Alaskan Timber Worker's Chilling Sasquatch Encounter on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

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This thing is not a mangy bear, and I couldn't figure out what the

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hell it was. I was questioning
my sanity. It looked more a for

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sure as big cheeks brown like a
what is that thing? The orange ones

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from Asia? Worrying at tain?
You probably covered ten twenty feet in matter

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of nothing. He was gone in
almost instantly. Either you're listening to the

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I've taken far too much of your
time so far, so let's get

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on with the show, all right, Big for Society've got the privilege of

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talking to Dylan from Prince of Wales
Island up in southeast Alaska. Today.

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How's it going, Dylan, I'm
pretty good. Are you doing well?

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I'm excited to talk to you on
the phone. I was trying to see

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if I could get a whole of
anyone that actually lives on the island and

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has had some bigfoot encounters, and
through some posts that I made in some

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groups, we were able to get
connected. And so background on yourself.

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You do work in the timber industry
up there in Prince of Wales, but

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you said that you do have some
interesting sightings to to share with the podcast

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listeners. I'm going to let you
take the floor, and I know you've

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had a few times where you've seen
sasquatch over the years, but I'll have

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you start wherever you feel is a
good starting point. Okay, Now,

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I guess I could start with the
first time I've seen one. I lived

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on the island now for about four
years and the first time I come up.

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I have a friend who lives in
Cassan, which is in the There's

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a peninsula sticking out towards catch a
Can and there's a little town on that

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peninsula. You can drive to it
and it's an old native village. But

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we went crab fishing in that bay
there, it's a pretty good place to

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go fishing. And we were throwing
pots over and I looked over to go

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mark the buoye, and I've seen
a shape moving between these two islands.

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And we didn't think anything about it. Kept putting around, putting pots in,

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and we got closer and closer to
this thing. I thought it was

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a lot. There's lots of logs
floating around after storms, dead heads,

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and if you hit it with your
boat, you'll get a hole or mess

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up your prop. So I told
him, and he took a look at

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it, and he said, that
ain't a log. That is a They

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call him a Kushtika. It's the
Native Alaskan people here. They believe in

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these creatures that live near water,
and they make these siren sounds like babies

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crying, women crying at night to
draw men towards the water, and they

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pull them in and eat them.
That's the story. And he wanted to

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get really close to it and kill
it. We got in a fight.

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I didn't want him to mess with
this thing. He was going to bring

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us in the water and kill us. But we got fairly close and looked

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at it through a scope on our
rifle, and it was swimming pretty fast

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over towards this island that has a
bunch of berry bushes, no trees,

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And I didn't think nothing of it
if I was a weird looking bear.

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But he swore up and down that
that was indeed a kushtaka or a sasquatch.

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I'm pretty sure that they're about the
same thing. And I didn't see

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nothing for a long time after that, for about e three years, and

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then last year I always went to
the Carter River Wilderness and I was going

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to go to the lake, take
a week off of work, have a

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big fishing trip, start at the
lake, and make my way down the

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river and then go beach sane and
then get picked up. So I was

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at the cabin at the lake for
two three days and headed off down towards

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the mouth of the river where there's
another cabin. And this area is very

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overgrown. It ain't been logged,
I think ever. So there's nine ten

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foot sick of spruce, very dense
canopy, very dark, and that year

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we got fifteen feet of rain,
so it was raining NonStop the whole time.

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It's very dark, and when it's
raining you don't have a very good

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sense of anything, hearing or vision, smell, You can't really I don't

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know I how to describe it.
You're almost numb walking through that stuff.

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And a bunch of salmon berry bushes
extremely dense around a corner on the river,

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and I was going to go throw
in see if I could get a

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couple of saki. They were running. It's about June, and I peered

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over and I thought it was a
bear because it's black and it was looking

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down, so it looked like a
snout of some kind. But I got

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closer to it and it looked up. It hurt me, and we were

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just staring at each other across the
river. Its head looked up. I

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saw its eyes, and anyone's not
a bear because bears don't. Bears have

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snouts, they don't have flat faces. It didn't stick around long tuck I'm

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taking I'm thinking probably about two three
seconds, and he was gone, turned

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around, ran. It's about it. I don't know what else to give

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you. When you saw the creature
for a few seconds, do you remember

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it had a particular shaped to the
head that you saw. Yeah, pretty

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long head, but a small face, if that makes any sense, really

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big forehead just verty and huge,
okay, and yellow eyes and a real

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big eyebrow. By big eyebrow,
do you mean the actual hair of the

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eyebrow or the ridge. I mean
it's all covered in hair, But you

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could see that area was like a
bump across the whole forehead, one big

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bump. Would you say most of
the face was covered with hair or only

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certain parts the face part It almost
looked like an Amish guy. You know

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how they shave the mustache. They
have a big beard from the sideburns all

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the way around looked like that.
Did you notice anything particular about the nose

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of their creature at all? Pretty
flat and people have round nostrils. This

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thing had more like a slit looking
thing. Did it show its teeth at

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all? Any any emotion that you
got from its face in the few seconds

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that you saw it. I think
it was surprised, looked at me pretty

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wide eyed, one of those stunned
looks for a second, like a deer

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in the headlights. It sounds like
you were able to see it move a

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little bit, moving on two legs
are on four. It moved on too.

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It stood up and just turned away
and walked. You able to see

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the hands at all, or what's
the lower part covered by bushes or something

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like that. No, he was
in the river, so saw the hands.

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These wet, but they were there. Did you notice anything out of

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the ordinary about the hands. Oh, they had thumbs, for sure,

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they weren't more feet, gotcha.
And hair covered all the way down to

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the hands. Oh yeah. Looking
at the face of the creature. Let's

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say, if you had to put
in a category in human category and you

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have ape category, or I guess
maybe you have something completely different, could

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you put it in any of those
categories? I mean it looked more eight

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for sure, has big cheeks,
brown like a what is that thing?

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The orange ones from Asia? Orang
atane? Oh really, it reminded you

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of an orangutang look. Oh yeah, for sure because of the cheeks.

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Okay, yeah, I'm picturing that
in my head. I know exactly what

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you're talking about. Length of the
hair. Did you notice anything in regards

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to how long the hair was.
It's pretty shaggy, so it had to

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have been fairly thick. What that
would be maybe three four inches thick,

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like a shagg rugged looking deal.
Did you notice a color to the hair

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at all? Yeah, like a
dark brown black looking, very dark colored.

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Were you able to see the feet
or lower legs at all? Yeah?

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Okay, did you notice anything about
the feet or the legs at all?

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Not anything other than they had two
two feet definitely no shoes. The

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hair went pretty much clear down there, but I couldn't tell you in detail

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what the feet looked like. What
was the weather like at this time?

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Raining temperature? Oh, probably about
sixty sixty five degrees. Okay. Did

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you notice any particular smell at this
time? Yeah? It was frankly one

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of the worst smells I've ever smell
in my life, wet, mangy.

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Have you ever been to a camel
shelter and smelt that weird, rancid,

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sweaty dog smell? Yeah? And
you could smell across the river. Okay,

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remind me how far away roughly you
were again, I would say between

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forty and thirty feet the river there
probably about that wide, and that smell

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just hit you from that far away. Wow, that's that is wild.

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When you saw the creature moving,
getting out of the river, then probably

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walking a bit, did you notice
anything about how it walked its gate?

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Yeah, it stood up and turned, but it's a heel in one motion,

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and it took a huge step onto
the river bank, and then another

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step, and then it stepped into
the salmon berry's but really big steps.

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You probably covered ten twenty feet in
matter of nothing. He was gone and

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almost instant, quiet, in quiet, quiet, quiet, Okay. Picturing

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the way that it's moving in your
mind, do you feel like that's a

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way of moving that a human could
replicate or was it different than the way

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that a human would move. I
don't think a person, even a tall

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guy with really good coordination, because
tall people usually ain't that coordinated. I

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don't think you could really get out
of the river soaking wet, and the

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ground heres moss and rock, so
when you're stepping on it, you think

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it's soft, but it's It will
tear your feet up really really quick.

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It's slick too, and it was
really rainy that day. I don't think

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that a person could make that kind
of movement with bare feet. They have

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to be wearing cork boots. Were
you able to get a feel of how

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long the actual foot of the creature
would be if you had to give estimate

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the foot of it, yeah,
how I wouldn't be able to guess,

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probably something in the range at fourteen
fifteen inches, if I had to guess,

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I know, sure pretty big around
this time, What were the sounds

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around you? Like, what other
sounds were you hearing? Are you hear

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the river? You would hear some
crows, there were some eagles, and

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little breeze going through the trees.
Mainly the rain is really heavy rain.

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Gotcha, So not entirely one hundred
percent quiet, but you're still hearing a

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few birds, Okay, gotcha?
Do you remember what your emotional reaction was

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in a few seconds you saw this
happen first? I was in a daze

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and I stood there probably two three
minutes after it left. I couldn't move.

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Almost felt like an out of body
experience, like I was paralyzed.

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Did you tell anyone right afterwards what
had happened? Or did it take a

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while for you to share what you'd
experienced. No, I didn't tell anybody

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for six seven months. I've only
told about three four people. Is there

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a reason why you took so long
to share that way? I was trying

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to figure out what the hell could
be for sure. I don't like jumping

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on things and just coming up with
theories I know. I have a really

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good friend of mine, and he'll
see aliens everywhere. There's aliens in the

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supermarket and lizard people and all that
other stuff. But I was thinking of

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I've been in the forest in my
whole life. I was logging since I

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was fourteen, So I've seen bears. I've been logging in Alaska for six

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years now. There's wolves, there's
bears, there's deer, and in southeast

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Alaska that's about it. Large animals. I've seen some. Really, there's

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mangy bears. They get sick sometimes
and they'll lose hair. They look really

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weird, and sometimes they'll stand on
two feet. This thing is not a

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mangy bear, and I couldn't figure
out what the hell it was. I

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was questioning my sanity for a while. Wow some other questions about what you

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had seen. Do you remember anything
about the arms of the creature at all?

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Apart from them being hairy and all
that. Was there anything weird about

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the length? They were long?
For sure, longer than proportionately we'd see

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on a bear. The hands definitely
went lower to the About the knees,

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I'd say a little bit about the
kneecaps or the fingers would be resting if

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he's standing straight up. Did it
look like you're looking at a creature that

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had normal amount of digits, like
we would have like five fingers and five

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toes or I don't know if that's
something you were able to know at all,

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or I wouldn't be able to tell
for sure because he's soaking wet and

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some of those hairs are bunched up. Might have looked like fingers, but

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I couldn't think more than five in
less than four. Gotcha? Was there

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anything that made you were you able
to tell if you were looking at like

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a male or a female of the
species or anything like that. It did

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have a big chest, well again
too graphic. It didn't look like a

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guy. It looked like the memories
there. Okay, gotcha? That's that

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sounds like it's the first major interaction
you've had, because I was thinking back

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to the first story and it sounded
like at that point you only saw a

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creature that was in the water.
Did that creature ever get out of the

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water that you saw or know?
How'd you feel it? It's just it

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was swimming and it was an animal. It wasn't a log for sure.

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It had was making noise in the
water. You could see trying to breathe

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and stuff. How much of the
animal were you able to see in the

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water, was it shoulders up or
just the head or the water was pretty

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clear. We could see the head
up in the water, and when it

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would swim, you could see parts
of the upper shoulders, but you couldn't

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see anything definite below the water lying
there. Okay, what were the main

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features since you weren't able to see
a lot of the creature like you were

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the one that we just talked about, were there major features that you saw

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that were like you're like, okay, yeah, this is a sasquatch or

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a kushtaka or kushtaka oh kushtaka.
Yeah yeah, still that the flat face,

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but the heads on they're so oblong
that they look like they could be

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a snout, but they aren't pointed
in the direction that the animal moves.

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If that makes any sense. It's
the peak of the head points back and

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the animal is moving forward. It
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bears swim and any other animal I've
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in the same direction. Bears in
them they don't do backstroke. Have you

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ever seen any other creature that has
a head shape similar to that? Nope?

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Okay, you said the one creature
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tang face to it. Was that
also similar to the one that you saw

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swimming or was that a completely different
setup? We weren't close enough to be

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able to make that out, gotcha, Yeah, asking some basic questions either

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of these encounters, were you able
to get any pictures or audio recording,

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or see any tracks, any evidence
like that. I did not take pictures,

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and I just honestly don't look to
take any pictures of anything. I'm

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not a good photographer. So I
did come back not long after, and

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I looked in the river there for
any tracks, But it's hard to find

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tracks here. It's all moss and
anything's there an impression. The best luck

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you have is around a riverbank,
and when it's raining, you won't find

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much. Going back to the orangutang
one, do you have any idea of

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what the creature might have been doing
there at that spot when you sounds like

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you stumbled upon it. Was it
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I would assume it was fishing,
because it was a salmon run and it

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was leaning over the water. It
the prime arms there in the water,

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and it was looking in the river
watching. It wasn't looking anywhere else before

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I showed up, So probably fishing. Did you ever do any research to

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see if you could find any or
talk to anyone who had seen similar things

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in that area where you were at? Yeah, my friend from Casan,

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I've talked to him, and the
locals around here, they'll tell you that

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it's kushtaka, and their stories and
descriptions of them are pretty similar. What

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they look like, what they're up
to, where you find them. They

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almost always seem to be around water. That's the one commonality in all those

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encounters I've ever heard of up here. Did you grow up on the island

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then, No. I came up
here to work, Okay, ended up

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staying. When you first got to
the area, did you notice the presence

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of Sasquatch and the culture right away? Oh? Yeah, Before I came

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up here, I was logging in
Oregon and Washington, and it's pretty similar.

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As far as a prevalence in the
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I would say it's very intense closely
tied guys that you were working with.

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Did they have similar experiences themselves,
or if they did, they don't tell

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anybody. And it's pretty hard for
me even to talk about it. You

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don't talk about this kind of stuff. It's a pretty no nonsense industry.

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Oh. Absolutely, And I'm very
very thankful that you are able to talk

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about this. I know it's a
thing where you are still in your career,

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and I can tell that at times
this is hard to talk about for

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you. If you had the choice
whether to see it again, would you

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want to see it again or I'd
absolutely like to see it again. I'd

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love to because it's a special thing. It's something that I don't think there's

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a whole lot of them left.
It's like walking in an old growth forest.

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Only a handful of people will ever
be able to do that, unless

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as the world is closed up and
we destroy more of it. Really probably

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going to go out again and look
for it at the card that'd be awesome.

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Definitely let me know if anything comes
to that. Is this a thing

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where the memories were coming into your
dreams things like that? Oh, I

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couldn't tell you. I don't think
so. I had a dream about it,

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but it's not like a thing that
had happened all of a sudden,

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like a magical shamanistic deal, more
like a PTSD dream. Quite honestly,

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do you have any advice for people
that maybe they've had an encounter like this

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of ways that they can move past
it and just be able to deal with

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everyday life. Yeah, eventually you
got to tell somebody, and I wouldn't

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be too concerned if they believe you
or not, because who gives a rap

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whether or not anyone believes you.
You can only believe your own two eyes

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and your nose and your ears.
Why do you think it's important to actually

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be able to share to someone else? Partially because you drag them into it

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with you, and all of a
sudden there's another person who's they might not

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believe it. They might, but
now there's more people who have to at

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least think about it. Gotcha dealing. It's a very interesting encounter. Thank

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you so much for sharing what you
saw with me and my listeners. I

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hope you are able to go back
to that area if you are able to

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notice anything weird up there, definitely
keep us in the loop. Thank you

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so much for taking some time chatting
with us tonight. Do you have any

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closing words about your experiences or I
suppose the last thing to say would be,

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I really hope that nobody comes out
here to hurt them. That's about

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it, because we get a lot
of trophy hunters and I would imagine they'd

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love to get their hands on something
like that. I would hope it never

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comes to that. That's totally different
than getting a specimen for science, I

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think, the whole trophy hunting thing. But yeah, I hope that it

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definitely does not come to that.
But Dylan, thank you so much for

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your time tonight, No problem.
May ask you a question, Yes,

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does this need to be off record? I don't think so, All right,

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go ahead. Do you get a
lot reports from around here? So

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I've only had the opportunity to talk
to one gentleman who was a chaplain with

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the Salvation Army about his time up
there a Prince of Wales Island. From

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what I've heard, there are many
people. It's just being able to get

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the connection to them, which is
why I resorted to pretty much posting in

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random Prince of Wales Island Facebook groups. And then someone I think sent a

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message to your tagged you in it. But I know there are lots of

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people in your area that are seeing
things. It's just being able to get

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in touch with the right people.
Yeah was he from klook? Oh yeah,

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okay, Yeah it was a klobok
thing yea. So it's pretty interesting

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if listeners are listening and there's other
individuals that have had sightings in the Prince

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of Wales Island area. I would
love to talk to you as well.

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Unit always send me an email at
bigfost Society at gmail dot com. But

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yeah, I've had the privilege of
talking to one other person so far,

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hopefully more in the future. All
Right, all right, Dylan, thank

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you so much for chatting. Feel
free to reach out there's anything that I

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can ever help out with and hope
to be in touch with you in the

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future. Sure, thank you,
all right, have a great rest of

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your night, Dylan, do goodbye. You're at Bigfoot Society. Our goal

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is to provide a platform for those
that have encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter

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and a safe and respected environment.
But we need to hear your story.

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If you've experienced something that you just
can't explain, please send me an email

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at Bigfoot society at gmail dot com. Then we can start the conversation.

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And I know a lot of you
have not shared your encounter at all.

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It's been twenty years and it's time
that you get this off your chest and

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then you can get some well deserved
for rest, because I know you haven't

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been sleeping. I understand what you're
going through, and I appreciate every one

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of you listening