Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog.
Speaker 1: My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 1: the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
Speaker 1: the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
Speaker 1: saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what
Speaker 1: are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling
Speaker 1: around out here? Did you see what it was? Or
Speaker 1: was it was? Standing up? I'm out here looking through
Speaker 1: the window now and I don't see anything. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go outside. Jesus quice, you better hello, hit
Speaker 1: somebody out here. What quent on out there? It's thought
Speaker 1: of a bit of about sixty forty nine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Easy him out there, Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, greetings, thanks for joining me. Is Fred and Alaska.
Speaker 2: What I wanted to share with you today comes from
Speaker 2: Todd and Alicia. From what Todd was telling me for
Speaker 2: over thirty years. Beachcombing was his and his wife's thing.
Speaker 2: He beach combed when he was younger as a commercial
Speaker 2: salmon fisherman. One of the boats he was on as
Speaker 2: a kid beached had to do some repairs, and he
Speaker 2: went beachcombing just to kill time, because he wasn't part
Speaker 2: of the mechanic aspect of it. He was just there
Speaker 2: to pull net. Todd instantly he found some of those
Speaker 2: glass balls that had the webbing on it from Korean
Speaker 2: fishing boats and stuff, so he was hooked. Found a
Speaker 2: walrus's skull and some other stuff. He was bit by
Speaker 2: the bug, the beachcombing bug, and so he got his
Speaker 2: pilot's license a couple of years after that, and he
Speaker 2: spent literally thirty years beachcombing. He would fly around the state.
Speaker 2: He'd been everywhere from Platinum on down to the southeast Alaska,
Speaker 2: just beachcombing. Wherever he could find a safe place to land,
Speaker 2: he would land. He would beach the craft and then
Speaker 2: go beachcombing. Him and his wife. After he got married
Speaker 2: his wife, it only partook about twenty years of that.
Speaker 2: All the time it was their thing to do up
Speaker 2: until it got too cold to do it. Every year,
Speaker 2: he basically broke it down to where he worked so
Speaker 2: he could beachcomb so he could afford the fuel and
Speaker 2: to be able to maintenance the plane and all that.
Speaker 2: So he literally was a slave to beachcombing. Those are
Speaker 2: his words. So they were down in southeast Alaska. They
Speaker 2: had bounced between three different islands. He gave me a
Speaker 2: general location. This place isn't too far from other inhabited
Speaker 2: places from what he dealt with. He doesn't want to
Speaker 2: be the guy that says, oh, here's the spot, and
Speaker 2: people potentially going there and getting themselves in trouble. So
Speaker 2: it was a third island of the day. It was
Speaker 2: larger than the other two because the other two they landed.
Speaker 2: Him and Alicia beach combed all the way around, found
Speaker 2: a bunch of trash and plastic and they were like, an,
Speaker 2: let's let's try a bigger one and we'll call it
Speaker 2: a day. So Todd he took off. He circled around,
Speaker 2: he found the one. They flew low looking for any
Speaker 2: sign of bears on the beach and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: because they didn't want any conflict. He of course, he
Speaker 2: had a gun in his plane. So they land. He
Speaker 2: said it was weird. When he tied off the plane.
Speaker 2: He noticed weird noises in the woods, but there was
Speaker 2: wind higher than ground level. And so it was blowing
Speaker 2: the tops of the trees, but not at surface level.
Speaker 2: So he chalked it up to that branches are breaking
Speaker 2: and falling from the wind. So yeah, no big deal.
Speaker 2: He grabbed his gun, of course, because there's been times
Speaker 2: he didn't bring it, and all of a sudden there
Speaker 2: was a bear come out on the beach right behind him, right,
Speaker 2: so he brings his rifle. It was at thirty out
Speaker 2: to six, and so him and his wife would take turns.
Speaker 2: They weren't intentionally leap frogging, but one would get caught
Speaker 2: up looking at some stuff and the other one would
Speaker 2: continue on a little ways and then catch up and
Speaker 2: then continue on. Sometimes they were together, but always within eyesight.
Speaker 2: And Todd said that as they were going along the
Speaker 2: whole time. Once he tied off and he heard those
Speaker 2: weird noises in the woods, something kept drawing his attention
Speaker 2: to the woods. He just he didn't know why he
Speaker 2: had his rifle. He checked it a couple times to
Speaker 2: make sure he had around in it, and he said
Speaker 2: he had never felt so uneasy with nothing around. No
Speaker 2: one was around, but there was no signs of bear.
Speaker 2: There was no bear tracks on the beach. There wasn't
Speaker 2: even deer sign or any animal sign whatsoever. So he
Speaker 2: just chalked it up to something's just off with the wind,
Speaker 2: and I'm just being freaked out. He chalked it up,
Speaker 2: left it alone, and as they go a little further
Speaker 2: at this point there we got half mile from the plane,
Speaker 2: was his estimate, because they were doing a lot of
Speaker 2: staring at their feet, looking at the ground and stuff,
Speaker 2: and just looking for washed up artific Well, he said,
Speaker 2: they're going along and he hears this super sharp whistle
Speaker 2: off to his left hand side, and it stopped him
Speaker 2: and his wife both and Alicia was like, what was that?
Speaker 2: That was real loud. He said that he'd never heard
Speaker 2: a bird or anything else make such a loud, sharp,
Speaker 2: crisp whistle, just real short, super loud. He said. It
Speaker 2: was almost ear piercing how loud it was, but it
Speaker 2: was so short, he said, it was the damnedest thing.
Speaker 2: So of course their attention's caught and they're looking off
Speaker 2: into the trees. Alicia's standing behind him, and they're about
Speaker 2: he said, thirty feet from the grassy edge. You got
Speaker 2: the rocky beach going up with a little bit of
Speaker 2: sand and stuff, and then a bit of beach, and
Speaker 2: then the grass was hanging down in some shrubs and stuff,
Speaker 2: and there's a windblown area there and he's looking at
Speaker 2: it and he's looking into the grass and he sees
Speaker 2: a little bit of movement. So he's, oh, man, I
Speaker 2: wonder what that is. Because he had no reference point
Speaker 2: in that moment other than bear. He goes, man, I
Speaker 2: think I seen a bear moving, and he has Alisha
Speaker 2: go with him. There was a big rock. It was
Speaker 2: about five foot tall and about ten foot in diameter,
Speaker 2: and it was like a little pinnacle a little further
Speaker 2: down the beach. So they went over there just to
Speaker 2: have something to be behind and keeping out for this bear.
Speaker 2: So as they're standing there, he has Alisia go to
Speaker 2: the other side of this rock and look down the
Speaker 2: beach because his view was obscured to his right hand
Speaker 2: side because he was off to the left hand side
Speaker 2: of the rock looking at the trees, just waiting to
Speaker 2: see this bear. She's on the opposite side of the
Speaker 2: rock and she's doing the same thing, but looking further down.
Speaker 2: He said, he got super super quiet. They could hear
Speaker 2: the wind blowing up high. He kept getting distracted by
Speaker 2: the wind blowing because when the wind would blow, it
Speaker 2: seems like he'd hear more cracking. So he started assessing it, like, man,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of extra cracking when the wind blows.
Speaker 2: Something wasn't adding up to him, and he was sticking
Speaker 2: to that feeling. He was like, something's not right. And
Speaker 2: so as he's sitting there considering everything it could be
Speaker 2: and just second guessing himself, all of a sudden, his
Speaker 2: wife is beside him and she's pale, and he's what's
Speaker 2: going on. Did you see it? Did you see it?
Speaker 2: And she goes, yeah, you could see it from the
Speaker 2: other side of this rock. And so instead of going
Speaker 2: back around like she did towards the ocean side, he
Speaker 2: went on the beach side and came around to get
Speaker 2: a look, and he saw this thing squatted down. He said,
Speaker 2: it was about seventy five feet away. It was squatted down,
Speaker 2: and all he could see was just this brown thing.
Speaker 2: He couldn't make out arms, legs, had anything. It was
Speaker 2: just a brown kind of mound. And he said, at
Speaker 2: first he was asking his wife, are you sure, because
Speaker 2: that looks like something just sleughed from the bank, just erosion,
Speaker 2: kind of a mound of grass maybe, And she goes, no,
Speaker 2: I watched it walk out and squat down, and he goes,
Speaker 2: tell me what you saw, and she said it looked
Speaker 2: like a man. It looked like a very large man
Speaker 2: with hair all over it. And he's right there. She's
Speaker 2: in shock, but she's very precise and very forceful about
Speaker 2: what she saw. She said, that is a man over there,
Speaker 2: a very large man at that, and Todd's kind of
Speaker 2: thrown off. He's, what do you mean large man? She
Speaker 2: said it looked like he was wearing a hair coat
Speaker 2: of some kind, but he was very large. He's looking
Speaker 2: at this mound. She's telling him this, and he's trying
Speaker 2: to put it together. His thirty out six didn't have
Speaker 2: a scope, it had open sites, but he did have
Speaker 2: some binoculars, so he had his wife digging his little
Speaker 2: day pack off his back while he's keeping an eye
Speaker 2: on this thing, to dig out his binocular She hands
Speaker 2: them to him and they're just a little small set,
Speaker 2: a little three or four by and he takes a
Speaker 2: look at it, and he said, as soon as he
Speaker 2: put eyes on it to the binocular, it stood up
Speaker 2: and walked off the beach instantly. As soon as he
Speaker 2: put the binoculars up. As he was trying to focus
Speaker 2: on it, this thing stood up before he could really
Speaker 2: get a look at it, and it walked off. But
Speaker 2: he did say it walked off on two legs, and
Speaker 2: so did his wife. So it goes off into the
Speaker 2: trees and he's just holy crap. So immediately he's, hey,
Speaker 2: let's back out of here. Let's just find somewhere else
Speaker 2: to beach. Comber go on about our way. Alisha's all fours.
Speaker 2: He's yeah, let's go. Let's go. So from what Todd
Speaker 2: was telling me, when they turned around and they started
Speaker 2: going back up the beach, that a half a mile
Speaker 2: or so to go down this beach, wind's blowing. It's loud,
Speaker 2: the winds above them. It's not at surface level, but
Speaker 2: the wind is obscuring all the noises of the woods.
Speaker 2: And as they're going along, he said, I intentionally slowed
Speaker 2: my pace, so I wasn't creating a chase instinct, you know,
Speaker 2: that predator chase instinct. And he said he wished he
Speaker 2: had walked faster because as they were walking, they started
Speaker 2: hearing breaking and noises getting ahead of them. It got
Speaker 2: to a point to where he was like, whatever this
Speaker 2: is now ahead of us because just the sheer amount
Speaker 2: of noise that was going on, even when the wind
Speaker 2: gusts were died down and he could hear clearly something
Speaker 2: was making noise off to their right, up into the trees. Right,
Speaker 2: he said, this island, there was a good maybe one
Speaker 2: hundred feet of beach to the hard line where the
Speaker 2: slough and erosion was with the grass and all the
Speaker 2: smaller shrubs, then another maybe hundred feet before it started
Speaker 2: going up on the sheer rock and stuff. Right, because
Speaker 2: this is southeast Alaska, most things are fjord like, he
Speaker 2: said he was trying to figure out what best route
Speaker 2: to take as far as what they were doing, because
Speaker 2: he felt like imminent danger was in front of him.
Speaker 2: But he's torn because the plane is just down the ways.
Speaker 2: He knows right where the plane is, and that's basically safety.
Speaker 2: We'll get out of here with that. He also said
Speaker 2: that when they stopped and he was thinking about it,
Speaker 2: he's bouncing ideas off his wife, and she goes, let's
Speaker 2: get in the water and just walk in the water
Speaker 2: and make more distance. He's no, we could get hypothermia
Speaker 2: before we even get to the plane. Because she's freaking out.
Speaker 2: She's hearing the same noises, and she's trying to show
Speaker 2: a brave face and support Todd in his decision. But
Speaker 2: she's we need to just hurry up to the plane.
Speaker 2: Then let's just go. We'll stay as close to the
Speaker 2: water as possible and get to the plane. So that
Speaker 2: was their game plan. So as they start along, they're
Speaker 2: moving at a pretty good clip, but one portion of
Speaker 2: the beach there's this one area with pretty big rocks
Speaker 2: and stuff, so it wasn't going to be easy. They'd
Speaker 2: have to cut further up towards the bank to negotiate
Speaker 2: these rocks. So from what Alicia said at that point,
Speaker 2: when they got to those rocks, from her vantage point
Speaker 2: behind him about five feet, giving him room because he
Speaker 2: was holding the gun in his hands and constantly hit
Speaker 2: on his swivel, looking back and forth. She was giving
Speaker 2: him distance in case he had to do something right.
Speaker 2: And she said, as they were going along and they
Speaker 2: reached that point and we're about to go around it,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, she heard like a rock hitting rocks,
Speaker 2: and so she looks down and she noticed a fresh
Speaker 2: scuff place with the rock, just a small one, not
Speaker 2: quite the size of an apple, had landed by them,
Speaker 2: and so she pointed it out to Todd, say, hey,
Speaker 2: there was a rock that just hit back here, and
Speaker 2: he goes, I heard it. Are you sure it was
Speaker 2: a rock? Was it thrown or did you accidentally kick it?
Speaker 2: But he's trying to process of elimination. She was like,
Speaker 2: I didn't kick anything. I've been tiptoeing behind you. So
Speaker 2: Todd said, all right, let's get moving. So they had
Speaker 2: to cut back towards the bank, and as they're doing
Speaker 2: this half moon to get around this cluster of rocks.
Speaker 2: They didn't want to mess with going over because it
Speaker 2: was slimy and slippery because of the tide and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And Todd said, when they got
Speaker 2: to about the apex of that half moon, the trees
Speaker 2: lit up off to the right. All he heard was
Speaker 2: this scream and wailing and a bunch of breaking branches
Speaker 2: and just chaotic noise. Immediately he has a rifle up,
Speaker 2: he's got a point in that direction. He clicks the
Speaker 2: safety off, and he said, as he was standing there surveying,
Speaker 2: just going back and forth with the gun, just looking for,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever's doing this, Alicia behind them starts crying
Speaker 2: and saying, let's just go. We gotta move, we gotta move,
Speaker 2: and he agrees. He was just making sure that it
Speaker 2: wasn't going to just come bursting out of the trees.
Speaker 2: So he has her go a little ways ahead, then
Speaker 2: he catches up to her, has to go a little
Speaker 2: further ahead, and while he was doing that, he was
Speaker 2: keeping the rifle on the tree line. He said, once
Speaker 2: they got past that half moon area, they came around
Speaker 2: a little bit of a it was mainly sandy area
Speaker 2: in that spot. They could see the plane just down away,
Speaker 2: so he had a little sense of relief. They're going along.
Speaker 2: He keeps looking off to his right. The noises died down.
Speaker 2: They stayed back in that area where the rocks were,
Speaker 2: and so he started calming down a little bit. But
Speaker 2: he's souper on edge hyped up something screaming, they saw
Speaker 2: this thing walking, he said. They got within one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty yards of the plane at the point where
Speaker 2: he stopped holding the rifle in his hands and flung
Speaker 2: it over his shoulder because there was a little more
Speaker 2: beach there, but went to about one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: feet before the brush and the tree line started. He
Speaker 2: felt a little more room to move, but not overly cautious.
Speaker 2: I guess you can't be in those situations, So he said,
Speaker 2: no suitering these slings the rifle over his shoe. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, this thing showed itself again. And he said,
Speaker 2: as soon as he got it up onto his shoulder,
Speaker 2: about half the distance of about roughly seventy yards between
Speaker 2: him and the plane, this thing walked out onto the beach.
Speaker 2: He said, it took about seven steps to get to
Speaker 2: the water. It squatted down by the water, glanced over
Speaker 2: its shoulder at them, like paying them no mind, but
Speaker 2: acknowledging they were there, and there stopped. He unslung the rifle,
Speaker 2: of course, and he's holding it again, and he said,
Speaker 2: this thing just messed around in the water a little bit,
Speaker 2: stood up, looked at them in their direction, then turned
Speaker 2: and walked right back up the beach, just like it
Speaker 2: was another day. I asked him, I said, what did
Speaker 2: you feel in that moment? Do you think it was
Speaker 2: sizing you up or what do you think? And he
Speaker 2: was like, I have no clue. But as soon as
Speaker 2: he slung the rifle, it showed itself walked out right
Speaker 2: down to the water. Lion squatted down, turned and looked
Speaker 2: towards them, swrolled his hands in the water, stood up,
Speaker 2: turned and faced him, and then turned and walked right back away,
Speaker 2: and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back after these messages. He said, it all
Speaker 2: happened literally that fast. When he said, he was surprised
Speaker 2: how very few steps it took for it to get
Speaker 2: there and get back. And I asked him how tall
Speaker 2: do you think it was? He against himated twelve foot tall.
Speaker 2: He said it wasn't overly thick and muscular. You could
Speaker 2: tell it was fit, but it was more lanky. He said.
Speaker 2: The length of the arms, the way it moved was
Speaker 2: just so surreal. He said, it was almost like watching
Speaker 2: the Patterson Gimlin footage with a skinnier creature that's a
Speaker 2: little taller. I asked about what it looked like. He
Speaker 2: didn't have a very good look at it as far
Speaker 2: as its facial features. He said the skin was obviously
Speaker 2: way darker than the hair. He said the hair was
Speaker 2: a lighter brown, like a slightly grizzled look to it.
Speaker 2: The skin tone was very dark. I said, was it
Speaker 2: like black dark or lighter than that, and he said, honestly,
Speaker 2: with the way the lighting and everything was, he could
Speaker 2: not tell. But it was very dark skinned. He couldn't
Speaker 2: make out the eyes. He could tell that whatever this
Speaker 2: thing was much bigger than them, but it just wasn't enough.
Speaker 2: Because of his shock and everything going on, he didn't
Speaker 2: get a lot of detail with that. So once this
Speaker 2: thing clears the beach and his back up in the trees,
Speaker 2: they hear that sharp whistle again. When he hears that
Speaker 2: sharp whistle, he's looking in that direction because it was
Speaker 2: so loud and crisp. It was startling and startled him
Speaker 2: because it was unexpected, like most of this. So he's
Speaker 2: standing there, Alicia's pulling on the sleeve of the shirt
Speaker 2: he was wearing, saying let's go, and so they start
Speaker 2: walking again. He said he was so indecisive. He was
Speaker 2: having a hard time walking. He kept stutter stepping because
Speaker 2: he wanted to stand there and stand his ground. Basically,
Speaker 2: he knew he had to get to the plane. And
Speaker 2: he freely admits there was no overt aggression outside of
Speaker 2: the breaking of the limbs and all the noise, but
Speaker 2: there was no active trying to get them or anything
Speaker 2: like that. It was just so surreal to have this
Speaker 2: thing at one moment stand up and walk off and
Speaker 2: then further down the beach. For it to just walk
Speaker 2: down and then walk back just took a look at
Speaker 2: him and then walked away. And to me, it sounded
Speaker 2: like the thing sized him up see if he was
Speaker 2: going to shoot or not, because it nonchalantly walks to
Speaker 2: the water, splashes around, glances over at him, and turns
Speaker 2: faces him, and then walks off. Who knows what's all speculation?
Speaker 2: So once he stops stutter stepping, he catches himself there
Speaker 2: in a full blown run after some of this stutter stepping,
Speaker 2: just full blown run. Todd said as lungs were burning
Speaker 2: so bad, he hadn't run in years sedentary life outside
Speaker 2: of flying around and stuff in beachcombing, which is nice
Speaker 2: cardio for walking, but he said that he couldn't remember
Speaker 2: the last time he ran before that. They got to
Speaker 2: the plane, he got her in, got it, turned around,
Speaker 2: and did all this stuff untied, of course, he said.
Speaker 2: When they fired up the plane, he was looking around.
Speaker 2: He said he noticed it further back by where he
Speaker 2: was stutter stepping, basically where it walked out from, and
Speaker 2: then walked back. It was basically right there, right at
Speaker 2: the beachline, just squatted down and just looking over at him,
Speaker 2: just watching them, not doing nothing, just sitting there watching them.
Speaker 2: I asked how it was sitting and he said it
Speaker 2: was just squatted down, just arms resting on the ground,
Speaker 2: just didn't have a care in the world and was
Speaker 2: just watching them. So he fired up. He took off.
Speaker 2: He said he got about two miles away and wanted
Speaker 2: to go back low and buzz and get another look right,
Speaker 2: just because he was so in shock over what he
Speaker 2: was seeing. Alisha over the years, basically he had taught
Speaker 2: her how to fly right. Alicia said that when they
Speaker 2: initially took off, he was in a hard climb, almost
Speaker 2: to the point of a stall. He was so freaked out,
Speaker 2: so she had to like literally calm him down and
Speaker 2: push the yoke for it a little bit. Hey, dude,
Speaker 2: you're climbing a little too steep, right, And when they
Speaker 2: came back by, there was no sign of it. As
Speaker 2: they're flying by, they noticed the impressions in the ground
Speaker 2: from when it walked out and then walked back, but
Speaker 2: they were already gone. They were already out of there.
Speaker 2: This happened during the pandemic time. It was a way
Speaker 2: for them to escape. Of course, he did it all
Speaker 2: the time anyway, but they did a lot more of
Speaker 2: it during that period. But once that happened, he said, honestly,
Speaker 2: it's been since then that he has not actively been
Speaker 2: out beachcombing, which is unfortunate. And I tried to encourage him.
Speaker 2: I was like, you had a gun and it didn't
Speaker 2: technically hurt anyone, And he said it was the visual
Speaker 2: of all of a sudden, this thing that he's heard
Speaker 2: stories here and there, but he never really gave it
Speaker 2: any leeway, either for or against. It was just a story.
Speaker 2: He doesn't look at it the same way at all.
Speaker 2: Totally understandable. I want to thank Todd for reaching out.
Speaker 2: Also Gregory for making the connection and getting him in
Speaker 2: contact with me. I appreciate that Gregory shout out to you.
Speaker 2: What I wanted to share with you today comes from
Speaker 2: Chad and Darcy. It's an encounter they had approximately a
Speaker 2: decade ago at Roaring Bear Lake. It's the hell of
Speaker 2: a name. So this particular lake is up north south
Speaker 2: of Chandler, closer to the Canadian border and the interior.
Speaker 2: So Chad and Darcy used to basically be guides fishing guides.
Speaker 2: Their thing was trout fishing, best trout fishing in the world.
Speaker 2: They would take clients to out of the way places
Speaker 2: as part of their niche to fish for trout. Chad
Speaker 2: loved it fishing for trout to get his fly ride,
Speaker 2: and he's on it right. So they landed the lake.
Speaker 2: They're towards the southwest side of the lake. As he parked,
Speaker 2: everyone got out. There's three clients there with them. Darcy
Speaker 2: stayed with the clients. Chad wanted to go from where
Speaker 2: they parked a plane around this little kinicle, this little spit,
Speaker 2: it's almost like an open salmon mouth. He goes around there,
Speaker 2: and he wanted to fish the smaller creek that fed
Speaker 2: into a pond, and he suspected there's some lunkers in there.
Speaker 2: He wanted to get a big trout, but he didn't
Speaker 2: want too many lines in a way. So in a
Speaker 2: sense he was like, Darcy, keep our clients over here
Speaker 2: to fish, and I'm going to go, oh to my
Speaker 2: little spot where I'm going to try to catch fish
Speaker 2: before you guys migrate over or whatever. And this is
Speaker 2: approximately seven am in the morning. Right line of the
Speaker 2: midnight sun sun was already up. So he gets around there.
Speaker 2: He's at the mouth of this creek. When they flew over,
Speaker 2: it didn't look as paint in the butt to maneuver,
Speaker 2: and so he gets over there and he realizes, crap,
Speaker 2: I don't have the proper stuff to get to where
Speaker 2: I could fish the way I want to with this
Speaker 2: fly rod. So he's just teasing the mouth as he
Speaker 2: put it to the mouth of this little feeder creek
Speaker 2: going off of the lake. He catches a couple of fish,
Speaker 2: which is cool. Nothing that he was really all that
Speaker 2: stoked about keeping. He didn't keep him. He let him go.
Speaker 2: He said he was there about forty five minutes, paying
Speaker 2: attention to his surroundings. He had a four fifty four
Speaker 2: on his hip. He wasn't overly concerned for bears or whatever,
Speaker 2: because he was a guy he dealt with plenty of bears.
Speaker 2: So as he's doing his thing, he hears this scream.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: This scream really jarred him because it was loud and
Speaker 2: it was just below him. Down He assumed it was
Speaker 2: down by where this little pond is off to the
Speaker 2: left hand side of that, because that's where the bulk
Speaker 2: of the sound was coming from. Chad said, he instantly
Speaker 2: was like, what the hell started gathering up. He had
Speaker 2: one of those vests with all the lures and stuff
Speaker 2: right here and all that. But he starts breaking down
Speaker 2: his fly rod and putting in it in his case
Speaker 2: and looking in that direction. He's focused. He's whatever is
Speaker 2: making that noise is right over there, and I don't
Speaker 2: want no part of it. And in his mind he's thinking,
Speaker 2: I hope Darcy heard that, and it's getting people loaded
Speaker 2: in the plane, so I don't have to get over
Speaker 2: there and deal with that. So there's stuff going on.
Speaker 2: He's thinking about what's happening over at the plane. He's
Speaker 2: thinking about this scream. He said. The scream jarred his system.
Speaker 2: He said it freaked him out. He said he's never
Speaker 2: felt that kind of fear. Just grip him in that way.
Speaker 2: So Chad said, he once he got his fly rod
Speaker 2: in his case and slung over his shoulder, he immediately
Speaker 2: drew his pistol and he was checking to make sure
Speaker 2: all five shots were in there. He's checking his vest
Speaker 2: pouch to make sure he hit his extra rounds were there.
Speaker 2: Everything checked out. So he's literally taking a couple of
Speaker 2: steps backwards, because he said he wanted to turn and run,
Speaker 2: but something in him said, Keith, and I don't take
Speaker 2: your eyes off that area, because this scream really gripped him.
Speaker 2: He said it was a vicious, mournful kind of scream.
Speaker 2: So I asked him to flesh that out a little
Speaker 2: bit for me, and he said it sounded like a groan,
Speaker 2: but then ended with just this vicious, high pitched, a
Speaker 2: very aggressive type scream. Was all right, fair enough, He's
Speaker 2: literally taking a couple steps looking, checking all around him,
Speaker 2: taking a couple steps back, checking all around, and literally
Speaker 2: that snail piece of movement, and he shook, he said.
Speaker 2: As he was standing there, he felt his hands quiver
Speaker 2: and holding the pistol, and he'd never been in a situation,
Speaker 2: even with the bear rushing, and he never felt that.
Speaker 2: And as he gets back a little ways, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he sees this dark thing come out of
Speaker 2: the brush. Right because there's no big trees up there anything,
Speaker 2: it's all brush. The brush was rather large, he said.
Speaker 2: The brush he was looking into he had guestimated at
Speaker 2: nine to ten foot tall. This thing was taller than that.
Speaker 2: Very dark, pitch black, very dark comes out the way
Speaker 2: the sun was. It was coming down basically over his
Speaker 2: left shoulder, but it was so dark he couldn't make
Speaker 2: out any features because it just looked black. Someone in
Speaker 2: a black suit over there. He said. Initially he thought
Speaker 2: it was a front end of a moose, but then
Speaker 2: he's looking and then he saw it two legs and
Speaker 2: instantly was like, oh, holy crap. He's thinking to himself
Speaker 2: the whole time as he picked up his pace as
Speaker 2: far as his backtracking goes right, because he has to
Speaker 2: go around this pinnacle. He didn't want to get caught
Speaker 2: in the brush with this thing that close, so he
Speaker 2: stayed and open where he could keep a visual sight
Speaker 2: instead of being caught up in the brush. So he
Speaker 2: backs up, he said. As he was backing up from
Speaker 2: where he saw this thing initially, this thing stopped and
Speaker 2: was just looking in his direction. He said it had
Speaker 2: to have been at least ten foot tall. He said
Speaker 2: it didn't look overly robust or thick. It looked a
Speaker 2: little lanky. Again, it was all black, and he was
Speaker 2: freaking out a little bit because this thing was there.
Speaker 2: And he did mention that when they were flying over,
Speaker 2: he didn't notice anything, and normally you see a moose
Speaker 2: from the plane, easy, a bear from the plane, easy.
Speaker 2: And he said, when they circled around, checking wind direction
Speaker 2: for landing, there was no sign of anything, no sign
Speaker 2: of anything, but the brush is thicks. So he's backing up.
Speaker 2: He gets to a point to where as he looks back,
Speaker 2: he realizes the planes around the corner, maybe one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty yards away, one hundred and twenty yards to
Speaker 2: the corner. Hook around the planes right over there. And
Speaker 2: again the whole time he's thinking, Darcy, please have heard that,
Speaker 2: and please have people packed up. I don't know what
Speaker 2: this thing is doing, because again it was just standing
Speaker 2: there and he's backing away. He said. He got to
Speaker 2: a certain point when he looked over his shoulder again
Speaker 2: and looked back, the thing was gone, and that really
Speaker 2: freaked him out. So seeing it was gone, he turned
Speaker 2: around and hauled as fast as he could to get
Speaker 2: up to that little pinnacle that point so he can
Speaker 2: get around there and get back over the plane, so
Speaker 2: he said. As he was doing so, he was looking
Speaker 2: over his shoulder once in a while. He had to stop
Speaker 2: one time to catch his breath because he was totally
Speaker 2: freaking out, panicking out of breath, and he said when
Speaker 2: he stopped, he was listening, and in between hearing his
Speaker 2: self breathe real heavy, he heard the brush moving coming
Speaker 2: up his direction, just off the bank of the lake,
Speaker 2: and so he's crap, it's chasing me. He said. It
Speaker 2: was making a lot of noise, but it didn't sound
Speaker 2: like it was progressing very fast. When someone's freaking out,
Speaker 2: you know, So he starts walking slowly again, pistol out.
Speaker 2: He's walking backwards again, listening to this sound, trying to
Speaker 2: catch his breath. He said. As he was going along,
Speaker 2: he noticed this thing popping its head up above the
Speaker 2: brush and then ducking back down, heard movement. It was
Speaker 2: a little closer, popped its head up right. So he's
Speaker 2: watching this happen right off to his right hand side,
Speaker 2: and he's thinking, shit, I'm gonna have to shoot this thing.
Speaker 2: It's coming for him. I'm gonna have to shoot it.
Speaker 2: Should I stand my ground or keep retreating? And he
Speaker 2: decides he's going to continue his retreat. He wanted to
Speaker 2: get into visual range of the plane. Hopefully Darcy could
Speaker 2: see him and back him up with the bear gun
Speaker 2: they had over there, which was a shotgun. Right and
Speaker 2: again all this is happening. He's got three clients he's
Speaker 2: got to worry about, he's got his wife over there,
Speaker 2: and this thing is coming at him. It wasn't a
Speaker 2: full out rush, but it was still coming at him.
Speaker 2: So he keeps going backwards. He's trying to go as
Speaker 2: quick as he can. At one point, he said, he
Speaker 2: stopped and he was trying to catch his breath because
Speaker 2: he was going to pop a shot at it. When
Speaker 2: it popped its head up. He said, it was real
Speaker 2: weird because as soon as he stopped and he cocked
Speaker 2: the hammer, it stopped popping up. It was just moving.
Speaker 2: He could hear it. It was like strategically moving according
Speaker 2: to how he felt in the moment. He didn't know
Speaker 2: for sure, but he would hear movement quietness for a second,
Speaker 2: movement quietness, and then movement movement quietness, and he felt
Speaker 2: like he was being stocked. And so without it up,
Speaker 2: he didn't know exactly where it was. So he turned
Speaker 2: around and ran again, got around the pinnacle, was catching
Speaker 2: his breath again. Was freaking out heavy. Right now at
Speaker 2: this point, Darcy did hear the scream. Darcy heard it
Speaker 2: very well and had everyone by the plane, all their
Speaker 2: stuff already in there, but she had them staged by
Speaker 2: the plane, and she had turned it around facing away
Speaker 2: from shore, and everyone was waiting there, holding the lines
Speaker 2: from the wings and stuff. Darcy said, you guys, wait here,
Speaker 2: and she brought the shotgun and she was coming to
Speaker 2: meet him. He was so thankful when he saw that,
Speaker 2: but then he was yelling at her, wait there, watch
Speaker 2: the brush, wash the brush, because again he came around
Speaker 2: that pinnacle. He didn't know if this thing was cutting
Speaker 2: through to cut him off or could potentially ambush her.
Speaker 2: He didn't know, you know what I mean, because last
Speaker 2: he saw it it was off to his right, which
Speaker 2: would be straight in line with the plane if it
Speaker 2: was to go just straight north. So he's walking towards us, saying,
Speaker 2: keep it not on the bush. There's something out there.
Speaker 2: There's something out there. Stay tuned for more sasquatch out
Speaker 2: to see. We'll be right back after these messages as
Speaker 2: they meet each other, Darcy said. As she was standing there,
Speaker 2: she kept hearing noise in the brush. She kept hearing it,
Speaker 2: but nothing was showing itself right, So all she would
Speaker 2: hear is the brush movement. And then the wind had
Speaker 2: picked up a little bit so the leaves rustling, it
Speaker 2: was really hard to make out and pinpoint where that
Speaker 2: noise was. So Chad meets up with their explains, Hey,
Speaker 2: the dark figure, I don't know what the hell is.
Speaker 2: We gotta go, and she says okay, So he has
Speaker 2: her in front of him. Darcy said as she is walking,
Speaker 2: there may be seventy yards at this point from the
Speaker 2: plane and the clients. Right one of the clients is yelling, hey,
Speaker 2: there's a bear moving over in the brush. Darcy says,
Speaker 2: I know, stay there, stay there, and so they walk
Speaker 2: over a quick jog. Really, let's be honest, freaking out,
Speaker 2: but not trying to show it with the clients. Chad
Speaker 2: was like, I was trying to keep a brave face
Speaker 2: for the clients. So they get up to the clients.
Speaker 2: The clients hadn't seen nothing. They heard the scream with Darcy,
Speaker 2: and of course they understood, hey, we don't know what
Speaker 2: that is. We'll be ready to go. One of the
Speaker 2: guys was like, that is one odd looking bear. I
Speaker 2: seen it popped its head up and then drop back
Speaker 2: down into the brush. It was right over there, and
Speaker 2: Chad's just let's get on the plane. Let's load up.
Speaker 2: We're not going to deal with an aggressive bear. Everyone
Speaker 2: was loading up in the plane and it pops up again.
Speaker 2: And one of the women outside of Darcy, that was
Speaker 2: with this group of three, she's seen it pop up
Speaker 2: as she's getting into the plane. She says, it doesn't
Speaker 2: look like a bear. That doesn't look like a bear.
Speaker 2: And no one's really arguing about it. Everyone's just trying
Speaker 2: to look out the windows of the plane as they're
Speaker 2: loading up, trying to look and spot this bear. So Chad,
Speaker 2: he has a guy get on or whatever. All the
Speaker 2: lines are free and whatnot, and he has on chest waiter.
Speaker 2: So he pushes the plane out a little bit. And
Speaker 2: as he's trying to do the wind is blowing. So
Speaker 2: he's screw it. The wind's blowing. It's good in our direction.
Speaker 2: I'll just hop in, fire up, and we'll take off
Speaker 2: from there. So he gets in, he does this quick
Speaker 2: pre flight, fires up the motor. It's iling for a minute.
Speaker 2: He's watching the gauges and all that stuff. And as
Speaker 2: he's doing so, he's rubbernecking. He's looking out. He's got
Speaker 2: Darcy looking out, he's got the passengers keeping an eye out.
Speaker 2: He said once he had the plane fired up. He
Speaker 2: felt a lot better because he was literally hammered down
Speaker 2: and take off and he said, okay, it's warmed up enough,
Speaker 2: we're going to be taken off. We'll go to another place.
Speaker 2: So he takes off, and he takes off heading east
Speaker 2: right because that's the direction the wind's coming. So he
Speaker 2: takes off. He said, once he got up to altitude,
Speaker 2: he came back around, was buzzing blow, asking the people
Speaker 2: to take a look, look out. The Darcy says, there,
Speaker 2: it is, there, it is. It's by that little pond.
Speaker 2: It's by the little pond. And so he circles around.
Speaker 2: Because of course he was at the controls and all
Speaker 2: the obstructions, he couldn't really see what Darcy was. So
Speaker 2: he came back around and he was looking out his
Speaker 2: side as he was making a turn, and he said
Speaker 2: that one of the people saw it with him take
Speaker 2: off running hit in the brush and just brush movement right.
Speaker 2: He asked the guy later, what did you see? And
Speaker 2: the guy told him what I saw look like a
Speaker 2: very large man in a fur jacket running in the bush.
Speaker 2: What the hell is that? Chad was like, your guess
Speaker 2: is as good as mine. I have no idea, and
Speaker 2: they left it at that. He circled a couple more
Speaker 2: times trying to get an eye at it, but it
Speaker 2: was gone. I want to think Chad and Darcy for
Speaker 2: sharing that. They ended up stopped doing the guidance thing
Speaker 2: for medical reasons. Chad had some issues with diabetes that
Speaker 2: affected his vision a year or two after this, and
Speaker 2: so he was medically retired from flying. Basically, it was
Speaker 2: difficult for Chad because he said it was like it
Speaker 2: was like a curse almost, because no sooner than that happened.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he finds he has diabetes, and
Speaker 2: then shortly after that it affects his vision and stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's coincidental. But I could see where it would
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, Jesus is the catalyst for all bad things,
Speaker 2: But realistically that probably wasn't the case. I hope not.
Speaker 2: I want to thank them for sharing, Thank you guys
Speaker 2: for joining me, and we'll catch on the next one
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