WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:51.280 At a book in. 2 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:32.640 Tonight's guest is Adam. Adam, Welcome to the show. Hello Vic, 3 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.879 how are you getting things done? As long as I 4 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.200 can say that, then it can't be too bad. How 5 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.920 about yourself, I'm doing fine. Lake is good well, as 6 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.959 long as you can say that, that's a good thing. Adam, 7 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.519 please give us a brief bio in yourself. 8 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:51.640 I'm thirty four years old. 9 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:57.400 I am from the Island Province of Newfoundland, Canada. I 10 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.719 do prospecting for a living, so I spend a lot 11 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.079 of time in the woods, so I like go with him. 12 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.120 It's only ever me and my dog, and we go 13 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:09.759 for tens of kilometers out sometimes, and I love spending 14 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:13.840 time in the nature and being by myself in nature 15 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:19.319 and everything about it. Really, i had two kids thirteens now, 16 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.520 and I've been moving around all over the island the best, 17 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.560 I would say, fifteen years, just bouncing around from place 18 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.120 to place depending on where I'm prospecting at the time. 19 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:36.120 So I've seen a lot of the island. 20 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.639 I've seen a lot of nature and stuff, so nothing 21 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.080 really ever surprises me with the place I'm from. The 22 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:49.639 area i'm from is all Pity Harbor and there's a 23 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.159 lot of old history here. We were one of the 24 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.439 first Don't settlements in all North America. It was settled 25 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.919 in sixteen hundreds roughly, and we have a lot of 26 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.759 stuff that I never really bade attention before until I've 27 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:07.960 had my first encounter. 28 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.840 Yeah, that's my bio. 29 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.199 It's funny, Like I told you the first time we spoke, 30 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.639 even your new places are older than our old places. 31 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:23.960 So yeah, yeah, well they're pretty old. Everything's all out 32 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:24.479 this way. 33 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.199 Well, that just means a lot of good history. You 34 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.439 had your first dog me an encounter about ten or 35 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.080 eleven years ago, Adam in a town called tor Bay 36 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:34.280 in Newfoundland. 37 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:34.520 There. 38 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:36.759 What can you tell us about the place. 39 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:42.919 It's out in a road called Valeine Line, And when 40 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.479 I first moved there, it was starting to get developed. 41 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.360 The road is pretty barren, like say, probably even two 42 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:54.639 years prior before I moved to the area. Just picture 43 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:58.439 our road cutting straight through the woods, and that is 44 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:02.240 what it is, and just people started putting houses on it. 45 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.240 And there was a subdivision getting built when my first 46 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.479 encounter happened. So I'm not entirely sure that had something 47 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.240 to do with deciding, but it's quite a place like 48 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.800 there's a place that like you would often see moose, 49 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.639 Like it's in the middle of everything. So it wasn't 50 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:24.720 strange to see a moose out that way? 51 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.439 Is it that way? Across all of Newfoundland were pretty 52 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.360 much you got outside and at any time you could 53 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.639 almost bump into a moose or or only certain areas 54 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.240 of Newfoundland. 55 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.519 Certain areas I would say, the area that I'm in 56 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:44.439 right now, pity, however, it's it's really hilly, so like 57 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.519 unless you're up on top of the hills, up further 58 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.240 away from the ocean, your chances are seeing like a 59 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.319 moose or something you might but not usually in the 60 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.199 general area that I'm in now, like, but out towards 61 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.720 Bottling Line that way where I had my first encounter. 62 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.839 Was it's very like like you're in the middle of 63 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.800 nowhere up that way. But in Pitty Harbor, it's a 64 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:12.399 small nick community, so like everybody knows everybody, and all 65 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.000 the houses are like bunched together. 66 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.759 But there is a lot of wilderness down here. 67 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.399 I will say that, like it's just like if you 68 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.199 take a bunch of houses and put them in the 69 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.319 middle of nowhere, and then that's how you get our communities, 70 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.519 and there's like nothing missing between the communities, so it's 71 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.680 pretty dea slate place. 72 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.120 Sounds like a great dogman habitat to me, no wonder. 73 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.439 After you had that first encounter, it seemed like it 74 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.160 was almost like the wheel came off. You started to 75 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.319 have experience after experience with dog men. Do you think 76 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:45.680 you were marked somehow? 77 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.439 To be honest with you, I think I might have, 78 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.120 like without like knowing it at the time, like because 79 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.000 I've been out in the wood since, like I've been 80 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.560 fourteen years old, like I said, I'm thirty four now, 81 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:02.040 so a long in the woods, and I think like 82 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.759 I might have like did something or I might have 83 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.600 upset him in his natural place out when I was 84 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.519 out there doing something like it could have been like 85 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.079 I go when I prospect, like I go break up minerals, 86 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.040 and if I need to get a specimen tested in 87 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.199 the lab, I had to take something back with me. 88 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.360 So I'm not sure if it was, like. 89 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.920 I don't know, it could be something as simple as 90 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:31.160 me taking a rock that blind to him. It could 91 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.879 have been something to blind to him, or I could 92 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.439 have just did something out one day in the middle 93 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:39.319 of nowhere. But I know that. 94 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:45.040 There's something to it because ever since that day it's 95 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.000 been constant, right like. 96 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.720 It's been. It's a bit unnerving because I don't know 97 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.920 what I did to start at all. 98 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.120 Yeah, I'll bet it has been a nerving It's been 99 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.079 one experience after the next. Unfortunately, you said that you're 100 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.360 a prospector what do you prospect for? 101 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:03.560 In? 102 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:04.920 How long have you done that? 103 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:13.639 I've been prospecting now too well career eras since I 104 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.199 was I'm going to say twenty three. I've been rock 105 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.279 counting as a hobby since I was a kid. Now 106 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:26.399 I've only started getting into it like financially, like I said, 107 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.120 since twenty. 108 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.759 Probably twenty three or twenty like twenty two or. 109 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.399 Twenty three, I think I was, and I started actually 110 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:35.920 doing it to make money. 111 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.199 I'm here in New Finland. Area I'm in now. 112 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.439 Is not my favorite area for it because I'm only 113 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:49.199 getting jasper agates, different type of heel and stones basically 114 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:50.759 right it's coming in. 115 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:53.160 It's a glacial till site. 116 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.920 I got to claim on down here, but in Gander 117 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.959 I was working goal claims. We get gold. It comes 118 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.800 up from the ground in in courts veins, so it's 119 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.839 nothing like you see on TV, like go to the 120 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.240 river and paying for gold or anything like that. Everything 121 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.519 you do about that way, you gotta have every equipment, 122 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.639 like everything you're using rosas and drills and taking core 123 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.959 samples and stuff like that. There's a really a really 124 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.199 big goal boom in a central Newfoundland right now, Well. 125 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:27.720 That sounds like a lot of really hard work. How 126 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:29.439 hard is it for you to do that kind of 127 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.000 work though? Knowing what could be watching you at any 128 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.679 time from the shadows. 129 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.480 It's affected me to the point right now, Like before 130 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.519 I had this encounter, like my first, well it wasn't 131 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:44.320 my first. It was the second one that really did 132 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.840 it for me. But like I never thought of nothing 133 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.080 about it after my very first one, and I just 134 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:51.759 used to do my own thing. 135 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.600 So I just go do my own thing. The only 136 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.159 thing I ever really worried about is. 137 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.919 Moose, because we have moose here, and we have black beer, 138 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.320 some links in, some Bbcat and every now and again 139 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.799 a calio. Nothing really big that I'm scared of. Scared of, 140 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.519 right like more scared of than moose than anything else. 141 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:17.080 And I always took my dog with me. Dog's always 142 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.559 been with me, because you're not allowed to use fire 143 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.279 armble unless you're a hunter, you're not allowed to have 144 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.720 a fire answer, So I don't do any hunting. So 145 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.639 I only ever took beer, mace or something with me 146 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.240 like that. But I never really thought about it until 147 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.960 my second encounter, and after that, I do not go 148 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.360 more than like two kilometers out, Like there's a cut 149 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.639 off point for me now, whereas like if that can 150 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.639 do bad happen down too far away? Well, saying that, 151 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.240 I always have a list before I leave, I have 152 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.799 a checklist to like different type of gear I take 153 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.240 with me. I take satellite phoneme or something like that. 154 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.879 I take food, I take extra food, I take brain gear. 155 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.919 I look at the weather before I leave. I tell 156 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.480 people where I'm going and when to expect me back, 157 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.080 and if I'm not back at a certain time then 158 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.440 to do that. But like I said, ever since the 159 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.000 second encounter, it hasn't been the same. I haven't been 160 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:18.840 doing what I love to do anymore, right, so it's 161 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:19.919 definitely affected me. 162 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.399 Well, I'm sure these experiences have. Yeah, that's totally normal. 163 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.720 So sorry to hear that's the key though. All right, Adam, 164 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:33.080 you've got a lot to tell us about. Please tell 165 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.919 us about your encounters. Now give us ever last detail 166 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:36.879 that comes to mind. 167 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.840 My first encounter took place about ten or eleven years 168 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.480 ago and Bawlin Line. It was i would say middle 169 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.320 of the day. I was out on a patio having 170 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.679 a cigarette. It's a bad habit, but I was out 171 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.360 having cigarette and I was just doing my thing, and 172 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.759 I was looking down the driveway. I had a straight 173 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.440 straight down the driveway. I would say, it's about fifty 174 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:03.840 meters down the driveway too. 175 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:09.480 Across the road and the woods here is really. 176 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.759 Thick, like if something was standing in like three feet 177 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.360 behind the woodline, you wouldn't see it. But there was 178 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.279 I'm not sure how long with stretch, but there's a 179 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:21.840 gap between the woodline across the road to my driveway. 180 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.879 And I was looking down there and a moose, a big, 181 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.759 full grown bull moose, I think, probably the biggest one 182 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.639 I ever seen. It came running and I'm going to 183 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.519 guess it like from the size of the area that 184 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:42.679 ran through. It might have took twenty steps maybe till 185 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:46.159 it was gone. But like I was thinking myself at 186 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.159 the time, it's strange because we like, why is it running? 187 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.279 I never seen a moose running like that before in 188 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.320 my life unless there was a car or something. But 189 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.399 there's no cars. And then like I was, I never 190 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.279 had the thought process. And I seen a big eat 191 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:05.039 mass and it leaked from one end, but from one 192 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.879 the beginning of the meadow to the opposite side. After 193 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:12.519 the moose. It didn't touch the ground, not once. And 194 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.879 like I was telling Vick, I didn't see no. I 195 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.120 didn't see the front or the rare pause. I saw 196 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.120 a head and a tail. The head I couldn't like, 197 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:28.200 like I said, it happened that fast. I could not 198 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.600 pick out any details I've seen a head. The head 199 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:34.320 was really big, I all that, and it looked unproportionalized, 200 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.960 like the head from the rest of its body. 201 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.480 And it had a really long, fluffy tail. 202 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.600 And the animal was completely white, like I've never seen 203 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.440 a wild animal that was white be so clean. 204 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.000 But like it happened in a blink of and eye. 205 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.120 If I had to turn my head to look at 206 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.919 my door behind me and look back, I wouldn't even unnoticed. 207 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.639 After that sighting, I stayed around on my front deck 208 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.240 and waged it around because I was going to take 209 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:02.840 a picture of it. 210 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:05.840 And it never ever did come back. 211 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.240 So it was later that night we were getting ready 212 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.080 to go to bed, or we might have been been 213 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:14.960 in bit. We're lying down or something, me and my 214 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.720 ex girlfriend at the time, and we started getting window 215 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.679 tapping and it was like tat tat tat, and then 216 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.480 like we thought somebody was out there, so we went 217 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:27.879 to look. 218 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:30.399 We went to look out one window. 219 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.320 And this is funny because it happened to us like 220 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.840 it was almost like this plane shad trick Simons. We'd 221 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.759 look out one window and the window opposite side of 222 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.039 the house we would get a tap. And at the time, 223 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.879 we did not we did not correlate the what I 224 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.480 seen that day with the window tapping. I've never I've 225 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.919 never heard anything about a dog man or I've never 226 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.200 even heard anybody talk about a bigfoot of anything like that. 227 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.200 I'm in my province, so that that thought was in 228 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:09.200 the back of my mind, like wasn't even there. So, uh, 229 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.759 the window tapping continued on and off for I would 230 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:16.200 say the whole time we were there. 231 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.399 It wasn't every night thing. 232 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.720 It was like it happened one night and then two 233 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.039 or three nights after that happened again. It was always 234 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.879 random different times at the night too. Sometimes it would 235 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.360 be in the middle of the night and away because 236 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:31.679 but it was always like you go check one window, 237 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.120 and like I said, you hear it on the opposite 238 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.080 in the house, so as you go check it. 239 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.559 But that continued the whole time we were there. So 240 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:40.279 we moved. 241 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.720 I had a family member back home back in Petty 242 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.120 Harbor gets sick, so I wanted to move back home 243 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:51.159 and help take care of them. And when I moved back, 244 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:56.600 we're live in Okay, so Pitty However, my hometown Pitty Horever. 245 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.279 It's actually college. Full name is Pitty Harbor. 246 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.039 Magis the reason it is called that is there's a 247 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:05.720 hill in between the community from one in the community to. 248 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:06.279 Where I live. 249 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:09.759 Say, my mom lives in the Pity Harbor section and 250 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.240 I live in the max Co section. I'd never lived 251 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.159 down in that section before in my life, and we 252 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.639 were pretty happy to be back home. And we were 253 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.720 there for a while. We never got no taps, not 254 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.519 for a while, and then I think one random night 255 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:30.600 again started getting window taps. And at the time still 256 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.399 I didn't put two and two together. And this one 257 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.320 night I can remember it was one of one of 258 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:43.799 the scarier things that happened to me. Uh, me and 259 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.039 my ex girlfriend. We were lying down to sleep where 260 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.159 we were in bit of sleep, and I got a 261 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.279 little beagle. His name is Blue, and he don't he's 262 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.879 not really like a growly type of dog, and I've 263 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.600 never heard him growl really a couple of times. This 264 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.879 one night he woke us up and he was growling, 265 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.399 and he's grown back. And the place that we were 266 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.039 living I'm still living in like the. 267 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:06.679 Basement half of the house. 268 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:12.159 So my bed is up against the wall, but the 269 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.519 window is i'd say, halfway up the wall, so like 270 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:20.519 you're it was behind us. So we woke up and 271 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.440 he was groundling, but he was grounding looking at us, 272 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.279 and we were like, he's looking at us, grounding, And 273 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.440 then we realized he was groundling at something behind us 274 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.240 in the window, and both of us i think, looked 275 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.559 at the same time, and we all we can come 276 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.279 out of it. When we stopped to talk about it afterwards. 277 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:42.039 Was a bit like my window is probably four fat 278 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:49.159 wide and four feet long, probably say, and this head 279 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.440 was almost a whole circle, like the whole window almost 280 00:16:53.799 --> 00:17:01.000 it came in almost like a bluff charge, but I'm 281 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.840 thinking it has pretty good reflexes because it hit my window. 282 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.920 It hit my window, and I thought it was common 283 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.319 through the window, but it's nosehated. When it's nose d 284 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.400 it backed up and it was almost like a snake strike. 285 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.119 It happened that fast. It was like it if you 286 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.079 blink it would miss it. And that was just gone. 287 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:26.119 So that experience scared us pretty bad. I took a 288 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.359 lot convincing not to move out of there. To my 289 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.880 ex we ended up switching. Well, my place got two bedrooms, 290 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.839 one in the front, one in the back, so we're 291 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.039 staying where our bedroom was in the back of the house. 292 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.640 Next morning we moved to the front of the house. 293 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:45.160 Needs to stay and and it's just that was the 294 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.960 first time I had an experience in pity. However, now 295 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.720 the window tapping continued, continued the whole time. Were still 296 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:55.759 to day. I still don't know what's up with the 297 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:02.599 window tapping, but I would say, well, five years ago, 298 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.319 I got a really good job offer to go work 299 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.759 out go on mine in Ganner, And while I was 300 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.279 out there, I was going to try to get a claimmate, 301 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.960 steak a claim for myself, and I ended up doing 302 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.039 that and it. 303 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:20.599 Was going good. 304 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.440 It was like everything was going perfect for us for 305 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.839 a while, and like we never had no tap thing, 306 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.920 because I'll be like we were renting the apartment I 307 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.200 had in pity however, and still renting one out of 308 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.200 Gander so I can come back and forth and help 309 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:37.759 my sick family member. So I was out there about 310 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:42.960 five months now, and just one morning I woke up 311 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.160 and I was pretty bored. I had nothing to do. 312 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:47.920 I'd say it was probably like six thirty or something 313 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.599 when I woke up, and I already had to date 314 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:54.599 it for yuh. Because whenever I go to go prospect 315 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:58.839 and all always the day before go online American on 316 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.000 the mad shirt. Well, first of I'll searching on a 317 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.240 map find a good area. I uses Google Maps mixed 318 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:10.119 with topographical maps to find good areas a prospect. So 319 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:15.200 I found this one area and it was at the 320 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.680 bottom of a hill an old ski resort. The ski 321 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.319 resort was banded, I believe in the eighties. So I 322 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.920 talked to one of the locals out there and he 323 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.720 said it closed down in the eighties. So that's all 324 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.079 I understand. Scne not from the areas about five hour 325 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:35.000 drive from here. So this one morning I got off 326 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.720 and I got ready and got on my gear together. 327 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.119 And my house was the one that I was staying 328 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.799 at the time in Gander, was right next to a 329 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:46.200 highway at four Lane Highway, and the area that I 330 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.200 had planned on prospect was across the Hollyway. In about 331 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.920 five minute walk up the street, up the highway and 332 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:57.200 you would hit a tourist information booth. 333 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:01.079 A tourist information booth was in. 334 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.079 The air general area where the ski resort lodge would 335 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:07.640 have been before the tour down. So there's a gate 336 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:12.480 behind the tourist informations place and the hikers and people 337 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:17.039 uses all the old ski routes for hiking trails and stuff, 338 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.759 I guess. So the area that I needed to get 339 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.559 to was at the bottom of the hill. And I 340 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:24.720 don't know how long the hill is. I should have 341 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:26.519 looked up, but I think it's like two or three 342 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.960 kilometers from top to bottom. It's not like a steep, 343 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.279 steep hill. It's more of a long hill than anything. 344 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.039 And the area chose down by a lake, like a 345 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:42.440 big joint lake called Gander Lake. And I was down 346 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.519 there and doing my thing like I use a rock 347 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.920 hammer when I'm breaking rocks open, and certain rocks like 348 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.119 you can feel when you pick them up at how 349 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.200 heavy they are, and like you can almost tell they 350 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:55.599 know I'm not going to be able to break this 351 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:56.559 one open, but. 352 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.119 You're going to try to anyways. 353 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.119 So I had to rock and I hit a four times, 354 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.880 and I think after the fourth time, I was like, no, 355 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.559 not even like sometimes I'm after hitting rocks, I'm like 356 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.400 hurting my elbows. So I'm like, now I'm just gonna 357 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.279 lay that down. It's not worth it. So as soon 358 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:16.480 as I laid it down, I heard the exact same noise, 359 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.440 well it sounded to me the exact same noise is 360 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.200 what I just made with the rock camer hitting the rock. 361 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.680 It would make a high pitch ting sound like ding 362 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.960 ding when it would hit a rock that it couldn't break. 363 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.880 And I heard in response four taps back. 364 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.359 And I knew at this point that I always at 365 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:40.599 the Battlement Hill by myself because the parking lot there 366 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.160 was no other hikers vehicles there, and I would have 367 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.440 seen anybody if they had come down that area. And 368 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.680 like I did like watch beef with shows and stuff 369 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:55.039 like growing up, and I've heard like wood knocks and 370 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:57.000 stuff like that, but I've never heard I don't know, 371 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.559 it could be a thing. I've never heard it like 372 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.440 rocks getting plank together. But it sounded like rocks getting 373 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.400 plank together, but like with a middle pin to it. 374 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:12.359 And that started just startled me, right, So I turned 375 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:14.119 around to look at my dog to see if he 376 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:18.720 was out right. And he will always like he's actually 377 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.599 saved me from like bobcats and stuff, not like actually 378 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:26.359 foot of bobcat out, but like he'll bark and let 379 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:28.519 me notice something there, and then I'll look and see 380 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:30.559 about getting like, okay, thanks, I didn't know that was 381 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:33.160 dear the thing. You know, we'll move on, you know, 382 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.119 saying with moves and other stuff to help move with that. 383 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.400 But this one time, he wasn't parking, he wasn't doing 384 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.359 the growl and nothing. He was opposite I was faced 385 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:49.839 one way, he was opposite direction of me, probably would 386 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:52.319 have been the left hand, and he was just laid 387 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:57.279 there and he was just crying like I've never seen 388 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:59.559 him do that. It's almost like he just submitted whatever 389 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:01.519 was there. I didn't want to have nothing to do 390 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:03.880 with it. You just you know, I'm just gonna lie 391 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.319 down and deal with you. Solid did, and we had 392 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:10.079 I heard a branch break, a really big branch. I 393 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:14.680 sounded like somebody took a tree and broke it. And 394 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:17.880 I said, okay, enough of this doesn't take much to 395 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.000 scare of me. Like so I'm out of the wool. 396 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.319 Especially you're out in the woods for so long. He 397 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.960 knows what you hear like. You're used to the sounds right. 398 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:28.119 Like stuff that I was hearing down there that morning, 399 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:31.200 I was never heard before the whole time I've been 400 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:33.839 out in the woods over the years. So I just said, no, 401 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:36.720