Alaska Rainforest Sasquatch Encounters

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So they kept screaming. They kept
repeating the same, same, similar screams

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up on the mountain or between the
mountain high and then there were like two

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huge ones that seemed to have flanked
me on each side. And what they

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would do is when they would scream, it was mostly one on my left

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side. When this thing would scream, it was like in competition with the

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others, And it screamed so loud, and it was you wouldn't believe it.

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I mean, if you did,
if I hadn't heard it, I

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think, yeah, dude, you're
sure it was loud. No, this

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is like louder than an M sixteen
report. But they kept going and going.

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This episode of big for Society,
I talked to Joe Morris, who

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is an outdoorsman, wildlife photographer and
more in the Great State of Alaska.

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Joe share some pretty intense bigfoot encounters, including one by a glacier in Wrangels

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Elias National Park and being surrounded by
screaming sasquatches and two catch National Forest as

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All right, Big Society got the
privilege of talking to mister Joe Morris from

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out there in the bush in Alaska
tonight. How's it going, Joe?

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It's going well. Right now,
I am I'm in Wrangel Saint Elias National

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Park. It's the biggest national park
in the United States. It's fourteen thousand

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square miles. That's over by the
Yukon right kind of, we're below the

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Yukon. We're between well, we're
in the middle of nowhere. That's why

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nobody knows this. So McCarthy,
Alaska is a little tiny town. Let's

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inside this park and if you wanted
to google it, that's the only thing.

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It's the only way you're gonna find
me. Gotcha, gotcha? So

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how far? How how remote are
you? Right now? Away from like

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that? Is it your way out
in the bush, is what it sounds

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like. Yeah, I am,
yes, if you wanted to look at

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a map. I am three hundred
and twenty five miles from Anchorage and I

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don't know how far from Valdis,
but those are the two reference points.

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So yeah, I'm on the bush
way on the bush doing anything fun out

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there, a lot of hiking,
looking around, doing photography. We got

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a lot of bears this year.
Okay, so it's mating season, and

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you know, I don't really want
to be around him right now. Yeah,

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probably not watch it back, but
it sounds like you've had some really

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interesting encounters in that park, and
I'd love to talk to you about to

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tell me what kind of what kind
of things you run across out there.

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Well, we have all kinds of
bears and moose, and there's actually something

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that's more rare. I think that
a sasquatch and it's called a glacier bear

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and my sel one. So it
crawled up on me. I was not

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being quite at all, and I
had a campfire and it come up and

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looked at me, scared the crap
out of me. I didn't know what

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it was. Anyway. Other than
that, I've seen one sasquatch within forty

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yards in the sunlight, as clear
as if you were standing there. What

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happened is where I can tell you
the whole story. You won't restore from

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again. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So I was working at a lodge

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in McCarthy, Alaska. Not hard
to find out which one it is.

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I prefer I don't know what to
say. I don't really want to attention

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to draw into the lodge. It
has nothing to do with it. But

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I happen to be working there,
and it was late probably August, maybe

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July, I can't remember. And
a friend of mine works here, and

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he, you know, we were
just burner out because it's lower. It's

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only open first years amount the time, and you got to close it down

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open again next year. So we
were wiped And I said, hey,

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man, I'm going up to the
toe. I don't want to walk.

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I'm gonna grab my truck. You
want to go? And he's like yeah.

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So the toe is the end of
the Root Glacier, and the Root

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Glaciers built our ot and it's the
glacier that happens to be about a mile

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and a half from where I'm sitting. So anyway, we run up there

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and you can hear it melting and
want some while you'll see calves and you

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know, it's cool to watch.
It's ready, and it's cooler because it's

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summertime and you have a wind coming
off the ice. So we were on

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the way out there. It's going
slow and I'm in this old beat up

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Toyota and I you know, both
of us have done this trail a million

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times. So we're going up this
trail and I'm going really slow just in

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case there might be somebody or bears
jump out or whatever, because we're out

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the bush and I'm cruising along and
I come up just to a tiny rise,

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not really a hill. But as
I do, I see this black

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head and it's smoothly crossing in front
of us. Like well, I was

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going to the way it was moving. It was smooth. It was not

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like a bear walks, a moose
walks. Nothing walks. That's smooth.

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And I immediately I had an ice
cream headache, and I said it's a

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big foot. And my buddy wasn't
even paying attention. He's like what I

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stopped and I said, look,
dude, I think that's a big foot,

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and it walked behind the hill,
you know, the slight rise,

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so all we could see was like, I don't know, most of its

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head, and as it floated by, and it looked like it was floating.

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So I get up there with the
truck. I'm like, well,

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we're gonna go find it. So
when I come up over the rise and

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he's not there. Whatever it was
wasn't there, So I told me him,

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don't slam in the car door.
So I pull up into the brush

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a little bit and stop. We
opened the truck doors and I'm always armed

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with a ten millimeter sig and he
happened to have a R fifteen, which

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isn't great for bear, but it
makes a lot of noise. So I

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said, hey, if you go
down about sixty yards and circling in the

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bush, once you go in,
I'll go in and maybe you'll chase it

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to me. Whatever it is.
I thought it was a wounded bear.

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I did not, you know,
last thing on my mind was really his

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asquatch. I'd never seen one.
Don't really care about him, and he

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did. So when he walked in, I started walking in and I walked

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in just past the brush line,
kind of and I stopped in the shadows.

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You know, I wanted my whole
life now. He kind of walked

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in and made all kinds of noise
stumping in there, and he stopped,

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and I heard him kind of make
this weird noise, and he gasped,

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and I looked over at him automatically, and I had already scanned the area

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looking, but I heard him gasp
and I looked over and before my eyes

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could get to his area, I
realized there was a person standing there about

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forty feet away to me. This
thing looked about six foot five. It

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was well built, had the V
shaped body like a you know, like

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a linebacker or whatever. And it
wasn't looking at me. It appeared that

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it was looking, well, it
was not looking. It wasn't facing me.

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It's body basically was facing three quarter
away from me. So I was

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seeing the left shoulder, ear back, you could see the leg, but

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I couldn't see its face. And
it was like almost doing it on purpose,

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is what I got. Right in
that way, wouldn't look at me,

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kind of glanced at me, and
when it did, it's I couldn't

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believe it. The eyeball had a
little bit of yellow like our white eye

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care you would be. But this
thing, you know, it's sunlight.

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My glasses if I have these automatic
darkening glasses and they have darkened down,

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and I look at those things eyes
and the pupils are enormous. I mean,

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it's all pupil and I'm thinking,
how can this thing see in the

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Suddenly, you know, even in
owls eyes closed down quite a lot regular

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in the sunlight. That's not like
they're totally blown out like they do at

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night. And that's that was shocking. And then the next thing that freaked

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me out while I was completely in
shock. And the next thing it freaked

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me out as the way it ran. This thing took off with no gaining

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of speed like you know, a
bear wood or a human. The saint

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took off from zero to sixty It
appeared to be sixty miles an hour instantly,

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and we went about seventy five yards, jumped over some trees that were

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down, and then took off again
like sixty miles an hour, and that

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was it. That was the end
of it. So I walked back to

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the truck and Neil comes back and
he's all excited. He's like, hey,

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I saw a big foot I saw
a big foot and I'm like,

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what you see? And he says, I saw a human shaped arm.

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Exapproach too long, and this thing
was walking or running and he saw the

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arm swinging. Well that's not what
I saw. I saw the whole thing

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and it picks up for its face
and I don't know what gender or whatever

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sharing a female. So anyway,
it didn't really last long. It was

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gone. So we stood by the
truck and talked about it a little.

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We actually drove out to the toe
again, you know, kept going hung

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out and come back, looked around
and went on there. So that was

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that. That was two thousand seventeen. And it didn't keep me out of

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the woods. There was no violent
encounter or whatever. You were scared to

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go back in the woods. It
sounds like you you're pretty no comfortable with

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the woods. Oh hell yeah,
no, I go back in there.

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Yeah I did. Then it's not
like I'm going to see another one.

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Well, you know, fifty five
years old, we're back then anything goes

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fifty. Yeah, fifty is about
right. I've never seen it all my

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life, you know, a chance
of seeing another one or zero? And

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then I saw another one five years
later, right, and it was enormous.

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The first encounter that you had,
did you notice anything you saw the

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back of it? Sounded like,
do you notice anything about the shape of

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the head at all? Anything around
that part of the the big foot.

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All I saw is if well,
my son is it's six foot seven.

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So in my mind, this thing
is a couple's pinches shorter. It's it's

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shoulders are probably the same way,
maybe a little bit more. And it

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was very muscular. As far as
this head. I'm prior military, and

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if you take people in you shave
their heads like they're in the service,

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or even really short hair you can
see the shape of there. Yeah,

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so this thing's hair wasn't that long
on its head. I would say maybe

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two to three inches at the most. And its head was like a human.

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It was a human, you know. In my mind, this was

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a person standing now. And I
had a gun in my hand, so

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I stepped out and I saw the
brown fur, and I've been around Alaska

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a long time, so I immediately
drew my pistol and then I realized what

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I was looking at, and I
thought, in my mind, immediately this

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is a person. So I put
my weapon on He immediately I looked at

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it. I'm guessing the immediate reaction
to pull your pistol would be because you

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see that color, you think it's
bare, something like that or absolutely,

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yeah, yes, everybody where,
I can't say everybody, in my opinion,

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the people that spend a whole lot
of time out in the outdoors here

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in Alaska, they do it armed. Sure, you look at all the

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villagers when they leave their villages,
they're armed. So it's natural to be

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armed here. If you don't,
you're kind of be in bear bait.

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Absolutely, from from things I've seen
about Alaska, you do not. You

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don't get many chances to mess around, for sure. You get made one

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change and messes. So that's right. You make one mistake out here,

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especially when you're alone, like I
go and you're done, it's over.

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So you just gotta be careful.
So anyway, that's so, I know

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you Let me talk about the next
one to five year later thing real quick,

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before we get to that that area
you were in, were there ever

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any stories you heard of other sightings
or was it a pretty unique thing for

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the area that you were in?
Well, I didn't you know. Of

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course, this has started me on
my big soft squatch. Sure adventure of

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the Internet trying to find information.
So you know, beforehand, I didn't

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really care about him. I never
heard about him. You know, I'd

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heard about this thing called the acoustica, but it wasn't a big foot.

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It's the Ottoman exactly. So I'm
inland, you know, right now,

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and I'm about a mile a mile
and a half from where I was,

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and I'm inland one hundred and twenty
miles from the goal or the coast.

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So there's no custic here here,
That's what I'm saying. Gotcha had on

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the coast, and so anyway,
yeah, let's go, there's the answer.

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Yeah. So afterwards, yes,
absolutely, I found out lots of

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things about this area of it.
Five years later, then you had another

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thing happened to you, which is
totally unexpected because you're only expecting maybe one

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in your lifetime. Yes, correct, Yeah, I mean it's not realistic

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to think you're going to see another
one. So anyway, yeah, I

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saw another one last year. And
then the other one is I saw disappearing

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stump in the same area. Interesting, a disappearing stump, Yes, and

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I can explain that one. Yeah. Yeah, so I've had back problems

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and their service related. So I've
had, you know, treatments in my

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back. Unfortunately I left me unable
to walk for a while. So when

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I was able to walk, I
walked all over the place like the doctor

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in the physical therapist set. So
I walked from about where I am down

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to the the tow road, walk
in there, walk all over the place

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on uneven surfaces because that's what the
doctor wanted me to do. And then

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when I was about I couldn't do
it anymore, and I'd walked back home

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back here, and I did that
day after day after day after day.

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It's just physical therapy I have to
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I have to do it. So
I walk this trail over and over every

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day. And in Alaska this time
of year, it doesn't really get dark.

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It's smart twilight. So I walked
this trail and I'm headed towards the

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tow and I've looked at this same
trail and everything in it a whole bunch

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of times, so everything's basically memorized. And as I walk up, and

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I'm a hunter photographer, so I
can tell you what's not really supposed to

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be in place. If I saw
a place and something changed. I could

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pretty much tell you what it was. My brain will tell me there's something

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change anyway. So I'm walking down
the trail and I'm looking to the right

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for no reason, and I see
this big black stump. Now, the

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toe of the glacier is where the
glacier is receding, meaning nothing can grow

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there quick enough. That would be
a three foot stump or more. That's

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that's impossible. What's the things petrified? And I've walked this very old bunch

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and I've never seen it. So
I stop and I look at it,

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and I light up a cigarette,
and I'm thinking, you know, I'm

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tired anyway, because I'm hurting,
and I look at this stump and I'm

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thinking, well, shout, I'm
gonna go say what is this thing?

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It's weird. It shouldn't be here. And I walked towards it, and

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my feet get tangled in the brush. I look down, you know,

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get them mon tangles and keep going
and I look up and it's gone.

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Oh boy. And one thing I
hadn't told you is while I was watching

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this stone before I walked towards it, it opens its eyes. So on

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the side of the stone its eyes
opened really, and I was shocked.

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I'm like, what the F is
this? So I thought whatever it was,

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it would get up and run away. And that's why I have a

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stand in there and slowly smoking the
cligure. I looked at at this thing

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and it was probably it wasn't far
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feet it was a way, as
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it would be an easy shots of
twenty five thirty yards. So I'm like,

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well, and then it closed its
eyes and it turned it into it.

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You know, you couldn't tell it
wasn't anything else. I'm like,

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well, I'm gonna go find out
what it is. So I got a

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gun on with no big deal.
So I walked towards it, get stuck

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at the brush a little bit.
Look up, it's gone, no sound

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at all. I hadn't rained it
a couple of days, and I'm like,

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well, if I walk in there, it sounds like I'm, you

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know, walking through a bunch of
brushed up peanut shells or something. Boat.

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So I'm like, well, this
is weird. So I walk back

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in there anyway, and I look
around for fifteen to twenty minutes. I

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look up in the trees. I
look at the ground. I'm fairly good

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at tracking, nothing's disturbed. And
I'm thinking, wow, what in the

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world. So I walk back to
the road and with the trail, I

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walk down to the tow do my
thing, and walk home. And as

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I walk home, I use the
same trail and I'm keeping you know,

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I keep looking to my left,
which is where that area was, and

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I see nothing. No big deal. So I go home, and you

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know, next day I get up, I have to go walking. So

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eventually I go walking. In this
day, it's later, so it's probably

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eleven o'clock something like that, and
I go walking because I put it off

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it or its I don't want to
do it, but I do it.

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So I go out there and the
same trail, and I keep looking to

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the right because that's where I saw
the disappearing stump. And I'm walking along

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looking for this stump looking thing,
and I stop because something tells my brain

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while something's out of place. So
I look and I'm studying the area and

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I've hurt really done that at that
point, and I'm scanning the area and

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I'm like, wow, I'm not
gonna spelling much time on it. And

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I'm about to leave and I look
over and behind this spruce tree that's about

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twelve feet high is Oh. It's
like like a traditional big footstanding now,

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except for this was jet black.
Jet black. You couldn't see anything.

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Light coming often, and it was
still a little bit light. It's bluish

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light here. And it didn't move. It didn't I couldn't see its face.

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I didn't know if I was looking
at me or looking the other way.

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I assumed I was looking at me. And it was enormous. It

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was twelve feet tall five five and
a half feet wide, and it's like

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my brain didn't register what it was
until it did, and it was like,

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oh shit. So I raised my
right hand and I said a big

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brother, and I turned and I
walked away and walked down the toe and

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did my thing wow. And eventually
I came back because it's really the only

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way to get home this way.
So I come back, and I freaked

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out. I'm looking behind me and
stuff, but it didn't seem to bother

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it. You know, I got
this feeling that I was watching the trail.

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I think you're a crap about me. So anyway, I walked back

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that area and I'm really worried,
and I keep looking all over the place,

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especially to my left, and I
say nothing, that was the end

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of it. I find it really
interesting the reaction you had when you saw

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it, was, you know,
to raise your hands, say hey,

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big brother. What was it that
you think that that made you do that

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reaction? Was it something you'd heard
previously or is it just it just came

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out of you now? Because uh, in twenty seventeen, you know,

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I went on the rabbit hole for
information about what i'd seen because I didn't

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know what i'd seen during that time. I'd learned that if you get into

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you know fairly close to these things. And in my opinion, since I

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saw on the first time, and
I've listened to the Native tales and learnings,

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they say they're people. So somewhere
I heard, hey, that's proper

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greeting. You should say, oh, big brother, I leave, or

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you should say more to it.
But for me, that was all I

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could do, and that's what I
did. When you were doing research into

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this the years prior, were you
going directly to those that you may have

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known around you, or was this
you know things online or both mostly online?

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I know Native Stone and well throughout
the state, but mostly down by

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the Copper River. Are yet at
the basin and the two people ain't over

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well there. It's a man at
a female, and the man is not

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from Alaska, and the lady is
from western Alaska, so her knowledge would

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be limited to Alaska, of course, but more specified in that area.

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I did talk to the gentleman,
and he did not like talking about it

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in general. He doesn't care,
and he'll tell me areas that he just

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cannot sleep overnight. Because we both
camp a lot. He does more than

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I do, know, but we'd
always be on our rigs camping or you

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know whatever. I always ought to
tell them. And so he told me

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the areas he couldn't sleep, which
I find weird because the guy can you

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know, we're just out doors in
them, and the native he can park

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is Reagan sleep anywhere I don't like
I do. But there are basically three

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places down there that I cannot sleep
him. I've tried, but you can't.

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Are those areas you can mention or
they're just random areas out in the

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bush? Oh I can mention him. I don't really want to get specific

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because I don't want to mess with
the people in the area. Oh yeah,

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definitely not yeah, so, but
you know, one of them,

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I didn't see anything, but I've
heard things. And then the other two

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there's just creepy, dude. I
mean, I can go anywhere, sleep

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anywhere. It doesn't bother me.
There are two places other than my favorite

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place that are just creepy. So
you know, it's a deep, dark

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rainforest. There's absolutely no light because
the foliage grows over and if you usually

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have cloud cover, and if you
get a moonless night, it's like being

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in a cave. Wow. You
mentioned you've heard some interesting things in certain

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areas. Have you ever heard like
vocalizations things like that? Yes, but

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what kind of things? I have
a glad a few of the things.

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The strangest thing is I was done
by this place. I call it the

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Grailing Pond, and it's probably eighteen
miles from the little village and back in

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the off the main road there.
I don't know how many miles. It's

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a little log and trails you follow, and if you don't know, you're

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going to get lost anyway. So
I'm part next to this grailing pond and

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I got one of those solo rangers
going it's a fire pits, and I'm

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sitting on the launch air kind of
thing camp chair on my few go on

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a table that they had laid on, and I'm reading a book and it's

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nice though I don't know that misty. You know, it's a rain for

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us, so it's doable. Anything
used to it. So I'm sitting there

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reading this book and I hear the
you know, owls, they're not uncom

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and but first I hear ratums,
and I'm like, why are ratums out

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to sermon night? So they shut
up and I get back, but went

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back to reading. And then I
heard owls, and the owls they didn't

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sound right. There was too menium. You know, if you're hear an

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owl, it's alone. It may
have somebody else with it, you know,

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another owl, but it's in another
area hunting just like it is.

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You don't hunt together. So I'm
like, well, that's strange. It

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was like three of them, and
I thought that's weird. Maybe it's reading

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season or something. So the hoos
don't seem correct. And then one of

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the one of the who said,
I'm here sitting back reading a book,

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not really caring paying attention, and
this who turned into like the loudest scream

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from a woman you will ever hear
in your life. And it was ridiculously

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long. And I put the book
away and I looked around, because I'm

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on the millinoire. Anything you walk
up at eating, I don't have a

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sense reading around me. And I'm
like, what the hell was that?

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So I sat there for a while
and I thought, well, I'm listen

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to this, and another one doesn't, and another one doesn't, and I'm

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like, wow, And they're not
that far away. They're like, to

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me, they were like on the
backside between me and the sound is a

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grayling pond, an opener, you
know, it's kind of an open area,

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it's tundra, and then it goes
up under the side of the mountain.

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And to me, they sounded like
they were way back up the mountain,

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but they were really loud. I
feel. I thought, well,

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that's weird, and it was a
little freaked out. So I sat there

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and you know, nothing really happened, and then the ravens kicked off again.

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And then and then we heard or
I heard coyotes, and I thought,

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this is really weird. There is
no way this is going on.

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This starve and night there's nothing out
here to draw them. Where I am.

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At the time, there was rivers
through a river. It's small riverside

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the ford to get to where I
was, and they were packed with salmon.

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That's a great time to go camping
because nothing's going to mess with you

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big weeks in anyway. Eventually these
things are screaming based on the coyotes,

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and then I turned into people yelling, and then there's multiple ones going off

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at one time, and then I
hear this one and it is so loud

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it cannot be explained. It shook
my entire body. It fired off with

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this crazy scream like a lady.
It was really really loud, so it's

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I don't even know explain it.
It's this piercing scream like a woman that's

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really in trouble. And then it
turned into shit, kind of a man

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being, you know, murdered,
and then turned into like this animalistic screen

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and it was almost all at wance. It's really hard to explain. So

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I'm out there in the woods and
I'm it's dark as you mean, if

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I showed my light off, I
can't see anything, and I'm like,

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wow, I think it's time to
go. I load my chair into the

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truck, and you know, do
my little make sure everything's picked up all

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the fire puts do out to do
in any too. I'm gonna worry about

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the rain fours. It's not gonna
burn. You're not gonna have a floors

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fire there. So I get in
the truck, and the way my SUVs

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made, I can look backwards with
the doors open, and I have a

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chair back there where I could just
chill out in and read. So I

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was I'm like, well, at
least i'll be in here. So I

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shut the two doors and I had
to window, and I'm like, okay,

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I want to listen to this.
So they kept screaming. They kept

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repeating the same, same, similar
screams up on the mountain or between the

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mountain high and then there were like
two huge ones that seemed to have flanked

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me on each side. And what
they would do is when they would scream,

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it was mostly the one on my
left side. When this thing would

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scream, it was like in competition
with the others, and it screamed so

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loud, and it was you wouldn't
believe it. I mean if you did,

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if I hadn't heard it, I
think, yeah, dude, you're

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sure it was loud. No,
this is like louder than an M sixteen

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report. But they kept going and
going. Finally the one on the right

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started. So I got these two
gigantic things. I can't see ship and

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they're hollering like nothing I've ever heard. Just that's insane. So I'm like,

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well, I think it's tending to
leave again. So I crawl over

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and I'm about to shut the hatch
and just crawl on the front seat.

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I'm not going outside. And then
the one on the left started laughing and

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it was this I can't produce it, but it was this deep, truly

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laugh and it started like oh,
but then it turned into like this demonica

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laughing and it was incredibly loud and
very deep. And then the one on

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the right did it. So I'm
between these two things, and I'm thinking

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I should be terrified, but I'm
not. And I started laughing along with

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these two guys or whatever, and
I said, you know, there's something

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wrong here. I gotta get the
hell out of here. So I listened

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a little longer, and I've been
there maybe forty forty minutes at the most,

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something like that. I don't know
since they started talking all what they

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talked too, and I shut the
hats and I'm like, I can't deal

408
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.320
with us. I'm going somewhere else. I'm not super freaked out. So

409
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.000
I crawl on the front and I
drive towards this glacier that's hard to get

410
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.199
to, and it's behind them,
kind of behind the ridge, the same

411
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:42.400
ridge I think they were yelling from, but it's kind of on the back

412
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:46.199
side. So I parked there and
I get out, you know, head

413
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:50.480
of being so I've blot in the
woods nor you know, there's no woods

414
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:55.920
now, it's all open glacier scrub
so I can see. And I get

415
00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:01.599
out, look around my light,
do my thing and listen, and I

416
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:07.559
don't hear anything but the glacier ice
moving behind me, which is absolutely normal.

417
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:10.239
You know, it's about to set
some of them on the side of

418
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:14.079
the car or some of them size
your fist. When the wind blows.

419
00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:19.480
They they can we bump into each
other. So I'm thinking, okay,

420
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:24.000
I'm going to sleep here tonight and
I'll go deal with the fire upit in

421
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:30.519
the morning. So I and I'm
tired, so I crawled back in my

422
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:37.480
I should be and go to bit
make sure the doors are long, that

423
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:45.000
there's nobody out there. There's no
human beings out there. And sometime during

424
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:52.400
the night I get I wake up
and I hear this sounded something bouncing off

425
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:59.039
the top of my I should be
off the ruck. I don't think of

426
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:05.119
what. Oh, and I you
know, because it's a coast coastal area,

427
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:09.280
coastal Alaska, I'm thinking about seagulls
and you're dropping plans on me,

428
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.880
trying to break them open. And
I realized it's a middle and I thinking

429
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:19.639
me out. So I listen and
I hear these they're basically small pebbles.

430
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.360
They're getting bounced off the top of
my truck. And I'm not scared,

431
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:31.760
and I actually didn't care. I
heard that if you let them do their

432
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.639
thing, they get bored and leap, but if you interact with them,

433
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:38.280
you know, they like that.
It doesn't matter if it's good or bad.

434
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.000
They just want to be interacted with. So I left them and I

435
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.199
went to sleep, and everything was
fine in the morning, and then in

436
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:50.000
the morning I drove over it put
them a far too then, you know,

437
00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:58.519
I loved Wow. You mentioned you
heard them talking as well. Yes,

438
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:06.920
can you describe what kind of of
talking that you heard. All right,

439
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.360
So I've been in Laska twelve years
and I worked remote villages, native

440
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.920
villages, and you pick, and
I can't think of any other one anyway.

441
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.800
They're real common here, and you
pick language where I used to hang

442
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:25.360
out and work, that was common, So you pick. It's hard to

443
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:30.920
you know, it's it almost sounds
Asian, but it's it's it's it's its

444
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:39.679
own thing. So these big things
were sounding like they wanted to speak in

445
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:44.840
Upick. They started, but it
was like, yeah, I've never heard

446
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:49.440
that. It's it's a different cadence. It's super fast, and they sound

447
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:55.639
really angry. That's the only way
I can explain it. And I only

448
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.760
heard that from two guys. Those
two males. I believe their nails.

449
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:04.239
You know, I didn't see anything. I couldn't. But the two that

450
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:09.280
were closer to me, the big
laughing designs, right, they were the

451
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.320
ones that I heard speak, and
I think they were talking to each other.

452
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.800
Now on that was right before I
last, and I'm like, now,

453
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:30.119
so anyway I have heard speaking,
it's people or whatever speaking in areas

454
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:37.840
that it's impossible there's nobody there,
and it's always this huge sounding thing.

455
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:44.360
Wow. Usually women and children they
laugh and you know, they say the

456
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:49.639
thing and it sounds like they're picking
berries and they're really happy. But you

457
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:52.199
know, I know there's nobody there. I can go walk over it.

458
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.119
I'd already walked past this place.
It's glacier. It's like a moon out

459
00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:02.719
here in some places, there's nothing
there, so you want fast, you

460
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:07.360
know, well, sit down.
I'm a photographer, so you're ready to

461
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:12.960
start taking pictures, and I'm like, you hear you could and you know

462
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:19.000
there's nobody there. There's somebody out
here. Would you ever go back to

463
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:24.000
that area that you said is Grayling
Lake or oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

464
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.400
yeah, I'll go back. I
plan to go back here probably next

465
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:36.599
month. And that's in the that's
the Wrangels Saint Elias National Park area is

466
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.760
the same area as we were talking
about. Direct. Wow, that's incredible.

467
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.800
So I'm in the Wrangels Saint Elias
National Park right now and I'm indoors

468
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:50.880
going to raining. I don't want
to go out slop around. But you

469
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.159
know, tomorrow I'll be able to
the same exact place I saw these two

470
00:40:53.159 --> 00:41:00.320
sasquashes. It's not far and that's
I still have to walk. Why and

471
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:05.840
you're headed out there tomorrow. That's
nuts. Wow, that's that's incredible.

472
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:07.440
I was out there yesterday, Oh
you were. Wow. Well, it's

473
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:13.360
just yeah, I walk it all
the time. You know. You can

474
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.000
say, well, they get this
weird feeling, and I do a little

475
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:23.960
bit when I'm out there, but
it's it's completely not I can't explain it.

476
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:29.960
It's not thriving at all. It's
just I don't think they give a

477
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.280
crap about me, and it's just
happened to be in the area. It's

478
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.760
happened to be there. Yeah,
I always walk alone. I'm always alone

479
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.400
out here, and it's not it's
my choice because if I have a dog,

480
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:44.800
it's loud. I can't get my
wild wife photos. A lot of

481
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.480
people are bored because you have to
sit around quietly, you know, in

482
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:57.039
Holy blind or whatever. And yeah, let's considered boring people. So what

483
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:00.559
was your last question? Having no
problem, have you heard anything that would

484
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:07.519
be similar to anything that sounds like
ape or a monkey or anything weird.

485
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:15.280
Sometimes people say they hear stuff like
hoots or given things like that. Yeah,

486
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:23.519
I have heard the hoot from a
gigantic given or whatever they call them

487
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:29.480
the things that screen, you know, a little monkey to make ridiculous sounds.

488
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:31.639
It did sound kind of like that
a couple of times, you know,

489
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:35.440
when I've heard the hooting, they
don't might do it over and over.

490
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.599
It's like you'll hear in the background
and you know, it's never meant

491
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:45.920
anything to me. I don't care. It doesn't. I just don't care.

492
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.679
You know, it doesn't register.
It's not a threat nothing. I

493
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:53.079
mean, I can't take a picture
of it, right. Have you ever

494
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:58.199
going to eat it? Have you
ever considered taking audio recorder out with you

495
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:04.199
when you go to these areas?
Funny you may ask, I just go

496
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:09.920
on, I love it. Now'll
be out very much month and I'm actually

497
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:15.400
going to camp out my favorite place
that they happen to win the stream and

498
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:20.199
we'll see what happens. I don't
think I care about me much as I'm

499
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.440
in the area. To me,
it's like they're having a pot latch.

500
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:29.039
You know what that is? Remind
me? I think I know the gist

501
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:32.719
of what you're saying, but I'd
love to hear about it. So a

502
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:40.280
pot latch or a pow wow to
like maybe a lesser extent. The natives

503
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:45.440
it's basically a celebration and it can
be for different things. Um, you

504
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.960
know, Lord does what they're celebrating. But that's what it reminds me of.

505
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:59.039
Fascinating. They're definitely happen fun.
If you happen to get some interesting

506
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:04.000
audio, fully reach out. I
would love. I would love to hear

507
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.440
it, and I can get you
in touch with some guys that can really

508
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.960
analyze it as well. If if
Yeah, that's what I was looking forward,

509
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.840
you know. And the whole thing
is I can get the great videos.

510
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.639
I take pictures, you know what. Friends I can I can record

511
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:29.519
yaio nothing, you know, it's
just fun for me. It's care of

512
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:37.280
you play for friends. Thank you
every or distant woods. But you know

513
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:45.519
my length is I don't care,
you know what I mean, I totally

514
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:53.079
totally get it. I'm looking over
your email real quick, and um,

515
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:58.119
you had mentioned in the email.
I think it was that the Chug National

516
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:06.519
Forest. Yeah, is that is
that the Uh that's the area where you

517
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:13.440
had mentioned before with like the screaming
and the laughing, et cetera. Very

518
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:19.199
interesting and I've seen some I've seen
some giant footprints down there, really huge.

519
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:23.360
Oh it's ridiculous. I left,
uh, And then I did see

520
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:28.400
some other tracks down there that I
actually I was a fishing guide and I

521
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:34.400
want my clients freaking out, so
I squished them all out. You you

522
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:40.079
would wipe away the tracks so you
wouldn't freak out your clients. Yeah.

523
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:45.079
Wow, I mean they've played nickel. It's a lot of money to fly

524
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:50.119
out there enough one that's incredible.
I want to fly out there and say,

525
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:55.599
you know, you look at go
with the all that. You can't

526
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.880
say, I don't know you're in
the bush. They're with you. It's

527
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:05.519
a one on one situation. They're
going to make sure you're there, to

528
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:07.599
make sure they live through this.
They're gonna have fun, do whatever they

529
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:13.079
want as long as it's legal.
But you know it's me keeping the bears

530
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:16.440
off them and showing them were to
fish. Sure it makes sense. That's

531
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:23.679
really boring sometimes. I mean,
you know, I've got to build somewhere

532
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:30.280
in that forest kind of does it
kind of bump up against the Kenai Peninsula?

533
00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:38.079
No? No, okay, No, when you get chance, google

534
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:49.440
the Copper River and if you go
down by there's a place I is where

535
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:54.159
I saw the tracks me or it's
called a Knight Island and it's within the

536
00:46:54.199 --> 00:47:00.559
actual Copper River and Night Island.
That's a weird place is doing now?

537
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:07.440
Yeah? Night Island not ill bringing
into the Copper River basin Google what is

538
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:15.440
so weird about that area? Oh, that's a report from the locals about

539
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.760
something like a circular pool of light
and it shoots up in the air and

540
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:27.559
it's going really yeah yeah, if
they can't make up yeah, I know.

541
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.000
And then the footprints I saw were
huge, and I'm like, I'm

542
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:34.199
not going looking. I just got
my truck and left. I saw a

543
00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.239
hum a moongus bear out there.
I don't I assume it was natural.

544
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:45.039
I've seen plenty of bears one hundreds
and five thousands old. Sixteen, you

545
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.880
know, it seemed sixteen in a
day. That's not the deal. But

546
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:53.800
this bear, if we were if
we were standing on a pavement and this

547
00:47:53.920 --> 00:48:00.960
thing walked past me, it would
be I'm five twen. It would be

548
00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:06.920
as tall as my back or it's
back my head would be. Maybe i'd

549
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:14.719
be a little shorter. Mhm.
Stuff you don't mess with for sure.

550
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:21.079
And I actually talked to the local
law enforcement guy, you know, the

551
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:27.679
federal forces, and I told him
my son when I saw it laughter,

552
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.119
and he's like, yeah, they
get really big. He's like, usually

553
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.000
people don't see him from that or
some of the regulations. You win,

554
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:39.519
That's not what I'm looking for,
man, right, Yeah, I'm like,

555
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:43.320
is there a third species of fair
out there? That's what I asked

556
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.880
him. He's like, no,
they just gets you know, they keep

557
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:54.360
growing if they have food. Wow. Anyway, Joe, incredible accounts.

558
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:59.519
Thank you so much for spending some
time chatting about this. This has been

559
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:08.000
Please if you'd by hearing anything else, I'll s to you fantastic And yeah,

560
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:13.039
I definitely hope to hear from me
in the future. But thank you

561
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:19.079
so much Joe for chatting tonight.
Are You're welcome here at Bigfoot Society.

562
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:23.880
Article is to provide a platform for
those that have encountered Bigfoot to share their

563
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:30.039
encounter in a safe and respected environment. But we need to hear your story.

564
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:35.320
If you've experienced something that you just
can't explain, please send me an

565
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:40.679
email at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot
com. Then we can start the conversation.

566
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.599
And I know a lot of you
have not shared your encounter at all.

567
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:51.480
It's been twenty years and it's time
that you get this off your chest

568
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:54.119
and then you can get some well
deserved for rest, because I know you

569
00:49:54.159 --> 00:50:00.320
haven't been sleeping. I understand what
you're going through, and I appreciate every

570
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:00.159
one of you listening