was like, a you're 201 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:14.000 spooking yourself. But as he's outside, clank, ting ting ting ting, tink, 202 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:18.000 comes another rock and he turned when he heard the 203 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.039 river rock plunk fall off the roof. Right, So now 204 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.200 he's okay, something is throwing rock. So he calls out, 205 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.799 keep in mind his son's inside sleeping. He yells out, hey, 206 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.840 who's out there? Who's out there? Nothing dead? Quiet? He 207 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.559 can hear just the drizzle falling on the leaves and stuff. 208 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.279 So he gets this real weird I'm being watched feeling. 209 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.759 As he's going back to the door, he hears this 210 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.039 weird grunt, turns around. He's looking all around, ready to 211 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:46.559 get down the business, and he sees nothing. It's limited distance. 212 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.799 He's got maybe twenty five yards open visibility at most, 213 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.159 not counting the little trail down to the river, and 214 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.399 then there's a trail that hooks up going northbound to 215 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.960 where he's tied off this plane. Now he's really spooked. 216 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:05.240 He goes back inside, calms down, shuts the door. One 217 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.080 of the tots he had brought with he just slides 218 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.399 it in front of the door. He said the door 219 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.759 the latch was wonky, and just to make sure he 220 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:15.080 doesn't pop open or whatever. So he goes back tending 221 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.039 to his food. He was burning a little bit smoking 222 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:18.720 up the place, so he was like, crap, I'm gonna 223 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.159 have to open this door. And it's getting lighter, so 224 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.279 he feels a little better about opening the door, so 225 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.840 he opens the door. He's tending to his food and 226 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:29.360 stuff so it doesn't get too scorched, and he's salvaging 227 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:31.159 what he can. Because he was outside for a couple 228 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.039 of minutes, he wasn't paying attention to his food, and 229 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.120 he's kicking himself at that moment, Brad said his son 230 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.679 had woke up and came down the stairs. So he 231 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.679 was sitting over on the bunk across from him, where 232 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.080 he had the little stove set up and stuff, and 233 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.840 the other stove was cooled off enough. The wood stove 234 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.200 was cooled off enough to where he felt comfortable moving 235 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.519 the Coleman stove over on top of it. A small 236 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.200 window in the back. He did not put a curtain 237 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.240 over because they were sleeping up in the loft. He 238 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.519 just wanted the bigger windows cover. So as they're sitting 239 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.399 there talking, he's talking to his son about yeah, it's 240 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:05.960 burned a little bit, bud, but it'll be all right. 241 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.320 And he's nowhere, he's dad. So as he's talking to 242 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.600 his son, goes, who's that? And he looks at the 243 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.519 door right immediately, what do you mean who's that? Because 244 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.120 he already had on his chest holster he had the 245 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.120 four fifty four right there, and he looks towards the 246 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:23.159 door and he's there's no one out there, son, And 247 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.039 he goes, no in the window, and he turns and 248 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.480 as he turns to look in that little window again, 249 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.240 it's much lighter out now. He sees darkness move out 250 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:34.600 of the way of that window. Immediately, all alarms are 251 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.360 going off. He rushes over, slams the door shut, slides 252 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.039 a toe over. He's looking around. He takes some of 253 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:44.360 the firewood pieces and makes a makeshift board across the 254 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:49.080 door lock on the inside. Hey, good mcguy ring me personally, 255 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.200 it probably would have took me about twenty twenty five 256 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.320 minutes before I started looking to do that, but he 257 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.240 said he felt like he needed to reinforce that door. 258 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:00.159 He did not go outside to look. He fixes the door, 259 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.360 which takes time. He tells his son, just tell me 260 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.919 if you see anything else. He waited until he had 261 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:10.279 secured the door. His initial tries weren't working, and he 262 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.440 knew he had stuff he could work with in the plane. 263 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.639 So what he ended up doing is he got it 264 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.600 started and everything, and then he used three inch screws 265 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.919 to screw through the door into the frame to reinforce it. 266 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:25.279 So he put, like he said, five or six That 267 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.480 was how he secured the door initially. 268 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:27.919 Right. 269 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.679 So, as this is going on, he said he was 270 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.519 having friendly conversation with his son, not talking about the 271 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:38.720 topic of what was in the window, even though he 272 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.799 was dying to ask him. So he gets done doing 273 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:42.879 all that and then turns around and says, come over here, son, 274 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:44.919 because he had him at the edge of the bunk 275 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.519 and there's this little it was built into the wall 276 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.879 kind of thing. It was like a small little table 277 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.639 underneath that window to the right, and not very big. 278 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:54.919 It's smaller than half the size of a card table. 279 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.960 So he has his son over there and he's so, 280 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.879 what was it you saw? And he goes, you didn't 281 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:02.759 see it, Dad, And he was like, no, son, I 282 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:04.639 didn't see it. I saw something move, but I didn't 283 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.679 see it. He goes someone with the fur hood on 284 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.120 and he goes a fur hood and he goes yeah. 285 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.960 He goes did you see his face? And he goes, no, 286 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.320 all I saw was the fur hood. He says, okay, son, 287 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.759 someone's obviously playing a prank on us. He goes, I'm scared. 288 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.879 You're locking the door. You're putting screws through. You don't 289 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.799 do that at home. The kids being curious, why are 290 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.720 you doing this. Brad was like, we're in a strange place. 291 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:30.720 There's this stranger outside. I don't know what they want. 292 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.440 His son understood no from his son's point of view, 293 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.159 he was sitting there. This is his rough memory because 294 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.039 he was eight at the time. It's twenty years ago, 295 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.919 he said. As he was watching his dad cook and 296 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.360 his dad explaining, hey, I burnt some of this stuff 297 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.480 or whatever his dad was carrying on about it. At 298 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.399 the moment, something caught his attention at the window and 299 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.759 he turns and looks and just sees this silhouette of 300 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:57.720 what he referred to as a fur hood. It looked 301 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.200 like a fur lined hood on someone's head, and he 302 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.159 couldn't see the face. 303 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.039 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll 304 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.480 be right back after these messages. 305 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.879 Now. His son said that when that was going on, 306 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.039 he had the urge to want to initially go outside 307 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:23.519 and play, but once his dad noticed and stuff, he said, 308 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.159 the mood changed for him. He felt scared inside. He said. 309 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.399 It was real weird. He remembers vividly as a kid, 310 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.799 feeling like, oh, it's playtime, to all of a sudden dread. 311 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:37.120 He never felt that before. It was real, real, hard 312 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.360 for him to understand as an eight year old. As 313 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.919 it got much much lighter, Brad removed the screws from 314 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:45.840 the door had looked out the one that was nothing 315 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.399 going on. He had his son stay inside while he 316 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.759 did a little circle around the cabin. Saw nothing, look 317 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:54.960 for any kind of sign of anything. Saw nothing. It 318 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.440 was like, all right, they chill out and tell about 319 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.000 He said about tell about ten am in the morning. 320 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.519 And then he said, all right, you know what, I'm armed. 321 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.039 I'll keep my son close. We're going to go fish. Still, 322 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.480 there was a portion of him that didn't believe his 323 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.559 own eyes. With the dark movement. He thought maybe the 324 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.360 high tension and the rocks and stuff was just like 325 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.559 messing with them. He was looking for easy explanations to 326 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.919 what was going on around him. He was just grasping 327 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:25.600 at straws. At that point, he was feeling like his 328 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.799 well planned trip with the sun was getting messed with. Right, 329 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.360 we totally understandable. You can't account for that shit. So anyway, 330 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:38.399 so he gets his sun day, it's drizzly, you know, 331 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.960 he's takes him up, just passed the plane up along. 332 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.200 It wasn't quite a quarter mile from the cabin. There 333 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.720 was just enough riverbank that had brushed behind him that 334 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.200 was real thick. He didn't care for that too much. 335 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.679 There's a bunch of willows and stuff and poplars. He 336 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:58.000 didn't care for that much at all, but still he 337 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:02.559 let his son fish while he constantly kept watching. They 338 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.200 started noticing fish in the river moving up because the 339 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.920 drizzle had stopped. It was just the river water moving, 340 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.200 but wearing his polarized glasses, he was seeing fish moving 341 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:12.920 up to a hole just a little further up. So 342 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:14.720 he say, hey, son, let's move up a little waste. 343 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.960 We'll get ahead of these fish moving upstream and then 344 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.480 cast down to them and maybe catch something. His boy 345 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.079 was there for adventure, so they walked a little ways further. 346 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.319 Just before this bend in that river, there's a little 347 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.839 bit of an overwashed spot. So the side of the 348 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.359 river the cabin's on, there's a bunch of overwashes from 349 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:38.440 river ice that's getting basically a blockage from when it 350 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:40.720 goes out. It's an ice dam, so the water will 351 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:42.839 find another way, and so that's why you see these 352 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.240 teardrop shapes, some bigger than others, and that's just from 353 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.640 overflow from the ice when it's retreating out in the spring. 354 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.160 So there was a smaller one, and there was brush 355 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.599 and then a little bit of an old channel and 356 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:57.960 then more brush, so they had a straight line of 357 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:01.799 sight with brush here, line of sight in the thicker 358 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.960 brush here. Brad was standing with the line of sight 359 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:09.799 down that overwashed spot. His son was just right in 360 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:13.440 front of him, ten feet away, casting out trying to 361 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.720 catch fish. Well, as he's standing there, something catches his 362 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.240 eye way off in the line of sight down this 363 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.480 little overwashed spot, to the opposite side of the river bank, 364 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.920 just slightly around the corner. He turns and looks, and 365 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.359 he sees this black thing and he's looking and something's off. 366 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:34.119 Immediately he stops and he's really focusing on it, and 367 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.759 he notices it just still is still, and he's like 368 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.480 awkwardly cocking his head, like what am I seeing? Because 369 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.000 it was like the silhouette of a man, but much 370 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.599 bigger in the context of what he was looking at, 371 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.720 just brush all around and everything. All of a sudden, 372 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.880 there's this pitch black silhouette of a person right down 373 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.960 over there about he said, it was about one hundred 374 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:57.680 yards from his position where he was at to across 375 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.559 the river and to where it was, and immediate he's 376 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.599 what the hell is that? And at first he thought 377 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:05.880 maybe it's an old sign or so. It was this 378 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.640 pitch black and there he was trying to explain it 379 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:10.359 away in his own mind of what it could be, 380 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:12.519 and all of a sudden, this thing bit down a 381 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.039 little bit, stood back up, and then bolted out of you. 382 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.920 To his right. He was like, what the hell because 383 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.559 it moved and it was big and it just boom, 384 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:22.599 all of a sudden, was just animated. It went from 385 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:27.319 static to animated like that. He was shocked, but he 386 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.359 didn't feel scared until he heard splashing in the water 387 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.240 out of view around that bend. He just snatched his 388 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.640 son up and retreated back to the cabin. He said. 389 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:39.200 As he was going along, he left the fishing gear 390 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:41.960 and stuff there. He had his forty five seventies sung 391 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:44.640 over his shoulder. But when he snatched his son, his 392 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.240 son dropped the fishing poles. Scared the shit out of 393 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.039 the boy. He retreats right on back to the cabin, 394 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:52.519 he said. As he was going back to the cabin, 395 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.400 he could hear this thing moving back behind him off 396 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.799 to his left. He said, it was maybe fifty sixty yards, 397 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.680 but it stayed paced with them, but just back. So 398 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.359 he's hearing this brush moving. You got to remember, there's 399 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:10.000 thick brush on that side. On his left hand side, 400 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:13.799 it's just a wall of willows and stuff. So he 401 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.319