July 20, 2025 • 42 mins
In this episode Fred from Alaska recounts spine-chilling tales from his friends Kirk and Julius. Kirk, along with his wife and 5-year-old daughter, experienced an unsettling series of events at their remote cabin near the river involving mysterious moose calls and eerie forest encounters. This led to an intense decision to abandon their cabin for safety.
Julius shares his terrifying experience with a possible Bigfoot sighting that left him traumatized during a snow machine ride north of Sutton. Both stories highlight the inexplicable and mysterious nature of the Alaskan wilderness.
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00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 00:19 Strange Encounters Begin 01:19 The Mimicking Moose Call 02:02 A Growing Sense of Danger 05:53 The Mysterious Figure 08:52 The Cabin Under Siege 17:09 Planning the Escape 18:34 A Night of Terror 20:39 Morning Escape Plan 22:24 The Final Encounter 29:38 A New Story Begins 31:09 A Terrifying Encounter in the Woods 33:42 The Power of Prayer 34:30 Friends to the Rescue 36:55 Conclusion and Reflections
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Julius shares his terrifying experience with a possible Bigfoot sighting that left him traumatized during a snow machine ride north of Sutton. Both stories highlight the inexplicable and mysterious nature of the Alaskan wilderness.
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00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 00:19 Strange Encounters Begin 01:19 The Mimicking Moose Call 02:02 A Growing Sense of Danger 05:53 The Mysterious Figure 08:52 The Cabin Under Siege 17:09 Planning the Escape 18:34 A Night of Terror 20:39 Morning Escape Plan 22:24 The Final Encounter 29:38 A New Story Begins 31:09 A Terrifying Encounter in the Woods 33:42 The Power of Prayer 34:30 Friends to the Rescue 36:55 Conclusion and Reflections
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going
on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to
kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over
the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn,
I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
over the fence, and name was dead once you hit
the ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw
was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what are
(01:45):
you reporting? We got some wonder or something crawling around
out here? Did you see what it was? It was
enough out here looking. I'm new to the window now
and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
(02:05):
Point hello, hit somebody out here?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What quent on out there?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I've thought of a bit of about sixty nine. I
don't know easy. I'm out there. Yeah, I'm walking right ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh hey, greeting is this friend in Alaska? Thanks for
joining me. What I wanted to share with you today
comes from Kirk and his wife and their five year
old daughter. They have a cabin near the Koyakuk River.
It's a little ways off the river, but they access
it by the river. They asked me not to share
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the exact but it's on the upper part of the Koyakuk.
So what Kirk shared was, this isn't very long ago,
this most season, so less than two months ago. Him,
his wife and daughter were at this cabin. The first
couple of days was just standard stuff. His wife was
watching the kid and keeping the cabin warm. What have
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you meals cooked, that kind of thing. Kirk was out
exploring looking for signs of moose. On the morning at
day three, he was making some calls in this little
meadow about half mile from this cabin, on this open
area of tundra. This meadow, this muskeg area, wasn't overly large.
He said. It's about a half mile by half mile,
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not a perfect circle, more like an oblong. This creek
kind of ran through it. It was a little feet
or creek that fed into the marsh in the center,
and then from there it fed out and it eventually
made its way to the river. So he said, he
was sitting there, it was just getting light out. He
starts making his calls. He hears an identical call to
what he's calling across the way and goes, oh, crap,
(03:45):
I'm calling him a cow. He's like, I'm just going
to sit quiet and let the other cow, which probably
sounds way more natural than me calling the bull moose. Right,
So he's sitting there for a while and what's quiet,
he's not hearing that call anymore, or sits a while,
makes another call about an hour later, right across as
a straight shot. He get the call back identical to
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what he just did. That's not normal. A cow moose
would have shown herself and made her way in my
direction if she was seeking me out. So he didn't
know what to think of it. Started getting an eerie feeling,
so he goes, I'm just going to head out of here.
I'll go back try again tomorrow morning. He really felt
off about this return moose call, this cow call, he said,
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for the life of him, he couldn't shake the feeling
that something was totally off, even though what he heard
was normal in context of what he would expect to hear,
the timing of it, the way everything was going to
Kirk was like something mate, right, I'm just gonna get
out of here, he said. On his way out. Now
he is about a half mile from the cabin, so
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he's got a little bit of ways to cut through.
He started into the trees, but there was a couple
breaks and a couple openings between where he was at
in his cabins. There are some smaller meadows and stuff.
He was thinking, I'm going to go to one closer
to the cabin and I'll call again, see if I
can leave the creepy feeling behind type of thing. It
was reasoning his way out of whatever was happening. Right
(05:14):
there was about three separate little meadows in between where
he was at and where his cabin was, and he
chose the second one away from where he just was,
so technically it was about four little meadows away. He
had one more meadow before a thick batch of trees
before he got back to his cabin. So he says,
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when he got there, it was just getting full on daylight.
So he figured he had a chance, maybe an hour
window to maybe spark something with the calling and a
little moose, So he makes his calls. Immediately after he
does this call, it's identical and it's right over there
his back trail. It was literally on his back trail
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and he couldn't see where this cow was calling. At
this point, it really freaked him out to where he's
standing up with his rifle and he starts yelling, hey,
I'm over here. I don't know if you're playing games
with me. It's not funny. He assumed maybe another hunter
was trying to weird him out about where he was hunting,
like they want that spot to themselves kind of thing.
He wasn't feeling that. He thought someone would have said,
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hey man, i'm calling over here, sorry, whatever, but there
was none of that. So as he yells, he says,
damn it really loud at the end, right, damn it?
No sooner and he says that he hears identical damn
it coming back to him like it echoed. He said
it was almost instantaneous when he was done with the
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damn it, damn it came right back at him. It
was a very close imitation of his voice, very close.
It spooped him out even more. He points his rifle
in that direction, and as soon as he points the rifle,
he says he got this feeling that he doesn't want
to have to shoot in the instant before he was
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ready to shoot, and then immediately gets his sensation in
his mind about I probably don't want to do this,
What am I going to do? I don't want to
lead this thing back to my family. Whatever in the
hell it is, it's mimicking me. So what he does
is he heads off to his left. He just turns
and goes just to his left. He knows where he's
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at mentally, he's mentally keeping track of his position from
his cabin, and he walks off to his left into
the brush. He said he was making a lot of
noise going through the brush on purpose, trying to lure
whatever it is off his back trail. He didn't want
whatever is going on to follow him back to the cabin,
so he goes out of his way quite a way.
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He doesn't remember exactly how far he went, but he
said he went far enough to where he cleared the
trees and walked out on tundra for a ways and
then turned round, got low and started glassing back towards
the tree line to see if whatever it was would
show its else. He said, as he was sitting there,
it's steadily getting lighter, so he's comfortable with what he
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can see around him. He's got plenty of open area.
He should be able to see everything in his mind's eye,
he said, as he was sitting there, and he had
periodically glassed back towards the tree line he just came
out of, he noticed something. It was like a rusty
brown kind of color. He noticed it moving in the trees, right.
So he's, okay, someone's wearing a fur coat messing with me,
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because what he saw matched up with the guy wearing
some kind of weird coat. It was on two legs.
He clearly saw it move just out of you, but
saw it long enough to make out human like over there.
Weird coat right, so's ah, this must be some old
hermit playing games. At this point, he's like, I'm not
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gonna be scared of some old hermit. So he starts charging,
just boom walking right back to where he'd just seen
this thing. So Kirk said, as soon as he got
within fifty feet of the actual tree line in front
of him, he got this overwhelming sense of danger. He
said he never felt before or since. It was immediate.
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It stopped him in his tracks and he felt in
fear of his life like that, he said. It was
the strangest thing. He said. He started shaking. He couldn't
shake the fact that he was in imminent danger, and
he wasn't seeing anything tangible to justify this feeling. Kirk said,
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that's when he said, all right, you know what, whatever's
going on, I got to get out of here. I
got to make it back to my cabin because I
don't want something to happen to me and my wife
have to deal with this too, right because the five
year old daughter. So if he starts heading into the trees,
he's got his rifle ready. He had a handgun that
was on his hip. He adjusted his coat so he
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can gain easy access to it, and he walks his
back trail. He walks right on back to the other
meadow where he had last made this moose call. He said,
on his way through there, he's looking around. It's pretty thick,
but there are some areas where he could see for
a little ways and he would stop in those areas listen, nothing,
not a sound. He makes it back to that other meadow,
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and he said, his heart, he could feel it beaten
in his throat, he could feel it in his eyes.
He's panicking inside. He's like, what the hell is going on?
It's not registering, none of it's making sense to him.
He doesn't know what to do. He pauses and he
stands there. He's trying to figure out do I really
want to bring whatever this is back with me? And
at that point he's just needed to get back there
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and make sure that my wife is aware of what's
going on. So he says, if it follows, I can't
fix that right now, but I know I need to
protect them. I don't know what's going on there, So
in his mind he was thinking this could be happening
to her right now, we'd be better off together with it.
So he starts storming back towards the cabin, and he
said on the way he would stop periodically and turn around,
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and he felt like something was right on his heels
as he was moving through the trees. He said he
couldn't shake it. He kept feeling like it's right on
top of him. He'd turned around, nothing, he said. It
continued the whole way back, which was at this point
like a quarter mile. So once he gets to the
backside of the cabin, one of the things he always
did was bump twice just let his wife know to
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unlock the door. There's a window along the side where
he comes from the back. If you're facing the cabin
and'd be off to the left, but from the backside
it's off to the right, so he would bump bump.
There's a window that he had to pass. His wife
could look out, see it's him. Open the door. They
had that worked out because they'd been going to this
cabin for years. He does that bump and he glances
up at the window, but there's no one in the window.
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So he bangs again AND's coming around saying, hey, open
the door. He comes around. It's locked up tight. He's
banging on the door. Hey, it's me, Let me in, honey.
So she comes to the door and she is spooped. Hey,
there's some strange stuff happening. I was out there. He
lays out everything to her and she has this look
on her face. He thought she wasn't believing him. But
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what had actually happened was while he was gone, something
was banging on the cabin. It banged just like he did,
so she thought he came back early, so she didn't
even look out the window. She went to the door
and opened it. She said when she opened it, she
saw nothing, but she heard a grunt and she looks
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off to the right hand facing outside the door, and
she said something big moved and she just slammed the door. Now,
the banging continued around this cabin the whole time he
was gone. He sensing something was off, but made sense
to him why he was feeling the way he was
feeling when she expressed that right. But she told him
she heard a cow moose call as well a couple
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times during this time where he was off making the
moose calls and then wandering off and and coming back
and all that during this whole time, She told him
whatever it was making a cow moose call outside the
cabin real loud a few different times. So he said,
I saw something big and looked like a man wearing
a coat. She said, I saw something very similar, but
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it was too big to be a man. And she
pointed out that same window where she would normally peek
to see him coming. Where this thing had been was
right out that window, and she pointed out it was
as tall as that third branch up. He knows that
bottom branch in that particular tree was about nine feet
off the ground because he had hung a rope there
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that he had run off to another tree so when
he hung his quarters he could hang him up there
with a tarpover so he automatically knew whatever was way
bigger than nine feet. They're spitball, and she brings up
the Harryman. Now, something he just dismissed over the years
was he had actually ended up purchasing this cabin from
his uncle. During that time when he was younger and
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his uncle would talk about the harry Man. He thought
it was just his uncle trying to make it seem
like a adventure. I go out and I do with
harry Man, this kind of stuff, right. He thought his
uncle was playing it up. Reality being his uncle wasn't playing.
So he starts remembering these stories his uncle told him,
and he goes, oh, my uncle said, I think I
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remember him saying that some dryfish leapt out as an offering,
will appease them and they'll leave. I don't know if
I want to do that. I don't want to continue
a bad habit. His wife says, just put us some dryfish,
see what happens, just to see if it worked. He
decided to, so, let me explain, Kirk is at the basket,
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same with his wife. Not that makes a huge difference.
I wanted to be clear about that. They're not just
some random yahoo's or whatever run around the woods. So
she brings up, what about leaving something besides the dryfish?
How about we leave a trinket of some kind. She's
spitballing at that time of curse. No, I don't even
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want to put dryfish out there, let alone anything else.
So he decides reluctantly to do this. So near where
that tree was where she saw this thing, and where
he had his rope across, he said it was about
three trees away, so about ten fifteen feet there was
an old oil drum, fifty five gallon drum. He walks
over and he just puts the smoke salmon on top
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of that. The dryfish sets it down and walks back inside.
Now it's the middle of the day, right, So Kirk's
sitting there and he's and I don't like feeling we're
trapped in here. His wife's Kate, we're safe in here.
Everything's fine. There hasn't been anything strange going on since
he got back, so things calmed down a little bit.
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They had the generator outside, Kirk went outside, fired it up,
and they put on this TV with the built in
VCR and DVD player in their old school, but they
plugged that in to play Disney movies for their daughter
to get her sidetracked, because the kid was picking up
on their energy and the kid was starting to freak out,
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so they tried to bring some normalcy to it. Whole
family sitting there watching Disney movies.
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Now as they're watching the movies. They went through two movies.
He kept peeking out the blinds and stuff because they
had the old strange accordion style ones that he can't
directly see through. He kept checking the smoke salmon over
and over again, barely paying attention to the movie. He said,
approximately the fourth time he went and looked, he didn't
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notice the salmon out there anymore because the positioning of
the drum, he could easily see the top of it,
and whether the salmon was on top of it. It
was like twenty five feet away. It's like right over there.
Didn't see the smoke salmon. He goes, the salmon's gone.
So for him and his wife, that kind of ended
their Disney movie marathon with their daughter, and they just
let the kid do her thing and watch her shows
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while they talk quietly amongst each other, and they opened
that blind. Kirk said, as they were sitting there talking
out in the trees where it wasn't fully visible, but
they could see between the trees a little bit, they
saw this figure move, and he said, it moved very slow,
almost like it was floating, but you could easily see
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this and it looked dark on the lower half, lighter
on the upper half. He said, that's what gave the
impression of someone in an oversized snowsuit, because the top
was like a brownish color and the bottoms were black.
He was like, it was real weird, but there was
obviously no clothing. It was hair. You gotta understand this
is thirty five feet away that this is going on,
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that they're watching this thing move. It's not outwardly showing
itself or being aggressive at this time, so they're trying
to wrap their minds around what they're seeing. Are we
imagining this? Are we so freaked out we're having like
a shared hallucination or something. Obviously they were. The wife
gets scared and goes sits and holds a daughter. As
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soon as she did that, and she's sitting down with
the kid, Kirk steps away from the window again. They
were just right up on this window. They were looking out,
though they weren't looking tight to the sides. As soon
as he turns and steps away from that window, his
wife screams to Kirk. It looks like she's looking at him,
but she's looking past him at the window. Something moved
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big in front of that window. Startled the crap out
of Kirk. He turns around. He didn't see what she
did because the window's only so wide. It wasn't a
very tall window either. Quickly, boom, a shadow went by.
She didn't see exactly what it was, but it's scared
the crap out of Kirk the way she screams. So
when he turned around and look, he's not seeing anything.
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He jumps forward real quick because he's like one step
away from this damn window. He jumps forward real quick
to look out. He doesn't see anything. Just as he's
looking out and looking around on the opposite side of
the cabinet, damn, something hit it and the whole place
shakes right. His daughter started screaming and crying. His wife
started screaming crying. So, of course he doesn't want them
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in danger or whatever, so he grabs his rifle and
he's like, I'm gonna run this thing off. I'm gonna
shoot it if I have to. He runs out the door.
When he gets outside, he's looking with his rifle. He
wants to end whatever in the hell's going on like
right now, and he's not seen anything. So he runs
around to the other side decide where the drum was
and stuff, and he's looking and he's not seeing anything.
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He gets the sensation that he's being watched and he
can't shake it, so he's looking all over the place.
He goes back inside. As they're sitting there, he's saying,
I don't know what the hell to do. Let's plan
on getting out of here, because he felt like a
cage scrap. He was just caged in. At any moment,
something was going to break in and hurt his family,
which I could just imagine is a horrible feeling. It
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was bad enough with what I dealt with, but to
have a little kid there as well, that's your own,
I could just imagine it'd be heightened. So as they're
discussing how it's going to work, because they have to
walk down this trail with their daughter to where their
skiff is, it's off the river a little ways. It's
about not quite half a mile that they have to
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go through very thick brush, very dense woods up until
about maybe one hundred yards from the river bank is
where the trail opens up and they can see openly.
So he's trying to account for all the potential dangers
and going out that way. His wife wanted to go
right then. His concern was being on the river when
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it got dark, because they had a couple hours of
rivertime ahead of them, and with how the day had
progressed and the Disney movies and stuff, they weren't too
far from twilight at that time. So they get their
game plan. They moved a couple of items in front
of the door. They reclosed the window, and they hung
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some stuff up over just as a secondary measure to
keep anything from looking in, and they sat there. He
went out one time and made sure the generator was
topped off so it'll run until it ran out, so
they can have the movies going for the daughter to
calm her down and bring some kind of normalcy to
this weird situation that was happening. He said, everything was
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good and quiet. Of course they were freaked out, good
as far as nothing else was happening. He said it
got to a point to where they started relaxing and
dozing off a little bit. He said he wasn't sure
how much time it lapsed since he dozed off, but
he was woken up to the whole place shaking like
an earthquake was going on. He said it was dark out,
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the generator had stopped running at some point because the
TV was no longer on. The shaking started, he woke
up to it. Then all of a sudden, his daughter
and wife woke up pretty much screaming, freaking out. So
he hushes them down and he's listening. He said it
sounded like something large pounding at a quick cadence against
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the wall, and it was just making the whole place shake.
Right at this point, he had really felt fed up
with it, and he starts yelling, you leave my family alone,
You leave us alone, yelling, And after a little while
that banging stopped, the whole place stopped shaking. They sat there.
The daughter fell back asleep after a little bit, but
him and his wife sat there with a lantern lit.
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Once the pounding and stuff stopped and he was yelling,
all that stopped, they lit the lanterns, and daughter fell asleep,
and they sat there. His wife insisted on carrying his pistol,
which he readily said, yes, of course. They had their
game plan. They were just taking the necessities. They would
leave stuff there. He was going to come back later
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with some relatives, which is not uncommon. There's quite a
few encounters to where it plays out like they just
want to get out of there, and man decides he'll
come back later. As they're discussing all that stuff, the
pounding has stopped. They're just basically feeling anxious as hell,
wanting to be gone out of there. Let's go. So
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morning comes from what he said. He made coffee out
of habit. He was wide awake, he was anxious. He
really didn't want to get over anxious with the coffee,
but his wife wanted coffee. And he gets that all done.
And as they're drinking coffee and they're talking in hush
tones because the daughter's still sleeping, right. They want her
to get rest and hopefully be able to walk quickly
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as they made it through some of the thickest parts
of this trail on their way back to the skiff.
As him and his wife are discussing these things. They've
been down this trail several times, so they know at
one part of kind of dog legs through this one
area shortly before it opens wide up to the river.
He was telling his wife, I think if anything was
to happen, that's the choke point in that area is
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the tightest all on the trail with the trees and stuff.
That's where I need you to be holding her and
moving quickly. She was like, duh, yeah, I'm motivated. You
don't have to worry about me moving quickly. Just keep
up fair enough, that's Mama Berry. So warning comes, it
gets lighter, that it's light enough to where they're not
seeing anything. He looks out that window. They take down
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whatever they had hanging and they open that blind and
he's looking out and on that drum is all the
fish that it went missing the day before. He put
out like a couple of flats and some strips. So
there's like two flats and three strips. A flat is
just a bigger flatter piece of smoked salmon and strips
or strips like a stick, like a jerky stick. They
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were back. They were gone the day before, but now
all of a sudden, they're all back. He's confused by it.
He takes it it wasn't accepted, which what do you
do with that? And so he points it out to
his wife, and his wife's I don't give a shit.
We're getting out of here. We're going. I don't want
to come back to this place. So she starts getting
the daughter ready. As that's going on, he feels a
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sense of relief that it doesn't feel ominous. He's got
the curtain open now is letting natural daylight in, and
he's feeling a little more comfortable about them getting out
of there because he can see everything. Right. As he
was sitting there and his wife getting the daughter ready
and getting her something to eat, all of a sudden, boom,
the place started shaking like an earthquake again, right, but
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this time he could tell the banging was coming from
that back corner he had normally pound twice and she
would see it was him and open the door. He said,
it seemed like he was coming from that same area,
and at that point he said, screw it. He grabs
a guy. He says, plug her ears because this is
continuous boom boom. So his wife plugs her daughter's ears,
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and he shoots through the wall in the area. He
thinks this thing is pounding, so he shoots through the wall.
They hear this hillacious sound. He said it was like
a guttural growl, kind of moan sound, and then quiet.
They sat there a minute. His ears are ringing because
he just fired a high powered rifle inside the small structure.
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His wife is crying. His daughter's shooking up and crying,
and they're sitting there a minute, and he's, I don't
know what now, I'm nervous about us going through the trail,
and his wife goes, no, I have your gun, you
have your other gun. We're going. We're not sticking around.
He can't argue with that, because nothing has de escalated.
What is a continuation of weirdness. He agrees, and now
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he's worried that this thing's injured now and it's going
to be angry at them, right, So he goes, what
we need to do is just start going now, right now,
Let's grab our stuff. They put their daughter's little backpack
on her. His wife had the backpack with their important
stuff that they brought with some extra ammo, and she
was carrying the pistol in her hand, had the daughter
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in one arm. They went out the door. Boom, They're gone.
They're going down the trail. Kirk said he kept looking
over his shoulder because he felt like they're being watched. Still,
he said, for a good portion of the trail, it's
about the trail itself was real narrow as the old
game trail, but outside of that, the brush was backaways
off of this little narrow path before the brush got
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thick and stuff for a good portion of their way
through it. Just at this point it bottled next to
where they got to go through this dog leg on
the trail through some of the thickest part of the
brush in the trees. He said. When they got to
that point, he turned around. He's pointing his rifle around.
He's not seeing anything, and his wife said we need
to hurry up, and he goes, okay, but her whole
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demeanor change. She said something just told me, I want
your kid, I want your kid, and she said whatever,
and the hell that was, it's not happening. We gotta go.
They hurry up through that portion of the trail. Now
when it come out of the other side of Kirk
said that his wife was literally running and jumping carrying
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the kid at this point still moving like a football linebacker.
She was motivated to get the hell out. She led
the way and was going further faster than Kirk was.
He was stopping every once in a while to check
their back trail to make sure Nutt was following them.
He said. Once his wife got to the skip, he
was paces behind her, and when he caught up, she
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had tears pouring down her face, saying, it keeps saying
it over and over, we gotta go, And he goes,
what do you mean, and she goes, it keeps telling
me that it's going to take us, it's going to
take our kit. He can't argue with that because he
didn't hear it, but he trusted what his wife is
telling him. He does this thing. He has to get
the gas cans out of the bush. There's brush not
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too far off the river bank where they take their
field cans out of the skiff and stash them and
hide them so in case someone coming by wouldn't steal
their gas, because sometimes shit happens. So he goes and retrieves, it,
comes back over, fires up the outboard and as it's
warming up, they're not tied off. At this point, he's
just letting outboard warm up. The current's starting to slowly
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drag him off of where they're beached, and his wife
keeps saying it, keeps telling me that it's nearby and
it's going to get us. He's not gonna tell her, hey,
you're wrong, because I don't hear it, so he takes
her word for it, puts it in reverse, the back
away from the river bank where they parked their skiff.
As he backed up, there's like a big bend that's
just a little bit below them where they park, and
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he's going around that. And as they're cutting around that bend,
he looks off to his left and the direction of
the river bank where the cabin is located. On that side,
which would be the east side of the river, he
looks he can see this tall, dark figure silhouetted in
the trees, less than twenty yards off the river banks.
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He said it had to be pretty damn tall for
him to notice it, because he noticed from like shoulders
up what he can make out as head and shoulders.
He said, I would have considered myself paranoid, however, considering
what had happened the previous day and night. He wasn't
going to discount it just as some strange anomaly in
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the trees. He took it for what he thought it was,
which was a hairyman. They got there. Nothing more to
add as far as the encounter other than a long
cup hour ride. Even when they got back to more
familiar grounds at were it's so remote, right near a
road where the truck was parked and all that kind
of stuff. His wife was holding the gun and her
baby and nothing was coming close. I wouldn't want to
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approach her in that state because she's on protect mode.
What he said was is that since this has happened,
it's been really hard for his wife to sleep. She
gets very anxious when it starts to get dark, out
constantly checking on the daughter. It's been basically a nightmare.
They reached out to some of their elders. They are
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tending this things. However, the elder see fit, I was
in a situation, but there was no little kids like
my own little kids there. It wasn't that kind of dynamic.
It was more protect me versus having to feel like
you got to protect your kid. But you gotta be
careful and stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
For more sasquatch out to sea, will be right back
after these messages.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
What I suspect is the uncle had been feeding and
doing other stuff outside of Kirk's knowledge. I think potentially
there could have been one of these things, upset about
not being fed normally, or maybe there's something else going on.
Who knows. He has not been back since the gender hitter.
They have There is a few thousand dollars and he
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needs to go get that. At this point, he's ready
to cut his losses basically and just salvage whatever next
spring unless he gets a wild hair. He said he's
got a buddy who has a plane that maybe he'll
have him fly him out at some point. But regardless,
I'm to thank Kirk for sharing. It was hard for
him being a dad and being in that position of protection.
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He felt very inadequate when all this stuff was going on,
and it bothers him as a man to feel like
he couldn't protect his family, which I could understand. What
I wanted to share with the other day comes from Julius.
This was approximately seven years ago. He was on a
snow machine ride. What ended up happening is he's cruising
along this actually happened to me back in the nineties.
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As he was going over these little bumps and little
boondock areas, like, he accidentally hit his kill switch and
the machine just instantly died, So he stuck. He was
with two of his buddies. It's just getting into ah
dusk Ish, very similar to what I'm at now right now.
It is about an hour before sunset, and it was
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probably a little further along than that when this happened
to him. So he hits the kill switch. This particular
area is north of me, north of Sutton. The train
is very similar to what you got here. You got
to mix a birch. He got some alders and willows,
black spruce, hind and that birch. Obviously, he was on
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a real confined part of the trail when he hit
his kill switch, and he said, he sat there for
a minute and he can hear his buddies off in
the distance. He heard them and knew that eventually they
were going to come down this trail. And when he
didn't meet up with them at the meet up place
which he heard them make it to and kill their
machines and waiting for him, he knew they'd be coming back,
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so he wasn't overly stressed. He was just peddling around.
He popped his cowling, was looking around, and he decided
he had about a quarter mile of trail before it
opened up, and he'd be able to see his friends
off in the distance, so he figured he'd do that.
He starts walking away from his snow machine. He said
he was about sixty feet away and it was a
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pretty straight stretch, and all of a sudden, off to
his left, he heard movement in the brush. So imagine
thirty forty feet you hear movement back over here, and
it's just moving. So he stops and he's watching, and
he figures it's a moose. He must have spooked the
moose coming through, hitting the little Sloalom area, so he
stood there. He didn't want to get trampled. Moose will
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kill you. They fight brown bear, so they're sure sow
ain't scared of your ass. So he's watching it, and
so he stops and he's waiting, and all of a
sudden he sees it coming towards the trail that he's on,
and he said it was about forty feet away ish.
All of a sudden, this thing is standing there, and
it's looking right back at him, so he stops. It
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takes him a minute to put together what he's seeing
because it's not making sense in his mind's eye. His
words were, holy fuck, what are you? This thing just
started swaying back and forth right, he said. As it
started swaying, he had an instant it felt like his
heart was going to beat out of his chest. And
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he knew immediately he was not safe. And I asked him,
was it acting aggressive? He said, no, it wasn't making
a noise. It was its posture, the way it was standing,
and the way it was looking at him. He said
it was all dark, almost pitch black, but not quite grizzled,
looking along the chest and the shoulders. His face was
all black, and he could see the daylight twinkle in
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its eye, and he said the eyes look black. He
said it was approximately nine foot tall, maybe a little taller.
The snow was pretty deep. It could have been standing
in two feet of snow, and it could have easily
been eleven foot. He was in a panic. He said.
What he did was he backed away. It was about
sixty feet from his machine. He gets over to his machine.
He said, he came around the front of it, and
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he squatted down looking over the cowling back at it.
So if you imagine its down low, he can back.
I get it. You'll want to put something between you.
And at that moment, off in the distance, he hears
his friend's snow machines start up, and this thing is
in clear view of him. He can see it. It's
now almost one hundred feet away, but it's still swaying,
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and it started moving towards him right and as soon
as it started moving towards him in the tree line
right next to the trail, if you can imagine something
big and dark just creeping along, he said, it was
moving silently. Tears were coming out of his eyes. He
started praying. Now, Julius said, he's a heathen. He never
prayed before in his life. Understand that I've been in
those shoes, he said. As soon as he started praying,
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he wasn't praying, Oh God, Jesus, please help me from
this monster. He's saying, please Jesus, let my friends come.
In that moment, as soon as he said Jesus, please
help me, because he's saying the prayer out loud, he
squatted down in front of his machine, scared to death.
He heard this thing let out a scream. This thing
immediately took off and it was going straight in the
direction of his buddies. He didn't put two and two
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together at the moment. He just thought the snow machine
sound scared this thing off. He said there was a
couple of years later, he realized it was the prayer
that ran this thing off, because his friends were still
almost a mile away. The reason he heard the snow
machines is they were in the world open a two
stroke eight hundred, you're gonna hear that thing screaming from
a good way's away. But he figured it was the
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snow machines. A little while later, sure enough, his friends
came down that particular trail and they see him there,
and he still knelt down in front of his machine,
just relieved that someone else's there. He was unarmed, He
had nothing. His friend that was with him he had
a I believe some kind of rifle with him at
two seventy or something, just in case the moose tried
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to trample him. As his friends show up and pull up,
they're like, hey, what happened. They were a little jovial.
He was fighting for the words to share, right, He
didn't know what to say. He had a frog in
his throat, he had tears still streaming, and he just said,
thank god, you guys are here. His two buddies were like,
you'll never guess. We just saw some dude running through
the trees fast as shit. He said, that's not a guy.
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And they saw the look on his face and instantly
got concerned because these really good friends of his known
since junior high type shit, fifteen years they've known each other.
And his friends were like, hey, are you okay? What happened?
And he said, that person you saw is actually like
nine to eleven feet tall and it was bigfoot, and
they were like, the hell you say. They were thrown off,
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but they saw this thing running through the trees and
just assumed it was some dude because they were flying
by on snow machine. It was just something in passing.
They wrote it off as some guy in a fur
coat or something. But then it dawned on him. They
started thinking it was pretty damn big come to think
of it. So they didn't give him a hard time
or anything like that. Julius was shaking like a leaf.
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He didn't smoke cigarettes, but one of his buddies did,
and he smoked one of his friend's cigarettes, just panic stricken.
His buddies tried to calm him down. They get him
a little something to sip on, warm up his belly
a little bit. His buddy that was first in line
that came in, we'll just call him Tea. Tea, went
over and was looking at his machine and within moments
saw that he hit the kill switch, popped it, fired
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it right up, and what a relief. So had they
talked for a minute. Julius smoked a cigarette, still shaking
like hell. It gave him a few minutes and a
couple more SIPs to calm down so he can actually ride,
because he was shaking really hard like he was hypothermic,
but he wasn't. He was just so traumatized by it.
They didn't see anything else on the way out. They
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immediately left the area. He hasn't ridden in that area
since as approximately seven years ago. I'll just say between
Sutton in Eureka and we'll leave it at that, because
he doesn't want anyone to potentially go back in there
and get themselves in a pickle, so to speak. I
want to thank him for sharing. I want to thank
you guys for joining me. The sun is setting and
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I don't want to be out here when the sun
goes down all the way. It's damn beautiful though we
were already losing sunlight. Beautiful out here and just quiet
as shit. I don't like it just quiet. There should
be some kind of songbirds, chickadees or something floating around. Anyway,
Thanks for joining me. We'll catch you guys soon. They
say you don't got to go, but you can't say.
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on here. Something just kid with my dog, something to
kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over
the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn,
I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
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out here? Did you see what it was? It was
enough out here looking. I'm new to the window now
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Point hello, hit somebody out here?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What quent on out there?
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I've thought of a bit of about sixty nine. I
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Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh hey, greeting is this friend in Alaska? Thanks for
joining me. What I wanted to share with you today
comes from Kirk and his wife and their five year
old daughter. They have a cabin near the Koyakuk River.
It's a little ways off the river, but they access
it by the river. They asked me not to share
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the exact but it's on the upper part of the Koyakuk.
So what Kirk shared was, this isn't very long ago,
this most season, so less than two months ago. Him,
his wife and daughter were at this cabin. The first
couple of days was just standard stuff. His wife was
watching the kid and keeping the cabin warm. What have
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you meals cooked, that kind of thing. Kirk was out
exploring looking for signs of moose. On the morning at
day three, he was making some calls in this little
meadow about half mile from this cabin, on this open
area of tundra. This meadow, this muskeg area, wasn't overly large.
He said. It's about a half mile by half mile,
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not a perfect circle, more like an oblong. This creek
kind of ran through it. It was a little feet
or creek that fed into the marsh in the center,
and then from there it fed out and it eventually
made its way to the river. So he said, he
was sitting there, it was just getting light out. He
starts making his calls. He hears an identical call to
what he's calling across the way and goes, oh, crap,
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I'm calling him a cow. He's like, I'm just going
to sit quiet and let the other cow, which probably
sounds way more natural than me calling the bull moose. Right,
So he's sitting there for a while and what's quiet,
he's not hearing that call anymore, or sits a while,
makes another call about an hour later, right across as
a straight shot. He get the call back identical to
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what he just did. That's not normal. A cow moose
would have shown herself and made her way in my
direction if she was seeking me out. So he didn't
know what to think of it. Started getting an eerie feeling,
so he goes, I'm just going to head out of here.
I'll go back try again tomorrow morning. He really felt
off about this return moose call, this cow call, he said,
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for the life of him, he couldn't shake the feeling
that something was totally off, even though what he heard
was normal in context of what he would expect to hear,
the timing of it, the way everything was going to
Kirk was like something mate, right, I'm just gonna get
out of here, he said. On his way out. Now
he is about a half mile from the cabin, so
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he's got a little bit of ways to cut through.
He started into the trees, but there was a couple
breaks and a couple openings between where he was at
in his cabins. There are some smaller meadows and stuff.
He was thinking, I'm going to go to one closer
to the cabin and I'll call again, see if I
can leave the creepy feeling behind type of thing. It
was reasoning his way out of whatever was happening. Right
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there was about three separate little meadows in between where
he was at and where his cabin was, and he
chose the second one away from where he just was,
so technically it was about four little meadows away. He
had one more meadow before a thick batch of trees
before he got back to his cabin. So he says,
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when he got there, it was just getting full on daylight.
So he figured he had a chance, maybe an hour
window to maybe spark something with the calling and a
little moose, So he makes his calls. Immediately after he
does this call, it's identical and it's right over there
his back trail. It was literally on his back trail
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and he couldn't see where this cow was calling. At
this point, it really freaked him out to where he's
standing up with his rifle and he starts yelling, hey,
I'm over here. I don't know if you're playing games
with me. It's not funny. He assumed maybe another hunter
was trying to weird him out about where he was hunting,
like they want that spot to themselves kind of thing.
He wasn't feeling that. He thought someone would have said,
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hey man, i'm calling over here, sorry, whatever, but there
was none of that. So as he yells, he says,
damn it really loud at the end, right, damn it?
No sooner and he says that he hears identical damn
it coming back to him like it echoed. He said
it was almost instantaneous when he was done with the
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damn it, damn it came right back at him. It
was a very close imitation of his voice, very close.
It spooped him out even more. He points his rifle
in that direction, and as soon as he points the rifle,
he says he got this feeling that he doesn't want
to have to shoot in the instant before he was
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ready to shoot, and then immediately gets his sensation in
his mind about I probably don't want to do this,
What am I going to do? I don't want to
lead this thing back to my family. Whatever in the
hell it is, it's mimicking me. So what he does
is he heads off to his left. He just turns
and goes just to his left. He knows where he's
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at mentally, he's mentally keeping track of his position from
his cabin, and he walks off to his left into
the brush. He said he was making a lot of
noise going through the brush on purpose, trying to lure
whatever it is off his back trail. He didn't want
whatever is going on to follow him back to the cabin,
so he goes out of his way quite a way.
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He doesn't remember exactly how far he went, but he
said he went far enough to where he cleared the
trees and walked out on tundra for a ways and
then turned round, got low and started glassing back towards
the tree line to see if whatever it was would
show its else. He said, as he was sitting there,
it's steadily getting lighter, so he's comfortable with what he
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can see around him. He's got plenty of open area.
He should be able to see everything in his mind's eye,
he said, as he was sitting there, and he had
periodically glassed back towards the tree line he just came
out of, he noticed something. It was like a rusty
brown kind of color. He noticed it moving in the trees, right.
So he's, okay, someone's wearing a fur coat messing with me,
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because what he saw matched up with the guy wearing
some kind of weird coat. It was on two legs.
He clearly saw it move just out of you, but
saw it long enough to make out human like over there.
Weird coat right, so's ah, this must be some old
hermit playing games. At this point, he's like, I'm not
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gonna be scared of some old hermit. So he starts charging,
just boom walking right back to where he'd just seen
this thing. So Kirk said, as soon as he got
within fifty feet of the actual tree line in front
of him, he got this overwhelming sense of danger. He
said he never felt before or since. It was immediate.
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It stopped him in his tracks and he felt in
fear of his life like that, he said. It was
the strangest thing. He said. He started shaking. He couldn't
shake the fact that he was in imminent danger, and
he wasn't seeing anything tangible to justify this feeling. Kirk said,
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that's when he said, all right, you know what, whatever's
going on, I got to get out of here. I
got to make it back to my cabin because I
don't want something to happen to me and my wife
have to deal with this too, right because the five
year old daughter. So if he starts heading into the trees,
he's got his rifle ready. He had a handgun that
was on his hip. He adjusted his coat so he
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can gain easy access to it, and he walks his
back trail. He walks right on back to the other
meadow where he had last made this moose call. He said,
on his way through there, he's looking around. It's pretty thick,
but there are some areas where he could see for
a little ways and he would stop in those areas listen, nothing,
not a sound. He makes it back to that other meadow,
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and he said, his heart, he could feel it beaten
in his throat, he could feel it in his eyes.
He's panicking inside. He's like, what the hell is going on?
It's not registering, none of it's making sense to him.
He doesn't know what to do. He pauses and he
stands there. He's trying to figure out do I really
want to bring whatever this is back with me? And
at that point he's just needed to get back there
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and make sure that my wife is aware of what's
going on. So he says, if it follows, I can't
fix that right now, but I know I need to
protect them. I don't know what's going on there, So
in his mind he was thinking this could be happening
to her right now, we'd be better off together with it.
So he starts storming back towards the cabin, and he
said on the way he would stop periodically and turn around,
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and he felt like something was right on his heels
as he was moving through the trees. He said he
couldn't shake it. He kept feeling like it's right on
top of him. He'd turned around, nothing, he said. It
continued the whole way back, which was at this point
like a quarter mile. So once he gets to the
backside of the cabin, one of the things he always
did was bump twice just let his wife know to
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unlock the door. There's a window along the side where
he comes from the back. If you're facing the cabin
and'd be off to the left, but from the backside
it's off to the right, so he would bump bump.
There's a window that he had to pass. His wife
could look out, see it's him. Open the door. They
had that worked out because they'd been going to this
cabin for years. He does that bump and he glances
up at the window, but there's no one in the window.
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So he bangs again AND's coming around saying, hey, open
the door. He comes around. It's locked up tight. He's
banging on the door. Hey, it's me, Let me in, honey.
So she comes to the door and she is spooped. Hey,
there's some strange stuff happening. I was out there. He
lays out everything to her and she has this look
on her face. He thought she wasn't believing him. But
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what had actually happened was while he was gone, something
was banging on the cabin. It banged just like he did,
so she thought he came back early, so she didn't
even look out the window. She went to the door
and opened it. She said when she opened it, she
saw nothing, but she heard a grunt and she looks
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off to the right hand facing outside the door, and
she said something big moved and she just slammed the door. Now,
the banging continued around this cabin the whole time he
was gone. He sensing something was off, but made sense
to him why he was feeling the way he was
feeling when she expressed that right. But she told him
she heard a cow moose call as well a couple
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times during this time where he was off making the
moose calls and then wandering off and and coming back
and all that during this whole time, She told him
whatever it was making a cow moose call outside the
cabin real loud a few different times. So he said,
I saw something big and looked like a man wearing
a coat. She said, I saw something very similar, but
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it was too big to be a man. And she
pointed out that same window where she would normally peek
to see him coming. Where this thing had been was
right out that window, and she pointed out it was
as tall as that third branch up. He knows that
bottom branch in that particular tree was about nine feet
off the ground because he had hung a rope there
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that he had run off to another tree so when
he hung his quarters he could hang him up there
with a tarpover so he automatically knew whatever was way
bigger than nine feet. They're spitball, and she brings up
the Harryman. Now, something he just dismissed over the years
was he had actually ended up purchasing this cabin from
his uncle. During that time when he was younger and
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his uncle would talk about the harry Man. He thought
it was just his uncle trying to make it seem
like a adventure. I go out and I do with
harry Man, this kind of stuff, right. He thought his
uncle was playing it up. Reality being his uncle wasn't playing.
So he starts remembering these stories his uncle told him,
and he goes, oh, my uncle said, I think I
(14:15):
remember him saying that some dryfish leapt out as an offering,
will appease them and they'll leave. I don't know if
I want to do that. I don't want to continue
a bad habit. His wife says, just put us some dryfish,
see what happens, just to see if it worked. He
decided to, so, let me explain, Kirk is at the basket,
(14:35):
same with his wife. Not that makes a huge difference.
I wanted to be clear about that. They're not just
some random yahoo's or whatever run around the woods. So
she brings up, what about leaving something besides the dryfish?
How about we leave a trinket of some kind. She's
spitballing at that time of curse. No, I don't even
(14:56):
want to put dryfish out there, let alone anything else.
So he decides reluctantly to do this. So near where
that tree was where she saw this thing, and where
he had his rope across, he said it was about
three trees away, so about ten fifteen feet there was
an old oil drum, fifty five gallon drum. He walks
over and he just puts the smoke salmon on top
(15:18):
of that. The dryfish sets it down and walks back inside.
Now it's the middle of the day, right, So Kirk's
sitting there and he's and I don't like feeling we're
trapped in here. His wife's Kate, we're safe in here.
Everything's fine. There hasn't been anything strange going on since
he got back, so things calmed down a little bit.
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They had the generator outside, Kirk went outside, fired it up,
and they put on this TV with the built in
VCR and DVD player in their old school, but they
plugged that in to play Disney movies for their daughter
to get her sidetracked, because the kid was picking up
on their energy and the kid was starting to freak out,
(15:59):
so they tried to bring some normalcy to it. Whole
family sitting there watching Disney movies.
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Now as they're watching the movies. They went through two movies.
He kept peeking out the blinds and stuff because they
had the old strange accordion style ones that he can't
directly see through. He kept checking the smoke salmon over
and over again, barely paying attention to the movie. He said,
approximately the fourth time he went and looked, he didn't
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notice the salmon out there anymore because the positioning of
the drum, he could easily see the top of it,
and whether the salmon was on top of it. It
was like twenty five feet away. It's like right over there.
Didn't see the smoke salmon. He goes, the salmon's gone.
So for him and his wife, that kind of ended
their Disney movie marathon with their daughter, and they just
let the kid do her thing and watch her shows
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while they talk quietly amongst each other, and they opened
that blind. Kirk said, as they were sitting there talking
out in the trees where it wasn't fully visible, but
they could see between the trees a little bit, they
saw this figure move, and he said, it moved very slow,
almost like it was floating, but you could easily see
(17:20):
this and it looked dark on the lower half, lighter
on the upper half. He said, that's what gave the
impression of someone in an oversized snowsuit, because the top
was like a brownish color and the bottoms were black.
He was like, it was real weird, but there was
obviously no clothing. It was hair. You gotta understand this
is thirty five feet away that this is going on,
(17:40):
that they're watching this thing move. It's not outwardly showing
itself or being aggressive at this time, so they're trying
to wrap their minds around what they're seeing. Are we
imagining this? Are we so freaked out we're having like
a shared hallucination or something. Obviously they were. The wife
gets scared and goes sits and holds a daughter. As
(18:01):
soon as she did that, and she's sitting down with
the kid, Kirk steps away from the window again. They
were just right up on this window. They were looking out,
though they weren't looking tight to the sides. As soon
as he turns and steps away from that window, his
wife screams to Kirk. It looks like she's looking at him,
but she's looking past him at the window. Something moved
(18:22):
big in front of that window. Startled the crap out
of Kirk. He turns around. He didn't see what she
did because the window's only so wide. It wasn't a
very tall window either. Quickly, boom, a shadow went by.
She didn't see exactly what it was, but it's scared
the crap out of Kirk the way she screams. So
when he turned around and look, he's not seeing anything.
(18:42):
He jumps forward real quick because he's like one step
away from this damn window. He jumps forward real quick
to look out. He doesn't see anything. Just as he's
looking out and looking around on the opposite side of
the cabinet, damn, something hit it and the whole place
shakes right. His daughter started screaming and crying. His wife
started screaming crying. So, of course he doesn't want them
(19:02):
in danger or whatever, so he grabs his rifle and
he's like, I'm gonna run this thing off. I'm gonna
shoot it if I have to. He runs out the door.
When he gets outside, he's looking with his rifle. He
wants to end whatever in the hell's going on like
right now, and he's not seen anything. So he runs
around to the other side decide where the drum was
and stuff, and he's looking and he's not seeing anything.
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He gets the sensation that he's being watched and he
can't shake it, so he's looking all over the place.
He goes back inside. As they're sitting there, he's saying,
I don't know what the hell to do. Let's plan
on getting out of here, because he felt like a
cage scrap. He was just caged in. At any moment,
something was going to break in and hurt his family,
which I could just imagine is a horrible feeling. It
(19:49):
was bad enough with what I dealt with, but to
have a little kid there as well, that's your own,
I could just imagine it'd be heightened. So as they're
discussing how it's going to work, because they have to
walk down this trail with their daughter to where their
skiff is, it's off the river a little ways. It's
about not quite half a mile that they have to
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go through very thick brush, very dense woods up until
about maybe one hundred yards from the river bank is
where the trail opens up and they can see openly.
So he's trying to account for all the potential dangers
and going out that way. His wife wanted to go
right then. His concern was being on the river when
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it got dark, because they had a couple hours of
rivertime ahead of them, and with how the day had
progressed and the Disney movies and stuff, they weren't too
far from twilight at that time. So they get their
game plan. They moved a couple of items in front
of the door. They reclosed the window, and they hung
(20:56):
some stuff up over just as a secondary measure to
keep anything from looking in, and they sat there. He
went out one time and made sure the generator was
topped off so it'll run until it ran out, so
they can have the movies going for the daughter to
calm her down and bring some kind of normalcy to
this weird situation that was happening. He said, everything was
(21:19):
good and quiet. Of course they were freaked out, good
as far as nothing else was happening. He said it
got to a point to where they started relaxing and
dozing off a little bit. He said he wasn't sure
how much time it lapsed since he dozed off, but
he was woken up to the whole place shaking like
an earthquake was going on. He said it was dark out,
(21:42):
the generator had stopped running at some point because the
TV was no longer on. The shaking started, he woke
up to it. Then all of a sudden, his daughter
and wife woke up pretty much screaming, freaking out. So
he hushes them down and he's listening. He said it
sounded like something large pounding at a quick cadence against
(22:04):
the wall, and it was just making the whole place shake.
Right at this point, he had really felt fed up
with it, and he starts yelling, you leave my family alone,
You leave us alone, yelling, And after a little while
that banging stopped, the whole place stopped shaking. They sat there.
The daughter fell back asleep after a little bit, but
him and his wife sat there with a lantern lit.
(22:27):
Once the pounding and stuff stopped and he was yelling,
all that stopped, they lit the lanterns, and daughter fell asleep,
and they sat there. His wife insisted on carrying his pistol,
which he readily said, yes, of course. They had their
game plan. They were just taking the necessities. They would
leave stuff there. He was going to come back later
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with some relatives, which is not uncommon. There's quite a
few encounters to where it plays out like they just
want to get out of there, and man decides he'll
come back later. As they're discussing all that stuff, the
pounding has stopped. They're just basically feeling anxious as hell,
wanting to be gone out of there. Let's go. So
(23:08):
morning comes from what he said. He made coffee out
of habit. He was wide awake, he was anxious. He
really didn't want to get over anxious with the coffee,
but his wife wanted coffee. And he gets that all done.
And as they're drinking coffee and they're talking in hush
tones because the daughter's still sleeping, right. They want her
to get rest and hopefully be able to walk quickly
(23:29):
as they made it through some of the thickest parts
of this trail on their way back to the skiff.
As him and his wife are discussing these things. They've
been down this trail several times, so they know at
one part of kind of dog legs through this one
area shortly before it opens wide up to the river.
He was telling his wife, I think if anything was
to happen, that's the choke point in that area is
(23:51):
the tightest all on the trail with the trees and stuff.
That's where I need you to be holding her and
moving quickly. She was like, duh, yeah, I'm motivated. You
don't have to worry about me moving quickly. Just keep
up fair enough, that's Mama Berry. So warning comes, it
gets lighter, that it's light enough to where they're not
seeing anything. He looks out that window. They take down
(24:12):
whatever they had hanging and they open that blind and
he's looking out and on that drum is all the
fish that it went missing the day before. He put
out like a couple of flats and some strips. So
there's like two flats and three strips. A flat is
just a bigger flatter piece of smoked salmon and strips
or strips like a stick, like a jerky stick. They
(24:35):
were back. They were gone the day before, but now
all of a sudden, they're all back. He's confused by it.
He takes it it wasn't accepted, which what do you
do with that? And so he points it out to
his wife, and his wife's I don't give a shit.
We're getting out of here. We're going. I don't want
to come back to this place. So she starts getting
the daughter ready. As that's going on, he feels a
(24:56):
sense of relief that it doesn't feel ominous. He's got
the curtain open now is letting natural daylight in, and
he's feeling a little more comfortable about them getting out
of there because he can see everything. Right. As he
was sitting there and his wife getting the daughter ready
and getting her something to eat, all of a sudden, boom,
the place started shaking like an earthquake again, right, but
(25:17):
this time he could tell the banging was coming from
that back corner he had normally pound twice and she
would see it was him and open the door. He said,
it seemed like he was coming from that same area,
and at that point he said, screw it. He grabs
a guy. He says, plug her ears because this is
continuous boom boom. So his wife plugs her daughter's ears,
(25:39):
and he shoots through the wall in the area. He
thinks this thing is pounding, so he shoots through the wall.
They hear this hillacious sound. He said it was like
a guttural growl, kind of moan sound, and then quiet.
They sat there a minute. His ears are ringing because
he just fired a high powered rifle inside the small structure.
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His wife is crying. His daughter's shooking up and crying,
and they're sitting there a minute, and he's, I don't
know what now, I'm nervous about us going through the trail,
and his wife goes, no, I have your gun, you
have your other gun. We're going. We're not sticking around.
He can't argue with that, because nothing has de escalated.
What is a continuation of weirdness. He agrees, and now
(26:24):
he's worried that this thing's injured now and it's going
to be angry at them, right, So he goes, what
we need to do is just start going now, right now,
Let's grab our stuff. They put their daughter's little backpack
on her. His wife had the backpack with their important
stuff that they brought with some extra ammo, and she
was carrying the pistol in her hand, had the daughter
(26:46):
in one arm. They went out the door. Boom, They're gone.
They're going down the trail. Kirk said he kept looking
over his shoulder because he felt like they're being watched. Still,
he said, for a good portion of the trail, it's
about the trail itself was real narrow as the old
game trail, but outside of that, the brush was backaways
off of this little narrow path before the brush got
(27:10):
thick and stuff for a good portion of their way
through it. Just at this point it bottled next to
where they got to go through this dog leg on
the trail through some of the thickest part of the
brush in the trees. He said. When they got to
that point, he turned around. He's pointing his rifle around.
He's not seeing anything, and his wife said we need
to hurry up, and he goes, okay, but her whole
(27:34):
demeanor change. She said something just told me, I want
your kid, I want your kid, and she said whatever,
and the hell that was, it's not happening. We gotta go.
They hurry up through that portion of the trail. Now
when it come out of the other side of Kirk
said that his wife was literally running and jumping carrying
(27:57):
the kid at this point still moving like a football linebacker.
She was motivated to get the hell out. She led
the way and was going further faster than Kirk was.
He was stopping every once in a while to check
their back trail to make sure Nutt was following them.
He said. Once his wife got to the skip, he
was paces behind her, and when he caught up, she
(28:21):
had tears pouring down her face, saying, it keeps saying
it over and over, we gotta go, And he goes,
what do you mean, and she goes, it keeps telling
me that it's going to take us, it's going to
take our kit. He can't argue with that because he
didn't hear it, but he trusted what his wife is
telling him. He does this thing. He has to get
the gas cans out of the bush. There's brush not
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too far off the river bank where they take their
field cans out of the skiff and stash them and
hide them so in case someone coming by wouldn't steal
their gas, because sometimes shit happens. So he goes and retrieves, it,
comes back over, fires up the outboard and as it's
warming up, they're not tied off. At this point, he's
just letting outboard warm up. The current's starting to slowly
(29:04):
drag him off of where they're beached, and his wife
keeps saying it, keeps telling me that it's nearby and
it's going to get us. He's not gonna tell her, hey,
you're wrong, because I don't hear it, so he takes
her word for it, puts it in reverse, the back
away from the river bank where they parked their skiff.
As he backed up, there's like a big bend that's
just a little bit below them where they park, and
(29:27):
he's going around that. And as they're cutting around that bend,
he looks off to his left and the direction of
the river bank where the cabin is located. On that side,
which would be the east side of the river, he
looks he can see this tall, dark figure silhouetted in
the trees, less than twenty yards off the river banks.
(29:49):
He said it had to be pretty damn tall for
him to notice it, because he noticed from like shoulders
up what he can make out as head and shoulders.
He said, I would have considered myself paranoid, however, considering
what had happened the previous day and night. He wasn't
going to discount it just as some strange anomaly in
(30:10):
the trees. He took it for what he thought it was,
which was a hairyman. They got there. Nothing more to
add as far as the encounter other than a long
cup hour ride. Even when they got back to more
familiar grounds at were it's so remote, right near a
road where the truck was parked and all that kind
of stuff. His wife was holding the gun and her
baby and nothing was coming close. I wouldn't want to
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approach her in that state because she's on protect mode.
What he said was is that since this has happened,
it's been really hard for his wife to sleep. She
gets very anxious when it starts to get dark, out
constantly checking on the daughter. It's been basically a nightmare.
They reached out to some of their elders. They are
(30:55):
tending this things. However, the elder see fit, I was
in a situation, but there was no little kids like
my own little kids there. It wasn't that kind of dynamic.
It was more protect me versus having to feel like
you got to protect your kid. But you gotta be
careful and stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
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after these messages.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
What I suspect is the uncle had been feeding and
doing other stuff outside of Kirk's knowledge. I think potentially
there could have been one of these things, upset about
not being fed normally, or maybe there's something else going on.
Who knows. He has not been back since the gender hitter.
They have There is a few thousand dollars and he
(31:44):
needs to go get that. At this point, he's ready
to cut his losses basically and just salvage whatever next
spring unless he gets a wild hair. He said he's
got a buddy who has a plane that maybe he'll
have him fly him out at some point. But regardless,
I'm to thank Kirk for sharing. It was hard for
him being a dad and being in that position of protection.
(32:06):
He felt very inadequate when all this stuff was going on,
and it bothers him as a man to feel like
he couldn't protect his family, which I could understand. What
I wanted to share with the other day comes from Julius.
This was approximately seven years ago. He was on a
snow machine ride. What ended up happening is he's cruising
along this actually happened to me back in the nineties.
(32:28):
As he was going over these little bumps and little
boondock areas, like, he accidentally hit his kill switch and
the machine just instantly died, So he stuck. He was
with two of his buddies. It's just getting into ah
dusk Ish, very similar to what I'm at now right now.
It is about an hour before sunset, and it was
(32:50):
probably a little further along than that when this happened
to him. So he hits the kill switch. This particular
area is north of me, north of Sutton. The train
is very similar to what you got here. You got
to mix a birch. He got some alders and willows,
black spruce, hind and that birch. Obviously, he was on
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a real confined part of the trail when he hit
his kill switch, and he said, he sat there for
a minute and he can hear his buddies off in
the distance. He heard them and knew that eventually they
were going to come down this trail. And when he
didn't meet up with them at the meet up place
which he heard them make it to and kill their
machines and waiting for him, he knew they'd be coming back,
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so he wasn't overly stressed. He was just peddling around.
He popped his cowling, was looking around, and he decided
he had about a quarter mile of trail before it
opened up, and he'd be able to see his friends
off in the distance, so he figured he'd do that.
He starts walking away from his snow machine. He said
he was about sixty feet away and it was a
(33:53):
pretty straight stretch, and all of a sudden, off to
his left, he heard movement in the brush. So imagine
thirty forty feet you hear movement back over here, and
it's just moving. So he stops and he's watching, and
he figures it's a moose. He must have spooked the
moose coming through, hitting the little Sloalom area, so he
stood there. He didn't want to get trampled. Moose will
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kill you. They fight brown bear, so they're sure sow
ain't scared of your ass. So he's watching it, and
so he stops and he's waiting, and all of a
sudden he sees it coming towards the trail that he's on,
and he said it was about forty feet away ish.
All of a sudden, this thing is standing there, and
it's looking right back at him, so he stops. It
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takes him a minute to put together what he's seeing
because it's not making sense in his mind's eye. His
words were, holy fuck, what are you? This thing just
started swaying back and forth right, he said. As it
started swaying, he had an instant it felt like his
heart was going to beat out of his chest. And
(34:54):
he knew immediately he was not safe. And I asked him,
was it acting aggressive? He said, no, it wasn't making
a noise. It was its posture, the way it was standing,
and the way it was looking at him. He said
it was all dark, almost pitch black, but not quite grizzled,
looking along the chest and the shoulders. His face was
all black, and he could see the daylight twinkle in
(35:18):
its eye, and he said the eyes look black. He
said it was approximately nine foot tall, maybe a little taller.
The snow was pretty deep. It could have been standing
in two feet of snow, and it could have easily
been eleven foot. He was in a panic. He said.
What he did was he backed away. It was about
sixty feet from his machine. He gets over to his machine.
He said, he came around the front of it, and
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he squatted down looking over the cowling back at it.
So if you imagine its down low, he can back.
I get it. You'll want to put something between you.
And at that moment, off in the distance, he hears
his friend's snow machines start up, and this thing is
in clear view of him. He can see it. It's
now almost one hundred feet away, but it's still swaying,
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and it started moving towards him right and as soon
as it started moving towards him in the tree line
right next to the trail, if you can imagine something
big and dark just creeping along, he said, it was
moving silently. Tears were coming out of his eyes. He
started praying. Now, Julius said, he's a heathen. He never
prayed before in his life. Understand that I've been in
those shoes, he said. As soon as he started praying,
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he wasn't praying, Oh God, Jesus, please help me from
this monster. He's saying, please Jesus, let my friends come.
In that moment, as soon as he said Jesus, please
help me, because he's saying the prayer out loud, he
squatted down in front of his machine, scared to death.
He heard this thing let out a scream. This thing
immediately took off and it was going straight in the
direction of his buddies. He didn't put two and two
(36:45):
together at the moment. He just thought the snow machine
sound scared this thing off. He said there was a
couple of years later, he realized it was the prayer
that ran this thing off, because his friends were still
almost a mile away. The reason he heard the snow
machines is they were in the world open a two
stroke eight hundred, you're gonna hear that thing screaming from
a good way's away. But he figured it was the
(37:06):
snow machines. A little while later, sure enough, his friends
came down that particular trail and they see him there,
and he still knelt down in front of his machine,
just relieved that someone else's there. He was unarmed, He
had nothing. His friend that was with him he had
a I believe some kind of rifle with him at
two seventy or something, just in case the moose tried
(37:26):
to trample him. As his friends show up and pull up,
they're like, hey, what happened. They were a little jovial.
He was fighting for the words to share, right, He
didn't know what to say. He had a frog in
his throat, he had tears still streaming, and he just said,
thank god, you guys are here. His two buddies were like,
you'll never guess. We just saw some dude running through
the trees fast as shit. He said, that's not a guy.
(37:49):
And they saw the look on his face and instantly
got concerned because these really good friends of his known
since junior high type shit, fifteen years they've known each other.
And his friends were like, hey, are you okay? What happened?
And he said, that person you saw is actually like
nine to eleven feet tall and it was bigfoot, and
they were like, the hell you say. They were thrown off,
(38:10):
but they saw this thing running through the trees and
just assumed it was some dude because they were flying
by on snow machine. It was just something in passing.
They wrote it off as some guy in a fur
coat or something. But then it dawned on him. They
started thinking it was pretty damn big come to think
of it. So they didn't give him a hard time
or anything like that. Julius was shaking like a leaf.
(38:31):
He didn't smoke cigarettes, but one of his buddies did,
and he smoked one of his friend's cigarettes, just panic stricken.
His buddies tried to calm him down. They get him
a little something to sip on, warm up his belly
a little bit. His buddy that was first in line
that came in, we'll just call him Tea. Tea, went
over and was looking at his machine and within moments
saw that he hit the kill switch, popped it, fired
(38:53):
it right up, and what a relief. So had they
talked for a minute. Julius smoked a cigarette, still shaking
like hell. It gave him a few minutes and a
couple more SIPs to calm down so he can actually ride,
because he was shaking really hard like he was hypothermic,
but he wasn't. He was just so traumatized by it.
They didn't see anything else on the way out. They
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immediately left the area. He hasn't ridden in that area
since as approximately seven years ago. I'll just say between
Sutton in Eureka and we'll leave it at that, because
he doesn't want anyone to potentially go back in there
and get themselves in a pickle, so to speak. I
want to thank him for sharing. I want to thank
you guys for joining me. The sun is setting and
(39:36):
I don't want to be out here when the sun
goes down all the way. It's damn beautiful though we
were already losing sunlight. Beautiful out here and just quiet
as shit. I don't like it just quiet. There should
be some kind of songbirds, chickadees or something floating around. Anyway,
Thanks for joining me. We'll catch you guys soon. They
say you don't got to go, but you can't say.
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Trying this job, that chart everything. Call me, ride back
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!