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Speaker 2: Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going
Speaker 2: on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to
Speaker 2: kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over
Speaker 2: the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn,
Speaker 2: I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
Speaker 2: over the fence, and name was dead once you hit
Speaker 2: the ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw
Speaker 2: was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what are
Speaker 2: you reporting? We got some wonder or something crawling around
Speaker 2: out here? Did you see what it was? It was
Speaker 2: enough out here looking. I'm new to the window now
Speaker 2: and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Speaker 2: Point hello, hit somebody out here?
Speaker 3: What quent on out there?
Speaker 2: I've thought of a bit of about sixty nine. I
Speaker 2: don't know easy. I'm out there. Yeah, I'm walking right ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, greeting is this friend in Alaska? Thanks for
Speaker 3: joining me. What I wanted to share with you today
Speaker 3: comes from Kirk and his wife and their five year
Speaker 3: old daughter. They have a cabin near the Koyakuk River.
Speaker 3: It's a little ways off the river, but they access
Speaker 3: it by the river. They asked me not to share
Speaker 3: the exact but it's on the upper part of the Koyakuk.
Speaker 3: So what Kirk shared was, this isn't very long ago,
Speaker 3: this most season, so less than two months ago. Him,
Speaker 3: his wife and daughter were at this cabin. The first
Speaker 3: couple of days was just standard stuff. His wife was
Speaker 3: watching the kid and keeping the cabin warm. What have
Speaker 3: you meals cooked, that kind of thing. Kirk was out
Speaker 3: exploring looking for signs of moose. On the morning at
Speaker 3: day three, he was making some calls in this little
Speaker 3: meadow about half mile from this cabin, on this open
Speaker 3: area of tundra. This meadow, this muskeg area, wasn't overly large.
Speaker 3: He said. It's about a half mile by half mile,
Speaker 3: not a perfect circle, more like an oblong. This creek
Speaker 3: kind of ran through it. It was a little feet
Speaker 3: or creek that fed into the marsh in the center,
Speaker 3: and then from there it fed out and it eventually
Speaker 3: made its way to the river. So he said, he
Speaker 3: was sitting there, it was just getting light out. He
Speaker 3: starts making his calls. He hears an identical call to
Speaker 3: what he's calling across the way and goes, oh, crap,
Speaker 3: I'm calling him a cow. He's like, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to sit quiet and let the other cow, which probably
Speaker 3: sounds way more natural than me calling the bull moose. Right,
Speaker 3: So he's sitting there for a while and what's quiet,
Speaker 3: he's not hearing that call anymore, or sits a while,
Speaker 3: makes another call about an hour later, right across as
Speaker 3: a straight shot. He get the call back identical to
Speaker 3: what he just did. That's not normal. A cow moose
Speaker 3: would have shown herself and made her way in my
Speaker 3: direction if she was seeking me out. So he didn't
Speaker 3: know what to think of it. Started getting an eerie feeling,
Speaker 3: so he goes, I'm just going to head out of here.
Speaker 3: I'll go back try again tomorrow morning. He really felt
Speaker 3: off about this return moose call, this cow call, he said,
Speaker 3: for the life of him, he couldn't shake the feeling
Speaker 3: that something was totally off, even though what he heard
Speaker 3: was normal in context of what he would expect to hear,
Speaker 3: the timing of it, the way everything was going to
Speaker 3: Kirk was like something mate, right, I'm just gonna get
Speaker 3: out of here, he said. On his way out. Now
Speaker 3: he is about a half mile from the cabin, so
Speaker 3: he's got a little bit of ways to cut through.
Speaker 3: He started into the trees, but there was a couple
Speaker 3: breaks and a couple openings between where he was at
Speaker 3: in his cabins. There are some smaller meadows and stuff.
Speaker 3: He was thinking, I'm going to go to one closer
Speaker 3: to the cabin and I'll call again, see if I
Speaker 3: can leave the creepy feeling behind type of thing. It
Speaker 3: was reasoning his way out of whatever was happening. Right
Speaker 3: there was about three separate little meadows in between where
Speaker 3: he was at and where his cabin was, and he
Speaker 3: chose the second one away from where he just was,
Speaker 3: so technically it was about four little meadows away. He
Speaker 3: had one more meadow before a thick batch of trees
Speaker 3: before he got back to his cabin. So he says,
Speaker 3: when he got there, it was just getting full on daylight.
Speaker 3: So he figured he had a chance, maybe an hour
Speaker 3: window to maybe spark something with the calling and a
Speaker 3: little moose, So he makes his calls. Immediately after he
Speaker 3: does this call, it's identical and it's right over there
Speaker 3: his back trail. It was literally on his back trail
Speaker 3: and he couldn't see where this cow was calling. At
Speaker 3: this point, it really freaked him out to where he's
Speaker 3: standing up with his rifle and he starts yelling, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm over here. I don't know if you're playing games
Speaker 3: with me. It's not funny. He assumed maybe another hunter
Speaker 3: was trying to weird him out about where he was hunting,
Speaker 3: like they want that spot to themselves kind of thing.
Speaker 3: He wasn't feeling that. He thought someone would have said,
Speaker 3: hey man, i'm calling over here, sorry, whatever, but there
Speaker 3: was none of that. So as he yells, he says,
Speaker 3: damn it really loud at the end, right, damn it?
Speaker 3: No sooner and he says that he hears identical damn
Speaker 3: it coming back to him like it echoed. He said
Speaker 3: it was almost instantaneous when he was done with the
Speaker 3: damn it, damn it came right back at him. It
Speaker 3: was a very close imitation of his voice, very close.
Speaker 3: It spooped him out even more. He points his rifle
Speaker 3: in that direction, and as soon as he points the rifle,
Speaker 3: he says he got this feeling that he doesn't want
Speaker 3: to have to shoot in the instant before he was
Speaker 3: ready to shoot, and then immediately gets his sensation in
Speaker 3: his mind about I probably don't want to do this,
Speaker 3: What am I going to do? I don't want to
Speaker 3: lead this thing back to my family. Whatever in the
Speaker 3: hell it is, it's mimicking me. So what he does
Speaker 3: is he heads off to his left. He just turns
Speaker 3: and goes just to his left. He knows where he's
Speaker 3: at mentally, he's mentally keeping track of his position from
Speaker 3: his cabin, and he walks off to his left into
Speaker 3: the brush. He said he was making a lot of
Speaker 3: noise going through the brush on purpose, trying to lure
Speaker 3: whatever it is off his back trail. He didn't want
Speaker 3: whatever is going on to follow him back to the cabin,
Speaker 3: so he goes out of his way quite a way.
Speaker 3: He doesn't remember exactly how far he went, but he
Speaker 3: said he went far enough to where he cleared the
Speaker 3: trees and walked out on tundra for a ways and
Speaker 3: then turned round, got low and started glassing back towards
Speaker 3: the tree line to see if whatever it was would
Speaker 3: show its else. He said, as he was sitting there,
Speaker 3: it's steadily getting lighter, so he's comfortable with what he
Speaker 3: can see around him. He's got plenty of open area.
Speaker 3: He should be able to see everything in his mind's eye,
Speaker 3: he said, as he was sitting there, and he had
Speaker 3: periodically glassed back towards the tree line he just came
Speaker 3: out of, he noticed something. It was like a rusty
Speaker 3: brown kind of color. He noticed it moving in the trees, right.
Speaker 3: So he's, okay, someone's wearing a fur coat messing with me,
Speaker 3: because what he saw matched up with the guy wearing
Speaker 3: some kind of weird coat. It was on two legs.
Speaker 3: He clearly saw it move just out of you, but
Speaker 3: saw it long enough to make out human like over there.
Speaker 3: Weird coat right, so's ah, this must be some old
Speaker 3: hermit playing games. At this point, he's like, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna be scared of some old hermit. So he starts charging,
Speaker 3: just boom walking right back to where he'd just seen
Speaker 3: this thing. So Kirk said, as soon as he got
Speaker 3: within fifty feet of the actual tree line in front
Speaker 3: of him, he got this overwhelming sense of danger. He
Speaker 3: said he never felt before or since. It was immediate.
Speaker 3: It stopped him in his tracks and he felt in
Speaker 3: fear of his life like that, he said. It was
Speaker 3: the strangest thing. He said. He started shaking. He couldn't
Speaker 3: shake the fact that he was in imminent danger, and
Speaker 3: he wasn't seeing anything tangible to justify this feeling. Kirk said,
Speaker 3: that's when he said, all right, you know what, whatever's
Speaker 3: going on, I got to get out of here. I
Speaker 3: got to make it back to my cabin because I
Speaker 3: don't want something to happen to me and my wife
Speaker 3: have to deal with this too, right because the five
Speaker 3: year old daughter. So if he starts heading into the trees,
Speaker 3: he's got his rifle ready. He had a handgun that
Speaker 3: was on his hip. He adjusted his coat so he
Speaker 3: can gain easy access to it, and he walks his
Speaker 3: back trail. He walks right on back to the other
Speaker 3: meadow where he had last made this moose call. He said,
Speaker 3: on his way through there, he's looking around. It's pretty thick,
Speaker 3: but there are some areas where he could see for
Speaker 3: a little ways and he would stop in those areas listen, nothing,
Speaker 3: not a sound. He makes it back to that other meadow,
Speaker 3: and he said, his heart, he could feel it beaten
Speaker 3: in his throat, he could feel it in his eyes.
Speaker 3: He's panicking inside. He's like, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: It's not registering, none of it's making sense to him.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know what to do. He pauses and he
Speaker 3: stands there. He's trying to figure out do I really
Speaker 3: want to bring whatever this is back with me? And
Speaker 3: at that point he's just needed to get back there
Speaker 3: and make sure that my wife is aware of what's
Speaker 3: going on. So he says, if it follows, I can't
Speaker 3: fix that right now, but I know I need to
Speaker 3: protect them. I don't know what's going on there, So
Speaker 3: in his mind he was thinking this could be happening
Speaker 3: to her right now, we'd be better off together with it.
Speaker 3: So he starts storming back towards the cabin, and he
Speaker 3: said on the way he would stop periodically and turn around,
Speaker 3: and he felt like something was right on his heels
Speaker 3: as he was moving through the trees. He said he
Speaker 3: couldn't shake it. He kept feeling like it's right on
Speaker 3: top of him. He'd turned around, nothing, he said. It
Speaker 3: continued the whole way back, which was at this point
Speaker 3: like a quarter mile. So once he gets to the
Speaker 3: backside of the cabin, one of the things he always
Speaker 3: did was bump twice just let his wife know to
Speaker 3: unlock the door. There's a window along the side where
Speaker 3: he comes from the back. If you're facing the cabin
Speaker 3: and'd be off to the left, but from the backside
Speaker 3: it's off to the right, so he would bump bump.
Speaker 3: There's a window that he had to pass. His wife
Speaker 3: could look out, see it's him. Open the door. They
Speaker 3: had that worked out because they'd been going to this
Speaker 3: cabin for years. He does that bump and he glances
Speaker 3: up at the window, but there's no one in the window.
Speaker 3: So he bangs again AND's coming around saying, hey, open
Speaker 3: the door. He comes around. It's locked up tight. He's
Speaker 3: banging on the door. Hey, it's me, Let me in, honey.
Speaker 3: So she comes to the door and she is spooped. Hey,
Speaker 3: there's some strange stuff happening. I was out there. He
Speaker 3: lays out everything to her and she has this look
Speaker 3: on her face. He thought she wasn't believing him. But
Speaker 3: what had actually happened was while he was gone, something
Speaker 3: was banging on the cabin. It banged just like he did,
Speaker 3: so she thought he came back early, so she didn't
Speaker 3: even look out the window. She went to the door
Speaker 3: and opened it. She said when she opened it, she
Speaker 3: saw nothing, but she heard a grunt and she looks
Speaker 3: off to the right hand facing outside the door, and
Speaker 3: she said something big moved and she just slammed the door. Now,
Speaker 3: the banging continued around this cabin the whole time he
Speaker 3: was gone. He sensing something was off, but made sense
Speaker 3: to him why he was feeling the way he was
Speaker 3: feeling when she expressed that right. But she told him
Speaker 3: she heard a cow moose call as well a couple
Speaker 3: times during this time where he was off making the
Speaker 3: moose calls and then wandering off and and coming back
Speaker 3: and all that during this whole time, She told him
Speaker 3: whatever it was making a cow moose call outside the
Speaker 3: cabin real loud a few different times. So he said,
Speaker 3: I saw something big and looked like a man wearing
Speaker 3: a coat. She said, I saw something very similar, but
Speaker 3: it was too big to be a man. And she
Speaker 3: pointed out that same window where she would normally peek
Speaker 3: to see him coming. Where this thing had been was
Speaker 3: right out that window, and she pointed out it was
Speaker 3: as tall as that third branch up. He knows that
Speaker 3: bottom branch in that particular tree was about nine feet
Speaker 3: off the ground because he had hung a rope there
Speaker 3: that he had run off to another tree so when
Speaker 3: he hung his quarters he could hang him up there
Speaker 3: with a tarpover so he automatically knew whatever was way
Speaker 3: bigger than nine feet. They're spitball, and she brings up
Speaker 3: the Harryman. Now, something he just dismissed over the years
Speaker 3: was he had actually ended up purchasing this cabin from
Speaker 3: his uncle. During that time when he was younger and
Speaker 3: his uncle would talk about the harry Man. He thought
Speaker 3: it was just his uncle trying to make it seem
Speaker 3: like a adventure. I go out and I do with
Speaker 3: harry Man, this kind of stuff, right. He thought his
Speaker 3: uncle was playing it up. Reality being his uncle wasn't playing.
Speaker 3: So he starts remembering these stories his uncle told him,
Speaker 3: and he goes, oh, my uncle said, I think I
Speaker 3: remember him saying that some dryfish leapt out as an offering,
Speaker 3: will appease them and they'll leave. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I want to do that. I don't want to continue
Speaker 3: a bad habit. His wife says, just put us some dryfish,
Speaker 3: see what happens, just to see if it worked. He
Speaker 3: decided to, so, let me explain, Kirk is at the basket,
Speaker 3: same with his wife. Not that makes a huge difference.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be clear about that. They're not just
Speaker 3: some random yahoo's or whatever run around the woods. So
Speaker 3: she brings up, what about leaving something besides the dryfish?
Speaker 3: How about we leave a trinket of some kind. She's
Speaker 3: spitballing at that time of curse. No, I don't even
Speaker 3: want to put dryfish out there, let alone anything else.
Speaker 3: So he decides reluctantly to do this. So near where
Speaker 3: that tree was where she saw this thing, and where
Speaker 3: he had his rope across, he said it was about
Speaker 3: three trees away, so about ten fifteen feet there was
Speaker 3: an old oil drum, fifty five gallon drum. He walks
Speaker 3: over and he just puts the smoke salmon on top
Speaker 3: of that. The dryfish sets it down and walks back inside.
Speaker 3: Now it's the middle of the day, right, So Kirk's
Speaker 3: sitting there and he's and I don't like feeling we're
Speaker 3: trapped in here. His wife's Kate, we're safe in here.
Speaker 3: Everything's fine. There hasn't been anything strange going on since
Speaker 3: he got back, so things calmed down a little bit.
Speaker 3: They had the generator outside, Kirk went outside, fired it up,
Speaker 3: and they put on this TV with the built in
Speaker 3: VCR and DVD player in their old school, but they
Speaker 3: plugged that in to play Disney movies for their daughter
Speaker 3: to get her sidetracked, because the kid was picking up
Speaker 3: on their energy and the kid was starting to freak out,
Speaker 3: so they tried to bring some normalcy to it. Whole
Speaker 3: family sitting there watching Disney movies.
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Speaker 3: Now as they're watching the movies. They went through two movies.
Speaker 3: He kept peeking out the blinds and stuff because they
Speaker 3: had the old strange accordion style ones that he can't
Speaker 3: directly see through. He kept checking the smoke salmon over
Speaker 3: and over again, barely paying attention to the movie. He said,
Speaker 3: approximately the fourth time he went and looked, he didn't
Speaker 3: notice the salmon out there anymore because the positioning of
Speaker 3: the drum, he could easily see the top of it,
Speaker 3: and whether the salmon was on top of it. It
Speaker 3: was like twenty five feet away. It's like right over there.
Speaker 3: Didn't see the smoke salmon. He goes, the salmon's gone.
Speaker 3: So for him and his wife, that kind of ended
Speaker 3: their Disney movie marathon with their daughter, and they just
Speaker 3: let the kid do her thing and watch her shows
Speaker 3: while they talk quietly amongst each other, and they opened
Speaker 3: that blind. Kirk said, as they were sitting there talking
Speaker 3: out in the trees where it wasn't fully visible, but
Speaker 3: they could see between the trees a little bit, they
Speaker 3: saw this figure move, and he said, it moved very slow,
Speaker 3: almost like it was floating, but you could easily see
Speaker 3: this and it looked dark on the lower half, lighter
Speaker 3: on the upper half. He said, that's what gave the
Speaker 3: impression of someone in an oversized snowsuit, because the top
Speaker 3: was like a brownish color and the bottoms were black.
Speaker 3: He was like, it was real weird, but there was
Speaker 3: obviously no clothing. It was hair. You gotta understand this
Speaker 3: is thirty five feet away that this is going on,
Speaker 3: that they're watching this thing move. It's not outwardly showing
Speaker 3: itself or being aggressive at this time, so they're trying
Speaker 3: to wrap their minds around what they're seeing. Are we
Speaker 3: imagining this? Are we so freaked out we're having like
Speaker 3: a shared hallucination or something. Obviously they were. The wife
Speaker 3: gets scared and goes sits and holds a daughter. As
Speaker 3: soon as she did that, and she's sitting down with
Speaker 3: the kid, Kirk steps away from the window again. They
Speaker 3: were just right up on this window. They were looking out,
Speaker 3: though they weren't looking tight to the sides. As soon
Speaker 3: as he turns and steps away from that window, his
Speaker 3: wife screams to Kirk. It looks like she's looking at him,
Speaker 3: but she's looking past him at the window. Something moved
Speaker 3: big in front of that window. Startled the crap out
Speaker 3: of Kirk. He turns around. He didn't see what she
Speaker 3: did because the window's only so wide. It wasn't a
Speaker 3: very tall window either. Quickly, boom, a shadow went by.
Speaker 3: She didn't see exactly what it was, but it's scared
Speaker 3: the crap out of Kirk the way she screams. So
Speaker 3: when he turned around and look, he's not seeing anything.
Speaker 3: He jumps forward real quick because he's like one step
Speaker 3: away from this damn window. He jumps forward real quick
Speaker 3: to look out. He doesn't see anything. Just as he's
Speaker 3: looking out and looking around on the opposite side of
Speaker 3: the cabinet, damn, something hit it and the whole place
Speaker 3: shakes right. His daughter started screaming and crying. His wife
Speaker 3: started screaming crying. So, of course he doesn't want them
Speaker 3: in danger or whatever, so he grabs his rifle and
Speaker 3: he's like, I'm gonna run this thing off. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: shoot it if I have to. He runs out the door.
Speaker 3: When he gets outside, he's looking with his rifle. He
Speaker 3: wants to end whatever in the hell's going on like
Speaker 3: right now, and he's not seen anything. So he runs
Speaker 3: around to the other side decide where the drum was
Speaker 3: and stuff, and he's looking and he's not seeing anything.
Speaker 3: He gets the sensation that he's being watched and he
Speaker 3: can't shake it, so he's looking all over the place.
Speaker 3: He goes back inside. As they're sitting there, he's saying,
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell to do. Let's plan
Speaker 3: on getting out of here, because he felt like a
Speaker 3: cage scrap. He was just caged in. At any moment,
Speaker 3: something was going to break in and hurt his family,
Speaker 3: which I could just imagine is a horrible feeling. It
Speaker 3: was bad enough with what I dealt with, but to
Speaker 3: have a little kid there as well, that's your own,
Speaker 3: I could just imagine it'd be heightened. So as they're
Speaker 3: discussing how it's going to work, because they have to
Speaker 3: walk down this trail with their daughter to where their
Speaker 3: skiff is, it's off the river a little ways. It's
Speaker 3: about not quite half a mile that they have to
Speaker 3: go through very thick brush, very dense woods up until
Speaker 3: about maybe one hundred yards from the river bank is
Speaker 3: where the trail opens up and they can see openly.
Speaker 3: So he's trying to account for all the potential dangers
Speaker 3: and going out that way. His wife wanted to go
Speaker 3: right then. His concern was being on the river when
Speaker 3: it got dark, because they had a couple hours of
Speaker 3: rivertime ahead of them, and with how the day had
Speaker 3: progressed and the Disney movies and stuff, they weren't too
Speaker 3: far from twilight at that time. So they get their
Speaker 3: game plan. They moved a couple of items in front
Speaker 3: of the door. They reclosed the window, and they hung
Speaker 3: some stuff up over just as a secondary measure to
Speaker 3: keep anything from looking in, and they sat there. He
Speaker 3: went out one time and made sure the generator was
Speaker 3: topped off so it'll run until it ran out, so
Speaker 3: they can have the movies going for the daughter to
Speaker 3: calm her down and bring some kind of normalcy to
Speaker 3: this weird situation that was happening. He said, everything was
Speaker 3: good and quiet. Of course they were freaked out, good
Speaker 3: as far as nothing else was happening. He said it
Speaker 3: got to a point to where they started relaxing and
Speaker 3: dozing off a little bit. He said he wasn't sure
Speaker 3: how much time it lapsed since he dozed off, but
Speaker 3: he was woken up to the whole place shaking like
Speaker 3: an earthquake was going on. He said it was dark out,
Speaker 3: the generator had stopped running at some point because the
Speaker 3: TV was no longer on. The shaking started, he woke
Speaker 3: up to it. Then all of a sudden, his daughter
Speaker 3: and wife woke up pretty much screaming, freaking out. So
Speaker 3: he hushes them down and he's listening. He said it
Speaker 3: sounded like something large pounding at a quick cadence against
Speaker 3: the wall, and it was just making the whole place shake.
Speaker 3: Right at this point, he had really felt fed up
Speaker 3: with it, and he starts yelling, you leave my family alone,
Speaker 3: You leave us alone, yelling, And after a little while
Speaker 3: that banging stopped, the whole place stopped shaking. They sat there.
Speaker 3: The daughter fell back asleep after a little bit, but
Speaker 3: him and his wife sat there with a lantern lit.
Speaker 3: Once the pounding and stuff stopped and he was yelling,
Speaker 3: all that stopped, they lit the lanterns, and daughter fell asleep,
Speaker 3: and they sat there. His wife insisted on carrying his pistol,
Speaker 3: which he readily said, yes, of course. They had their
Speaker 3: game plan. They were just taking the necessities. They would
Speaker 3: leave stuff there. He was going to come back later
Speaker 3: with some relatives, which is not uncommon. There's quite a
Speaker 3: few encounters to where it plays out like they just
Speaker 3: want to get out of there, and man decides he'll
Speaker 3: come back later. As they're discussing all that stuff, the
Speaker 3: pounding has stopped. They're just basically feeling anxious as hell,
Speaker 3: wanting to be gone out of there. Let's go. So
Speaker 3: morning comes from what he said. He made coffee out
Speaker 3: of habit. He was wide awake, he was anxious. He
Speaker 3: really didn't want to get over anxious with the coffee,
Speaker 3: but his wife wanted coffee. And he gets that all done.
Speaker 3: And as they're drinking coffee and they're talking in hush
Speaker 3: tones because the daughter's still sleeping, right. They want her
Speaker 3: to get rest and hopefully be able to walk quickly
Speaker 3: as they made it through some of the thickest parts
Speaker 3: of this trail on their way back to the skiff.
Speaker 3: As him and his wife are discussing these things. They've
Speaker 3: been down this trail several times, so they know at
Speaker 3: one part of kind of dog legs through this one
Speaker 3: area shortly before it opens wide up to the river.
Speaker 3: He was telling his wife, I think if anything was
Speaker 3: to happen, that's the choke point in that area is
Speaker 3: the tightest all on the trail with the trees and stuff.
Speaker 3: That's where I need you to be holding her and
Speaker 3: moving quickly. She was like, duh, yeah, I'm motivated. You
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about me moving quickly. Just keep
Speaker 3: up fair enough, that's Mama Berry. So warning comes, it
Speaker 3: gets lighter, that it's light enough to where they're not
Speaker 3: seeing anything. He looks out that window. They take down
Speaker 3: whatever they had hanging and they open that blind and
Speaker 3: he's looking out and on that drum is all the
Speaker 3: fish that it went missing the day before. He put
Speaker 3: out like a couple of flats and some strips. So
Speaker 3: there's like two flats and three strips. A flat is
Speaker 3: just a bigger flatter piece of smoked salmon and strips
Speaker 3: or strips like a stick, like a jerky stick. They
Speaker 3: were back. They were gone the day before, but now
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they're all back. He's confused by it.
Speaker 3: He takes it it wasn't accepted, which what do you
Speaker 3: do with that? And so he points it out to
Speaker 3: his wife, and his wife's I don't give a shit.
Speaker 3: We're getting out of here. We're going. I don't want
Speaker 3: to come back to this place. So she starts getting
Speaker 3: the daughter ready. As that's going on, he feels a
Speaker 3: sense of relief that it doesn't feel ominous. He's got
Speaker 3: the curtain open now is letting natural daylight in, and
Speaker 3: he's feeling a little more comfortable about them getting out
Speaker 3: of there because he can see everything. Right. As he
Speaker 3: was sitting there and his wife getting the daughter ready
Speaker 3: and getting her something to eat, all of a sudden, boom,
Speaker 3: the place started shaking like an earthquake again, right, but
Speaker 3: this time he could tell the banging was coming from
Speaker 3: that back corner he had normally pound twice and she
Speaker 3: would see it was him and open the door. He said,
Speaker 3: it seemed like he was coming from that same area,
Speaker 3: and at that point he said, screw it. He grabs
Speaker 3: a guy. He says, plug her ears because this is
Speaker 3: continuous boom boom. So his wife plugs her daughter's ears,
Speaker 3: and he shoots through the wall in the area. He
Speaker 3: thinks this thing is pounding, so he shoots through the wall.
Speaker 3: They hear this hillacious sound. He said it was like
Speaker 3: a guttural growl, kind of moan sound, and then quiet.
Speaker 3: They sat there a minute. His ears are ringing because
Speaker 3: he just fired a high powered rifle inside the small structure.
Speaker 3: His wife is crying. His daughter's shooking up and crying,
Speaker 3: and they're sitting there a minute, and he's, I don't
Speaker 3: know what now, I'm nervous about us going through the trail,
Speaker 3: and his wife goes, no, I have your gun, you
Speaker 3: have your other gun. We're going. We're not sticking around.
Speaker 3: He can't argue with that, because nothing has de escalated.
Speaker 3: What is a continuation of weirdness. He agrees, and now
Speaker 3: he's worried that this thing's injured now and it's going
Speaker 3: to be angry at them, right, So he goes, what
Speaker 3: we need to do is just start going now, right now,
Speaker 3: Let's grab our stuff. They put their daughter's little backpack
Speaker 3: on her. His wife had the backpack with their important
Speaker 3: stuff that they brought with some extra ammo, and she
Speaker 3: was carrying the pistol in her hand, had the daughter
Speaker 3: in one arm. They went out the door. Boom, They're gone.
Speaker 3: They're going down the trail. Kirk said he kept looking
Speaker 3: over his shoulder because he felt like they're being watched. Still,
Speaker 3: he said, for a good portion of the trail, it's
Speaker 3: about the trail itself was real narrow as the old
Speaker 3: game trail, but outside of that, the brush was backaways
Speaker 3: off of this little narrow path before the brush got
Speaker 3: thick and stuff for a good portion of their way
Speaker 3: through it. Just at this point it bottled next to
Speaker 3: where they got to go through this dog leg on
Speaker 3: the trail through some of the thickest part of the
Speaker 3: brush in the trees. He said. When they got to
Speaker 3: that point, he turned around. He's pointing his rifle around.
Speaker 3: He's not seeing anything, and his wife said we need
Speaker 3: to hurry up, and he goes, okay, but her whole
Speaker 3: demeanor change. She said something just told me, I want
Speaker 3: your kid, I want your kid, and she said whatever,
Speaker 3: and the hell that was, it's not happening. We gotta go.
Speaker 3: They hurry up through that portion of the trail. Now
Speaker 3: when it come out of the other side of Kirk
Speaker 3: said that his wife was literally running and jumping carrying
Speaker 3: the kid at this point still moving like a football linebacker.
Speaker 3: She was motivated to get the hell out. She led
Speaker 3: the way and was going further faster than Kirk was.
Speaker 3: He was stopping every once in a while to check
Speaker 3: their back trail to make sure Nutt was following them.
Speaker 3: He said. Once his wife got to the skip, he
Speaker 3: was paces behind her, and when he caught up, she
Speaker 3: had tears pouring down her face, saying, it keeps saying
Speaker 3: it over and over, we gotta go, And he goes,
Speaker 3: what do you mean, and she goes, it keeps telling
Speaker 3: me that it's going to take us, it's going to
Speaker 3: take our kit. He can't argue with that because he
Speaker 3: didn't hear it, but he trusted what his wife is
Speaker 3: telling him. He does this thing. He has to get
Speaker 3: the gas cans out of the bush. There's brush not
Speaker 3: too far off the river bank where they take their
Speaker 3: field cans out of the skiff and stash them and
Speaker 3: hide them so in case someone coming by wouldn't steal
Speaker 3: their gas, because sometimes shit happens. So he goes and retrieves, it,
Speaker 3: comes back over, fires up the outboard and as it's
Speaker 3: warming up, they're not tied off. At this point, he's
Speaker 3: just letting outboard warm up. The current's starting to slowly
Speaker 3: drag him off of where they're beached, and his wife
Speaker 3: keeps saying it, keeps telling me that it's nearby and
Speaker 3: it's going to get us. He's not gonna tell her, hey,
Speaker 3: you're wrong, because I don't hear it, so he takes
Speaker 3: her word for it, puts it in reverse, the back
Speaker 3: away from the river bank where they parked their skiff.
Speaker 3: As he backed up, there's like a big bend that's
Speaker 3: just a little bit below them where they park, and
Speaker 3: he's going around that. And as they're cutting around that bend,
Speaker 3: he looks off to his left and the direction of
Speaker 3: the river bank where the cabin is located. On that side,
Speaker 3: which would be the east side of the river, he
Speaker 3: looks he can see this tall, dark figure silhouetted in
Speaker 3: the trees, less than twenty yards off the river banks.
Speaker 3: He said it had to be pretty damn tall for
Speaker 3: him to notice it, because he noticed from like shoulders
Speaker 3: up what he can make out as head and shoulders.
Speaker 3: He said, I would have considered myself paranoid, however, considering
Speaker 3: what had happened the previous day and night. He wasn't
Speaker 3: going to discount it just as some strange anomaly in
Speaker 3: the trees. He took it for what he thought it was,
Speaker 3: which was a hairyman. They got there. Nothing more to
Speaker 3: add as far as the encounter other than a long
Speaker 3: cup hour ride. Even when they got back to more
Speaker 3: familiar grounds at were it's so remote, right near a
Speaker 3: road where the truck was parked and all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. His wife was holding the gun and her
Speaker 3: baby and nothing was coming close. I wouldn't want to
Speaker 3: approach her in that state because she's on protect mode.
Speaker 3: What he said was is that since this has happened,
Speaker 3: it's been really hard for his wife to sleep. She
Speaker 3: gets very anxious when it starts to get dark, out
Speaker 3: constantly checking on the daughter. It's been basically a nightmare.
Speaker 3: They reached out to some of their elders. They are
Speaker 3: tending this things. However, the elder see fit, I was
Speaker 3: in a situation, but there was no little kids like
Speaker 3: my own little kids there. It wasn't that kind of dynamic.
Speaker 3: It was more protect me versus having to feel like
Speaker 3: you got to protect your kid. But you gotta be
Speaker 3: careful and stay tuned.
Speaker 1: For more sasquatch out to sea, will be right back
Speaker 1: after these messages.
Speaker 3: What I suspect is the uncle had been feeding and
Speaker 3: doing other stuff outside of Kirk's knowledge. I think potentially
Speaker 3: there could have been one of these things, upset about
Speaker 3: not being fed normally, or maybe there's something else going on.
Speaker 3: Who knows. He has not been back since the gender hitter.
Speaker 3: They have There is a few thousand dollars and he
Speaker 3: needs to go get that. At this point, he's ready
Speaker 3: to cut his losses basically and just salvage whatever next
Speaker 3: spring unless he gets a wild hair. He said he's
Speaker 3: got a buddy who has a plane that maybe he'll
Speaker 3: have him fly him out at some point. But regardless,
Speaker 3: I'm to thank Kirk for sharing. It was hard for
Speaker 3: him being a dad and being in that position of protection.
Speaker 3: He felt very inadequate when all this stuff was going on,
Speaker 3: and it bothers him as a man to feel like
Speaker 3: he couldn't protect his family, which I could understand. What
Speaker 3: I wanted to share with the other day comes from Julius.
Speaker 3: This was approximately seven years ago. He was on a
Speaker 3: snow machine ride. What ended up happening is he's cruising
Speaker 3: along this actually happened to me back in the nineties.
Speaker 3: As he was going over these little bumps and little
Speaker 3: boondock areas, like, he accidentally hit his kill switch and
Speaker 3: the machine just instantly died, So he stuck. He was
Speaker 3: with two of his buddies. It's just getting into ah
Speaker 3: dusk Ish, very similar to what I'm at now right now.
Speaker 3: It is about an hour before sunset, and it was
Speaker 3: probably a little further along than that when this happened
Speaker 3: to him. So he hits the kill switch. This particular
Speaker 3: area is north of me, north of Sutton. The train
Speaker 3: is very similar to what you got here. You got
Speaker 3: to mix a birch. He got some alders and willows,
Speaker 3: black spruce, hind and that birch. Obviously, he was on
Speaker 3: a real confined part of the trail when he hit
Speaker 3: his kill switch, and he said, he sat there for
Speaker 3: a minute and he can hear his buddies off in
Speaker 3: the distance. He heard them and knew that eventually they
Speaker 3: were going to come down this trail. And when he
Speaker 3: didn't meet up with them at the meet up place
Speaker 3: which he heard them make it to and kill their
Speaker 3: machines and waiting for him, he knew they'd be coming back,
Speaker 3: so he wasn't overly stressed. He was just peddling around.
Speaker 3: He popped his cowling, was looking around, and he decided
Speaker 3: he had about a quarter mile of trail before it
Speaker 3: opened up, and he'd be able to see his friends
Speaker 3: off in the distance, so he figured he'd do that.
Speaker 3: He starts walking away from his snow machine. He said
Speaker 3: he was about sixty feet away and it was a
Speaker 3: pretty straight stretch, and all of a sudden, off to
Speaker 3: his left, he heard movement in the brush. So imagine
Speaker 3: thirty forty feet you hear movement back over here, and
Speaker 3: it's just moving. So he stops and he's watching, and
Speaker 3: he figures it's a moose. He must have spooked the
Speaker 3: moose coming through, hitting the little Sloalom area, so he
Speaker 3: stood there. He didn't want to get trampled. Moose will
Speaker 3: kill you. They fight brown bear, so they're sure sow
Speaker 3: ain't scared of your ass. So he's watching it, and
Speaker 3: so he stops and he's waiting, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden he sees it coming towards the trail that he's on,
Speaker 3: and he said it was about forty feet away ish.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, this thing is standing there, and
Speaker 3: it's looking right back at him, so he stops. It
Speaker 3: takes him a minute to put together what he's seeing
Speaker 3: because it's not making sense in his mind's eye. His
Speaker 3: words were, holy fuck, what are you? This thing just
Speaker 3: started swaying back and forth right, he said. As it
Speaker 3: started swaying, he had an instant it felt like his
Speaker 3: heart was going to beat out of his chest. And
Speaker 3: he knew immediately he was not safe. And I asked him,
Speaker 3: was it acting aggressive? He said, no, it wasn't making
Speaker 3: a noise. It was its posture, the way it was standing,
Speaker 3: and the way it was looking at him. He said
Speaker 3: it was all dark, almost pitch black, but not quite grizzled,
Speaker 3: looking along the chest and the shoulders. His face was
Speaker 3: all black, and he could see the daylight twinkle in
Speaker 3: its eye, and he said the eyes look black. He
Speaker 3: said it was approximately nine foot tall, maybe a little taller.
Speaker 3: The snow was pretty deep. It could have been standing
Speaker 3: in two feet of snow, and it could have easily
Speaker 3: been eleven foot. He was in a panic. He said.
Speaker 3: What he did was he backed away. It was about
Speaker 3: sixty feet from his machine. He gets over to his machine.
Speaker 3: He said, he came around the front of it, and
Speaker 3: he squatted down looking over the cowling back at it.
Speaker 3: So if you imagine its down low, he can back.
Speaker 3: I get it. You'll want to put something between you.
Speaker 3: And at that moment, off in the distance, he hears
Speaker 3: his friend's snow machines start up, and this thing is
Speaker 3: in clear view of him. He can see it. It's
Speaker 3: now almost one hundred feet away, but it's still swaying,
Speaker 3: and it started moving towards him right and as soon
Speaker 3: as it started moving towards him in the tree line
Speaker 3: right next to the trail, if you can imagine something
Speaker 3: big and dark just creeping along, he said, it was
Speaker 3: moving silently. Tears were coming out of his eyes. He
Speaker 3: started praying. Now, Julius said, he's a heathen. He never
Speaker 3: prayed before in his life. Understand that I've been in
Speaker 3: those shoes, he said. As soon as he started praying,
Speaker 3: he wasn't praying, Oh God, Jesus, please help me from
Speaker 3: this monster. He's saying, please Jesus, let my friends come.
Speaker 3: In that moment, as soon as he said Jesus, please
Speaker 3: help me, because he's saying the prayer out loud, he
Speaker 3: squatted down in front of his machine, scared to death.
Speaker 3: He heard this thing let out a scream. This thing
Speaker 3: immediately took off and it was going straight in the
Speaker 3: direction of his buddies. He didn't put two and two
Speaker 3: together at the moment. He just thought the snow machine
Speaker 3: sound scared this thing off. He said there was a
Speaker 3: couple of years later, he realized it was the prayer
Speaker 3: that ran this thing off, because his friends were still
Speaker 3: almost a mile away. The reason he heard the snow
Speaker 3: machines is they were in the world open a two
Speaker 3: stroke eight hundred, you're gonna hear that thing screaming from
Speaker 3: a good way's away. But he figured it was the
Speaker 3: snow machines. A little while later, sure enough, his friends
Speaker 3: came down that particular trail and they see him there,
Speaker 3: and he still knelt down in front of his machine,
Speaker 3: just relieved that someone else's there. He was unarmed, He
Speaker 3: had nothing. His friend that was with him he had
Speaker 3: a I believe some kind of rifle with him at
Speaker 3: two seventy or something, just in case the moose tried
Speaker 3: to trample him. As his friends show up and pull up,
Speaker 3: they're like, hey, what happened. They were a little jovial.
Speaker 3: He was fighting for the words to share, right, He
Speaker 3: didn't know what to say. He had a frog in
Speaker 3: his throat, he had tears still streaming, and he just said,
Speaker 3: thank god, you guys are here. His two buddies were like,
Speaker 3: you'll never guess. We just saw some dude running through
Speaker 3: the trees fast as shit. He said, that's not a guy.
Speaker 3: And they saw the look on his face and instantly
Speaker 3: got concerned because these really good friends of his known
Speaker 3: since junior high type shit, fifteen years they've known each other.
Speaker 3: And his friends were like, hey, are you okay? What happened?
Speaker 3: And he said, that person you saw is actually like
Speaker 3: nine to eleven feet tall and it was bigfoot, and
Speaker 3: they were like, the hell you say. They were thrown off,
Speaker 3: but they saw this thing running through the trees and
Speaker 3: just assumed it was some dude because they were flying
Speaker 3: by on snow machine. It was just something in passing.
Speaker 3: They wrote it off as some guy in a fur
Speaker 3: coat or something. But then it dawned on him. They
Speaker 3: started thinking it was pretty damn big come to think
Speaker 3: of it. So they didn't give him a hard time
Speaker 3: or anything like that. Julius was shaking like a leaf.
Speaker 3: He didn't smoke cigarettes, but one of his buddies did,
Speaker 3: and he smoked one of his friend's cigarettes, just panic stricken.
Speaker 3: His buddies tried to calm him down. They get him
Speaker 3: a little something to sip on, warm up his belly
Speaker 3: a little bit. His buddy that was first in line
Speaker 3: that came in, we'll just call him Tea. Tea, went
Speaker 3: over and was looking at his machine and within moments
Speaker 3: saw that he hit the kill switch, popped it, fired
Speaker 3: it right up, and what a relief. So had they
Speaker 3: talked for a minute. Julius smoked a cigarette, still shaking
Speaker 3: like hell. It gave him a few minutes and a
Speaker 3: couple more SIPs to calm down so he can actually ride,
Speaker 3: because he was shaking really hard like he was hypothermic,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't. He was just so traumatized by it.
Speaker 3: They didn't see anything else on the way out. They
Speaker 3: immediately left the area. He hasn't ridden in that area
Speaker 3: since as approximately seven years ago. I'll just say between
Speaker 3: Sutton in Eureka and we'll leave it at that, because
Speaker 3: he doesn't want anyone to potentially go back in there
Speaker 3: and get themselves in a pickle, so to speak. I
Speaker 3: want to thank him for sharing. I want to thank
Speaker 3: you guys for joining me. The sun is setting and
Speaker 3: I don't want to be out here when the sun
Speaker 3: goes down all the way. It's damn beautiful though we
Speaker 3: were already losing sunlight. Beautiful out here and just quiet
Speaker 3: as shit. I don't like it just quiet. There should
Speaker 3: be some kind of songbirds, chickadees or something floating around. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me. We'll catch you guys soon. They
Speaker 3: say you don't got to go, but you can't say.
Speaker 4: I don't want to feel a world oppensis.
Speaker 5: Trying this job, that chart everything. Call me, ride back
Speaker 5: right back, joy from me, enjoy staying right there, Come.
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