August 3, 2025 • 43 mins
In this episode, Fred from Alaska recounts two compelling stories of eerie encounters in the Alaskan wilderness. The first story follows Blake and Riley, a couple celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary with an RV adventure in Alaska. Their trip takes a terrifying turn one night when they encounter strange movements and a caveman-like creature near their RV.
The second story, recountsTyler juniors father's harrowing experience in the late 1940s during the construction of the Taylor Highway. Tyler Sr. and his companions are terrorized by a cryptid known as the Bushman, which eventually forces them to abandon their mining operations. The episode explores these mysterious occurrences and their implications, highlighting the rich, yet eerie folklore of the Alaskan wilderness.
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00:00 Introduction and Setup 00:03 Blake and Riley's RV Adventure Begins 00:37 A Scenic Journey Through Alaska 01:17 Unexpected Encounter at Denali Highway 04:34 The Mysterious Shaking Incident 08:24 A Terrifying Discovery 13:40 Escape from the Unknown 16:27 Reflecting on the Experience 17:10 Tyler's Tale: A Historical Encounter 18:54 The Bushman's Threat 19:23 Tyler Sr.'s Encounter Begins 20:24 Strange Noises and Rock Throwing 22:08 A Night of Terror 28:32 The Caribou Head Warning 32:06 The Final Confrontation 38:24 Morning Aftermath and Reflections 39:31 Closing Thoughts and Gratitude
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The second story, recountsTyler juniors father's harrowing experience in the late 1940s during the construction of the Taylor Highway. Tyler Sr. and his companions are terrorized by a cryptid known as the Bushman, which eventually forces them to abandon their mining operations. The episode explores these mysterious occurrences and their implications, highlighting the rich, yet eerie folklore of the Alaskan wilderness.
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00:00 Introduction and Setup 00:03 Blake and Riley's RV Adventure Begins 00:37 A Scenic Journey Through Alaska 01:17 Unexpected Encounter at Denali Highway 04:34 The Mysterious Shaking Incident 08:24 A Terrifying Discovery 13:40 Escape from the Unknown 16:27 Reflecting on the Experience 17:10 Tyler's Tale: A Historical Encounter 18:54 The Bushman's Threat 19:23 Tyler Sr.'s Encounter Begins 20:24 Strange Noises and Rock Throwing 22:08 A Night of Terror 28:32 The Caribou Head Warning 32:06 The Final Confrontation 38:24 Morning Aftermath and Reflections 39:31 Closing Thoughts and Gratitude
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog,
my dog. We're flying through the air 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 he was dead. And once you hit
the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what
(00:38):
are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling
around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Or was it was?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Standing up? I'm out here looking through the window now
and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Jesus quice you bick Hello, get somebody out here? Went
on out there? I thought of a bit about sixty
forty nine. I don't know easy out there? Yeah, I'm
right away.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh hey, greeting is his friend in Alaska. Thanks for
joining me today. What I wanted to share with you today.
This comes from Blake and Riley. They were up in
Alaska for a little RV adventure. They had planned ahead
like a year. Saved the money because it's expensive up here,
especially traveling around. All the expense of meals and all that.
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They figured rent and RV self sufficient, self contained, well,
have a place to cook, sleep and all that we
can guide ourselves around fair enough. Hey, I'd do the
same thing if I was in the same position. So
Blake and Riley. This was basically for their fifth wedding anniversary.
They decided to come towards the end of summer, beginning
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to fall. Riley his wife really joyed fall, the colors
and all that. They planned to be up here two weeks.
During the first week beautiful, the weather was great. They
went up by Danale from Anchors and then in the
Fairbanks and then back on down. On their way back down,
they took the Richardson going towards glenn Allen and they
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got to glenn Allen and they were like, ah, let's
backcheck a little bit, head back towards Danale. It was
so beautiful and there was some more pictures that Riley
wanted to take. They still got another week. They're at
their own schedule. As they're heading back and they're taking
the Denale Highway from Packson. It was this particular day
it was getting on into darkness, and their book pretty
(02:38):
tired from just the constant running in, the excitement, being
in the Laska, the fresh air, all of it was
just it was catching up to him. So they decided, Hey,
we'll just pull out side of the road just camp
right here, which many people do. Guys in their pickup
trucks do that. I've done that, so why not they
pull off. They do the little procedure to make sure
they're level and stuff like that. This particular pull off
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is not too far from the Triangle Lakes pull off
that has a trail to Sweet Lake and on down
to the alphabets and stuff, a spot with many encounters
from the past. So where they were parked, they'd just
come up. Anyone who's been there, you're coming out of
packs and you come up to a point where you
got this little switchback that gets up onto this higher plateau.
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So they were just past that. The particular spot they
picked was on the right hand side of the road
heading towards Dnati. Now this is very near the same
area where a couple of women had some crazy stuff happen. Right,
they get set up, everything's level for the stuff they
needed to do, as far as the requirements for the
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RV and whatnot. There was a small slide out that
they extended out, and then they dropped the awning. As
they were getting things set up. It wasn't a very
clear day that day. It was low ceiling. They couldn't
see as clearly. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't the
photo opportunities that Riley was hoping for. No big deal.
They still had time, so they sat there, they made
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their dinner. They came out and had some long chairs
underneath the awning that they had out. They're basically facing
souths so they're on the north side of the road
and they're facing south. They're just sitting in their chairs.
Periodically someone would drive by. It was just calm. It
was relaxing. They're both really tired, especially after eating, and
they were already burned out from the travel and so
excited it was hard to sleep. They decided, hey, let's
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just turn in and we'll start right and early continue on.
Blake said. Riley went in, was cleaning up a little
bit of the mess they had in there or whatever,
and he was just walking around the area making sure
he accounted for everything as far as RV requirements. He
goes to the back, he removes a little panel and
slides out this little thing that was holding the little
generator on it. He fires it up because they were
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gonna fall asleep watching a movie. When he put fuel
in this particular little generator, he found that if he
only put in like a half a gallon, that it
would run long enough for a movie or two and
then die out. He wouldn't have to worry about getting up,
going outside and shutting it off. He does all that.
He gets inside, they select their movie and stuff their
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kicked back. Where they decided they were going to crash
out was where the little slideout is, where the seating
area was. The tabletop drops down and then it turns
into a mattress, little sleeping area right there, right about
not quite the size of a double bed. They closed
it up there, and they were watching their movie. They
fell asleep. Blake remembers being in that fog and hearing
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the generator dying down from being out of gas. But
it was doing the little fluctuation thing, so he listened
to it for a second, just fades back out. He
has no idea what time it was when that happened.
He said, it couldn't have been too much longer after
that that all of a sudden, the whole thing just shook.
He said, it shook hard. He said, so hard that
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it was startling. Right, they're up, Riley digging around for
this little headlamp they had, and also had this little
led lantern took batteries. It was shaped like an old
school kerosene lantern, but it was actually led lights in it.
So she finds that stuff. As she turns it on,
she sets it on one of the little smaller tables
right across from him. They're looking at each other and
they're talking, and they could hear movement outside it. What
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the hell is that? And Blake's starting to yell out hey,
because again it was startling, how hard it shook. It
felt like another vehicle had struck it or something. Riley's
quite down. Listen, Blake, I'm not going to be quiet.
Riley calms down and says listen, and they could hear movement.
Blake's had it. He didn't know if they were struck
because they were woken up by this violent shake. He
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grabs that little lantern. He goes out the door, and
he said when he got out the door, he could
tell that the back end of that RV had slit
probably two three feet. He's holding up the lantern. He's
looking around. He's yelling out, who's out here, who's out here?
Doesn't hear nothing. A moment later, Riley comes out with
the headlamp on. He's holding up the lantern, and because
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she had a more focused beam on her headlamp, he
was like, hey, point your headlamp over in this direction.
They did, and then down the road and up the
road and across the road he goes, and he sets
down where they had their two lawn chairs sitting. They
were still sitting, but they had closed him up and
just laid him down on the ground right there, because
again it was under the awning right, but with the
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shift and everything, it was a little different. But he
had popped one of those chairs up real quick and
set the lantern down on it and asked Riley for
the headlamp. She hands it to him. She grabs the lantern,
goes back inside. He starts walking around the thing. He
had picked up a couple of big rocks right because
they heard something out there and the whole places shook,
so Blake knew that someone was out here. He's yelling, hey,
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we don't appreciate it. We're here visiting the state. What
he assumed initially was like some locals, not like in tourists,
which I understand. I think it's one of those things. However,
he goes around to the backside and he notices the
way that the back end was pushed. It was off
onto the softer part of the shoulder, right on the gravel.
But he was a little concerned about that. Again, he's
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got the headlamp on. He hears something and it sounds
like it's directly off to his right. So he turns
and he looks, and he doesn't see anything. He's looking
and looking. Then as he's doing so, he notices this
shade of reddish brown that doesn't quite match the rest
of the terrain. This was just past the brush off
the side of the road, the way that the road
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went down. In his position, it was just beyond the brush. However,
in the scheme of things, was probably fifty feet away.
So he's looking and he starts focusing on this weird
reddish brown color. He was like something was off, and
he immediately felt panicked inside. And as he was trying
to figure out what the hell he was looking at,
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because it was just so out of place with all
the other colors of the tundra and the brush and stuff.
He said. He backed up, and he backed up into
that open little slide out for the generator. That caught
his attention. So he turned back real quick because he
was startled by it. And then when he turned back,
all of a sudden, this reddish brown thing or whatever
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it was that was just over there. All of a sudden,
he noticed the movement and he follows it right. He's
watching and the way it's moving is pretty fast, but
it's quiet. So he's trying to keep up with it
and figure out what the hell he's seeing. As he's
doing so, he's just noticing this reddish brown He was like, oh, crap, bear.
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So what he does is he turns around. He goes
back around the backside, not the same direction this thing
was moving. Goes around the backside and gets back into
the RB and he was like, it was a bear.
I just saw a bear over there. Riley's a calm down,
Calm down, it's Alaska. There's bears. We have bear spray somewhere.
Let's just make sure we have it handy. Maybe it
came in because this smelled our food. We cleaned up,
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but still the food smell is gonna ling her. And
so they're explaining this away as they're doing so, this
particular RV was open all the way into the front
where you can se see out the front window. There
was this little partition thing that he could slight close
or what have you for privacy or whatever. It wasn't closed.
They didn't close it before they went to sleep. They're
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sitting there talking and explaining away this bear. The way
Blake was standing, he was facing towards the front of
the RV. Riley's in front of him, sitting down on
that little bed thing, and they're talking about this bear.
He had turned off the headlamp, but he still had
it on. As they're talking, going back and forth or whatever,
he glances towards the front and he notices something odd
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outside of the window. He sat there for a second,
look back at Riley, continued the conversation, but then was
drawn back again because he saw a movement. So he
clicked on the light, the interior light where she had
the little lantern going the little led lantern. It didn't
have enough candela power, enough light power basically to fully
see what movement he saw, because again they're thinking bear.
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He was half expecting a bear to be looking in
the window, but when he turned on the headlamp with
the more focused beam of light, it wasn't a bear.
He said, this thing looked like a caveman. It looked
like it was very curious. It had its hands on
the hood of the RV and was leaning and looking.
And when he turned on the lamp and saw it,
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tried to avert its eyes and stuff. He said, it
put its hands up and its hand was massive, and
he said he freaked out. And that's when Riley turned.
She saw it and screamed, All of a sudden, this
thing disappears out of you. He was like, it was
a cave man. What did you see? What did you see?
She's on the verge of needing some medication to calm
him down. Blake tells her, hey, I saw it. It
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looked like a caveman. Other than that, I don't know.
So they're discussing it at this point, they're talking in
hush tones. Blake said that he started shaking, had to
sit down next to his wife. He's sitting there. He
was like, I don't know what the hell a caveman
is doing. But that was a cave man. That was
not a suit. That couldn't have been a cost to
I saw its eyes. Its eyes had a little bit
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of a red eyeshine, and the way it moved, it
wasn't someone in a suit. In those moments, Riley was
trying to explain it away, maybe if someone playing a prank,
and he was like, no, it wasn't a bear. It
wasn't a prank. Whatever it was alive, it wasn't a suit.
So they're discussing what to do. They got stuff outside,
They got the little slide out open, they got the
generator that needs to be closed up, and the thing
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of it is that they knew without the slide out
going in and the other stuff that the RV wouldn't
go into gear. They start brainstorming what they're going to do,
and immediately Riley's up. She's moving everything she has to
to bring in the slide in. She does that Blake,
we got that generator, we need to close it and
shut the panel. She goes, don't worry about that right now,
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let's just go and he goes, hold on the awning.
We got attended the awning. There's those jacks that drop
down to help level the thing. We got to adjust those.
There are certain things we have to do in order
to not have to pay out a whole lot of
money or basically buy this thing. So they take a
little bit calm down. They find that canister bear spray.
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He has Riley shine out the window. He has on
the headlamp. She's holding up that lantern at the window
for whatever reason. I think sometimes when people go in
the shot. Because I had a conversation with Blake briefly
about this, I was like, what was the purpose of
having her hold the lantern up in the window because
it's not going to cast all that much light. He
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honestly didn't know. He wanted her to feel like she
was part of her keep her eyes out on him
to make sure he was safe. Whatever it worked out
to be, he wasn't quite sure. It was just what
came out. So he goes out. He's got the bear spray.
He tends to the one jack just outside the door
back behind the back tire, tends to that, goes around,
shuts the generator in, shuts the panel, takes care of
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the jack that's right underneath that area, and then he
goes up to the front. They only use the outside
one up front. At this point, Riley's on the inside.
She's up at the front inside the cab, up in
the windshield and stuff holding up the lamp. He reached
down and he's doing what he has to do with
this little thing, little handle. He gets set taken care of.
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He comes around and he has a headlamp on. He
glances up because he heard a booth sound. He looks
across the road and then the brush across the road.
There's this thing standing there watching him. He freezes. Now
where he stops, he's back around basically at the driver's
side door. Almost when he's here's the sound and looks across.
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So he's frozen, right, He's trying to assess again what
he's seeing because he's just so thrown off, he said
by the appearance of this thing. He said, it was
every bit of nine foot tall, if not taller, but
at least nine foot tall, very wide. While he's stuck
staring the overwhelming fear he had, not making a noise
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or anything, just you know, like full of indecision, do
I move, will let attack? You know, he was basically
stuck in fear as he's snapping out of it. He
turns as he's going back towards the door, he starts
yelling out, get out of here. Stay tuned for more
sasquatch out to see will be right back after these
messages something along those lines. There are some explicitives in there.
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As he's getting back to the door, all of a
sudden it lies open and there's Riley. She had found
one of their other flashlights that they had stored away somewhere,
and it was one of those old maglights, right, it
was like a four D cell battery, one one of
those big old law enforcement looking types. And she had
that on it and saw it and it started yelling
get out of here. But what Blake did not notice
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is she had that bear spray in her hand, right,
He didn't even notice because everything going on. Then all
of a sudden he sees her raise her hand and
yell at it and start spraying this bear spray. Now,
it came out in a huge plume. It was evident
in the light because his head lamp and her with
the flashlight. This cloud just enveloped across the street. Again,
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the road is a very wide. It considered a primitive
broke just gravel. As this cloud surrounded this thing across
the road. All of a sudden they hear this hillacious noise.
It was like a hack, sneeze, cough all at once.
Then the loudest, most thunderous scream. It was grouse scream,
all of it mixed in one. They heard it thrashing
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it through the brush. It sounded like it was coming
at him, So they rushed inside, shut the door. No
sooner in the door shut they feel the back end again.
Bam hard, real hard. At that point, that's where Blake
was concerned that the ass end might be so far
off on the soft part of the shoulder that they
might not be able to drive out of there. So
he immediately runs up to the front. The keys that
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they had sitting in the center little area had knocked
off from where they were, so he's looking around. He
finds the keys. He starts up the vehicle. He said,
when he put it in drive, when he initially gave
a gas, it peeled out a little bit, so he
gunned it. It caught enough traction to just work itself
up and off down the road. The whole time he
was driving down the road, Riley was screaming, don't stop,
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don't stop. She was at the very back. In the
very back, there was this little small window in the middle.
When she looked at it, there was half of it
was obscured by the ladder that led up to the
top of the RV. But she was looking out the back.
She saw it almost keeping up with the RV, and
it broke off its chasing and went off in the tundra.
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She went over the other window. By then it had
disappeared into the night. He said. They drove all away
from where they were to somewhere here in Wasilla. He
doesn't know exactly where was some electrical place and the
way he was describing it, I assume Brown's Electric over
near Main Street. But they made it to their in
part before they felt comfortable enough to rest. I want
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to thank them for reaching out. For a lot of
people they investigate go down the rabbit the hole, so
to speak, after they had an experience that they can't explain.
Feel was very similar for Blake and Riley. They went
looking for answers of any kind. They'd let it go
for a while and then started looking back into it.
When they started their Google search or whatever. They found
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the channel and reached out. I appreciate them reaching out.
I appreciate them being patient with the time it took
to connect and hear their story again. That area. I
don't know how many encounters there's been over there. There's
been some right near Monahan Flats there, Swede Lake Trail,
Golkana River south of there. I wanted to share with
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you today. This comes from we'll name him Tyler. Tyler
is an elder. He's getting up on there in age.
He's in a Native Copper River valley up north. This
is something that his dad has always shared with them.
As he was growing up, whenever he would be going
out in the woods, his dad would always sit him
down and tell him about this encounter. Now, years back,
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late eighteen hundred's the Taylor Highway area. That area, like
eighteen eighty, there was a little gold rush and there's
a lot of mines back up in that valley that
cuts up back through there. It started off as a
bunch of trails from locals coming from Eagle Chicken all
these places they're going up to do their mining. Now,
the Taylor Highway proper was actually not built until the
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winter from forty five to forty six, and it was
completed in nineteen fifty one. This is going back. His dad,
Tyler Senior, told him ever since he was young, many
times over the course of his life about this area,
which I guess the closest reference we would have would
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be Taylor Highway at Mosquito Creek. There's a family that
had saw these creatures with tails, So this is the
area we're talking about. It was during this construction process.
It was after the winter of forty six. It was
later on into the spring. Tyler Senior told him that
during this time they were still doing so prospecting up
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in the area. As the highway is being built. It's
labeled a highway now, but back then it was nothing
better than a cat road cut in with the dozer.
Don't get the impression that it was some modern kind
of road. Is not the case. As any remote road
up here. It is primitive. So he always told them
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that in the spring they were extra careful when they
were going back up in there due to the bushman,
because the bushmen would wait until you were unsuspecting an attack.
So Tyler would always ask, what do you mean. His
dad would tell him that they would wait until the
people in the area would kind of get complacent, if
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you will. Let's just get into what actually happened with
Tyler Senior. It was spring in nineteen forty six. The
runoff and the breakup was most of the way done with.
And as they were going up in there, it was
called forty Mile at the time, him and two of
his cousins, they had a small claim it was producing gold.
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They were up in there, they were doing their thing.
They had been there about four days in this particular area.
They were doing a little bit of panning and going
through some tailings that they had from the previous season,
and just making sure they were accounting for every little
morsel of gold they could find. Tyler Senior told him
that he remembers it clearly. They had been there four days.
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Not a breath of any kind of wildlife in this
particular area. It was odd because usually that's when animals
were stirring. Bearris would coming out of hibernation. They would
usually at least see a handful of bears every season, regardless,
moving out of the valley heading down towards a copper river.
So not seeing them it was odd. It was very odd.
He said that night on the fourth day, as they
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were just finishing up dinner, they were on the river bank.
The river was still a little swollen, but it wasn't
very deep in that area. The way it sloped up
away from the river was a lot of gravel and sand,
was a little bit of a bank, and then the
trees started, and then there's trees cutting back up, and
then it went up to the mountain. And he said
that night, just as they were finishing dinner, they started
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hearing noises up on that side, which would be to
their east if you're facing north, it was to their east.
They became suspect because of the bushmen. Now these three
people had dealt with it a few times in the past,
so they were aware, but the severity of which things
were gonna go was realized until this night. So as
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they were sitting there, they started talking. All the bushmen's
back I was up there. They could hear making noises,
weird noises that they hadn't heard before. Cooing like a pigeon,
but very loud, very powerful whoops, short sharp whistles. It
would go on, but it was never coming out of
the tree line. It was staying within the trees a
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little rocks being thrown at the camp, chunks and clumps
of grass. Sometimes a piece of broken log would be
rolled their way. Nothing large enough to really make them
feel like it was trying to kill them or get
them right. So he said they were on edge that
night because something was off about that as well. It
was a different tone to everything. Someone might ask why
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would they go back? You got to understand how people
are from that generation. If you don't know, look into it.
These are the kind of people that we learned from.
This world's gotten real soft. I'll just leave it at that.
They had a hard time sleeping because this noise continued
through the night up until dawn the next day. Tyler
Senior told them that when they got up the next morning,
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they had noticed that they could see where something had
circled them a few times during the night, which really
made the hairstand on their necks because it was noticed
that these tracks stayed about fifteen feet away from the
entire camp, which was a couple of wall tents set
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up the way it was laid out. It stayed approximately
fifteen feet away, circled around multiple times as they were
going on with the morning. They never had it come
out of the trees, but always stayed up in the trees,
stayed out of view, made the noises and through stuff.
So they were concerned that it's something's going on. It
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it's over here. So during the course of that day,
there was some other miners that had come through just
stopped by. There's some people they knew. They were heading
a little further north to their claim to get things
started for the season. They made mentioned to them, Hey,
we had some noises going on here, rocks being thrown.
If you guys be aware. It kind of showed them
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a little bit of the trackway of the way this
thing circled the room. The two guys that were heading
up further north to their claim to start working it,
they immediately were like, yeah, we've dealt with it at
our camp the past few years. They had a little
short discussion about it being aggressive. The other two had
stated that they had two dogs a few years back
that they brought with them and this particular thing killed
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their dogs. So they took note, took it serious. The
guys continued on. Understand, these guys were heavily armed, armed
for bear. They were not playing games. They weren't just
having some thirty thirties or anything like that. They had
the old school forty five seventies, crazy powerful guns. The
day continues on into the night. At dusk, they got
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nothing done that day. They were constantly listening. It wasn't
until dusk that the noises started. Rocks started being thrown,
But the difference was the rocks were bigger. There was
three rocks thrown initially that started everything off. Before the noise.
Each of those rocks thrown hit each one of the
individuals in the lake. It had hurt enough to cruple
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a grown man to the ground. The rocks were roughly
about half size of a baseball. These are river rocks.
You got understand when you get into those river valleys.
A lot of the rocks they're not jagged, they're smoothed over.
They're rounded over from all the water and stuff. After
this happened, they were inclined to start yelling up in
the trees. One of the individuals, not Tyler senior, but
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one of his cousins, fired a couple rounds up at
a tree that was closest to the edge where the
river line in the bank stop. Shot a couple shots
over that way, and about twenty minutes later, they were
all sitting there wondering what the hell was going to happen,
because they had never been directly hit by these rocks before.
It was mainly harassment before that little pebbles, little things
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coming near, hitting the fire, things like that. So to
be directly hit each of them in the leg and
it was between the knee and the foot, so right
in the side of the cast. They're getting hit by
these rocks, very accurate. They were very concerned because it
had ticked up a notch, going along with what their
friends said earlier that day that were continuing up to
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their claim it was an ominous feeling. What to expect
because they killed their dogs. It stalked us last night
when we were sleeping. Now it's hitting us with rocks.
As they were having a discussion on what they should
do of whether they should take watch, maybe to keep
watch one keep watch, they were debating back and forth
what would be the most optimal thing because they didn't
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want to be caught off guard like they may have
been the night before. From what Tyler Senior said. As
they were having this discussion, it was dusk, but they
were just getting their fire builped up. During the course
of that day. Since they were all on edge, they
collected extra firewood in case they needed a larger fire.
They're getting this fire larger and larger, and they hear
something downstream of them. It startled them. The guns ready,
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and all of a sudden they hear, don't fire. It
was a person. Now, this particular person had a claim
that they were heading to and they got a late start.
This person comes and joins them in camp. They knew
the person. He had a claim further on up. He
was basically running late that day and asked him, Hey,
I can't put to you guys here tonight because it's dusk.
I'm running out of daylight and I don't want to
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move in these damn woods in the dark. And they said,
not a problem. Tyler Senior had a wall tent basically
for himself and his two cousins shared the other one.
So Tyler Senior was like, you can throw your gear
in my tent there and you can both there. He
drops his stuff inside the tent. He noticed everyone armed,
so he made sure he brought his rifle back out
and said, you guys having bare problems? They said, no,
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we're not. It's a bushman the man got concerned and
he told them, Hey, I had a dog last year
that went missing. I think the bushmen took it. But
they're like, yeah, we heard over there. They're dogs a
couple of years ago went missing as well. They're all
having this talk about this stuff happening. It wasn't like
nowadays there's a lot of hush toes. People want to
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whisper about it. But these guys in that element, they
had to be honest with each other and tell them
what was going on. And so the guy that came
up to him that startled him coming from a downriver
told him that he heard from somebody that this particular
bushman in that area at the time hated people because
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it had been shot a handful of years prior. He
told whatever that instance was. And as they were having
this discussion, they hear a scream come from couldn't have
been more than one hundred yards away, but it was
just inside that tree line. I was off to the
east of them. From what Tyler Senior expressed to Junior
was it was very powerful and very menacing. It had
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a very menacing tone to it, not like the stuff
they had heard prior, which was just noises. So as
they were standing there, they all stood up and they're
trying to focus on the direction that the sound came from.
As that's going on, all of a sudden they hear
something was thrown. But it landed like half the distance
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from the bank line the gravel and sand and stuff.
It landed about half distance. It landed with the weird sound.
It was obviously not a rock. What it ended up
being was a caribou had the antleans had been broken off.
It was the head and part of the neck, and
it looked like it had been wrung off of the body.
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And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll
be right back. After these messages, the two cousins they
went over, retrieved it, brought it back, and they were
looking at it near the campfire. The guy that had
just joined them that evening, he got really creeped out.
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He goes, this is a message. This is a message.
It's telling us we're going to face this kind of fate.
And they're like, calm down, calm down, we have our guns.
It's just a bushman. They dismissed it right So as
they're sitting there talking, sure enough, they hear crashing, just
a whole bunch of chaotic noises coming from that tree line,
and it sounded like it was coming at them. But
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they all got their guns up and they're waiting to
see what happened. Now, understand, at dusk in the spring,
during that time, anytime in Alaska, it gets dark and
silhouetted in the trees, but the sky stays pretty light.
Unless you've experienced it, it's kind of hard to put
into context. So even though it wasn't fully dark like
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pitch black, it was dark in the trees in very
low light conditions. Right, So they're anticipating this and coming out,
and all of a sudden, noises stopped. They start hearing
this weird noise. It sounded like something flying through the air.
They're scattered a little bit, like anticipating another rock or
a stick or something aimed for them. It wasn't. It
was a hind quarter that had been stripped down to
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the bone of that. They assumed the same caribou because
it flung and landed and everyone started looking at it.
The guy that joined them that evening again said it's
threatening us. It's threatening us. Maybe we should leave, Maybe
we should leave. I want to leave, but I don't
want to leave alone and end up like that again.
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They're like, no, it's just trying to scare us off,
basically dismissive yet again, Tyler Sr. Told the group, we
need to keep an eye on. We'll keep watch. We'll
do two keeping an eye out while two others rest.
Let's do it one from each tent. So one of
the cousins and I will start first, and then we'll
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let you know the other two rest, and then we'll
trade out halfway through the night, so they get that
squared away. I'd have a hard time sleeping too. I
wouldn't really be able to get much rest in those
kind of conditions. However, Tyler Senior and his cousin taking
the first watch. The other two retired into the tents.
A little while later. As the night went on, it
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was just about an hour before they were going to
swap out. Tyler Senior said he was sitting there sipping
on some coffee. They weren't looking at the fire. They
kept the fire going pretty good size, but they would
keep their eyesight off away from the fire, so they
weren't tainting whatever night vision they would have. He said.
He kept feeling like there was a dark shadow just
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right over there, just outside of the trees, moving back
and forth, when he couldn't shake the thought, but he
wasn't hearing anything, so he thought maybe his nerves and
everything were working on him. He said, every hair on
his body stood up. He knew, without knowing for sure,
that whatever that dark shadow was, it was the bushman
over there, the Harryman moving back and forth. So he
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got his cousin's attention and was getting him, and his
cousin gave the thumbs up, Yeah, I see it too,
So they start whispering. Tyler Senior tells his cousin, I've
been noticing that for a minute now. I didn't want
to be over paranoid or what have you. His cousin said, no,
it's been going on for a little while. I've noticed it,
but I didn't want to say nothing either because I
couldn't be sure. As they're having this discussion, all of
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a sudden, they hear it was by pedal running coming
towards them. Immediately they stood up, they raised their rifles,
and they both fire in the direction that this noise
is coming, hollacious, scream loud. It shook him to their core.
As they're chambering another round and going to shoot again.
This thing moves so fast that it basically before they
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could even chamber another round, it had cleared the distance,
basically ran through their fire in between the two tents,
and back across to the other side, which was the
higher side of the river bank where you go a
little further and there would be the cut road, so
it went that direction. It barreled through their camp, basically
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scattered their fire into a bunch of embers half burning logs,
So they were startled. The other two people in the tent,
they come rushing out one of the cousins tent. One
of the logs had rolled up next to it and
tried to catch it on fire, but luckily it wasn't
able to. They got to it in time and all
that kind of stuff, so they quickly clicked what they
can of the embers and the fire and they get
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it going again. They build it up, and now they
got all four of them out there, they could hear
this thing come back down stay just out of the light.
It was literally stomping in the rocks and the gravel,
making its presence known, but staying just outside of the firelight.
According to what Tyler Junior said his dad would express
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was that it was a dark shadow, blacker than black,
that was just out of firelight. So it was hard
to see if you were getting a good beat on
it when you're going to take a shot. Because these
guys weren't fucking around. As soon as they said dark shadow,
dark shape, everyone started taking shots at this thing. The
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first time. They lobbed avalli of shots that way. They
heard it take off running after they shot, it ran
back up the direction it initially came from. It was
very loud when it took off. They said it sounded
like it just kept going, like it didn't stop. It
just faded out in the distance. They thought, maybe, okay,
it retreated, it's had enough and it's going on about
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its way. At that point everyone calmed down a little bit.
One of the cousins retrieved the caribou leg and started
getting better look at it near the fire. It was
the upper part of the hind quarter leg bones was
basically broken. They were looking at it and they were
noticing teeth marks on it where this thing had been
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chewing the flesh off the bone where it was broken.
There was a broken piece of stick down in the
cavity where this thing was using the stick to pull
the marrow out, So they were contrigued by that. As
that's going on, one of them gets everyone's attention and
stands up and raises his rifle in that same direction.
Because as they we're having this discussion very quietly, without
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a peep, this thing was back and it was just
fairly inside the glow of the firelight, looking at them.
To say it startled them would be an understatement. Can
you just imagine you're sitting there, You're already freaked out,
the craziness is happening, and then all of a sudden,
this thing is so quiet. It's right over there, just
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eyeballing the group, right, So they all jump up, they
got their guns. This thing just looked at him. It
was squatted down. Tyler Senior said that he had taken
the lead and said, hold your fire away till everyone
can confirm they got a good shot. Let's shoot it.
We're gonna shoot it, but let's shoot it together. So
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as everyone standing, they moved out of the way of
the firelight. So the firelight was illuminating this thing as
best as it could at that point, right there was
two on one side, two on the other of the
fire facing the direction of where this thing was squatted.
As they were aiming and talking about getting a beat
on this thing, this thing started swaying back and forth
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faster and faster. It stood up, and when it stood up,
it really freaked them out because everything else had been
shadows quit running by or whatever. They actually got to
gauge how tall it was, and it was like twelve
foot tall, about four foot wide, kind of lanky, but
very big, and so when it stood up, they said,
holy crap, and get your aim ready, and then they
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all fired. I am from what he shared with Jor,
this thing tumbled back, squirmed around a little bit, jumped up,
ran towards him, and as it was coming again. They
had rechambered at this point, and they're getting ready to fire,
and just as they're getting ready to fire, it was gone.
It just disappeared. They all fired again. It may have disappeared,
but they were ready to shoot anyway, whether it was
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a reflex fire or sympathetic shooting, whatever you want to
call it. So those shots go off, echoes around and everything.
They were all stunne They're looking around, they're trying to
figure out what the hell's going on now, very low
light conditions, high strangeness. Everyone there was shaking at this point.
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Tyler Senior would tell Tyler Junior, you never want to
engage with the Bushman's You always want to leave. If
you don't leave, these things continue. That was the running
game of the warnings the rest of that night, and
the night was only halfway through. It would happen repeatedly.
This saying would all of a sudden be right over
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somewhere around them. Sometimes they would hear it on the
opposite side of the tent, and when they would go
to investigate, they would hear it run off or move around.
It always seemed to want to show itself in a way.
It would always make itself known, almost like a threat,
because what Senior would tell Junior is that every time
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they would notice it, it would be just at the
edge of the firelight and doing the same things it
was staring at them, and it would start swaying back
and forth faster and faster outside of that, initially disappearing
running at them when they would fire at it. After that,
it would just all of a sudden not be there anymore.
They wouldn't necessarily see it run off, but with all
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the activity, they couldn't tell if it just disappeared or
what had happened. That's basically what happened for the rest
of the night up until morning. Tyler Senior said. In
the morning, just before the sun was getting ready to rise,
they would hear multiple long air raid siren type screams,
yells that would start low and wind up to a
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super high pitched. When it ended, they heard the first one,
and the second one was heard further up the valley.
Then there was another one heard. They couldn't tell because
everything was echoing, but there was no less than four
responses to the first screen. Everyone packed their stuff. The
guy that had stayed the night because of the time
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and everything, he left with them. That's the day that
they actually stopped their little mining operation there. Again, it
was known as forty Mile Road, I think in nineteen
fifty one it was named the Taylor Highway. Again. This
area was all a bunch of trails for gold miners.
There's things to be said about gold mines and harry
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Man encounters because historically speaking, there's quite a few. I
don't know what there is to it, but it seems
like something about it. I want to thank Tyler Junior
and Atna elder for reaching out and sharing that. I
want to thank the younger generation who have been bringing
videos of mind to the elders, encouraging them to share,
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because again, this is about our safety out here. Man.
It's crazy just to thought of shooting something in a
disappearing because it's not the first time I've heard that.
It's not more than a couple of handfuls of times.
There is definitely something beyond we can even grasp. Rest
in peace to Tyler Senior, that generation marev crazy. Thank
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you guys for joining me. Lots more to come. Have
a good day.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Out, stay inside, step stays stasie child, this child, that
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child everything? Can you ride back right back? Joy for me?
Joy staying right you come it right away side Still stay,
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says says States to Stutt, talking about the names Stillssts
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and Thames used to these things.
Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog,
my dog. We're flying through the air 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 he was dead. And once you hit
the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what
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are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling
around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Or was it was?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Standing up? I'm out here looking through the window now
and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside.
Jesus quice you bick Hello, get somebody out here? Went
on out there? I thought of a bit about sixty
forty nine. I don't know easy out there? Yeah, I'm
right away.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh hey, greeting is his friend in Alaska. Thanks for
joining me today. What I wanted to share with you today.
This comes from Blake and Riley. They were up in
Alaska for a little RV adventure. They had planned ahead
like a year. Saved the money because it's expensive up here,
especially traveling around. All the expense of meals and all that.
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They figured rent and RV self sufficient, self contained, well,
have a place to cook, sleep and all that we
can guide ourselves around fair enough. Hey, I'd do the
same thing if I was in the same position. So
Blake and Riley. This was basically for their fifth wedding anniversary.
They decided to come towards the end of summer, beginning
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to fall. Riley his wife really joyed fall, the colors
and all that. They planned to be up here two weeks.
During the first week beautiful, the weather was great. They
went up by Danale from Anchors and then in the
Fairbanks and then back on down. On their way back down,
they took the Richardson going towards glenn Allen and they
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got to glenn Allen and they were like, ah, let's
backcheck a little bit, head back towards Danale. It was
so beautiful and there was some more pictures that Riley
wanted to take. They still got another week. They're at
their own schedule. As they're heading back and they're taking
the Denale Highway from Packson. It was this particular day
it was getting on into darkness, and their book pretty
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tired from just the constant running in, the excitement, being
in the Laska, the fresh air, all of it was
just it was catching up to him. So they decided, Hey,
we'll just pull out side of the road just camp
right here, which many people do. Guys in their pickup
trucks do that. I've done that, so why not they
pull off. They do the little procedure to make sure
they're level and stuff like that. This particular pull off
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is not too far from the Triangle Lakes pull off
that has a trail to Sweet Lake and on down
to the alphabets and stuff, a spot with many encounters
from the past. So where they were parked, they'd just
come up. Anyone who's been there, you're coming out of
packs and you come up to a point where you
got this little switchback that gets up onto this higher plateau.
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So they were just past that. The particular spot they
picked was on the right hand side of the road
heading towards Dnati. Now this is very near the same
area where a couple of women had some crazy stuff happen. Right,
they get set up, everything's level for the stuff they
needed to do, as far as the requirements for the
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RV and whatnot. There was a small slide out that
they extended out, and then they dropped the awning. As
they were getting things set up. It wasn't a very
clear day that day. It was low ceiling. They couldn't
see as clearly. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't the
photo opportunities that Riley was hoping for. No big deal.
They still had time, so they sat there, they made
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their dinner. They came out and had some long chairs
underneath the awning that they had out. They're basically facing
souths so they're on the north side of the road
and they're facing south. They're just sitting in their chairs.
Periodically someone would drive by. It was just calm. It
was relaxing. They're both really tired, especially after eating, and
they were already burned out from the travel and so
excited it was hard to sleep. They decided, hey, let's
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just turn in and we'll start right and early continue on.
Blake said. Riley went in, was cleaning up a little
bit of the mess they had in there or whatever,
and he was just walking around the area making sure
he accounted for everything as far as RV requirements. He
goes to the back, he removes a little panel and
slides out this little thing that was holding the little
generator on it. He fires it up because they were
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gonna fall asleep watching a movie. When he put fuel
in this particular little generator, he found that if he
only put in like a half a gallon, that it
would run long enough for a movie or two and
then die out. He wouldn't have to worry about getting up,
going outside and shutting it off. He does all that.
He gets inside, they select their movie and stuff their
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kicked back. Where they decided they were going to crash
out was where the little slideout is, where the seating
area was. The tabletop drops down and then it turns
into a mattress, little sleeping area right there, right about
not quite the size of a double bed. They closed
it up there, and they were watching their movie. They
fell asleep. Blake remembers being in that fog and hearing
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the generator dying down from being out of gas. But
it was doing the little fluctuation thing, so he listened
to it for a second, just fades back out. He
has no idea what time it was when that happened.
He said, it couldn't have been too much longer after
that that all of a sudden, the whole thing just shook.
He said, it shook hard. He said, so hard that
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it was startling. Right, they're up, Riley digging around for
this little headlamp they had, and also had this little
led lantern took batteries. It was shaped like an old
school kerosene lantern, but it was actually led lights in it.
So she finds that stuff. As she turns it on,
she sets it on one of the little smaller tables
right across from him. They're looking at each other and
they're talking, and they could hear movement outside it. What
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the hell is that? And Blake's starting to yell out hey,
because again it was startling, how hard it shook. It
felt like another vehicle had struck it or something. Riley's
quite down. Listen, Blake, I'm not going to be quiet.
Riley calms down and says listen, and they could hear movement.
Blake's had it. He didn't know if they were struck
because they were woken up by this violent shake. He
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grabs that little lantern. He goes out the door, and
he said when he got out the door, he could
tell that the back end of that RV had slit
probably two three feet. He's holding up the lantern. He's
looking around. He's yelling out, who's out here, who's out here?
Doesn't hear nothing. A moment later, Riley comes out with
the headlamp on. He's holding up the lantern, and because
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she had a more focused beam on her headlamp, he
was like, hey, point your headlamp over in this direction.
They did, and then down the road and up the
road and across the road he goes, and he sets
down where they had their two lawn chairs sitting. They
were still sitting, but they had closed him up and
just laid him down on the ground right there, because
again it was under the awning right, but with the
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shift and everything, it was a little different. But he
had popped one of those chairs up real quick and
set the lantern down on it and asked Riley for
the headlamp. She hands it to him. She grabs the lantern,
goes back inside. He starts walking around the thing. He
had picked up a couple of big rocks right because
they heard something out there and the whole places shook,
so Blake knew that someone was out here. He's yelling, hey,
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we don't appreciate it. We're here visiting the state. What
he assumed initially was like some locals, not like in tourists,
which I understand. I think it's one of those things. However,
he goes around to the backside and he notices the
way that the back end was pushed. It was off
onto the softer part of the shoulder, right on the gravel.
But he was a little concerned about that. Again, he's
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got the headlamp on. He hears something and it sounds
like it's directly off to his right. So he turns
and he looks, and he doesn't see anything. He's looking
and looking. Then as he's doing so, he notices this
shade of reddish brown that doesn't quite match the rest
of the terrain. This was just past the brush off
the side of the road, the way that the road
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went down. In his position, it was just beyond the brush. However,
in the scheme of things, was probably fifty feet away.
So he's looking and he starts focusing on this weird
reddish brown color. He was like something was off, and
he immediately felt panicked inside. And as he was trying
to figure out what the hell he was looking at,
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because it was just so out of place with all
the other colors of the tundra and the brush and stuff.
He said. He backed up, and he backed up into
that open little slide out for the generator. That caught
his attention. So he turned back real quick because he
was startled by it. And then when he turned back,
all of a sudden, this reddish brown thing or whatever
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it was that was just over there. All of a sudden,
he noticed the movement and he follows it right. He's
watching and the way it's moving is pretty fast, but
it's quiet. So he's trying to keep up with it
and figure out what the hell he's seeing. As he's
doing so, he's just noticing this reddish brown He was like, oh, crap, bear.
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So what he does is he turns around. He goes
back around the backside, not the same direction this thing
was moving. Goes around the backside and gets back into
the RB and he was like, it was a bear.
I just saw a bear over there. Riley's a calm down,
Calm down, it's Alaska. There's bears. We have bear spray somewhere.
Let's just make sure we have it handy. Maybe it
came in because this smelled our food. We cleaned up,
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but still the food smell is gonna ling her. And
so they're explaining this away as they're doing so, this
particular RV was open all the way into the front
where you can se see out the front window. There
was this little partition thing that he could slight close
or what have you for privacy or whatever. It wasn't closed.
They didn't close it before they went to sleep. They're
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sitting there talking and explaining away this bear. The way
Blake was standing, he was facing towards the front of
the RV. Riley's in front of him, sitting down on
that little bed thing, and they're talking about this bear.
He had turned off the headlamp, but he still had
it on. As they're talking, going back and forth or whatever,
he glances towards the front and he notices something odd
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outside of the window. He sat there for a second,
look back at Riley, continued the conversation, but then was
drawn back again because he saw a movement. So he
clicked on the light, the interior light where she had
the little lantern going the little led lantern. It didn't
have enough candela power, enough light power basically to fully
see what movement he saw, because again they're thinking bear.
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He was half expecting a bear to be looking in
the window, but when he turned on the headlamp with
the more focused beam of light, it wasn't a bear.
He said, this thing looked like a caveman. It looked
like it was very curious. It had its hands on
the hood of the RV and was leaning and looking.
And when he turned on the lamp and saw it,
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tried to avert its eyes and stuff. He said, it
put its hands up and its hand was massive, and
he said he freaked out. And that's when Riley turned.
She saw it and screamed, All of a sudden, this
thing disappears out of you. He was like, it was
a cave man. What did you see? What did you see?
She's on the verge of needing some medication to calm
him down. Blake tells her, hey, I saw it. It
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looked like a caveman. Other than that, I don't know.
So they're discussing it at this point, they're talking in
hush tones. Blake said that he started shaking, had to
sit down next to his wife. He's sitting there. He
was like, I don't know what the hell a caveman
is doing. But that was a cave man. That was
not a suit. That couldn't have been a cost to
I saw its eyes. Its eyes had a little bit
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of a red eyeshine, and the way it moved, it
wasn't someone in a suit. In those moments, Riley was
trying to explain it away, maybe if someone playing a prank,
and he was like, no, it wasn't a bear. It
wasn't a prank. Whatever it was alive, it wasn't a suit.
So they're discussing what to do. They got stuff outside,
They got the little slide out open, they got the
generator that needs to be closed up, and the thing
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of it is that they knew without the slide out
going in and the other stuff that the RV wouldn't
go into gear. They start brainstorming what they're going to do,
and immediately Riley's up. She's moving everything she has to
to bring in the slide in. She does that Blake,
we got that generator, we need to close it and
shut the panel. She goes, don't worry about that right now,
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let's just go and he goes, hold on the awning.
We got attended the awning. There's those jacks that drop
down to help level the thing. We got to adjust those.
There are certain things we have to do in order
to not have to pay out a whole lot of
money or basically buy this thing. So they take a
little bit calm down. They find that canister bear spray.
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He has Riley shine out the window. He has on
the headlamp. She's holding up that lantern at the window
for whatever reason. I think sometimes when people go in
the shot. Because I had a conversation with Blake briefly
about this, I was like, what was the purpose of
having her hold the lantern up in the window because
it's not going to cast all that much light. He
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honestly didn't know. He wanted her to feel like she
was part of her keep her eyes out on him
to make sure he was safe. Whatever it worked out
to be, he wasn't quite sure. It was just what
came out. So he goes out. He's got the bear spray.
He tends to the one jack just outside the door
back behind the back tire, tends to that, goes around,
shuts the generator in, shuts the panel, takes care of
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the jack that's right underneath that area, and then he
goes up to the front. They only use the outside
one up front. At this point, Riley's on the inside.
She's up at the front inside the cab, up in
the windshield and stuff holding up the lamp. He reached
down and he's doing what he has to do with
this little thing, little handle. He gets set taken care of.
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He comes around and he has a headlamp on. He
glances up because he heard a booth sound. He looks
across the road and then the brush across the road.
There's this thing standing there watching him. He freezes. Now
where he stops, he's back around basically at the driver's
side door. Almost when he's here's the sound and looks across.
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So he's frozen, right, He's trying to assess again what
he's seeing because he's just so thrown off, he said
by the appearance of this thing. He said, it was
every bit of nine foot tall, if not taller, but
at least nine foot tall, very wide. While he's stuck
staring the overwhelming fear he had, not making a noise
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or anything, just you know, like full of indecision, do
I move, will let attack? You know, he was basically
stuck in fear as he's snapping out of it. He
turns as he's going back towards the door, he starts
yelling out, get out of here. Stay tuned for more
sasquatch out to see will be right back after these
messages something along those lines. There are some explicitives in there.
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As he's getting back to the door, all of a
sudden it lies open and there's Riley. She had found
one of their other flashlights that they had stored away somewhere,
and it was one of those old maglights, right, it
was like a four D cell battery, one one of
those big old law enforcement looking types. And she had
that on it and saw it and it started yelling
get out of here. But what Blake did not notice
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is she had that bear spray in her hand, right,
He didn't even notice because everything going on. Then all
of a sudden he sees her raise her hand and
yell at it and start spraying this bear spray. Now,
it came out in a huge plume. It was evident
in the light because his head lamp and her with
the flashlight. This cloud just enveloped across the street. Again,
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the road is a very wide. It considered a primitive
broke just gravel. As this cloud surrounded this thing across
the road. All of a sudden they hear this hillacious noise.
It was like a hack, sneeze, cough all at once.
Then the loudest, most thunderous scream. It was grouse scream,
all of it mixed in one. They heard it thrashing
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it through the brush. It sounded like it was coming
at him, So they rushed inside, shut the door. No
sooner in the door shut they feel the back end again.
Bam hard, real hard. At that point, that's where Blake
was concerned that the ass end might be so far
off on the soft part of the shoulder that they
might not be able to drive out of there. So
he immediately runs up to the front. The keys that
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they had sitting in the center little area had knocked
off from where they were, so he's looking around. He
finds the keys. He starts up the vehicle. He said,
when he put it in drive, when he initially gave
a gas, it peeled out a little bit, so he
gunned it. It caught enough traction to just work itself
up and off down the road. The whole time he
was driving down the road, Riley was screaming, don't stop,
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don't stop. She was at the very back. In the
very back, there was this little small window in the middle.
When she looked at it, there was half of it
was obscured by the ladder that led up to the
top of the RV. But she was looking out the back.
She saw it almost keeping up with the RV, and
it broke off its chasing and went off in the tundra.
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She went over the other window. By then it had
disappeared into the night. He said. They drove all away
from where they were to somewhere here in Wasilla. He
doesn't know exactly where was some electrical place and the
way he was describing it, I assume Brown's Electric over
near Main Street. But they made it to their in
part before they felt comfortable enough to rest. I want
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to thank them for reaching out. For a lot of
people they investigate go down the rabbit the hole, so
to speak, after they had an experience that they can't explain.
Feel was very similar for Blake and Riley. They went
looking for answers of any kind. They'd let it go
for a while and then started looking back into it.
When they started their Google search or whatever. They found
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the channel and reached out. I appreciate them reaching out.
I appreciate them being patient with the time it took
to connect and hear their story again. That area. I
don't know how many encounters there's been over there. There's
been some right near Monahan Flats there, Swede Lake Trail,
Golkana River south of there. I wanted to share with
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you today. This comes from we'll name him Tyler. Tyler
is an elder. He's getting up on there in age.
He's in a Native Copper River valley up north. This
is something that his dad has always shared with them.
As he was growing up, whenever he would be going
out in the woods, his dad would always sit him
down and tell him about this encounter. Now, years back,
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late eighteen hundred's the Taylor Highway area. That area, like
eighteen eighty, there was a little gold rush and there's
a lot of mines back up in that valley that
cuts up back through there. It started off as a
bunch of trails from locals coming from Eagle Chicken all
these places they're going up to do their mining. Now,
the Taylor Highway proper was actually not built until the
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winter from forty five to forty six, and it was
completed in nineteen fifty one. This is going back. His dad,
Tyler Senior, told him ever since he was young, many
times over the course of his life about this area,
which I guess the closest reference we would have would
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be Taylor Highway at Mosquito Creek. There's a family that
had saw these creatures with tails, So this is the
area we're talking about. It was during this construction process.
It was after the winter of forty six. It was
later on into the spring. Tyler Senior told him that
during this time they were still doing so prospecting up
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in the area. As the highway is being built. It's
labeled a highway now, but back then it was nothing
better than a cat road cut in with the dozer.
Don't get the impression that it was some modern kind
of road. Is not the case. As any remote road
up here. It is primitive. So he always told them
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that in the spring they were extra careful when they
were going back up in there due to the bushman,
because the bushmen would wait until you were unsuspecting an attack.
So Tyler would always ask, what do you mean. His
dad would tell him that they would wait until the
people in the area would kind of get complacent, if
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you will. Let's just get into what actually happened with
Tyler Senior. It was spring in nineteen forty six. The
runoff and the breakup was most of the way done with.
And as they were going up in there, it was
called forty Mile at the time, him and two of
his cousins, they had a small claim it was producing gold.
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They were up in there, they were doing their thing.
They had been there about four days in this particular area.
They were doing a little bit of panning and going
through some tailings that they had from the previous season,
and just making sure they were accounting for every little
morsel of gold they could find. Tyler Senior told him
that he remembers it clearly. They had been there four days.
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Not a breath of any kind of wildlife in this
particular area. It was odd because usually that's when animals
were stirring. Bearris would coming out of hibernation. They would
usually at least see a handful of bears every season, regardless,
moving out of the valley heading down towards a copper river.
So not seeing them it was odd. It was very odd.
He said that night on the fourth day, as they
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were just finishing up dinner, they were on the river bank.
The river was still a little swollen, but it wasn't
very deep in that area. The way it sloped up
away from the river was a lot of gravel and sand,
was a little bit of a bank, and then the
trees started, and then there's trees cutting back up, and
then it went up to the mountain. And he said
that night, just as they were finishing dinner, they started
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hearing noises up on that side, which would be to
their east if you're facing north, it was to their east.
They became suspect because of the bushmen. Now these three
people had dealt with it a few times in the past,
so they were aware, but the severity of which things
were gonna go was realized until this night. So as
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they were sitting there, they started talking. All the bushmen's
back I was up there. They could hear making noises,
weird noises that they hadn't heard before. Cooing like a pigeon,
but very loud, very powerful whoops, short sharp whistles. It
would go on, but it was never coming out of
the tree line. It was staying within the trees a
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little rocks being thrown at the camp, chunks and clumps
of grass. Sometimes a piece of broken log would be
rolled their way. Nothing large enough to really make them
feel like it was trying to kill them or get
them right. So he said they were on edge that
night because something was off about that as well. It
was a different tone to everything. Someone might ask why
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would they go back? You got to understand how people
are from that generation. If you don't know, look into it.
These are the kind of people that we learned from.
This world's gotten real soft. I'll just leave it at that.
They had a hard time sleeping because this noise continued
through the night up until dawn the next day. Tyler
Senior told them that when they got up the next morning,
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they had noticed that they could see where something had
circled them a few times during the night, which really
made the hairstand on their necks because it was noticed
that these tracks stayed about fifteen feet away from the
entire camp, which was a couple of wall tents set
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up the way it was laid out. It stayed approximately
fifteen feet away, circled around multiple times as they were
going on with the morning. They never had it come
out of the trees, but always stayed up in the trees,
stayed out of view, made the noises and through stuff.
So they were concerned that it's something's going on. It
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it's over here. So during the course of that day,
there was some other miners that had come through just
stopped by. There's some people they knew. They were heading
a little further north to their claim to get things
started for the season. They made mentioned to them, Hey,
we had some noises going on here, rocks being thrown.
If you guys be aware. It kind of showed them
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a little bit of the trackway of the way this
thing circled the room. The two guys that were heading
up further north to their claim to start working it,
they immediately were like, yeah, we've dealt with it at
our camp the past few years. They had a little
short discussion about it being aggressive. The other two had
stated that they had two dogs a few years back
that they brought with them and this particular thing killed
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their dogs. So they took note, took it serious. The
guys continued on. Understand, these guys were heavily armed, armed
for bear. They were not playing games. They weren't just
having some thirty thirties or anything like that. They had
the old school forty five seventies, crazy powerful guns. The
day continues on into the night. At dusk, they got
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nothing done that day. They were constantly listening. It wasn't
until dusk that the noises started. Rocks started being thrown,
But the difference was the rocks were bigger. There was
three rocks thrown initially that started everything off. Before the noise.
Each of those rocks thrown hit each one of the
individuals in the lake. It had hurt enough to cruple
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a grown man to the ground. The rocks were roughly
about half size of a baseball. These are river rocks.
You got understand when you get into those river valleys.
A lot of the rocks they're not jagged, they're smoothed over.
They're rounded over from all the water and stuff. After
this happened, they were inclined to start yelling up in
the trees. One of the individuals, not Tyler senior, but
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one of his cousins, fired a couple rounds up at
a tree that was closest to the edge where the
river line in the bank stop. Shot a couple shots
over that way, and about twenty minutes later, they were
all sitting there wondering what the hell was going to happen,
because they had never been directly hit by these rocks before.
It was mainly harassment before that little pebbles, little things
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coming near, hitting the fire, things like that. So to
be directly hit each of them in the leg and
it was between the knee and the foot, so right
in the side of the cast. They're getting hit by
these rocks, very accurate. They were very concerned because it
had ticked up a notch, going along with what their
friends said earlier that day that were continuing up to
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their claim it was an ominous feeling. What to expect
because they killed their dogs. It stalked us last night
when we were sleeping. Now it's hitting us with rocks.
As they were having a discussion on what they should
do of whether they should take watch, maybe to keep
watch one keep watch, they were debating back and forth
what would be the most optimal thing because they didn't
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want to be caught off guard like they may have
been the night before. From what Tyler Senior said. As
they were having this discussion, it was dusk, but they
were just getting their fire builped up. During the course
of that day. Since they were all on edge, they
collected extra firewood in case they needed a larger fire.
They're getting this fire larger and larger, and they hear
something downstream of them. It startled them. The guns ready,
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and all of a sudden they hear, don't fire. It
was a person. Now, this particular person had a claim
that they were heading to and they got a late start.
This person comes and joins them in camp. They knew
the person. He had a claim further on up. He
was basically running late that day and asked him, Hey,
I can't put to you guys here tonight because it's dusk.
I'm running out of daylight and I don't want to
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move in these damn woods in the dark. And they said,
not a problem. Tyler Senior had a wall tent basically
for himself and his two cousins shared the other one.
So Tyler Senior was like, you can throw your gear
in my tent there and you can both there. He
drops his stuff inside the tent. He noticed everyone armed,
so he made sure he brought his rifle back out
and said, you guys having bare problems? They said, no,
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we're not. It's a bushman the man got concerned and
he told them, Hey, I had a dog last year
that went missing. I think the bushmen took it. But
they're like, yeah, we heard over there. They're dogs a
couple of years ago went missing as well. They're all
having this talk about this stuff happening. It wasn't like
nowadays there's a lot of hush toes. People want to
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whisper about it. But these guys in that element, they
had to be honest with each other and tell them
what was going on. And so the guy that came
up to him that startled him coming from a downriver
told him that he heard from somebody that this particular
bushman in that area at the time hated people because
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it had been shot a handful of years prior. He
told whatever that instance was. And as they were having
this discussion, they hear a scream come from couldn't have
been more than one hundred yards away, but it was
just inside that tree line. I was off to the
east of them. From what Tyler Senior expressed to Junior
was it was very powerful and very menacing. It had
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a very menacing tone to it, not like the stuff
they had heard prior, which was just noises. So as
they were standing there, they all stood up and they're
trying to focus on the direction that the sound came from.
As that's going on, all of a sudden they hear
something was thrown. But it landed like half the distance
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from the bank line the gravel and sand and stuff.
It landed about half distance. It landed with the weird sound.
It was obviously not a rock. What it ended up
being was a caribou had the antleans had been broken off.
It was the head and part of the neck, and
it looked like it had been wrung off of the body.
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And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll
be right back. After these messages, the two cousins they
went over, retrieved it, brought it back, and they were
looking at it near the campfire. The guy that had
just joined them that evening, he got really creeped out.
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He goes, this is a message. This is a message.
It's telling us we're going to face this kind of fate.
And they're like, calm down, calm down, we have our guns.
It's just a bushman. They dismissed it right So as
they're sitting there talking, sure enough, they hear crashing, just
a whole bunch of chaotic noises coming from that tree line,
and it sounded like it was coming at them. But
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they all got their guns up and they're waiting to
see what happened. Now, understand, at dusk in the spring,
during that time, anytime in Alaska, it gets dark and
silhouetted in the trees, but the sky stays pretty light.
Unless you've experienced it, it's kind of hard to put
into context. So even though it wasn't fully dark like
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pitch black, it was dark in the trees in very
low light conditions. Right, So they're anticipating this and coming out,
and all of a sudden, noises stopped. They start hearing
this weird noise. It sounded like something flying through the air.
They're scattered a little bit, like anticipating another rock or
a stick or something aimed for them. It wasn't. It
was a hind quarter that had been stripped down to
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the bone of that. They assumed the same caribou because
it flung and landed and everyone started looking at it.
The guy that joined them that evening again said it's
threatening us. It's threatening us. Maybe we should leave, Maybe
we should leave. I want to leave, but I don't
want to leave alone and end up like that again.
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They're like, no, it's just trying to scare us off,
basically dismissive yet again, Tyler Sr. Told the group, we
need to keep an eye on. We'll keep watch. We'll
do two keeping an eye out while two others rest.
Let's do it one from each tent. So one of
the cousins and I will start first, and then we'll
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let you know the other two rest, and then we'll
trade out halfway through the night, so they get that
squared away. I'd have a hard time sleeping too. I
wouldn't really be able to get much rest in those
kind of conditions. However, Tyler Senior and his cousin taking
the first watch. The other two retired into the tents.
A little while later. As the night went on, it
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was just about an hour before they were going to
swap out. Tyler Senior said he was sitting there sipping
on some coffee. They weren't looking at the fire. They
kept the fire going pretty good size, but they would
keep their eyesight off away from the fire, so they
weren't tainting whatever night vision they would have. He said.
He kept feeling like there was a dark shadow just
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right over there, just outside of the trees, moving back
and forth, when he couldn't shake the thought, but he
wasn't hearing anything, so he thought maybe his nerves and
everything were working on him. He said, every hair on
his body stood up. He knew, without knowing for sure,
that whatever that dark shadow was, it was the bushman
over there, the Harryman moving back and forth. So he
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got his cousin's attention and was getting him, and his
cousin gave the thumbs up, Yeah, I see it too,
So they start whispering. Tyler Senior tells his cousin, I've
been noticing that for a minute now. I didn't want
to be over paranoid or what have you. His cousin said, no,
it's been going on for a little while. I've noticed it,
but I didn't want to say nothing either because I
couldn't be sure. As they're having this discussion, all of
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a sudden, they hear it was by pedal running coming
towards them. Immediately they stood up, they raised their rifles,
and they both fire in the direction that this noise
is coming, hollacious, scream loud. It shook him to their core.
As they're chambering another round and going to shoot again.
This thing moves so fast that it basically before they
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could even chamber another round, it had cleared the distance,
basically ran through their fire in between the two tents,
and back across to the other side, which was the
higher side of the river bank where you go a
little further and there would be the cut road, so
it went that direction. It barreled through their camp, basically
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scattered their fire into a bunch of embers half burning logs,
So they were startled. The other two people in the tent,
they come rushing out one of the cousins tent. One
of the logs had rolled up next to it and
tried to catch it on fire, but luckily it wasn't
able to. They got to it in time and all
that kind of stuff, so they quickly clicked what they
can of the embers and the fire and they get
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it going again. They build it up, and now they
got all four of them out there, they could hear
this thing come back down stay just out of the light.
It was literally stomping in the rocks and the gravel,
making its presence known, but staying just outside of the firelight.
According to what Tyler Junior said his dad would express
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was that it was a dark shadow, blacker than black,
that was just out of firelight. So it was hard
to see if you were getting a good beat on
it when you're going to take a shot. Because these
guys weren't fucking around. As soon as they said dark shadow,
dark shape, everyone started taking shots at this thing. The
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first time. They lobbed avalli of shots that way. They
heard it take off running after they shot, it ran
back up the direction it initially came from. It was
very loud when it took off. They said it sounded
like it just kept going, like it didn't stop. It
just faded out in the distance. They thought, maybe, okay,
it retreated, it's had enough and it's going on about
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its way. At that point everyone calmed down a little bit.
One of the cousins retrieved the caribou leg and started
getting better look at it near the fire. It was
the upper part of the hind quarter leg bones was
basically broken. They were looking at it and they were
noticing teeth marks on it where this thing had been
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chewing the flesh off the bone where it was broken.
There was a broken piece of stick down in the
cavity where this thing was using the stick to pull
the marrow out, So they were contrigued by that. As
that's going on, one of them gets everyone's attention and
stands up and raises his rifle in that same direction.
Because as they we're having this discussion very quietly, without
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a peep, this thing was back and it was just
fairly inside the glow of the firelight, looking at them.
To say it startled them would be an understatement. Can
you just imagine you're sitting there, You're already freaked out,
the craziness is happening, and then all of a sudden,
this thing is so quiet. It's right over there, just
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eyeballing the group, right, So they all jump up, they
got their guns. This thing just looked at him. It
was squatted down. Tyler Senior said that he had taken
the lead and said, hold your fire away till everyone
can confirm they got a good shot. Let's shoot it.
We're gonna shoot it, but let's shoot it together. So
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as everyone standing, they moved out of the way of
the firelight. So the firelight was illuminating this thing as
best as it could at that point, right there was
two on one side, two on the other of the
fire facing the direction of where this thing was squatted.
As they were aiming and talking about getting a beat
on this thing, this thing started swaying back and forth
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faster and faster. It stood up, and when it stood up,
it really freaked them out because everything else had been
shadows quit running by or whatever. They actually got to
gauge how tall it was, and it was like twelve
foot tall, about four foot wide, kind of lanky, but
very big, and so when it stood up, they said,
holy crap, and get your aim ready, and then they
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all fired. I am from what he shared with Jor,
this thing tumbled back, squirmed around a little bit, jumped up,
ran towards him, and as it was coming again. They
had rechambered at this point, and they're getting ready to fire,
and just as they're getting ready to fire, it was gone.
It just disappeared. They all fired again. It may have disappeared,
but they were ready to shoot anyway, whether it was
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a reflex fire or sympathetic shooting, whatever you want to
call it. So those shots go off, echoes around and everything.
They were all stunne They're looking around, they're trying to
figure out what the hell's going on now, very low
light conditions, high strangeness. Everyone there was shaking at this point.
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Tyler Senior would tell Tyler Junior, you never want to
engage with the Bushman's You always want to leave. If
you don't leave, these things continue. That was the running
game of the warnings the rest of that night, and
the night was only halfway through. It would happen repeatedly.
This saying would all of a sudden be right over
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somewhere around them. Sometimes they would hear it on the
opposite side of the tent, and when they would go
to investigate, they would hear it run off or move around.
It always seemed to want to show itself in a way.
It would always make itself known, almost like a threat,
because what Senior would tell Junior is that every time
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they would notice it, it would be just at the
edge of the firelight and doing the same things it
was staring at them, and it would start swaying back
and forth faster and faster outside of that, initially disappearing
running at them when they would fire at it. After that,
it would just all of a sudden not be there anymore.
They wouldn't necessarily see it run off, but with all
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the activity, they couldn't tell if it just disappeared or
what had happened. That's basically what happened for the rest
of the night up until morning. Tyler Senior said. In
the morning, just before the sun was getting ready to rise,
they would hear multiple long air raid siren type screams,
yells that would start low and wind up to a
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super high pitched. When it ended, they heard the first one,
and the second one was heard further up the valley.
Then there was another one heard. They couldn't tell because
everything was echoing, but there was no less than four
responses to the first screen. Everyone packed their stuff. The
guy that had stayed the night because of the time
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and everything, he left with them. That's the day that
they actually stopped their little mining operation there. Again, it
was known as forty Mile Road, I think in nineteen
fifty one it was named the Taylor Highway. Again. This
area was all a bunch of trails for gold miners.
There's things to be said about gold mines and harry
(40:53):
Man encounters because historically speaking, there's quite a few. I
don't know what there is to it, but it seems
like something about it. I want to thank Tyler Junior
and Atna elder for reaching out and sharing that. I
want to thank the younger generation who have been bringing
videos of mind to the elders, encouraging them to share,
(41:16):
because again, this is about our safety out here. Man.
It's crazy just to thought of shooting something in a
disappearing because it's not the first time I've heard that.
It's not more than a couple of handfuls of times.
There is definitely something beyond we can even grasp. Rest
in peace to Tyler Senior, that generation marev crazy. Thank
(41:40):
you guys for joining me. Lots more to come. Have
a good day.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Out, stay inside, step stays stasie child, this child, that
(42:23):
child everything? Can you ride back right back? Joy for me?
Joy staying right you come it right away side Still stay,
(43:00):
says says States to Stutt, talking about the names Stillssts
(43:42):
and Thames used to these things.
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