August 17, 2025 • 42 mins
In this episode, join us as we share two astonishing tales of mysterious encounters in the Alaskan wilderness. Bruce and David's story takes us to their grandfather's cabin on the Nok River, where they experience unsettling sounds and sightings that lead to a close encounter with a creature known as 'Harry Man.' Despite a harrowing experience, they manage to recount the intense events filled with fear and adrenaline.
The second story features Craig, his wife Sheila, and their daughters on a boating trip near Johnstone Bay. What was meant to be a family outing turns into a nerve-wracking rescue mission, where they come face-to-face with enormous, mysterious beings and hear eerie roars that shake them to their core. Filled with suspense, these stories highlight the untamed and enigmatic nature of Alaskan folklore.
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00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 01:30 Strange Sounds in the Wilderness 03:15 Encounter with the Unknown 05:18 Return to the Cabin 09:09 A Night of Terror 14:53 Desperate Measures 18:31 A Terrifying Encounter at the Cabin 20:42 The Creature Reveals Itself 22:33 Escape on the River 24:02 Reaching Safety and Sharing the Story 25:41 A New Story Begins: Craig's Encounter 26:34 Strange Figures on the Beach 28:54 Realization and Retreat 31:10 A Close Call and Final Escape 37:54 Conclusion and Thanks
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The second story features Craig, his wife Sheila, and their daughters on a boating trip near Johnstone Bay. What was meant to be a family outing turns into a nerve-wracking rescue mission, where they come face-to-face with enormous, mysterious beings and hear eerie roars that shake them to their core. Filled with suspense, these stories highlight the untamed and enigmatic nature of Alaskan folklore.
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00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 01:30 Strange Sounds in the Wilderness 03:15 Encounter with the Unknown 05:18 Return to the Cabin 09:09 A Night of Terror 14:53 Desperate Measures 18:31 A Terrifying Encounter at the Cabin 20:42 The Creature Reveals Itself 22:33 Escape on the River 24:02 Reaching Safety and Sharing the Story 25:41 A New Story Begins: Craig's Encounter 26:34 Strange Figures on the Beach 28:54 Realization and Retreat 31:10 A Close Call and Final Escape 37:54 Conclusion and Thanks
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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. Happen? What
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are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling
around out here? Did you see what it was? Or
was it was? 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 better, hello, het,
(01:03):
somebody out here?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What went on out there?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I thought of a bit of about sixty forty nine.
I don't know you see him out there? Yeah, I'm
bulking right away.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh hey, greeting Sanks for joining me today. What I
wanted to share it to you comes from We'll name
him Bruce. Bruce and his brother will name him David.
So Bruce and David they were at their grandfather's cabin. Now,
this particular cabin is on the new sek rif back home.
We'll leave it at that. This happened about twenty five
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years ago. Bruce and David were doing some repairs at
this cabin after their uplet passed away. Over the course
of this summer, the first few trips they were bringing
some materials, wood materials and stuff, just fixing, patching things up.
There's a hole in the roof. It was not taking
care of in a while, so it was a little disheveled.
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Little TLC needed nothing two majors. So over the course
of the summer they took a break for the salmon season.
At the end of the salmon season, they wanted to
hunt from that cabin like they grew up doing. So
they figured, we'll go up there early prior to hunting
and we'll get everything situated. So they end up bringing
a new woodburning stove up. The other one just rusted down,
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just used up, just stuff like that, and they were
using fifty five gallon drum like they would in the
steam bath. So they get all this done. They were
just getting settled in. It was still a week out
before the hunting season started, so what they were doing
is getting up real early peruising. It just going up
and down the river and checking out some spots he were,
and maybe they would want to pick a spot hopefully
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loose around that type of thing, just scout in the
area basically, And this one particular morning they get up
to do that, and again it was about a week
out from hunting, he said. David was running the skiffs
and they went up to where Jim slout, which is
up above Portage on the Nushiach there. So they go
up there, they do the anchor and was sitting there
just relaxing really as they were discussing the years past
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of hunting and all that kind of stuff, they hear
this what Bruce described as this wallowing who was like
a moaning kind of not necessarily a scream, but like
just this real loud pronounced something sorrowful, something very painful
sounding like something large was in emotional pain. Freaked him
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out because mouse don't do that, and bear sure as
hell no. So they pulled the anchor and were drifting
away across the river from Jim slu there, which I've
been in that area. The crazy shit happens around there.
But anyway, as they were drifting, they were looking across
the river because the sound sounded like it was coming
from that side, and the cabin of their grandpa's is
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on that side of the river as well. They were like,
what the hell is that. They powered up, went across,
and then we're drifting down on the opposite bank and
listening for this sound. At the time. Of course they've
heard of the Harryman and stuff like that, these some
at the Baskins, but it wasn't anything that was in
their wheelhouse as far as these noises. So they pulled
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up to the river bank just a little bit down
from Jim's sluice side. They stuck the anchor in the
ground or just sitting there listening trying to figure out
what it was. Bruce said he was holding his rifle.
David jumped up onto the bank and was just looking around,
and Bruce said, don't go too far. I don't want
to have to come find you that kind of thing,
And David just shined him on. Whatever. He walks off
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out of sight from the river bank from Bruce's perspective,
and all of a sudden, he said, it wasn't even
two minutes. He yelled, hey, what's going on? He heard
the thrashing off in the distance. And here comes David
sliding off the river bank. He fell into the water
just in front of the skiff and then jumped up
and pulled himself up over the bow on the line
right he's pulling and getting the anchor. He was like, oh, go.
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So Bruce fires up to motor. He has to push
off because the way the water is pushing him. He's
got the outboard running, but it's not in gear. He
pushed the outboard back into the muddy bank there, so
he pushes off and then they get turned around. They're
facing down river. Bruce gives us some gas and they
get up on the step and David is down low
in the skiff and he's got his gun out of
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his gun bag. He keeps looking back past Bruce and
Bruce just everyone's well started. He's like, hey, what's going on?
What's going on? David's is the goal, so he keeps going.
They got a little bit of a distance before they
get to the cabin we come up on. It's basically
a bunch of little islands that were created by the
ice when it comes and goes in the spring. They
stop at the first one they come up to, which
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is real thick wood brush that time of year, all
around it. They pull off in there because David's like,
I got to use the bathroom bad. So he goes,
gets up onto the bank there on this little island
and walks back a little ways and Bruce here is
David throwing up. He's like, hey, what's going on? And
he goes, you didn't see it. He finishes what he
was doing, comes back to the skiff. You didn't see it.
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Bruce is like, see what I heard some thrashing, But
all I saw was you slide off the river bank
the water, jump back into the freaking skiff loose. All
happened so fast. He goes there was a harry Man
back there. He was like harry Man. He goes, what
was it doing? David said, I don't know, but it
started coming towards me so I could freak me out
and I ran. He was like, okay, we're good. He
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looks back up river and doesn't see anything. So they
continue on their way. They go back to the cabin.
All this happened before noon because they left early. They
went up, they scouted around a little bit and they
just happened to just drop anchor it. Jim slew there
from what Bruce said, when they got back to the cabins,
everything felt weird. The energy felt really weird. There was
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some relatives of his little further down around the bend
a little ways. They had a cabin there. He heard activity,
so Bruce decided, Hey, I'm going to go and say
hi to the relatives. And Day was like, yeah, just
don't be gone too long. So Bruce leaves in the
skiff and goes down river a little ways to go
visit with the relatives. There was a cousin that had
showed up to get their cabin ready for moose hunting,
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and so he talked to him a little bit. Bruce said,
as he was talking to his cousin, probably about twenty
minutes half hour, so all of a sudden he hears
gunshots coming back from up with their cabin. It was
a holy shit. So he takes off and his cousin
follows him. He jumps off, he ties off and everything.
He hears yelling inside the cabin and he's like, hey,
David is Bruce. I'm out here. Don't choose we're out here.
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He said. It was on the roof, is on the roof,
and so they're looking around and they're like trying to
figure out what. The cousin goes around one side and
Bruce goes along the riverbank side to cut around that backside.
He said, when he came around the corner, he saw
something dark moving off into the brush right because the
trees came almost right up to the cabin at that point.
The cousin saw this thing moving off and saw it
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swaying an arm. It had brownish reddish brown hair. It
was just moving away. He saw its arms sway. He
didn't get a good look at the face, but he
could see the figure of it was humanoid. Cousin comes
back yelling, hey, it's here, you man. Let's get out
of here. David inside, he comes out out because there's
two more people now. He's yeah, let's go. Bruce is
a wait a minute. You know, let's not just run
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off here. This is our cabin kind of thing. And
David wanted no part of it. He didn't want to stay.
The cousin was like, hey, I don't want that thing
following me back to my cabin and start in trouble there.
I'm going to leave. You guys, be careful. I would
leave too if I was you guys, and he jumped
in his hip and he went back to kinish doing
what he was doing down river. So Bruce is telling David, hey,
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let's just hold our ground. Did you shoot it? And
David said no, I was just shooting to try to
scare it off, and goes, okay, if you didn't shoot it,
so it really has no reason to be mad at us.
Let's keep calm, let's not overreact because in essence, they
live there, that's their place. Now, Bruce wasn't willing to
just give it up like that, which should I understand,
I say shoot them off. That's just my own personal views.
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So David calms down. They relax a little bit. They
had some vodka with them, so they had some mixed
drinks and whatnot, and they relaxed, and Bruce was just
livening up the energy from being so dreary and David
so paranoid about talking about old funny stuff they had
enjoyed right there where they were, and pointing out, hey,
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we never had issues here. Let's not make this what
it's about, because remember all the times was uppud and
all this and that winter caribou hunt. They'd parked their
snow machines there and it was just a base cap
with tons of family memories. So they just enjoyed themselves
drinking that hunter Proof Smirnoff, been there, done that. It
gets on into dusk, they decide they're going to bring
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in some more firewood from outside because it's starting to
drizzle and starting to rain. It got socked in. It
was getting a little chilly, especially on the river Man
it gets chilly. So they go out and they're bringing
in from the little more of a lane to Arctic entry.
It wasn't fully enclosed, but they were bringing in firewood
from there, and they brought in good stack just so
they had some extra for the next day if it
was real cold. The next morning, they left the door
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kicked open just a little bit to let fresh air
in because David and Bruce were basically chain smoking while
they were drinking. They had their firearms nearby. From what
Bruce was saying, it was all like the energy was
much better. It wasn't as heavy. They were joking, chopping
it up, having a good time, talking about the old
days and relatives that had since passed, but to good
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times they had with them and stuff like that, and
burry picking in the area and just all sorts of stuff.
And they were in the midst of this conversation when
all of a sudden, that door wings open hard, just
damn so hard. It almost popped off with the hinges
and stuff. There was no wind. They immediately jump up.
They each grabbed their guns. Again, this is just getting
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into dark, not fully dark yet, right in the fall,
So they grabbed the flashlights they had. They were modern
for the time, They work decent enough, and they go
out and they're looking and they're looking on the ground
for tracks, and there wasn't done. They're both looking around
the corner to the tree side and then around the
corner to the river bank side, and they're not seeing anything.
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And so they walk straight away from the cabin a
little ways together, turn around and face back towards the
cabin to make sure it's not back up on the roof,
because David had heard it on the roof earlier. That's
what got him shooting. Bruce said that when they were
looking back, they noticed eye shine like towards the farther
the backside of the cabin from where they were standing,
and they noticed the eye shine duck down once the
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light hit right the eye shine went away, and so
they decided they're going to take that tree side walk
along the cabin back towards that direction, keep an eye
out on this thing or look for it, and potentially,
if opportunity, maybe to shoot the damn thing. He said.
As they were going along, David was about two paces
behind him, just steady, keeping his rifle up and glancing
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back and forth. And Rius was like, hey, don't get
excited and accidentally shoot me. Damn it. He's no, I'm
keeping my rifle up. You keep your straight I won't
let mine come down below. They're aiming at the roofline. Now,
this roof isn't overly high. It's about maybe six and
a half feet off the ground is the eave the
drip edge, And so as they're going along, they're not
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that like far away from the drip edge. The drip
edge is like literally above their heads, maybe off a
put or two. They weren't quite far enough over to
look straight up at the angle of the roof right
because of the trees and everything. They didn't have that
open kind of they couldn't just take another step over
and easily be able to see up there. So they
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go along and all of a sudden they hear a
noise and then they hear trees rustle crash, So they
immediately their attention goes there. As Bruce is pointing his
flashlight and rifles in that direction, they hear a growl
that startles them both. As soon as they heard the growl,
Bruce said he passed David, who was already hauling ats
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trying to get I don't mean to laugh. I giggled
with Bruce at this point, because when he brought it up,
he said that they both hit that front door at
the same time and stopped each other through stooges type
shit boom. They both fell down, jumped up, and then
went in. But just the visual of that was just funny.
But anyway, so they shut the door, they put some
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stuff to barricade and whatnot. At that point they got
out the Coleman lanyards. Right up until then they were
using the ambient light coming in the window, which there's
no curtains on the windows. There was one on the
river bank side that was a good sized one that
had been basically put in by hand. It was an
old from the old school, one of the old schools
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that used to be in downtown telling him that was
transformed or changed into the basically City Hall now. But
back in the day that window came from there. Right
they got the lanterns going and they're looking out that window.
There was also a smaller window that was about a
foot and a half square, just a smaller window. It
was a single pane, and it was between where the
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woodstove was a short little bit of a counter. There
was an old stove like propane maybe that used to
be there that was no longer there, so it's like
a gap in the counter and then there's a board
across it just to extend the countertop. And it was
just above that. There was no makeshift sink, and they
would take water in buckets and do it like that
as far as dishes. They're keeping an eye on that
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big window. They're not really thinking about this smaller one
because it's right behind them. They're on that side of
the cabin with a little bit of distance between them
and that big window. At the time, they didn't have
anything to cover it, so they basically, let's just keep
an eye on it. And they got the door off
to their right and then the window in front of them,
and they weren't thinking about this window like less than
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three feet behind them, right, So as they're sitting there,
they're still enjoying drinks, but not enjoying them. It's more
like taking some shots to stop shaking because that growl.
They both been discussing it once they went back inside
and everything they felt to reverberate through their bodies. They
felt their insides jiggle. It's not a good feeling.
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So as they're sitting there discussing, hey, what do we
do if and they're getting a game plan on if
this happens, we'll do this. If this happens, we'll do that.
If it comes through the door at us, we'll jump
out the window. They're kind of just lining up a
game plan because initially they wanted to leave in the skiff,
but in the dark it's so dangerous. They had lost
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relatives previously to such things skiffing at the wrong time.
If they were weighing their options, should we just maybe
drifting down the ways to their cousins cabin because his
cousins should be there. So they decided, you know what,
we should do that. We can just drift down. We
know the channel enough to where once we see the
lights on in their cabin, we could just fire up.
And they know the river bank enough to know where
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to pull up and not bottom out or anything like that.
So they decide that's what they're going to do, So
they gather up the stuff they're gonna need. Bruce craps
another box of AMMO, so did David. They were just
getting ready to start putting out the lanterns. They had
three of them going. They put out two, and they
were going to keep one to use to see going
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back down to the river bank. Just keep one for
going just because and use their flashlights. But before they
went out the door, as they were standing there facing
that large window, and they just put out two of
the lannards, all of a sudden that window behind them
shatters like startling the hell out of them. A piece
of birch, it had to have been, from what Bruce said,
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at least fifteen feet long, comes pushing through, shatters and
push it through. It just goes right between them both
to where the little table they were drinking at. It
was hopped up on that and then it ran outside
and it was dark outside already, so they couldn't see
the end of it. But they both turned around and
the birches standing between them, and they're like, holy shit,
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because it was so fast, it was so violent, how
quickly it went right between them both. So they didn't
know if this thing was trying to spear one of
them with it or whatever. They didn't know. And as
they're looking at her, like what the hell, they went
to the opposite side of the table, looking back, shining
their flashlight out, and they saw a movement. Bruce took
a shot out the window that's now broken. He actually
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hit the birch. It made an impact and kind of
splintered a little bit when it busted through or whatever,
and they start yelling, hey, get out of here, get
out of here, and all of a sudden, that piece
of birch gets yanked back out, Bruce said, very violently.
He said, the last about maybe four feet of it
was caught like it had been pulled out and then
turned before it had enough time to clear the window,
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and he caught about four feet of it and it
broke and then it flopped out the rest of the way.
Bruce said. At that point We're getting the hell out
of here. They gathered their stuff. They condensed the stuff
into one bag. Bruce put that on little backpack style.
It was actually a small duffel bag. He just put
his arms through the loops the handles, makeshift backpack out
of that. David was making sure that he had his
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magazine full for his rifle. David was using a two
seventy and Bruce had a three hundred wind meg. They
were making sure everyone was full up on ammal. Bruce
replaced around. He had shot into the birch, and David
just kept looking out that window and looking out that window.
Bruce was like, hey, snap out of it. Let's get
to the skiff. We'll drift down. David was like, I'm
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scared to go outside. Bruce totally understood why the growled.
Then this fricking javelin basically comes crashing through and then
rip back out. He said, there was noises going on outside,
but they were so terrified in the moment he couldn't
say exactly what they were. He said, he vaguely remembers
some growling, but there's also other noises being made. Nothing
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recrete that he could discern. In a moment David was like,
what if we fire our rifles, maybe our cousin will
come up here. Bruce is like, there's two of us,
there's one of him. That would be unfair to draw
him up into something. Maybe he could get hurt. Let's
just go to the skiff drift down. It was less
than a mile down river. So after discussing in a minute,
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David said, okay, let me go first. You carry the lantern.
I'll have my rifle with the flashlight ready and stuff,
and then we'll go. So they start moving towards the door.
They made sure a couple of things were tended to.
They turned down the woodstove because they had to wide
open because they had the door opened a little bit
up until this moments before. So as they're heading to
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the door, all of a sudden, bam, something hits against
the door. It was more than three times, but he
couldn't say if it was like five because it happened
in rapid succession, but it was very hard. It was
like something was trying to break in the door. So
they both were stuck in their tracks for a second,
and then they both shot at the door at the
same time. They didn't say, hey, let's shoot. It was
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just independently boom boom. They make some shots through the
door and it's just dead quiet. Bruce said. At that
point he could sense something was watching him, and so
he looks over to the big window off to his left,
a little bit behind him, over his shoulder. He couldn't
make out anything because the lantern that they had in
their hand was low. It was pretty much mirrord effect.
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He couldn't really see anything out of it. However, in
that mirror effect, he saw across the room something was
looking in the window, the small one that was broken out.
Bruce said. He swung around and lifted his rifle looked
when David saw a move. David was the one at
that moment that had that lantern, even though Bruce was
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going to be carrying it or whatever. It was a
bang in that caused him to grab it and hold
it up. He swings around and Bruce said, he's looking
at this thing looking back at him. As David's holding
up the lantern out that direction, Bruce was like, it
was looking right at me, so I was going to
shoot it. He raised the rifle and clink kids shot
all his ammo on the jumble for David to set
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down the lantern without kicking starting a fire or whatever,
and then raise his rifle. The thing was gone. At
this point, they're both freaking out and they decide okay.
Bruce reloaded his rifle, David made sure his was ready
to go. Bruce takes the lannarn. David is going to
go first, So David goes out and Bruce is right
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behind him, and Bruce has the lantern in his hand,
but he's also got the flashlight kind of holding both
at once, so he's holding the lantern like this, keeping
the brightness of the lantern out of his face while
shining the flashlight. He's got his rifle slung over his shoulder.
It's not a very thought out thing. While David is
freely moving with his flashlight, they don't see anything. They
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back over to the river bank where the skiff is.
So at that point when they get to the riverbank,
they're still facing the cabin, the back corner of it
on the riverbank side. This thing was leaning out peaky,
and it was real low, almost like it had squatted
down in with lenou and then it stopped doing that.
Because they were both trying to figure out and get
a shot on this thing. David said, the next time
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it leans out, I'm going to shoot the bastard. Bruce
is like, I'll join you. He had set the lantern
down and had his flashlight ready. They're not seeing anything now.
Then all of a sudden, i believe, Bruce said, David
was moving his flashlight around. They caught a gleam of
eyeshine above the roofline, right on that back corner. So
they both raised their flashlights up a little higher and
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sure enough to sing is looking over the roof and
down at them. Bruce said they did not fire because
of how freaking big it was. He said, when it
was peeking out and leaning out, it looked smaller, but
once it had stood up and they saw how fall
it was back behind there, he said it was at
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least minimum ten feet tall. The flashlights they were using,
while they weren't super modern, and they were good and
they worked. When he said that it had a like
a tanned leather kind of colored skin. At the distance,
which was like he said, about maybe forty feet ish
somewhere in there. They couldn't make out really good the features,
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but the eyes just black, and when the light would
hit him it would glow with the red the hye shark.
He said it was freaky because it was pissed, it
was mad. It's facial expression, he said, was one of
severe anger, really ticked off. But he said, what was
weird is it showed its teeth at one point, but
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it looked out of place. He said, the showing of
teeth was so vastly different from what you would envision.
It was like massive. He said. The showing of the
teeth was like it just didn't stop because of how
large the mouth was. And he said after it did
that and they snapped out of their like holy shit moment,
they picked up the lantern. They got down, they pulled
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the anchor. They had some stuff that they had set
up over the years to tie off to, but with
the anchor line wrapped around whatever like you would a clee. Anyway,
they untied that. They get in the skiff and they
drift away. They killed the lantern as they were drifting away.
David would turn on his flashlight every once in a
while as they were drifting, shut it off, and they
were hearing stuff, so they would both flash light the
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riverbank as they're drifting. Because they got roughly a mile.
I was were moving fast enough. They weren't sitting still,
but it's not like they were going down the rapids either.
They kept hearing brushing stuff moving up on the river
bank next to him, and so periodically David would turn
on the flashlight and look, and they wouldn't see anything.
They might see some movement in the brush. So they
both decide, let's shoot the next time we hear that
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rustling to discourage this thing from following us. So the
next time it did it, they both clicked on their
flashlights and shot at the same time. They didn't see
anything when they turned on the flashlight. It was just
the brush back off the river bank, moving And they
said they did that about two to three times and reloaded,
made sure they were good to go. It finally went
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quiet and they drifted. He's guessing probably all that when
they decided to fire, and everything was probably within a
half mile of drifting, and then they had rough another
half mile, maybe a little more before they got their
family's cabin down the way. He said. Once he got quiet,
they still periodically flash light up on the river bank.
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No movement, no nothing. And then when they come into
view of the cousin's cabin. Just as it comes into view,
they saw a light was on inside and then the
light went off, so they're like, well, shit, that was
a reference points. David had both flashlights at this point,
hold them up so Bruce could see the river bank,
and they got over to where they wanted to be
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in stuff, and David tied him off. They went and
banged on the door. They heard their cousin. Their cousin
had a shotgun, and they heard him the shotgun and
said get out of here, real loud, and they said, hey,
it's us, it's us. He goes, oh shit, sumbs and
opens the door for him, and he was like, hey,
that thing was down here peeking in the windows man,
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and just told him that basically it came down. They
peeked in the windows a couple times and then left,
and so he thought nothing of it, and so when
they started banging, he thought it was back. They shared
everything that had happened. Let's just say the cousin was
not happy that they potentially brought it to him, but
nine else happened. The next morning they went and extensively
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David and Bruce looked and searched tracks try to figure
out where it was coming and going from, and it
basically once the tracks they did find reached the inside
the trees, that done with they couldn't track it anymore. Again,
this is a little more twenty five years ago. I
want to thank Bruce for sharing that. Bruce isn't his
real name. I've known him shit since I was little.
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I appreciate him willing to share it because initially he
didn't want to share it all. His brother David since
passed a voting accident. Actually at night in the skiff.
Initially he brought it up and shared it with me
a few times, just in conversation. Nothing to ever go
public with. He was watching a few of the videos.
He doesn't like to follow this stuff because he doesn't
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like it. He would rather not hear about it. He
decided to allow me to share this just so people
are aware I wanted to share with you today. Comes
from Craig, who was with his wife, Sheila and their
two young daughters. They were out by Johnstone Bay, which
is the middle ground between Prince William Sound and Gulf
of Alaska. They were out on their boat recreationally. They
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were doing a little bit of rock fish and some
other stuff like that, just family time. This was twenty
twenty three. It was early August. They're out there, they're
doing the fishing thing. They're near Johnstone Bay and the
weather started picking up. So, according to what Craig said, Shila,
his wife, was getting nervous with their daughters on board.
It was rocking a little more than she had liked.
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So they headed inland just to wait out the storm.
They were out for a few days anyway, so it
was no big deal. As they're getting closer to shore,
there's this little Johnstone Bay where they're pulling into and
there's a river that leads back to Johnstone Lake. It's
a very large lake. As they were getting closer to shore,
Craig said that they saw some what they thought were
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people going back and forth on the beach and they
were looking around for a boat and there was not right.
So they were like, geez, maybe these people are trapped here,
maybe they need rescuing, so let's go check on which
is the Alaskan thing to do people in distress. Fellow
Alaskans immediately jump in, unless they're just a pos then
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they need to go away. But anyway, so they're on
a rescue mission. Basically in their mind's eye, they're heading
towards shore. He's making sure he's not going to run aground.
He's very studious when it comes to safety, So Craig said,
as they were approaching, they noticed as they got closer
he had an air horn, and he started airing the airhorn,
getting these people's attention, letting them know, hey, we're coming.
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So he gave three short as he was heading in.
The closer they got, Craig said, these people fled the
beach and went into the up into the brush, and
for the life of them, he couldn't understand it because
he saw at least three right. So as they get
closer and closer, he decides, okay, this is close enough.
He didn't want to run aground in all that very
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expensive boat, so he stops. He drops anchor, He gets
the dinghy down, the little nine horse or ten horse
outboard whatever they had threw it on there, grabbed his firearm,
grabbed first aid kit, water and some food and put
it on in. Now, you got to keep in mind
there's a storm moving in behind him, so they're fairly protected.
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The swells aren't so bad there. Sheila feels a lot
more comfortable. So she's waiting on the boat with the
two girls. The girls, by the way, were under ten.
We'll just leave that out of it. So they both
had air horns because the walkie talkies they had the
batteries were dead. So what they decided to do is
they worked out Okay, one blast, I'm on my way back,
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three blasts, emergency call for help. Whatever. They had this
all pre planned out many times over. Stay tuned for
more sasquatch out to sea, we'll be right back after
these messages. So what ended up happening is he starts
into shore. Now when he's getting closer to shore, he
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keeps looking back at the boat the storm coming, because
he didn't want to get caught in this little dinghy,
but he wanted to get to shore and see if
these people needed help. From what Craig said, as he
kept looking back, he started getting a real strange feeling
the closer to shore he got, and he said he
couldn't explain it. He said he felt like he was
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going to need rescuing, which seemed real weird because he's
sitting there just simply going to check on some people
and he's not understanding why they fled into the woods.
So all the stuff is going on, and he's trying
to basically figure it out on the fly, like what's
causing it, what scenario has these people hiding? Are they okay?
Are they safe? For all this stuff? He gets to
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shore as soon as he jumped out and pulled the
dinghy up so the water wouldn't wash it away and stuff,
and he tied it off around a medium sized boulder.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
He said.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
He grabbed his rifle and his trauma pack started hollering, Hey,
come out, come out. I'm here to help. I'm here
to help. And he's looking around and he comes across
some of the tracks in the gravel beach, and what
have you? He said. When he got up over there
and started looking at the tracks, he was dump boundered
at how large they were. Harry Mann sasquatch, all that
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was not even in his wheelhouse. Craig is a professional
man and very straightforward, no time for nonsense kind of guy,
very serious. So he's examining these prints and he watched
these things, these people make these tracks. He watched them
walking and flee off into the brush. Right, So he's
looking and it's starting to dawn on him. That these
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tracks are huge. He sat down and his airhorn can
is approximately eight inches tall, so he used the can
as a marker. One of the tracks was three of
the air horns, another one was three and a half,
and one was two. He's this, holy crap, he realizes
these are very large people. He didn't feel comfortable anymore.
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They were barefoot tracks. He yelled out a couple more times,
just to check right, so, he said, as he basically
assessed the situation and realized he's dealing with something he
has no clue about. He's paying attention to these tracks.
He's trying to work through the scenarios in his head
or what the hell's happening with these people, he said.
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At that time, he heard the airhorn from his wife.
So he looks back at the boat and she's just
three blasts, three blasts, three blasts, so obviously she's really
wanting his attention. He said that as he's trying to
look back towards the boat, which is one hundred yards
way at this point, he can't make out what's going on,
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so he decides, I'll get out of here. He walks
back and he unties the dingy and he's pushing it out.
He said. When he got in the dinghy and turned
around back and looked, it looked like a very large
brown mound down just back behind him. He said, it
was probably maybe sixty feet maybe, just out of nowhere.
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There's this big brown mound there. He couldn't, for the
life of him, figure out what he was looking at.
He wasn't sure if it was something he didn't notice
when he first got there, like a piece of basically erosion,
a big clump of brown dirt or whatever, just washed up,
because that does happen in certain places. It looks shaggy
and what have you. But then he saw it move
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and it freaked him out because it was massive. He said.
He saw it move. It just from what he could
make out, was just a big brown mound at first,
and it moved, and it moved back and forth a
little bit. He was in shock, trying to figure out
what the hell he is looking at. Craig said that
in that moment he realized, whatever, this is obviously alive.
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It's way big. It's huge. He said. It was like
a Volkswagen going back and forth. And he said the
way it was going back and forth was sporadic. It
jolped this way a little bit, and it joked back
this way, and he couldn't make out what he was seeing.
So he's steadily pushing the boat out. He's unnerved. He
gets on the boat and he's turned around. He fires
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up the motor and he goes into small circle so
he could circle around and look back because there's no
reverse on the little outboard. So he does that, and
as he's looking back at this brown thing, all of
a sudden, this thing stands up. He said, when it
stood up, it looked as wide as it was tall.
He said it was humongous. He said it was over
ten foot tall, very wide, very like matted like, just
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almost like dreadlocks looking to it, like a real dirty
dog whipd to it with long hair. He was trying
to figure out what the hell he was looking at.
And he said when it stood up, it wasn't facing him.
It was quartering away. As far as how it was positioned,
it was facing away from him at a forty five
degree angle. He said. He was in shock. So he
kept going in the circle looking and as he's doing so,
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back behind this thing, he noticed movement in the brush.
And now He's super curious what the hell is really
happening here, because what he said he saw seemed much
larger than the three what he thought were people just
moments ago that caused them to come in here. He said,
as he's doing this checking out this other movement, this
thing let out a roar. He said it was like
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a mix between a lion, a bear growl, a woman
being murdered. Just got awful guttural. Sounded like someone with
a real bad chest cold. At the same time, it
was very powerful. He felt it vibrate the boat. He
was just in a little rubber dingy. So he's instantly
turned around and started going back to the boat. Now,
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during this time, his wife is running out of her
air horn. She exhausted it trying to get his attention
to get him the hell back to the boat. She
was freaked out. He gets back to the boat, his
wife and two daughters are scared. They thought he was
going to get eaten because what he didn't realize is
when he was checking out the tracks and measuring them
with his air horn, this thing had come down the
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beach behind him and was basically sniffing his tracks. His
wife told him when he knelt down and was doing
the measurements. So she started blaring the airhorn. It was
to try to get his attention, and he would just
glance back over his shoulder back at the boat, and
he wasn't looking back behind him where she needed him
to see what was happening. And she said, it came
out standing, got down on all fours and then started
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going back and forth. It looked like it was sniffing
for something. The only thing Craig could figure out is
it was smelling his tracks, trying to figure out what
he was. So as she's telling him this, he's trying
to did you see it, he's looking around for a
cell phone. They put their cell phones in one of
those dry bags and it was somewhere down underneath in
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the hold, and so he sent his daughters, Hey, go
find that dry bag so we can get my cell phone.
I'm going to get some photos of this and try
to record some of this. And his wife's let's just go.
Let's just go. We can beat the storm and we'll
head towards seward. Get somewhere else other than here right now.
I want to go, and they're offshore. But she's really
freaked out because she thought she was about to watch
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her husband get eaten. Essentially, she thought it was a
bear at first, but obviously it was no bear, And
so his daughters couldn't find the dry bag with the
cell phones. It ended up being hanging just inside where
the little cabinet is for this little cruiser, just inside
on a hook, and they were looking everywhere else and
it was like right there in front of him. But anyway,
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so he pulls anchor, he circles around, and he heads
towards shore a little bit more. He didn't want to
get too close because he didn't want to ground out
or anything like that. But he said he got fairly close,
and his wife started getting real mad at him, yelling
at him. We got to get out of here, because
by this point there was only a smaller one on
the beach. And he said he was trying to get
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a better visual of this thing, and he said it
looked like the arms were way too long for the body.
The way it moved was very different. He said, the
torsol was longer than the legs. The arms hung real
low this thing. But once he got to a certain
point and turned, he was adjusting his outboard and adjusting
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him up and it got to a point to where
the exhaust started cork. Anyone been on a boat, you
know what I'm talking about. So the exhaust got a
little louder, and once that happened, this thing took off.
It was gone, And he said it disappeared into the
trees so fast he couldn't even calculate how quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
It was going.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
It was just there and then that noise happened and
it was gone. So with that they headed away. They
got up around the bend and they heard another This
was at a distance because they got up around the
bend just out of Johnstone Bay. He powered off and
dropped the anchor again and was trying to figure out
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what their next move was. At that point, when they
were sitting there trying to figure it out, they heard
another almost identical growl, howl, scream coming from basically the
same area, and he said it was just so unreal.
They headed off. They ended up going to Seward. I
want to thank Craig for being patient. A lot of times,
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there's other people that I'm in contact with. I try
to get all the details to share with you. Guys.
Any sounds you can recognize if you're in a similar situation,
you can figure things out. I want to thank him
for being patient. I want to thank him for getting
back to me and for sharing with us. There's a
lot more to come, but I want to think his wife.
She didn't say much when I talked to her, other
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than she told me that she thought her husband was
going to get eaten in front of her and their daughters.
And that's just a horrific thought anyway, And that's it
for now. I want to tak thank you guys for
joining me, and we'll catch you on the next one.
They say, you don't gotta go home, but you.
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right back, Joy for me, Joy staying right there, Come
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A gas and fins regains used to pas and fences
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. Happen? What
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are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling
around out here? Did you see what it was? Or
was it was? 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 better, hello, het,
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somebody out here?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What went on out there?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I thought of a bit of about sixty forty nine.
I don't know you see him out there? Yeah, I'm
bulking right away.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh hey, greeting Sanks for joining me today. What I
wanted to share it to you comes from We'll name
him Bruce. Bruce and his brother will name him David.
So Bruce and David they were at their grandfather's cabin. Now,
this particular cabin is on the new sek rif back home.
We'll leave it at that. This happened about twenty five
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years ago. Bruce and David were doing some repairs at
this cabin after their uplet passed away. Over the course
of this summer, the first few trips they were bringing
some materials, wood materials and stuff, just fixing, patching things up.
There's a hole in the roof. It was not taking
care of in a while, so it was a little disheveled.
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Little TLC needed nothing two majors. So over the course
of the summer they took a break for the salmon season.
At the end of the salmon season, they wanted to
hunt from that cabin like they grew up doing. So
they figured, we'll go up there early prior to hunting
and we'll get everything situated. So they end up bringing
a new woodburning stove up. The other one just rusted down,
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just used up, just stuff like that, and they were
using fifty five gallon drum like they would in the
steam bath. So they get all this done. They were
just getting settled in. It was still a week out
before the hunting season started, so what they were doing
is getting up real early peruising. It just going up
and down the river and checking out some spots he were,
and maybe they would want to pick a spot hopefully
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loose around that type of thing, just scout in the
area basically, And this one particular morning they get up
to do that, and again it was about a week
out from hunting, he said. David was running the skiffs
and they went up to where Jim slout, which is
up above Portage on the Nushiach there. So they go
up there, they do the anchor and was sitting there
just relaxing really as they were discussing the years past
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of hunting and all that kind of stuff, they hear
this what Bruce described as this wallowing who was like
a moaning kind of not necessarily a scream, but like
just this real loud pronounced something sorrowful, something very painful
sounding like something large was in emotional pain. Freaked him
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out because mouse don't do that, and bear sure as
hell no. So they pulled the anchor and were drifting
away across the river from Jim slu there, which I've
been in that area. The crazy shit happens around there.
But anyway, as they were drifting, they were looking across
the river because the sound sounded like it was coming
from that side, and the cabin of their grandpa's is
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on that side of the river as well. They were like,
what the hell is that. They powered up, went across,
and then we're drifting down on the opposite bank and
listening for this sound. At the time. Of course they've
heard of the Harryman and stuff like that, these some
at the Baskins, but it wasn't anything that was in
their wheelhouse as far as these noises. So they pulled
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up to the river bank just a little bit down
from Jim's sluice side. They stuck the anchor in the
ground or just sitting there listening trying to figure out
what it was. Bruce said he was holding his rifle.
David jumped up onto the bank and was just looking around,
and Bruce said, don't go too far. I don't want
to have to come find you that kind of thing,
And David just shined him on. Whatever. He walks off
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out of sight from the river bank from Bruce's perspective,
and all of a sudden, he said, it wasn't even
two minutes. He yelled, hey, what's going on? He heard
the thrashing off in the distance. And here comes David
sliding off the river bank. He fell into the water
just in front of the skiff and then jumped up
and pulled himself up over the bow on the line
right he's pulling and getting the anchor. He was like, oh, go.
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So Bruce fires up to motor. He has to push
off because the way the water is pushing him. He's
got the outboard running, but it's not in gear. He
pushed the outboard back into the muddy bank there, so
he pushes off and then they get turned around. They're
facing down river. Bruce gives us some gas and they
get up on the step and David is down low
in the skiff and he's got his gun out of
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his gun bag. He keeps looking back past Bruce and
Bruce just everyone's well started. He's like, hey, what's going on?
What's going on? David's is the goal, so he keeps going.
They got a little bit of a distance before they
get to the cabin we come up on. It's basically
a bunch of little islands that were created by the
ice when it comes and goes in the spring. They
stop at the first one they come up to, which
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is real thick wood brush that time of year, all
around it. They pull off in there because David's like,
I got to use the bathroom bad. So he goes,
gets up onto the bank there on this little island
and walks back a little ways and Bruce here is
David throwing up. He's like, hey, what's going on? And
he goes, you didn't see it. He finishes what he
was doing, comes back to the skiff. You didn't see it.
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Bruce is like, see what I heard some thrashing, But
all I saw was you slide off the river bank
the water, jump back into the freaking skiff loose. All
happened so fast. He goes there was a harry Man
back there. He was like harry Man. He goes, what
was it doing? David said, I don't know, but it
started coming towards me so I could freak me out
and I ran. He was like, okay, we're good. He
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looks back up river and doesn't see anything. So they
continue on their way. They go back to the cabin.
All this happened before noon because they left early. They
went up, they scouted around a little bit and they
just happened to just drop anchor it. Jim slew there
from what Bruce said, when they got back to the cabins,
everything felt weird. The energy felt really weird. There was
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some relatives of his little further down around the bend
a little ways. They had a cabin there. He heard activity,
so Bruce decided, Hey, I'm going to go and say
hi to the relatives. And Day was like, yeah, just
don't be gone too long. So Bruce leaves in the
skiff and goes down river a little ways to go
visit with the relatives. There was a cousin that had
showed up to get their cabin ready for moose hunting,
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and so he talked to him a little bit. Bruce said,
as he was talking to his cousin, probably about twenty
minutes half hour, so all of a sudden he hears
gunshots coming back from up with their cabin. It was
a holy shit. So he takes off and his cousin
follows him. He jumps off, he ties off and everything.
He hears yelling inside the cabin and he's like, hey,
David is Bruce. I'm out here. Don't choose we're out here.
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He said. It was on the roof, is on the roof,
and so they're looking around and they're like trying to
figure out what. The cousin goes around one side and
Bruce goes along the riverbank side to cut around that backside.
He said, when he came around the corner, he saw
something dark moving off into the brush right because the
trees came almost right up to the cabin at that point.
The cousin saw this thing moving off and saw it
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swaying an arm. It had brownish reddish brown hair. It
was just moving away. He saw its arms sway. He
didn't get a good look at the face, but he
could see the figure of it was humanoid. Cousin comes
back yelling, hey, it's here, you man. Let's get out
of here. David inside, he comes out out because there's
two more people now. He's yeah, let's go. Bruce is
a wait a minute. You know, let's not just run
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off here. This is our cabin kind of thing. And
David wanted no part of it. He didn't want to stay.
The cousin was like, hey, I don't want that thing
following me back to my cabin and start in trouble there.
I'm going to leave. You guys, be careful. I would
leave too if I was you guys, and he jumped
in his hip and he went back to kinish doing
what he was doing down river. So Bruce is telling David, hey,
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let's just hold our ground. Did you shoot it? And
David said no, I was just shooting to try to
scare it off, and goes, okay, if you didn't shoot it,
so it really has no reason to be mad at us.
Let's keep calm, let's not overreact because in essence, they
live there, that's their place. Now, Bruce wasn't willing to
just give it up like that, which should I understand,
I say shoot them off. That's just my own personal views.
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So David calms down. They relax a little bit. They
had some vodka with them, so they had some mixed
drinks and whatnot, and they relaxed, and Bruce was just
livening up the energy from being so dreary and David
so paranoid about talking about old funny stuff they had
enjoyed right there where they were, and pointing out, hey,
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we never had issues here. Let's not make this what
it's about, because remember all the times was uppud and
all this and that winter caribou hunt. They'd parked their
snow machines there and it was just a base cap
with tons of family memories. So they just enjoyed themselves
drinking that hunter Proof Smirnoff, been there, done that. It
gets on into dusk, they decide they're going to bring
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in some more firewood from outside because it's starting to
drizzle and starting to rain. It got socked in. It
was getting a little chilly, especially on the river Man
it gets chilly. So they go out and they're bringing
in from the little more of a lane to Arctic entry.
It wasn't fully enclosed, but they were bringing in firewood
from there, and they brought in good stack just so
they had some extra for the next day if it
was real cold. The next morning, they left the door
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kicked open just a little bit to let fresh air
in because David and Bruce were basically chain smoking while
they were drinking. They had their firearms nearby. From what
Bruce was saying, it was all like the energy was
much better. It wasn't as heavy. They were joking, chopping
it up, having a good time, talking about the old
days and relatives that had since passed, but to good
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times they had with them and stuff like that, and
burry picking in the area and just all sorts of stuff.
And they were in the midst of this conversation when
all of a sudden, that door wings open hard, just
damn so hard. It almost popped off with the hinges
and stuff. There was no wind. They immediately jump up.
They each grabbed their guns. Again, this is just getting
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into dark, not fully dark yet, right in the fall,
So they grabbed the flashlights they had. They were modern
for the time, They work decent enough, and they go
out and they're looking and they're looking on the ground
for tracks, and there wasn't done. They're both looking around
the corner to the tree side and then around the
corner to the river bank side, and they're not seeing anything.
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And so they walk straight away from the cabin a
little ways together, turn around and face back towards the
cabin to make sure it's not back up on the roof,
because David had heard it on the roof earlier. That's
what got him shooting. Bruce said that when they were
looking back, they noticed eye shine like towards the farther
the backside of the cabin from where they were standing,
and they noticed the eye shine duck down once the
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light hit right the eye shine went away, and so
they decided they're going to take that tree side walk
along the cabin back towards that direction, keep an eye
out on this thing or look for it, and potentially,
if opportunity, maybe to shoot the damn thing. He said.
As they were going along, David was about two paces
behind him, just steady, keeping his rifle up and glancing
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back and forth. And Rius was like, hey, don't get
excited and accidentally shoot me. Damn it. He's no, I'm
keeping my rifle up. You keep your straight I won't
let mine come down below. They're aiming at the roofline. Now,
this roof isn't overly high. It's about maybe six and
a half feet off the ground is the eave the
drip edge, And so as they're going along, they're not
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that like far away from the drip edge. The drip
edge is like literally above their heads, maybe off a
put or two. They weren't quite far enough over to
look straight up at the angle of the roof right
because of the trees and everything. They didn't have that
open kind of they couldn't just take another step over
and easily be able to see up there. So they
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go along and all of a sudden they hear a
noise and then they hear trees rustle crash, So they
immediately their attention goes there. As Bruce is pointing his
flashlight and rifles in that direction, they hear a growl
that startles them both. As soon as they heard the growl,
Bruce said he passed David, who was already hauling ats
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trying to get I don't mean to laugh. I giggled
with Bruce at this point, because when he brought it up,
he said that they both hit that front door at
the same time and stopped each other through stooges type
shit boom. They both fell down, jumped up, and then
went in. But just the visual of that was just funny.
But anyway, so they shut the door, they put some
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stuff to barricade and whatnot. At that point they got
out the Coleman lanyards. Right up until then they were
using the ambient light coming in the window, which there's
no curtains on the windows. There was one on the
river bank side that was a good sized one that
had been basically put in by hand. It was an
old from the old school, one of the old schools
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that used to be in downtown telling him that was
transformed or changed into the basically City Hall now. But
back in the day that window came from there. Right
they got the lanterns going and they're looking out that window.
There was also a smaller window that was about a
foot and a half square, just a smaller window. It
was a single pane, and it was between where the
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woodstove was a short little bit of a counter. There
was an old stove like propane maybe that used to
be there that was no longer there, so it's like
a gap in the counter and then there's a board
across it just to extend the countertop. And it was
just above that. There was no makeshift sink, and they
would take water in buckets and do it like that
as far as dishes. They're keeping an eye on that
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big window. They're not really thinking about this smaller one
because it's right behind them. They're on that side of
the cabin with a little bit of distance between them
and that big window. At the time, they didn't have
anything to cover it, so they basically, let's just keep
an eye on it. And they got the door off
to their right and then the window in front of them,
and they weren't thinking about this window like less than
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three feet behind them, right, So as they're sitting there,
they're still enjoying drinks, but not enjoying them. It's more
like taking some shots to stop shaking because that growl.
They both been discussing it once they went back inside
and everything they felt to reverberate through their bodies. They
felt their insides jiggle. It's not a good feeling.
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So as they're sitting there discussing, hey, what do we
do if and they're getting a game plan on if
this happens, we'll do this. If this happens, we'll do that.
If it comes through the door at us, we'll jump
out the window. They're kind of just lining up a
game plan because initially they wanted to leave in the skiff,
but in the dark it's so dangerous. They had lost
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relatives previously to such things skiffing at the wrong time.
If they were weighing their options, should we just maybe
drifting down the ways to their cousins cabin because his
cousins should be there. So they decided, you know what,
we should do that. We can just drift down. We
know the channel enough to where once we see the
lights on in their cabin, we could just fire up.
And they know the river bank enough to know where
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to pull up and not bottom out or anything like that.
So they decide that's what they're going to do, So
they gather up the stuff they're gonna need. Bruce craps
another box of AMMO, so did David. They were just
getting ready to start putting out the lanterns. They had
three of them going. They put out two, and they
were going to keep one to use to see going
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back down to the river bank. Just keep one for
going just because and use their flashlights. But before they
went out the door, as they were standing there facing
that large window, and they just put out two of
the lannards, all of a sudden that window behind them
shatters like startling the hell out of them. A piece
of birch, it had to have been, from what Bruce said,
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at least fifteen feet long, comes pushing through, shatters and
push it through. It just goes right between them both
to where the little table they were drinking at. It
was hopped up on that and then it ran outside
and it was dark outside already, so they couldn't see
the end of it. But they both turned around and
the birches standing between them, and they're like, holy shit,
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because it was so fast, it was so violent, how
quickly it went right between them both. So they didn't
know if this thing was trying to spear one of
them with it or whatever. They didn't know. And as
they're looking at her, like what the hell, they went
to the opposite side of the table, looking back, shining
their flashlight out, and they saw a movement. Bruce took
a shot out the window that's now broken. He actually
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hit the birch. It made an impact and kind of
splintered a little bit when it busted through or whatever,
and they start yelling, hey, get out of here, get
out of here, and all of a sudden, that piece
of birch gets yanked back out, Bruce said, very violently.
He said, the last about maybe four feet of it
was caught like it had been pulled out and then
turned before it had enough time to clear the window,
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and he caught about four feet of it and it
broke and then it flopped out the rest of the way.
Bruce said. At that point We're getting the hell out
of here. They gathered their stuff. They condensed the stuff
into one bag. Bruce put that on little backpack style.
It was actually a small duffel bag. He just put
his arms through the loops the handles, makeshift backpack out
of that. David was making sure that he had his
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magazine full for his rifle. David was using a two
seventy and Bruce had a three hundred wind meg. They
were making sure everyone was full up on ammal. Bruce
replaced around. He had shot into the birch, and David
just kept looking out that window and looking out that window.
Bruce was like, hey, snap out of it. Let's get
to the skiff. We'll drift down. David was like, I'm
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scared to go outside. Bruce totally understood why the growled.
Then this fricking javelin basically comes crashing through and then
rip back out. He said, there was noises going on outside,
but they were so terrified in the moment he couldn't
say exactly what they were. He said, he vaguely remembers
some growling, but there's also other noises being made. Nothing
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recrete that he could discern. In a moment David was like,
what if we fire our rifles, maybe our cousin will
come up here. Bruce is like, there's two of us,
there's one of him. That would be unfair to draw
him up into something. Maybe he could get hurt. Let's
just go to the skiff drift down. It was less
than a mile down river. So after discussing in a minute,
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David said, okay, let me go first. You carry the lantern.
I'll have my rifle with the flashlight ready and stuff,
and then we'll go. So they start moving towards the door.
They made sure a couple of things were tended to.
They turned down the woodstove because they had to wide
open because they had the door opened a little bit
up until this moments before. So as they're heading to
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the door, all of a sudden, bam, something hits against
the door. It was more than three times, but he
couldn't say if it was like five because it happened
in rapid succession, but it was very hard. It was
like something was trying to break in the door. So
they both were stuck in their tracks for a second,
and then they both shot at the door at the
same time. They didn't say, hey, let's shoot. It was
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just independently boom boom. They make some shots through the
door and it's just dead quiet. Bruce said. At that
point he could sense something was watching him, and so
he looks over to the big window off to his left,
a little bit behind him, over his shoulder. He couldn't
make out anything because the lantern that they had in
their hand was low. It was pretty much mirrord effect.
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He couldn't really see anything out of it. However, in
that mirror effect, he saw across the room something was
looking in the window, the small one that was broken out.
Bruce said. He swung around and lifted his rifle looked
when David saw a move. David was the one at
that moment that had that lantern, even though Bruce was
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going to be carrying it or whatever. It was a
bang in that caused him to grab it and hold
it up. He swings around and Bruce said, he's looking
at this thing looking back at him. As David's holding
up the lantern out that direction, Bruce was like, it
was looking right at me, so I was going to
shoot it. He raised the rifle and clink kids shot
all his ammo on the jumble for David to set
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down the lantern without kicking starting a fire or whatever,
and then raise his rifle. The thing was gone. At
this point, they're both freaking out and they decide okay.
Bruce reloaded his rifle, David made sure his was ready
to go. Bruce takes the lannarn. David is going to
go first, So David goes out and Bruce is right
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behind him, and Bruce has the lantern in his hand,
but he's also got the flashlight kind of holding both
at once, so he's holding the lantern like this, keeping
the brightness of the lantern out of his face while
shining the flashlight. He's got his rifle slung over his shoulder.
It's not a very thought out thing. While David is
freely moving with his flashlight, they don't see anything. They
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back over to the river bank where the skiff is.
So at that point when they get to the riverbank,
they're still facing the cabin, the back corner of it
on the riverbank side. This thing was leaning out peaky,
and it was real low, almost like it had squatted
down in with lenou and then it stopped doing that.
Because they were both trying to figure out and get
a shot on this thing. David said, the next time
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it leans out, I'm going to shoot the bastard. Bruce
is like, I'll join you. He had set the lantern
down and had his flashlight ready. They're not seeing anything now.
Then all of a sudden, i believe, Bruce said, David
was moving his flashlight around. They caught a gleam of
eyeshine above the roofline, right on that back corner. So
they both raised their flashlights up a little higher and
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sure enough to sing is looking over the roof and
down at them. Bruce said they did not fire because
of how freaking big it was. He said, when it
was peeking out and leaning out, it looked smaller, but
once it had stood up and they saw how fall
it was back behind there, he said it was at
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least minimum ten feet tall. The flashlights they were using,
while they weren't super modern, and they were good and
they worked. When he said that it had a like
a tanned leather kind of colored skin. At the distance,
which was like he said, about maybe forty feet ish
somewhere in there. They couldn't make out really good the features,
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but the eyes just black, and when the light would
hit him it would glow with the red the hye shark.
He said it was freaky because it was pissed, it
was mad. It's facial expression, he said, was one of
severe anger, really ticked off. But he said, what was
weird is it showed its teeth at one point, but
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it looked out of place. He said, the showing of
teeth was so vastly different from what you would envision.
It was like massive. He said. The showing of the
teeth was like it just didn't stop because of how
large the mouth was. And he said after it did
that and they snapped out of their like holy shit moment,
they picked up the lantern. They got down, they pulled
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the anchor. They had some stuff that they had set
up over the years to tie off to, but with
the anchor line wrapped around whatever like you would a clee. Anyway,
they untied that. They get in the skiff and they
drift away. They killed the lantern as they were drifting away.
David would turn on his flashlight every once in a
while as they were drifting, shut it off, and they
were hearing stuff, so they would both flash light the
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riverbank as they're drifting. Because they got roughly a mile.
I was were moving fast enough. They weren't sitting still,
but it's not like they were going down the rapids either.
They kept hearing brushing stuff moving up on the river
bank next to him, and so periodically David would turn
on the flashlight and look, and they wouldn't see anything.
They might see some movement in the brush. So they
both decide, let's shoot the next time we hear that
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rustling to discourage this thing from following us. So the
next time it did it, they both clicked on their
flashlights and shot at the same time. They didn't see
anything when they turned on the flashlight. It was just
the brush back off the river bank, moving And they
said they did that about two to three times and reloaded,
made sure they were good to go. It finally went
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quiet and they drifted. He's guessing probably all that when
they decided to fire, and everything was probably within a
half mile of drifting, and then they had rough another
half mile, maybe a little more before they got their
family's cabin down the way. He said. Once he got quiet,
they still periodically flash light up on the river bank.
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No movement, no nothing. And then when they come into
view of the cousin's cabin. Just as it comes into view,
they saw a light was on inside and then the
light went off, so they're like, well, shit, that was
a reference points. David had both flashlights at this point,
hold them up so Bruce could see the river bank,
and they got over to where they wanted to be
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in stuff, and David tied him off. They went and
banged on the door. They heard their cousin. Their cousin
had a shotgun, and they heard him the shotgun and
said get out of here, real loud, and they said, hey,
it's us, it's us. He goes, oh shit, sumbs and
opens the door for him, and he was like, hey,
that thing was down here peeking in the windows man,
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and just told him that basically it came down. They
peeked in the windows a couple times and then left,
and so he thought nothing of it, and so when
they started banging, he thought it was back. They shared
everything that had happened. Let's just say the cousin was
not happy that they potentially brought it to him, but
nine else happened. The next morning they went and extensively
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David and Bruce looked and searched tracks try to figure
out where it was coming and going from, and it
basically once the tracks they did find reached the inside
the trees, that done with they couldn't track it anymore. Again,
this is a little more twenty five years ago. I
want to thank Bruce for sharing that. Bruce isn't his
real name. I've known him shit since I was little.
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I appreciate him willing to share it because initially he
didn't want to share it all. His brother David since
passed a voting accident. Actually at night in the skiff.
Initially he brought it up and shared it with me
a few times, just in conversation. Nothing to ever go
public with. He was watching a few of the videos.
He doesn't like to follow this stuff because he doesn't
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like it. He would rather not hear about it. He
decided to allow me to share this just so people
are aware I wanted to share with you today. Comes
from Craig, who was with his wife, Sheila and their
two young daughters. They were out by Johnstone Bay, which
is the middle ground between Prince William Sound and Gulf
of Alaska. They were out on their boat recreationally. They
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were doing a little bit of rock fish and some
other stuff like that, just family time. This was twenty
twenty three. It was early August. They're out there, they're
doing the fishing thing. They're near Johnstone Bay and the
weather started picking up. So, according to what Craig said, Shila,
his wife, was getting nervous with their daughters on board.
It was rocking a little more than she had liked.
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So they headed inland just to wait out the storm.
They were out for a few days anyway, so it
was no big deal. As they're getting closer to shore,
there's this little Johnstone Bay where they're pulling into and
there's a river that leads back to Johnstone Lake. It's
a very large lake. As they were getting closer to shore,
Craig said that they saw some what they thought were
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people going back and forth on the beach and they
were looking around for a boat and there was not right.
So they were like, geez, maybe these people are trapped here,
maybe they need rescuing, so let's go check on which
is the Alaskan thing to do people in distress. Fellow
Alaskans immediately jump in, unless they're just a pos then
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they need to go away. But anyway, so they're on
a rescue mission. Basically in their mind's eye, they're heading
towards shore. He's making sure he's not going to run aground.
He's very studious when it comes to safety, So Craig said,
as they were approaching, they noticed as they got closer
he had an air horn, and he started airing the airhorn,
getting these people's attention, letting them know, hey, we're coming.
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So he gave three short as he was heading in.
The closer they got, Craig said, these people fled the
beach and went into the up into the brush, and
for the life of them, he couldn't understand it because
he saw at least three right. So as they get
closer and closer, he decides, okay, this is close enough.
He didn't want to run aground in all that very
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expensive boat, so he stops. He drops anchor, He gets
the dinghy down, the little nine horse or ten horse
outboard whatever they had threw it on there, grabbed his firearm,
grabbed first aid kit, water and some food and put
it on in. Now, you got to keep in mind
there's a storm moving in behind him, so they're fairly protected.
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The swells aren't so bad there. Sheila feels a lot
more comfortable. So she's waiting on the boat with the
two girls. The girls, by the way, were under ten.
We'll just leave that out of it. So they both
had air horns because the walkie talkies they had the
batteries were dead. So what they decided to do is
they worked out Okay, one blast, I'm on my way back,
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three blasts, emergency call for help. Whatever. They had this
all pre planned out many times over. Stay tuned for
more sasquatch out to sea, we'll be right back after
these messages. So what ended up happening is he starts
into shore. Now when he's getting closer to shore, he
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keeps looking back at the boat the storm coming, because
he didn't want to get caught in this little dinghy,
but he wanted to get to shore and see if
these people needed help. From what Craig said, as he
kept looking back, he started getting a real strange feeling
the closer to shore he got, and he said he
couldn't explain it. He said he felt like he was
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going to need rescuing, which seemed real weird because he's
sitting there just simply going to check on some people
and he's not understanding why they fled into the woods.
So all the stuff is going on, and he's trying
to basically figure it out on the fly, like what's
causing it, what scenario has these people hiding? Are they okay?
Are they safe? For all this stuff? He gets to
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shore as soon as he jumped out and pulled the
dinghy up so the water wouldn't wash it away and stuff,
and he tied it off around a medium sized boulder.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
He said.
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He grabbed his rifle and his trauma pack started hollering, Hey,
come out, come out. I'm here to help. I'm here
to help. And he's looking around and he comes across
some of the tracks in the gravel beach, and what
have you? He said. When he got up over there
and started looking at the tracks, he was dump boundered
at how large they were. Harry Mann sasquatch, all that
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was not even in his wheelhouse. Craig is a professional
man and very straightforward, no time for nonsense kind of guy,
very serious. So he's examining these prints and he watched
these things, these people make these tracks. He watched them
walking and flee off into the brush. Right, So he's
looking and it's starting to dawn on him. That these
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tracks are huge. He sat down and his airhorn can
is approximately eight inches tall, so he used the can
as a marker. One of the tracks was three of
the air horns, another one was three and a half,
and one was two. He's this, holy crap, he realizes
these are very large people. He didn't feel comfortable anymore.
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They were barefoot tracks. He yelled out a couple more times,
just to check right, so, he said, as he basically
assessed the situation and realized he's dealing with something he
has no clue about. He's paying attention to these tracks.
He's trying to work through the scenarios in his head
or what the hell's happening with these people, he said.
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At that time, he heard the airhorn from his wife.
So he looks back at the boat and she's just
three blasts, three blasts, three blasts, so obviously she's really
wanting his attention. He said that as he's trying to
look back towards the boat, which is one hundred yards
way at this point, he can't make out what's going on,
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so he decides, I'll get out of here. He walks
back and he unties the dingy and he's pushing it out.
He said. When he got in the dinghy and turned
around back and looked, it looked like a very large
brown mound down just back behind him. He said, it
was probably maybe sixty feet maybe, just out of nowhere.
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There's this big brown mound there. He couldn't, for the
life of him, figure out what he was looking at.
He wasn't sure if it was something he didn't notice
when he first got there, like a piece of basically erosion,
a big clump of brown dirt or whatever, just washed up,
because that does happen in certain places. It looks shaggy
and what have you. But then he saw it move
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and it freaked him out because it was massive. He said.
He saw it move. It just from what he could
make out, was just a big brown mound at first,
and it moved, and it moved back and forth a
little bit. He was in shock, trying to figure out
what the hell he is looking at. Craig said that
in that moment he realized, whatever, this is obviously alive.
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It's way big. It's huge. He said. It was like
a Volkswagen going back and forth. And he said the
way it was going back and forth was sporadic. It
jolped this way a little bit, and it joked back
this way, and he couldn't make out what he was seeing.
So he's steadily pushing the boat out. He's unnerved. He
gets on the boat and he's turned around. He fires
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up the motor and he goes into small circle so
he could circle around and look back because there's no
reverse on the little outboard. So he does that, and
as he's looking back at this brown thing, all of
a sudden, this thing stands up. He said, when it
stood up, it looked as wide as it was tall.
He said it was humongous. He said it was over
ten foot tall, very wide, very like matted like, just
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almost like dreadlocks looking to it, like a real dirty
dog whipd to it with long hair. He was trying
to figure out what the hell he was looking at.
And he said when it stood up, it wasn't facing him.
It was quartering away. As far as how it was positioned,
it was facing away from him at a forty five
degree angle. He said. He was in shock. So he
kept going in the circle looking and as he's doing so,
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back behind this thing, he noticed movement in the brush.
And now He's super curious what the hell is really
happening here, because what he said he saw seemed much
larger than the three what he thought were people just
moments ago that caused them to come in here. He said,
as he's doing this checking out this other movement, this
thing let out a roar. He said it was like
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a mix between a lion, a bear growl, a woman
being murdered. Just got awful guttural. Sounded like someone with
a real bad chest cold. At the same time, it
was very powerful. He felt it vibrate the boat. He
was just in a little rubber dingy. So he's instantly
turned around and started going back to the boat. Now,
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during this time, his wife is running out of her
air horn. She exhausted it trying to get his attention
to get him the hell back to the boat. She
was freaked out. He gets back to the boat, his
wife and two daughters are scared. They thought he was
going to get eaten because what he didn't realize is
when he was checking out the tracks and measuring them
with his air horn, this thing had come down the
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beach behind him and was basically sniffing his tracks. His
wife told him when he knelt down and was doing
the measurements. So she started blaring the airhorn. It was
to try to get his attention, and he would just
glance back over his shoulder back at the boat, and
he wasn't looking back behind him where she needed him
to see what was happening. And she said, it came
out standing, got down on all fours and then started
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going back and forth. It looked like it was sniffing
for something. The only thing Craig could figure out is
it was smelling his tracks, trying to figure out what
he was. So as she's telling him this, he's trying
to did you see it, he's looking around for a
cell phone. They put their cell phones in one of
those dry bags and it was somewhere down underneath in
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the hold, and so he sent his daughters, Hey, go
find that dry bag so we can get my cell phone.
I'm going to get some photos of this and try
to record some of this. And his wife's let's just go.
Let's just go. We can beat the storm and we'll
head towards seward. Get somewhere else other than here right now.
I want to go, and they're offshore. But she's really
freaked out because she thought she was about to watch
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her husband get eaten. Essentially, she thought it was a
bear at first, but obviously it was no bear, And
so his daughters couldn't find the dry bag with the
cell phones. It ended up being hanging just inside where
the little cabinet is for this little cruiser, just inside
on a hook, and they were looking everywhere else and
it was like right there in front of him. But anyway,
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so he pulls anchor, he circles around, and he heads
towards shore a little bit more. He didn't want to
get too close because he didn't want to ground out
or anything like that. But he said he got fairly close,
and his wife started getting real mad at him, yelling
at him. We got to get out of here, because
by this point there was only a smaller one on
the beach. And he said he was trying to get
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a better visual of this thing, and he said it
looked like the arms were way too long for the body.
The way it moved was very different. He said, the
torsol was longer than the legs. The arms hung real
low this thing. But once he got to a certain
point and turned, he was adjusting his outboard and adjusting
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him up and it got to a point to where
the exhaust started cork. Anyone been on a boat, you
know what I'm talking about. So the exhaust got a
little louder, and once that happened, this thing took off.
It was gone, And he said it disappeared into the
trees so fast he couldn't even calculate how quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
It was going.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
It was just there and then that noise happened and
it was gone. So with that they headed away. They
got up around the bend and they heard another This
was at a distance because they got up around the
bend just out of Johnstone Bay. He powered off and
dropped the anchor again and was trying to figure out
(39:08):
what their next move was. At that point, when they
were sitting there trying to figure it out, they heard
another almost identical growl, howl, scream coming from basically the
same area, and he said it was just so unreal.
They headed off. They ended up going to Seward. I
want to thank Craig for being patient. A lot of times,
(39:30):
there's other people that I'm in contact with. I try
to get all the details to share with you. Guys.
Any sounds you can recognize if you're in a similar situation,
you can figure things out. I want to thank him
for being patient. I want to thank him for getting
back to me and for sharing with us. There's a
lot more to come, but I want to think his wife.
She didn't say much when I talked to her, other
(39:51):
than she told me that she thought her husband was
going to get eaten in front of her and their daughters.
And that's just a horrific thought anyway, And that's it
for now. I want to tak thank you guys for
joining me, and we'll catch you on the next one.
They say, you don't gotta go home, but you.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Can't stay, and I don't want to be a.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
World lopping trying this job that time everything call ride back,
(40:45):
right back, Joy for me, Joy staying right there, Come
in right away.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Inside In states, Sissie still starts side stands stands side
(41:24):
inside inside in state state still sass games still statess
(42:00):
A gas and fins regains used to pas and fences
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