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<v Speaker 1>Now one of your pudding. I got a string going

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<v Speaker 1>on here. Something just kiss my dog. Something killed your dog?

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<v Speaker 1>My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over

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<v Speaker 1>the fence and he was dead. And once you hit

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<v Speaker 1>the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I

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<v Speaker 1>saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what

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<v Speaker 1>are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling

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<v Speaker 1>around out here? Did you see what it was? It was?

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<v Speaker 1>It was standing up. I'm out here looking through the

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<v Speaker 1>window now and I don't see anything. I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to go outside. Jesus quice you better New York. Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>hit somebody out here? What quent on out there? I

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<v Speaker 1>thought of a bit just about ticking fort nine? I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know easy out there. Yeah, I'm wuking right head.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, greetings from Alaskas. Thanks for joining me. What I

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to share with you today comes from We'll name

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<v Speaker 2>her Kelly. She's from a village. The village is in

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<v Speaker 2>the Bristol Bay area. She ended up going up the

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<v Speaker 2>Wood River with some relatives on up to your Goula

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<v Speaker 2>walk and they ended up between Lake Nurka and Lake Beverly,

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<v Speaker 2>now this particular area, and I tried to pinpoint it

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<v Speaker 2>on the map with her. She wasn't too sure because

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<v Speaker 2>this happened back in the early sixties. I'm going by

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<v Speaker 2>her best description as far as what she'll see on

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<v Speaker 2>the map. Her aunt and uncle and her cousin will

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<v Speaker 2>name him Charlie. He's since passed again. This was back

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<v Speaker 2>in the early sixties. Her aunt and uncles were down

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<v Speaker 2>at the skiff and they're gonna money on the beach,

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<v Speaker 2>have a picnic there. They were getting everything ready. Her

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<v Speaker 2>aunt asked them to go see if they saw any berries.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there any worthwhile berries to pick over this way

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever? Just conversation. Basically Kelly at the time, she

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<v Speaker 2>was about fourteen years old, right, so she was like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll go and look. And her cousin, Charlie, was a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of years older than her. Charlie's dad. Her uncle

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<v Speaker 2>sent him with a three fifty seven little Florence Burrow

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<v Speaker 2>revolver in his pocket in case they came across bears,

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<v Speaker 2>which in that area they're very common. You got multiple

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<v Speaker 2>salmon streams and millions of fish. They're everywhere, So they

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<v Speaker 2>take off. They knew they had at least four hours

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<v Speaker 2>before anything was ready to eat or whatever, because her

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<v Speaker 2>gant uncle told them, hey, go check out the trails,

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<v Speaker 2>keep safe whatever. They go on about their way, and

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<v Speaker 2>they make their way up this little finger. From how

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<v Speaker 2>she explained it to me, because she was only there

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<v Speaker 2>the one time, you know, it is several years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>the experience is vivid, but the exact location is a

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<v Speaker 2>little off. So they make their way up this ridge basically,

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<v Speaker 2>and where they're going up the mountains there, they're not

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<v Speaker 2>overly high. They're not like thousands and thousands of feet.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the Wood River range. So they're going up this

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<v Speaker 2>ridge off a game trail that's roughly twenty twenty five

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<v Speaker 2>feet below the actual top of the ridge, with sloping

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<v Speaker 2>about forty five degrees. So they get back up in there.

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<v Speaker 2>They look around at a couple places. Once they got

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<v Speaker 2>right around tree line and opened up a little bit,

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<v Speaker 2>there wasn't a whole lot of berries, And they're walking

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<v Speaker 2>along having a good old time. Got to a certain

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<v Speaker 2>point and realized that there's really nothing here. We need

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<v Speaker 2>to look for a different location. They turn around and

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<v Speaker 2>started heading back down. So they come up on a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit of a rise and the trail starts to

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<v Speaker 2>lead back downhill. From what she was saying, her cousin

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<v Speaker 2>Charlie was in front of her and the few blackberries

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<v Speaker 2>that he found he's throwing up in the air as

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<v Speaker 2>they're walking for them to fall on her, just goofing off.

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<v Speaker 2>She said. He was always real playful and just like

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<v Speaker 2>the joke around. So he's throwing these berries and she

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<v Speaker 2>saved us up all that kind of stuff, just being kids,

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<v Speaker 2>basically young teenagers. So as they're going along, the wind

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<v Speaker 2>is blowing towards them, but it's coming over the ridge

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<v Speaker 2>above them, so it's swirling around them. It's not hitting

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<v Speaker 2>them directly. But a couple times during this wind swirling

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<v Speaker 2>around them, they cut a whiff of something real bowl,

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<v Speaker 2>which immediately stopped her cousin Charlie, who was in front

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<v Speaker 2>of her a couple paces from joking and jovial to

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden dead quiet and put his hand

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<v Speaker 2>up to stop. So he's looking up the ridge because

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<v Speaker 2>that's the direction of wind's blowing. So he's looking and

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<v Speaker 2>not seeing anything right, So he squats down and does

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<v Speaker 2>this number with his hand telling her to squat down too.

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<v Speaker 2>They're looking because that smell triggered something within him. She

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<v Speaker 2>didn't realize at the time. So she's whispering, what do

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<v Speaker 2>we stop for? And he goes, did you smell that?

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<v Speaker 2>And she said, yeah, I smiled it is that a bear? Now,

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<v Speaker 2>she had been around bears, but never really smell on one,

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<v Speaker 2>so she was going off for what her cousin said.

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<v Speaker 2>Her cousin was like, it's not a bear and didn't

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<v Speaker 2>give any explanation, just said it's not a bear. And

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<v Speaker 2>he had that pistol out. So seeing him go from

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<v Speaker 2>jovial and joking to pistol out, it took it to

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<v Speaker 2>that other level of this is no longer in a

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<v Speaker 2>fun situation. Something's off. They're on the trail coming down.

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<v Speaker 2>They're on a slope coming down. Off to their left

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<v Speaker 2>is thick vegetation and they're just right at the tree line.

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<v Speaker 2>Just to their right is tree line's done. There's a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of scrub brushes, but the rest is just uphill.

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<v Speaker 2>As they're going, she's trying to ask him questions about

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<v Speaker 2>what are we doing. He's looking off to his right.

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<v Speaker 2>If straight down the trail was twelve o'clock. He would

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<v Speaker 2>be at the two o'clock position looking up the ridge

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<v Speaker 2>in this direction, and she's, what are you looking at?

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<v Speaker 2>Because she's trying to see what he's seeing. He points,

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<v Speaker 2>and so she looks, gets the direction proper, and she

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<v Speaker 2>sees what he sees, which is dark shape, just a

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<v Speaker 2>rounded dark shape up at the top of the ridge,

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<v Speaker 2>which is twenty five feet in elevation, but in distance

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<v Speaker 2>at the angle you're talking maybe forty yards forty five

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<v Speaker 2>yards something like that. So she sees it, and he's saying,

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<v Speaker 2>just be quiet. The wind's blowing in our face, so

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<v Speaker 2>they haven't winded us. And she's totally oblivious to what

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<v Speaker 2>do you mean they who? She wanted to ask, who's

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<v Speaker 2>they respecting her cousin. He's the one in charge of

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<v Speaker 2>keeping her safe. She shut up and stayed quiet. They're

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<v Speaker 2>both looking at this little, rounded dark spot that didn't

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<v Speaker 2>match any of the other terrain, and it disappears. It

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<v Speaker 2>just drops out of you. So they're sitting there for

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<v Speaker 2>a minute, and she's asking him what's going on now.

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<v Speaker 2>She has heard Harry Mann's stories chalked it up too. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>you know that those are good stories because she had

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<v Speaker 2>heard other people, but at that age she just chalked

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<v Speaker 2>it up to someone trying to outdo someone else's story

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<v Speaker 2>kind of thing, and didn't really realized the significance or

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<v Speaker 2>the reality of it. So he is, look, it's not funny,

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<v Speaker 2>because she was giggling. This is silly. What are we doing,

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<v Speaker 2>he says, it's a hairy man. Not knowing any better,

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<v Speaker 2>she starts smockingly saying, ooh, harryman, He goes, look, not

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<v Speaker 2>a joke. Be quiet. So, with the wind blowing somewhere,

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, it gets like still in the air,

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<v Speaker 2>even though the wind's blowing. She said she couldn't really

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<v Speaker 2>hear the wind anymore. It was like the being in

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<v Speaker 2>the eye of the storm kind of feeling. That's the

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<v Speaker 2>best description she had of it. As this is going on,

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<v Speaker 2>about half the distance between where this thing was last

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<v Speaker 2>seen and where their position was on this trail, a

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<v Speaker 2>woodland caribou comes over the ridge and its back leg

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<v Speaker 2>is stiff, pointing backwards, half dragging it like it had

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<v Speaker 2>been dislocated or something. This cariboo is going straight down

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<v Speaker 2>cut half the distance between where they last seen this

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<v Speaker 2>thing coming down the hill, and as soon as it

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<v Speaker 2>dropped down into the trees below them. Her cousin looks

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<v Speaker 2>back at her, and she says, they must be hunting,

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<v Speaker 2>And so everything's becoming real to her at this point, because, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>he said he saw harry Man, which is whatever. She

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<v Speaker 2>didn't see the hairy man. She just saw a dark,

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<v Speaker 2>little lump. And then with the cariboo coming through injured

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<v Speaker 2>and him saying that, it's really starting to she's getting

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<v Speaker 2>the realization of the holy crap. So he says, stay quiet,

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<v Speaker 2>back up, start backing up. So she stands up, turns around,

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<v Speaker 2>and starts walking up the trail. He basically almost tackled

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<v Speaker 2>her and said, stay low and keep going in that direction.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll keep an eye out, but don't stand up all

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<v Speaker 2>the way. Stay low to the ground. He gave no explanation,

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<v Speaker 2>so she was just doing that, she is told. So

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<v Speaker 2>they go back uphill a little ways, so they basically

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<v Speaker 2>doubled the distance from where they were when they initially

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<v Speaker 2>saw a little dark lump. They doubled the distance further back.

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<v Speaker 2>So now where they're standing, it's a little tighter in

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<v Speaker 2>the brush. There's scrubbrush on their right, more brush on

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<v Speaker 2>their left. You got to understand that's not all tree

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<v Speaker 2>lines have an exact straight line across the ebb and

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<v Speaker 2>flow as far as elevation. So where they happened to

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<v Speaker 2>back up to there was more brush behind them, so

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<v Speaker 2>her cousin felt a little safer with some cover, if

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<v Speaker 2>that makes sense. And he's looking and she's let's just go.

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<v Speaker 2>That was her reasoning was, let's just go. Let's just

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<v Speaker 2>take the trail. We'll be back down to the beach

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<v Speaker 2>in no time. Let's just go. We can't hold on.

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<v Speaker 2>Now he's recognizing something she isn't. He's recognizing there's a

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<v Speaker 2>hunt going on, and he doesn't want to get into

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<v Speaker 2>the middle of that hunt. So he gingerly explains, look,

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<v Speaker 2>they're hunting that caribou's injured. They're gonna want to go

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<v Speaker 2>after it. Because they could hear the caribou. It didn't

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<v Speaker 2>go too much further down the hill and was working

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<v Speaker 2>its way through the brush. It was easy to hear, right.

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<v Speaker 2>So as he's explaining this, the dark shape reappears, but

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<v Speaker 2>this time you could see his shoulders and head. It

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<v Speaker 2>was obvious it was very large. So he says, I

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<v Speaker 2>told you just stay still, stay still, stay quiet. We'll

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<v Speaker 2>let them pass and when they're doing their thing, then

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<v Speaker 2>we'll go because the only direction they could go for

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<v Speaker 2>safety is back the way they came, which now they're

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<v Speaker 2>cut off. So she was saying, was really odd being

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<v Speaker 2>in a position to where she had no control over anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyone would feel unsettled by that, let alone this thing

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<v Speaker 2>standing up there, So she said, once it showed itself

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<v Speaker 2>again and you could see the shoulders in the head,

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<v Speaker 2>it was facing them, it was looking right at them

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<v Speaker 2>from that distance, which is less than one hundred yards.

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<v Speaker 2>It's looking at them and just assessing them. She could

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<v Speaker 2>just feel its eyes on them, which is a creepy

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<v Speaker 2>feeling in itself.

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<v Speaker 1>Geez.

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<v Speaker 2>So they sit there a moment this thing slowly blows

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<v Speaker 2>out of you. So they're sitting there quiet, and he

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<v Speaker 2>is I want to go. I want us to run,

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<v Speaker 2>but I don't know what they're doing. I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to start running and then be intercepted as they're going

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<v Speaker 2>out after this caribou. So they're sitting there facing this direction.

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<v Speaker 2>Now behind them is a lot more brush. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>brushy air spot of the trail. There's more vegetation on

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<v Speaker 2>their right versus where they just were where it was

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<v Speaker 2>more open and just some scrubbrush. Where they're at, they're

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<v Speaker 2>real heavy rank smell, like this smell was just right

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<v Speaker 2>on top of them. Again, he's still holding the pistol.

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<v Speaker 2>There's still the caribou making noise off to their left.

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<v Speaker 2>You can tell me whatever you want, but she was gone,

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<v Speaker 2>started hauling ass, knocked Charlie over. Charlie's yelling, I don't run.

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<v Speaker 2>It was too much in the moment. She was too

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<v Speaker 2>Charlie's there and he's standing over her, and he's pointing

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<v Speaker 2>and he goes, look, you need to get up. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not chasing us. We need to get up. Just walk calmly, walk, calmly.

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<v Speaker 2>We gotta go. So she's sobbing, half hunched over and

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<v Speaker 2>he's guiding her by her arm because she said the

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<v Speaker 2>tears are just pouring. She had snot coming out the nose.

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<v Speaker 2>It was bad, all bad as far as her emotional state.

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<v Speaker 2>She said she must have stumbled maybe ten fifteen steps

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<v Speaker 2>and collapsed again, just overcome by emotion. Right again. Charlie's

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<v Speaker 2>trying to console her and yet encourage her to keep

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<v Speaker 2>it in the ground, because she was a hunched down,

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<v Speaker 2>her hands and knees were on the ground and she sobbing.

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<v Speaker 2>When she felt that, all tears stop. She was immediately upright.

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<v Speaker 2>She started hauling ass down the trail. I asked her,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, was it just the feeling of the

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<v Speaker 2>ground moving. She said that once she felt the ground

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<v Speaker 2>shake from this thing's weight, it had to have been

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<v Speaker 2>close enough. It was just like the jack rabbit fight

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<v Speaker 2>or flight response. It was flight, and she took off

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<v Speaker 2>down that trail. She said, there's portions of the trail

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<v Speaker 2>that dropped about three to four feet because you're going

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<v Speaker 2>up rocks and dirt and stuff, and so the trail

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<v Speaker 2>trail ebbs and flows and goes back and forth and

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<v Speaker 2>drops here and goes up here and that kind of thing. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>So she's literally leaping down these places a couple times

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<v Speaker 2>she had to tumble over, jump back up, and continue running.

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<v Speaker 2>I asked her. I was like, did you stop to

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<v Speaker 2>think about your cousin? Did you stop to try to

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<v Speaker 2>figure out are we safe yet? She said nope. Everything

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<v Speaker 2>in her said go. That's what she did. Stay tuned

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<v Speaker 2>for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back

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<v Speaker 2>after these messages. Now she comes running back down to

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<v Speaker 2>it took because she had tears streaming down her face.

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<v Speaker 2>She was all scratched up from tumbling, jumping up, running

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<v Speaker 2>through brush, all that stuff. Right. She heard Charlie yelling

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<v Speaker 2>for her to stop a couple times because Charlie was

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<v Speaker 2>concerned she was going to get out of sight and

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<v Speaker 2>potentially get snatched up. She learns this later. So she

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<v Speaker 2>makes it all the way back down to where her

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<v Speaker 2>aunt and uncle are on the beach and they hear her.

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<v Speaker 2>Unbeknownst to her, she didn't realize she was screaming and

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<v Speaker 2>wailing all the way down. Charlie verified that her aunt

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<v Speaker 2>and uncle verified it when she came back down, they

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<v Speaker 2>heard her wailing and screaming all in ass but in

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<v Speaker 2>her mind's eye, she was just running. She didn't realize

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<v Speaker 2>all this stuff was going on, and she didn't realize

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<v Speaker 2>she was screaming and all that stuff. So her uncle

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<v Speaker 2>immediately has his rifle is coming up the trail to

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<v Speaker 2>meet her. She blows past him. She gets to her

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<v Speaker 2>aunt and just basically tackles her aunt looking for comfort.

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<v Speaker 2>And her aunt was sitting on a log in front

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<v Speaker 2>of a fire, tending to a meal, and here she

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<v Speaker 2>comes and just tackles her aunt to the ground. So

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<v Speaker 2>her aunt's calming her downs, telling her calm down. Her

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<v Speaker 2>uncle's asking where's Charlie. Whre's Charlie? Off in the distance.

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<v Speaker 2>You can hear Charlie's screaming. So her uncle assumes he's

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<v Speaker 2>being attacked or something's happening or bear. He's thinking bear, right,

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<v Speaker 2>So he takes off up the trail. From what her

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<v Speaker 2>uncle and Charlie said later, his uncle went about maybe

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred yards because the initial part of the trails

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<v Speaker 2>threw some pretty thick brush and all that stuff, And

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<v Speaker 2>once he cleared that and the trail opened up a

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<v Speaker 2>little more he saw Charlie, and Charlie's facing uphill pointing

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<v Speaker 2>his gun. His dad comes up beside him and says,

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<v Speaker 2>where's the bear. Berry says, it's not a bear, it's

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<v Speaker 2>a hairy man. So immediately his dad's put the gun down,

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<v Speaker 2>head back down the trail. I'll keep an eye out

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever. So Charlie stops pointing in that direction, still

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<v Speaker 2>holding it, turns around and goes back down the trail

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<v Speaker 2>to where they were gonna have this picnic. His dad

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<v Speaker 2>stayed there for a couple of moments looking for any sign.

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<v Speaker 2>There was no noise, no nothing, so he gingerly backs up,

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<v Speaker 2>turns around, and goes back down the trail. So when

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<v Speaker 2>they get back to the fire, Kelly's calmed down a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit at this point, still sobbing her. Auntie's rocking her,

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<v Speaker 2>telling her calm down, it's gonna be okay in this state.

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<v Speaker 2>She's a little freaked out, still, well a lot freaked out,

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<v Speaker 2>but she clearly hears what her cousin Charlie is saying,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is at the point of the sound and

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<v Speaker 2>her taking off, he watched this thing come out of

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<v Speaker 2>the brush about five six steps towards them, it was

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<v Speaker 2>intentionally popping, making a bigger impact on the ground, but

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<v Speaker 2>she didn't see that. She was on all fours, sobbing

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<v Speaker 2>like crazy. Charlie said he was shocked how quickly she

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<v Speaker 2>ran because he was focused on this thing, putting a

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<v Speaker 2>gun at it, and it's doing this weird boon, and

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, she's up and gone. Before he

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<v Speaker 2>can even react to it, she was gone down the trail.

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<v Speaker 2>Charlie said, he backed away from this thing because it

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<v Speaker 2>stopped moving. As soon as she took off running. This

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<v Speaker 2>thing stopped all forward movement, was just standing there. He

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<v Speaker 2>never described what it looked like. All he described was

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<v Speaker 2>a harry Man because I asked what did it look like?

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<v Speaker 2>She had no other than it was big and dark

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<v Speaker 2>and it was shaped like a man. So Charlie said,

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<v Speaker 2>once it stopped, he started backing down, and once he

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<v Speaker 2>got to a certain point, it turned away and walked off,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he heard it go down off to his right.

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<v Speaker 2>At this point, because he's facing up the trail down

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<v Speaker 2>to where the caribou was still making noise down in

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<v Speaker 2>the brush. It was making weird calls down in there,

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<v Speaker 2>so he figured, okay, it was pushing us away from

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<v Speaker 2>its hunt and it's continuing on. So I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>get out of here. But he said, as he was

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<v Speaker 2>coming back down the trail, hollering for her, she's wailing

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<v Speaker 2>and howling. He can easily hear she's down the trail.

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<v Speaker 2>She was really screaming, he said. Every fifteen twenty feet

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<v Speaker 2>he was looking around and nothing. He would point the

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<v Speaker 2>gun because he's just felt uneasy. But once he reached

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<v Speaker 2>the point to where his dad came through the brush

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<v Speaker 2>and got his attention, he felt relieved. Once they got

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<v Speaker 2>back down to the beach, basically, they took their lunch

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<v Speaker 2>to go, They put the fire out, they packed up

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<v Speaker 2>what little things had pulled out from there, and they left.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to thank Kelly for sharing that. Again, this

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<v Speaker 2>happened in the early sixties. I appreciate those people reaching

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<v Speaker 2>out to those elders and encouraging them to get these

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<v Speaker 2>stories shared anonymously or not, I don't care. It's all

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<v Speaker 2>about the information that these encounters contain. There's things to

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<v Speaker 2>be taken away from it, things to be learned as

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<v Speaker 2>far as these things behaviors when the encounter's happening, whereas

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<v Speaker 2>alhoots strange smells, things being thrown on and on. There's

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<v Speaker 2>a whole list of stuff you can learn from these

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<v Speaker 2>encounters to better make you safe, especially when there's weird

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<v Speaker 2>stuff going on that you don't know what the hell,

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<v Speaker 2>but what that weird sound is, and grant you bobcats

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<v Speaker 2>make weird noises. Porcupines mating is a horrific sound. It

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't sound like mating, that's for sure. It sounds like murder,

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<v Speaker 2>injured hairs, all that kind of stuff. All these animals

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<v Speaker 2>in the wild have these weird noises. It take half

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<v Speaker 2>a lifetime to really get to know these noises. First

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<v Speaker 2>of all, you have to be around the animal enough

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<v Speaker 2>to understand their behavior. Not all of us are nature biologists.

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<v Speaker 2>We're not out in the field studying bobcats and their

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<v Speaker 2>noises are sound of a link, screaming or whatever. Not

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<v Speaker 2>everyone has that information, so just keep that in mind

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<v Speaker 2>as well. Rest in peace, Charlie. Back in the late eighties,

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<v Speaker 2>Marty had just gotten out of the Air Force. He

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to get his private pilot's license. It so worked

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<v Speaker 2>out that he ended up being able to buy a beaver,

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<v Speaker 2>which is a grumm and aircraft, which is a larger

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<v Speaker 2>bush plane had all the extra tires, that had the

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<v Speaker 2>pontoons and all that kind of stuff. He was stoked it.

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<v Speaker 2>Had to fix it up a little bit and upgrade

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<v Speaker 2>some of the avionics and whatnot, but he got it

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<v Speaker 2>updated and all that kind of happy stuff. By the

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<v Speaker 2>mid nineties he was doing everything he could to fly remote.

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<v Speaker 2>What occurred happened in roughly nineteen ninety five. He basically

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<v Speaker 2>got one of his buddies to go along with his

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<v Speaker 2>buddy Lewis, and what they decided they were going to

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<v Speaker 2>do is strap a Canuda one of the pontoons because

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<v Speaker 2>it's big enough, fly out to remote lakes that have

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<v Speaker 2>rivers or creeks adjacent to him, and fish them for

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<v Speaker 2>tropped no designated Oh the best trout over here of that.

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<v Speaker 2>They just wanted to see what was out there. He

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<v Speaker 2>had a plane, he had the time, and so they

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<v Speaker 2>would fly out. This was early fall ninety five. So

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<v Speaker 2>they fly out, they fly down, They checked out kick

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<v Speaker 2>Constantine Platinum. I mean they were basically doing a big

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<v Speaker 2>loop around the bay, Bristol Bay. They landed there, they

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<v Speaker 2>got a bunch of fuel, had extra fuel in the back,

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<v Speaker 2>and they took off flying around the Wood River mountains.

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<v Speaker 2>They get up by tick Chick and the Ticchick and

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<v Speaker 2>narrows right Tickchick Mountain. There's a small lake on the

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<v Speaker 2>north side of it, and he saw that and it

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<v Speaker 2>just so happened. There was some storm clouds coming, so

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<v Speaker 2>he pointed down to Lewis, and Lewis gave the thumbs up. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a great place. It looks good. So they land.

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<v Speaker 2>The first night they were there, they just basically tied

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<v Speaker 2>off the plane and slept in the plane because the storm,

413
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<v Speaker 2>the squall rolled through and they weren't gonna be messed

414
00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.119
<v Speaker 2>around outside. It was still buggy. Who wants to play

415
00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:53.480
<v Speaker 2>out in the rain. According to the forecast, is supposed

416
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<v Speaker 2>to get better the following morning. The next morning, they

417
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<v Speaker 2>woke up to birds chirp and sun was outautiful, just beautiful.

418
00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.720
<v Speaker 2>The clouds had dispersed and there's still a few, but

419
00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:06.960
<v Speaker 2>nothing that was obscure in the sunlight. So Marty said,

420
00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.599
<v Speaker 2>they got out, made breakfast right there on the beach,

421
00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.920
<v Speaker 2>and then they unstrapped the canoe, got the paddles and stuff.

422
00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:16.000
<v Speaker 2>They had a couple of firearms. He had at three

423
00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:19.119
<v Speaker 2>thirty eight. Lewis had a forty four magnum in a

424
00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:23.039
<v Speaker 2>chest holster and a twelve gage shotgun. They just stayed

425
00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:26.119
<v Speaker 2>in the canoe. They load up all their stuff and

426
00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:28.599
<v Speaker 2>they go down this creek and they go down a

427
00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:33.119
<v Speaker 2>little ways, not quite a mile, maybe roughly, this particular

428
00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:37.079
<v Speaker 2>creek that leads to the Tikchik River. It has a

429
00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.799
<v Speaker 2>y right there. So they stopped there because they basically

430
00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:44.319
<v Speaker 2>took their time. They spent all day casting, catching, releasing,

431
00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:46.880
<v Speaker 2>having a great time. And they had some nice pan

432
00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.799
<v Speaker 2>friars and they will just set up camp right back

433
00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.559
<v Speaker 2>over here, have some pan fried trout and have a

434
00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.559
<v Speaker 2>good time of it. They had already loaded the canoe

435
00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:58.200
<v Speaker 2>up with extra firewood that they already had in the beaver.

436
00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:01.759
<v Speaker 2>They were prepared. He had some really good flashlights, he

437
00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:04.359
<v Speaker 2>had some good lanterns. They were going to bring a

438
00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:06.319
<v Speaker 2>wal tent, but they left it in the beaver because

439
00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:08.519
<v Speaker 2>they figured they'd just cowboy camp and sleep out in

440
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.839
<v Speaker 2>the open. That was their plan. So after this day

441
00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:17.319
<v Speaker 2>of just pristine wilderness, fishing, just beautiful day. Even the

442
00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:19.799
<v Speaker 2>Mosquitos couldn't get them down because it was just such

443
00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:24.119
<v Speaker 2>a gorgeous day. So as they're sitting there, they had

444
00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:26.799
<v Speaker 2>set up their camp just at the base amount Tikchik,

445
00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:29.039
<v Speaker 2>on the north base of it, right at the tree

446
00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:32.759
<v Speaker 2>line there, and they had about maybe forty forty five

447
00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:36.119
<v Speaker 2>yards back to this little creek or small river where

448
00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:39.200
<v Speaker 2>they were just fishing earlier that day. They were literally

449
00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:42.279
<v Speaker 2>right where this branched off. It had a little wy

450
00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:46.400
<v Speaker 2>there where they were sitting due west. They're watching the sunset,

451
00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:50.680
<v Speaker 2>Marty said, He'll never forget because as they're watching the sunset,

452
00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:53.319
<v Speaker 2>they're just awestruck by the natural beauty. You can go

453
00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.079
<v Speaker 2>a lot of places in Alaska and get awestruck by

454
00:24:56.200 --> 00:25:00.000
<v Speaker 2>trust me. So as they're looking, they noticed this big

455
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:04.240
<v Speaker 2>gear cutting across the tundra. He said, at first he

456
00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:08.400
<v Speaker 2>thought it was a woodland caribou with large antlers because

457
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.839
<v Speaker 2>it looked upright. He thought it was just an optical illusion,

458
00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.119
<v Speaker 2>and they were seeing caribou antlers from a large woodland

459
00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.640
<v Speaker 2>caribou as it was moving across. Because you got to understand,

460
00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:21.519
<v Speaker 2>they're literally looking at a sunset and this thing is

461
00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:24.319
<v Speaker 2>moving across, right, and it was moving very fast. Then

462
00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:26.480
<v Speaker 2>it dawned on them, and that's almost like a figure

463
00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:29.039
<v Speaker 2>of a man. But it was at such a great distance.

464
00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:33.519
<v Speaker 2>He couldn't really pinpoint anything, so he chalks it up

465
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.160
<v Speaker 2>to it it must be a caribou or whatever. So

466
00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:38.880
<v Speaker 2>it's starting to get on into the sun had set,

467
00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:42.720
<v Speaker 2>it was still twilight out, and as they're sitting there,

468
00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:46.119
<v Speaker 2>and they just got done and enjoining their fish, Lewis

469
00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.759
<v Speaker 2>took their frying pan and cooking utensils down to that

470
00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:51.440
<v Speaker 2>creek and scrubbed them out. They didn't want to smell

471
00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:53.759
<v Speaker 2>of food around camp. They took what food they had

472
00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:56.720
<v Speaker 2>brought with them back up into the trees and tied

473
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.880
<v Speaker 2>it up. If any bears came around. The bears weren't

474
00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:01.119
<v Speaker 2>coming around them, they would go and try to get

475
00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:04.039
<v Speaker 2>the food out of the tree type thing. Marty said,

476
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.480
<v Speaker 2>he was very self aware when it came to what

477
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:10.440
<v Speaker 2>he's leaving and everything of this nature. They thought camp

478
00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:12.480
<v Speaker 2>was safe, and when they got out of the creek,

479
00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:14.960
<v Speaker 2>they just didn't leave the canoe down in there. They

480
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.599
<v Speaker 2>unloaded everything, all the firewood, all the excess stuff they brought,

481
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.359
<v Speaker 2>and then they turned the canoe over in case the

482
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.759
<v Speaker 2>winds picked up. Their canoe didn't end up blowing the

483
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.279
<v Speaker 2>way and thundering stuff. So he tied it off around

484
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.720
<v Speaker 2>brush it's twilight. Now they got the fire crackling. They're

485
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.279
<v Speaker 2>having a conversation. Well off in the distance, he's estimates

486
00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.599
<v Speaker 2>about three hundred yards, they heard this loud whoop, and

487
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:39.359
<v Speaker 2>he said, the whoop was so loud, so crisp. It

488
00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:42.799
<v Speaker 2>was shocking because it was just how powerful it was.

489
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:43.279
<v Speaker 1>Whoop.

490
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:46.319
<v Speaker 2>So look at each other and what the hell is that?

491
00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:49.920
<v Speaker 2>And of course, naturally the guns that were laying right

492
00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:53.279
<v Speaker 2>over here are now a lot closer. The shotgun that

493
00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:56.519
<v Speaker 2>they had brought. Lewis had turned around and had it

494
00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:58.960
<v Speaker 2>underneath his sleeping bag and went and dug that out.

495
00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.000
<v Speaker 2>He had still but there was something about the whoop

496
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.759
<v Speaker 2>that really startled. Of of course, now it's dark, they're

497
00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:09.400
<v Speaker 2>not going anywhere, so they're just sitting around discussing what

498
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:13.200
<v Speaker 2>the hell made that noise? Lewis his friend. It was

499
00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:17.200
<v Speaker 2>from the Pacific Northwest. He had followed along. It wasn't

500
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:21.480
<v Speaker 2>unsolved mysteries. Leonard Nimoy did that special back in the day.

501
00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:23.880
<v Speaker 2>Or he brought that up and talked about the different

502
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:25.720
<v Speaker 2>things he heard there, and he said, I think the

503
00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:30.240
<v Speaker 2>bigfoot whoops. Marty thought it was a joke. He was like,

504
00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:32.319
<v Speaker 2>come on, you gotta be kidney though. Okay, I understand

505
00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.559
<v Speaker 2>if there was a bigfoot, this is a perfect place

506
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.319
<v Speaker 2>for it, but I don't think that's what that was.

507
00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:39.559
<v Speaker 2>They just discussing it and they leave it at that. Well,

508
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.880
<v Speaker 2>he said, about forty five minutes pass and they were

509
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:46.200
<v Speaker 2>getting tired, and so they just started discussing about crashing

510
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:48.400
<v Speaker 2>out and getting the bed rolls laid out because their

511
00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:52.799
<v Speaker 2>leap out cowboy style, no tent, nothing. As they're unrolling everything,

512
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.640
<v Speaker 2>they hear the bottom of the canoe was a big,

513
00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.960
<v Speaker 2>heavy duty plastic one. It was marine rated, sixteen foot

514
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.200
<v Speaker 2>rolle thick plastic. And it heard that plastic, something scraping

515
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.559
<v Speaker 2>against it, something making noise by it. Approximately maybe not

516
00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:10.839
<v Speaker 2>quite half the distance from the creek to where they

517
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:14.640
<v Speaker 2>were camps, so we're talking twenty yards. It being dark now,

518
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.319
<v Speaker 2>they couldn't see that distance from the little campfire they had,

519
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:20.359
<v Speaker 2>so it was like, huh, all right. He grabs one

520
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:22.839
<v Speaker 2>of the flashlights, stands up and turns on the flashlight

521
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.400
<v Speaker 2>and he's not seeing anything. Starts walking a little closer again.

522
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.880
<v Speaker 2>This flashlight was good, but at twenty yards you're losing

523
00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.880
<v Speaker 2>the candela power at that distance, so he starts chopping

524
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.400
<v Speaker 2>on over. His rifle was left leaning back over by

525
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.000
<v Speaker 2>where he was sitting. He's basically unarmed. He walks back

526
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.519
<v Speaker 2>about maybe ten paces to get a better look at

527
00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:46.680
<v Speaker 2>the canoe, and he noticed they had left it laying flat,

528
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:48.559
<v Speaker 2>and now all of a sudden it was tipped up

529
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:51.359
<v Speaker 2>and it was the damnedest thing. So he calls Lewis,

530
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:54.039
<v Speaker 2>tells him grab the other flashlight and bring a gun.

531
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.759
<v Speaker 2>So Lewis grabs a shotgun and another flashlight and comes

532
00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:59.799
<v Speaker 2>up beside him, and they're bolts beaming over there and

533
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:04.160
<v Speaker 2>noticing the canoe is lifting up and going down, and

534
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:07.079
<v Speaker 2>they're not seeing what's causing it right because where it

535
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.839
<v Speaker 2>was tied off by the brush, the brush was obscuring

536
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.880
<v Speaker 2>their vision of what they could see. So they said,

537
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.920
<v Speaker 2>let's go see what the hell is going on here?

538
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.079
<v Speaker 2>Did I lay it across something? And now it teetering

539
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:19.039
<v Speaker 2>And then he was thinking, no, there was nothing there.

540
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.519
<v Speaker 2>It was a tundra. So they start walking towards it.

541
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:24.960
<v Speaker 2>As they get closer, all of a sudden they drop, dunk,

542
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.680
<v Speaker 2>drop to the ground. Then they see eye shine and

543
00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:31.160
<v Speaker 2>immediately they stop and this thing stands up. He said

544
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:35.519
<v Speaker 2>it stood up, it screamed at them, and they thought

545
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:40.039
<v Speaker 2>it ran off. They heard bump, dump dump, So immediately

546
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.319
<v Speaker 2>they look at each other and start back and wait,

547
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.640
<v Speaker 2>and we're like, holy shit, maybe we should drag that

548
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:50.279
<v Speaker 2>canoe closer. What the hell? Because again the candela power

549
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:52.680
<v Speaker 2>of the flashlights up close, it was nice and bright,

550
00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:56.920
<v Speaker 2>but at that distance they didn't get the full view

551
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:00.279
<v Speaker 2>of this thing other than eye shine, something like arge

552
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:04.440
<v Speaker 2>and dark. And it ran off right and stay tuned

553
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:06.680
<v Speaker 2>for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back

554
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:13.480
<v Speaker 2>after these messages, and he goes it didn't dawn on

555
00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:15.920
<v Speaker 2>them at first that it was bipedal when it ran away.

556
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.279
<v Speaker 2>He said it because they were just in shock of

557
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.480
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden something's happening in those moments of

558
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.079
<v Speaker 2>what the hell's going on. So as they're discussing dragging

559
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:29.039
<v Speaker 2>that canoe closer to the camp, they hear the thump

560
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.559
<v Speaker 2>in the ground again. This thing runs between about half

561
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:35.240
<v Speaker 2>the distance between the canoe and where they are. It

562
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.720
<v Speaker 2>runs by and is looking at them as it runs by,

563
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.440
<v Speaker 2>not watching where it's running, just runs by looking at them.

564
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.599
<v Speaker 2>So now they're really in shock. He said. The face

565
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.960
<v Speaker 2>was like really dark tan leather. It was so fast,

566
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.920
<v Speaker 2>but it was humanoid in shape, said The head looked

567
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.640
<v Speaker 2>real low on the shoulders. What they could make out

568
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:58.920
<v Speaker 2>it had grizzly blicking hair, brown black and low patches

569
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:01.480
<v Speaker 2>of white. Again, this is all from a flash of

570
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.640
<v Speaker 2>this thing running by, and so of course naturally they

571
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.440
<v Speaker 2>trail after it with the flashlights and it just disappears

572
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.519
<v Speaker 2>into the darkness. So now they're really spooped because all

573
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:13.559
<v Speaker 2>of a sudden, you know what they couldn't make out,

574
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.440
<v Speaker 2>just ran in front of them, looking at him, and

575
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:18.279
<v Speaker 2>he said, it was weird the way it was running.

576
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.480
<v Speaker 2>It looked so awkward, but it was so fluid because

577
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:24.519
<v Speaker 2>it was like just the upper body twisted on the hips.

578
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:27.559
<v Speaker 2>The hips were still running just perfectly right, like the

579
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.599
<v Speaker 2>lakes were still running perfect but this thing shifted from

580
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.559
<v Speaker 2>the hips towards them. He said, it looked very awkward,

581
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.720
<v Speaker 2>but it was such a fluid motion. It was just like,

582
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.599
<v Speaker 2>what the hell. So after that happened, they'd get back

583
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.240
<v Speaker 2>to camp. He grabs this three thirty eight rifle. Now

584
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.000
<v Speaker 2>they're discussing, maybe we should not be here, maybe we

585
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:51.319
<v Speaker 2>should go back to the plane, idle out into the

586
00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:53.640
<v Speaker 2>middle of that lake and drop an anchor or something

587
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:55.960
<v Speaker 2>out there and just sit out in the middle of

588
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.839
<v Speaker 2>the lake. So they decided they want to do that.

589
00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:01.079
<v Speaker 2>They no longer want to be where they're at, so

590
00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.480
<v Speaker 2>they decide, okay, what we'll do is we'll leave non

591
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.759
<v Speaker 2>important stuff here and retrieve it in the morning during daylight,

592
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.640
<v Speaker 2>where we feel safer. So what they do is they

593
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:13.440
<v Speaker 2>gather up the guns, of course, and they lead the

594
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:17.039
<v Speaker 2>food hanging in the tree, They lead the excess firewood there.

595
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.079
<v Speaker 2>They didn't want to go down to the creek to

596
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.279
<v Speaker 2>get water to extinguish the fire, so what they decided

597
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.759
<v Speaker 2>to do is roll the rocks they had found to

598
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:28.400
<v Speaker 2>make this little fire pit closer and stomp it down

599
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.480
<v Speaker 2>as best they could. They tried to pull up moss,

600
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:33.920
<v Speaker 2>and it was real pain finding dirt to cover it,

601
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.759
<v Speaker 2>but they did what they could to smolder this fire

602
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:40.440
<v Speaker 2>as best as they could, and then they marched back

603
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:43.319
<v Speaker 2>over to the canoe. He said. When they got back

604
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:46.559
<v Speaker 2>over by the canoe, they had been beaming the light

605
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:48.880
<v Speaker 2>around the whole time. Make no mistake, they were on

606
00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.599
<v Speaker 2>point looking all around as they were about twenty five

607
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.839
<v Speaker 2>feet from the canoe, roughly give or take all of

608
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:57.880
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, the front of the canoe lifted up again.

609
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.279
<v Speaker 2>It dropped back down, and they had stopped when they

610
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:03.400
<v Speaker 2>saw it lift up. They're looking over there, real, real hard,

611
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:05.759
<v Speaker 2>and they said, this thing looked over and peeked up

612
00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:08.480
<v Speaker 2>and took off running away. And they heard a splash

613
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.440
<v Speaker 2>in the creek and then rustling of the brush on

614
00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:14.319
<v Speaker 2>the opposite side, like it was just steady moving away.

615
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.920
<v Speaker 2>So they took that as all right, let's get going.

616
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:19.880
<v Speaker 2>So they get over there. They untied off from the brush,

617
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.720
<v Speaker 2>they drag it over the creek. He dug out one

618
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.720
<v Speaker 2>of his headlamps and put it on. Basically was holding

619
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:29.240
<v Speaker 2>his rifle and one flashlight ready to turn on in

620
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<v Speaker 2>his lap, and he was just using one oar with

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00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:34.680
<v Speaker 2>one hand, which is really hard to do. They were spooked,

622
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.759
<v Speaker 2>to say the least, so he had Lewis do the

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00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:41.680
<v Speaker 2>paddling for them going up, and they would take turns

624
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:44.599
<v Speaker 2>right again. You gotta understand they're back in there a

625
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.240
<v Speaker 2>little way, so it's not an easy undertaking. Grant you,

626
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.079
<v Speaker 2>it's not some heavy flowing river that they're fighting gets,

627
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:54.799
<v Speaker 2>but they're still a current. So Lewis starts off. Marty

628
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:57.279
<v Speaker 2>is looking around keeping an eye on things, and they

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<v Speaker 2>keep hearing noises off in the distance. He couldn't tell

630
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.519
<v Speaker 2>the distance because they would sound close and then needed

631
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:05.559
<v Speaker 2>to hear something further away. So they were real confused

632
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:09.559
<v Speaker 2>on exactly how close things were, and they weren't seeing anything.

633
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<v Speaker 2>So it was at the point where he took over

634
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:16.239
<v Speaker 2>for Louis doing the paddling, and Lewis had the flashlight

635
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:19.320
<v Speaker 2>and the shotgun and was looking around and hushed tones

636
00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:21.039
<v Speaker 2>just to be quiet so they could hear what's going

637
00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.239
<v Speaker 2>on around him. They're at this particular part where there

638
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:28.280
<v Speaker 2>was a pretty tight little curve in this creek. As

639
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:32.519
<v Speaker 2>they were there coming up to it, Lewis was going

640
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:34.960
<v Speaker 2>back and forth with the light and then heard something

641
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.519
<v Speaker 2>and raised it up. Now, when they're in the creek,

642
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.239
<v Speaker 2>the bank is higher than their heads, just by enough

643
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.280
<v Speaker 2>to where their views obscured big time. So you heard

644
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:48.639
<v Speaker 2>this huff and then raises the light up, and this

645
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.440
<v Speaker 2>thing was standing like on this little peninsula that kind

646
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.320
<v Speaker 2>of stuck out because of the shape of the creek.

647
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<v Speaker 2>He said. When they saw it stand up, it was

648
00:34:56.199 --> 00:35:00.719
<v Speaker 2>probably fifteen feet in front of them. When it stood up,

649
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:03.719
<v Speaker 2>he said it had to have been at least ten

650
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:06.760
<v Speaker 2>foot tall. When it stood up, it glared at him,

651
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.239
<v Speaker 2>put its hand up. They saw a big ass hand,

652
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:11.760
<v Speaker 2>like our hands, but he said the thumb was stepped

653
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:15.239
<v Speaker 2>back more when it held up its hand and then

654
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.920
<v Speaker 2>took off, running off into the darkness again, and it

655
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.159
<v Speaker 2>went from directly in front of him off to his right.

656
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:24.960
<v Speaker 2>Said it was gone in a heartbeat once it ran off,

657
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.119
<v Speaker 2>and there, of course, lights are trailing it because they're

658
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:28.960
<v Speaker 2>trying to keep an eye on this thing. They hear

659
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.599
<v Speaker 2>a huff from off to their left, and he said

660
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:34.280
<v Speaker 2>the huff they heard off to the left had to

661
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.280
<v Speaker 2>have been at least thirty yards away, so the attention

662
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:41.119
<v Speaker 2>goes that direction real quick. And then finally Marty said,

663
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:44.360
<v Speaker 2>let's just paddle together. Let's do it now. All the

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00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.559
<v Speaker 2>way back to the plane, they were both just digging

665
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:49.519
<v Speaker 2>in their lives dependent on it. Even though he said

666
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.360
<v Speaker 2>himself freely, it felt like they were curious of what

667
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:55.880
<v Speaker 2>the hell is going on over here, he said. When

668
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:58.440
<v Speaker 2>it ran by and looked at them, didn't come off

669
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.840
<v Speaker 2>as aggressive because it could easily wiped them out running by.

670
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.840
<v Speaker 2>He said, it came across as more of a curiosity.

671
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:07.079
<v Speaker 2>What am I looking at?

672
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:07.280
<v Speaker 1>Like?

673
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:09.760
<v Speaker 2>This thing had a look of bewilderment on his face

674
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.239
<v Speaker 2>as it ran by, and then when it stood up

675
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.599
<v Speaker 2>and looked at him, it looked more annoyed versus the

676
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:17.760
<v Speaker 2>piece of crap looked to his face, and so he

677
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:20.639
<v Speaker 2>assumed that they were just curious. So anyway, they make

678
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:23.280
<v Speaker 2>it up to the plane, they are both wiped out

679
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:26.320
<v Speaker 2>because they were just paddling with all their worth. They

680
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:30.840
<v Speaker 2>totally winded themselves. They're sitting there panting. They tied off

681
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.440
<v Speaker 2>the canoe to one of the struts of the pontoons

682
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:36.639
<v Speaker 2>on the plane. They both crawl in there. When they

683
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.920
<v Speaker 2>crawl into the plane, Marty said he sat there and decided,

684
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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to start the plane. Even though it's too

685
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.679
<v Speaker 2>dark to fly, I'm going to start the plane and

686
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.000
<v Speaker 2>just let it run for a little while, because again

687
00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:50.880
<v Speaker 2>they planned on warming it up anyway and going out

688
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:54.440
<v Speaker 2>to the middle and dropping an anchor and staying off ashore.

689
00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:57.960
<v Speaker 2>So he said, as it was warming up, he turned

690
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.599
<v Speaker 2>on his wing lights that he had pretty good in

691
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:02.599
<v Speaker 2>front of them, and so he was like, man, with

692
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:05.440
<v Speaker 2>these wing lights, as long as the clouds aren't too bad,

693
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.360
<v Speaker 2>we could fly out of here. He was contemplating flying out.

694
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:12.199
<v Speaker 2>So after contemplating a little bit, he's looking around. He's

695
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.000
<v Speaker 2>trying to see up into the sky and he can't.

696
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:17.119
<v Speaker 2>His big thing was he didn't want to crash. Were

697
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:19.320
<v Speaker 2>shaped than what they're dealing with. So they went with

698
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.239
<v Speaker 2>their original plan and once it was warmed up, they

699
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:25.599
<v Speaker 2>untied from where they were tied off to. He basically

700
00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:28.199
<v Speaker 2>taxied out to the middle and they used their anchor

701
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.719
<v Speaker 2>line that they had brought for the canoe or tie

702
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.360
<v Speaker 2>off line, just basically anchored out in the middle of

703
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:39.440
<v Speaker 2>the small lake. He said that once daylight came, because

704
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.559
<v Speaker 2>they didn't sleep, Lewis slept for a little bit, and

705
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.519
<v Speaker 2>Marty said he probably dozed off himself for a short

706
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.840
<v Speaker 2>period of time, but he was so amped up it

707
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.679
<v Speaker 2>was hard to not relive everything that just happened. And

708
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.000
<v Speaker 2>Marty said that once it got light enough for them

709
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:59.719
<v Speaker 2>to see where they were initially tied off to. Often

710
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:02.280
<v Speaker 2>the distance he could see the movement where they had

711
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:05.159
<v Speaker 2>been tied off, and so he was like, oh man,

712
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.639
<v Speaker 2>they're still over there, and he's thinking, gosh, we need

713
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:10.800
<v Speaker 2>to get our stuff. What else do we have over there?

714
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:15.320
<v Speaker 2>We have food there's excess firewood, a couple sleeping bags, right,

715
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:18.320
<v Speaker 2>So he contemplates it for a little bit, and he says,

716
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.960
<v Speaker 2>all right, I'm going to fire up the engine again.

717
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.760
<v Speaker 2>Idle over there and see make sure my eyes aren't

718
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:26.920
<v Speaker 2>playing tricks on me in the low light of seeing movement. Right,

719
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.800
<v Speaker 2>So they idle over there. After it warms up. As

720
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:33.599
<v Speaker 2>they're getting closer, he noticed it the wind was blowing

721
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.760
<v Speaker 2>and what he thought was this thing on the beach

722
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.960
<v Speaker 2>moving was just the wind blowing some brush back and forth.

723
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.920
<v Speaker 2>So he felt better. They parked the plane. It was

724
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.159
<v Speaker 2>getting on into full daylight. Now they tied off. They

725
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:50.039
<v Speaker 2>jumped in the canoe, just power stroke back to where

726
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.039
<v Speaker 2>they were ran up. The food was gone, the rope

727
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:54.840
<v Speaker 2>was missing that they had to tie off to in

728
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.920
<v Speaker 2>a little cooler. All that was just gone, one of

729
00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:02.000
<v Speaker 2>the sleeping bags gone, the one that was left. Double

730
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:03.679
<v Speaker 2>checked the fire to make sure it was out. It

731
00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:07.559
<v Speaker 2>was cold. They left the excess firewood there, went back

732
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.159
<v Speaker 2>to the plane and took off out of there. He said.

733
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.000
<v Speaker 2>Once they lifted off, he had circled around and used

734
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:17.199
<v Speaker 2>up almost a quarter tank of gas just flying low,

735
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:19.360
<v Speaker 2>flying right over the trees, trying to look for any

736
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.480
<v Speaker 2>other sign of this thing, just because of his own

737
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.920
<v Speaker 2>curiosity about what they had dealt with the night before.

738
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:26.400
<v Speaker 2>He didn't find anything, so they ended up flying out

739
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:29.360
<v Speaker 2>of there. He said. He flew over dilling Ham, got

740
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.559
<v Speaker 2>fueled there and then they ended up going on about

741
00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:36.159
<v Speaker 2>their way. I want to thank Marty for sharing his experience.

742
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.679
<v Speaker 2>He said that he thought he was going to take

743
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:41.199
<v Speaker 2>that story to the grave of what they dealt with,

744
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:44.599
<v Speaker 2>because the few times he had tried to share with people,

745
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.599
<v Speaker 2>he was shut down immediately and they started mocking. I'm like,

746
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:49.840
<v Speaker 2>we shouldn't drink and fly. That's dangerous. I want to

747
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.519
<v Speaker 2>thank him for reaching out and sharing. Thank y'all for

748
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.760
<v Speaker 2>joining me, and we'll catch you on the next one.

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00:39:56.159 --> 00:40:07.480
<v Speaker 3>They say, castay and I don't want to be a

750
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<v Speaker 3>world happened.

751
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:37.639
<v Speaker 4>Sissie. Chart this chart, that chart everything? Can you ride back?

752
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:42.039
<v Speaker 4>Ride back? And the joy from me, the enjoy staying

753
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.280
<v Speaker 4>right there, come it right away.

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00:40:54.360 --> 00:41:20.159
<v Speaker 5>Susan still states Stasie sie.

755
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:45.599
<v Speaker 4>St st st st st still games

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<v Speaker 5>In States uses sets things, us ness