Double Alaska Encounters! | Prince of Wales | Kenai |Archives

0:00 Welcome to Big for Society. If you have BIGFOD activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode. And if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Big for Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more Big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes. Head on over to patreon dot com. Forward slash the Big for Society and now let's get on with the show. All right, Big for Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Dylan from Prince of Wales Island up in southeast Alaska today. How's it going, Dylan, I'm pretty good. Are you doing well? I'm excited to talk to you on the phone. I was trying to see if I could get a hold of anyone that I actually lives on the island and has had some Bigfoot encounters, and through some posts that I made in some groups, we were able to get connected and still background on yourself. You do work in the timber industry up there in Princeville, Wales, but you said that you do have some interesting sightings to share with the podcast listeners.

1:24 I'm going to let you take the floor, and I know you've had a few times where you've seen a sasquatch over the years, but I'll have you start wherever you feel is a good starting point. Okay, Now, I guess I could start with the first time I seen one. I lived on the island now for about four years and the first time I come up. I have a friend who lives in Cassan, which is in the There's a peninsula sticking out towards catch a Can and there's a little town on that peninsula. You can drive to it. It's an old native village. But we went crab fishing in that bay there. It's a pretty good place to go fishing. And we were throwing pots over and I looked over to go mark the buoye, and I've seen a shape moving between these two islands, and we didn't think anything about it.

2:20 Kept putting around, putting. Pots in, and we got closer and closer to this thing. I thought it was a log. There's lots of logs floating around after storms, dead heads, and if you hit it with your boat, you'll get a hole or mess up your prop. So I told him, and he took a look at it, and he said, that ain't a lot. That is a They call him Kushtika. It's the Native Alaskan people here. They believe in these creatures that live near water, and they make these siren sounds like babies crying, women crying at night to draw men towards the water, and they pull them in and eat them. That's the story.

3:06 And he wanted to get really close to it and kill it. We got in a fight. I didn't want him to mess with this thing. He was going to bring us in the water and kill us. But we got fairly close and looked at it through a scope on our rifle, and it was swimming pretty fast over towards this island that has a bunch of berry bushes no trees, and I. Didn't think nothing of it. I thought it was a weird looking bear. But he swore up and down that that was indeed a Kushtaka or a Sasquatch. I'm pretty sure that they're about the same thing. And I didn't see nothing for a long time after that, for about e three years, and then last year I always went to the Carter River Wilderness and I was going to go to the lake, take a week off of work and have a big fishing trip.

4:00 Start at the lake and make my way down the river and then go beach sane and then get picked up. So I was at the cabin at the lake for two three days and headed off down towards the mouth of the river where there's another cabin. And this area is very overgrown. It ain't been logged, I think ever. So there's nine ten foot sicke of spruce, very dense canopy, very dark, and that year we got fifteen feet of rain, so it was raining NonStop the whole time. It's very dark, and when it's raining you don't have a very good sense of anything hearing or vision, smell, you can't really know.

4:50 I had to describe it. You're almost numb walking through that stuff. And a bunch of salmon berry bushes. Extremely dense. So I walked around a corner on the river and I was going to go throw in see if I could get a couple of saki they were running. It's about June, and I peered over and I thought it was a bear because it's black and it was looking down, so it looked like a snout of some kind. But I got closer to it and it looked up. It hurt me, and we were just staring at each other across the river. Its head looked up. I saw its eyes, and anyone's not a bear because bears don't. Bears have snouts, they don't have flat faces.

5:34 It didn't stick around long, tuck I'm taking I'm thinking probably about two three seconds and he was gone, turned around, ran. It's about it. I don't know what else to give. You, Dylan, when you saw the creature for a few seconds, do you remember it had a particular shaped to the head that you saw. Yeah, pretty long head, but a small face, if that makes any sense. Really big forehead, just very and huge, okay, and yellow eyes and a real big eyebrow. By big eyebrow, do you mean the actual hair of the eyebrow or the ridge, I.

6:21 Mean it's all covered in hair, but you could see that area was like a bump across the whole forehead, one big bump. Would you say most of the face was covered with hair, or only certain parts. The face part. It almost looked like an amish guy, you know how they shave the mustache but have a big beard from the sideburns all the way around looked like that. Did you notice anything particular about the nose of their creature at all? Pretty flat and people have round nostrils. This thing had more like a slit looking thing. Did it show its teeth at all? Any any emotion that you got from its face in the few seconds that you saw it.

7:08 I think it was surprised, looked at me pretty wide eyed, one of those stunned looks for a second, like a deer in the headlights. It sounds like you were able to see it move a little bit, moving on two legs are on four? It moved on too. It stood up and just turned away and walked. You able to see the hands at all? Or what's the lower part covered by bushes or something like that. No, he was in the river, so saw the hands. These wet, but they were there. Did you notice anything out of the ordinary about the hands? Oh, they had thumbs, for sure, they weren't more.

7:49 Feet, gotcha? And hair covered all the way down to the hands. Oh yeah, looking at the face of the creature. Say, if you had to put it in a category in human category and you have ape category, or I guess maybe you have something completely different, could you put it in any of those categories? I mean it looked more eight for sure. It has big cheeks, brown like a what is that thing? The orange ones from Asia wrang atane? Oh really it reminded you of an orangutang look? Oh yeah, for sure because of the cheeks. Okay, yeah, I'm picturing that in my head. I know exactly what you're talking about.

8:33 Length of the hair. Did you notice anything in regards to how long the hair was. It's pretty shaggy, so it had to have been fairly thick. What that would be maybe three four inches thick, like a shagg rugg looking deal. Did you notice a color to the hair at all? Yeah, like a dark brown black looking, very dark colored. Were you able to see the or lower legs at all? Yeah? Okay. Did you notice anything about the feet or the legs at all? Not anything other than they had two two feet Definitely no shoes. The hair went pretty much clear down there, but I couldn't tell you in detail what the feet looked like.

9:22 What was the weather like at this time? Raining temperature? Oh, probably about sixty sixty five degrees. Okay. Did you notice any particular smell at this time? Yeah? It was, frankly one of the worst smells I've ever smell in my life, wet mangy. You ever been to a animal shelter and smelled that weird, rancid, sweaty dog smell? Yeah, and you could smell across the river. Okay, remind me how far away roughly you were again, I.

10:03 Would say between forty and thirty feet the river there probably about. That wide, and that smell just hit you from that far away. Wow, that's that is wild. When you saw the creature moving, getting out of the river, then probably walking a bit, did you notice anything about how it walked its gate? Yeah, it stood up and turned. Why it's a heel in one motion, and it took a huge step onto the river bank, and then another step, and then it stepped in the salmon berry's but really big steps. You probably covered ten twenty feet in matter of nothing. He was gone and almost instant, quiet.

10:51 In quiet, quiet quiet, Okay, picturing the way that it's moving in your mind, do you feel like that's a way of moving that a human could replicate, or was it different than the way that a human would move. I don't think a person, even a tall guy with really good coordination, because tall people usually ain't that coordinated. I don't think you could really get out of the river soaking wet and the ground ears it's moss and rock, so when you're stepping on it, you think it's soft, but it's It will tear your feet up real really quick.

11:31 It's slick too, and it was really rainy that day. I don't think that a person could make that kind of movement with bare feet. They have to be wearing cork boots. Were you able to get a feel of how long the actual foot of the creature would be if you had to give estimate the. Foot of it, yeah, oh, I wouldn't be able to guess. Probably something in the range at fourteen fifteen inches if I had to guess, I know, sure. Pretty big. Around this time, what were the sounds around you? Like, what other sounds were you hearing?

12:12 Are you hear the river? You would hear some crows, there were some eagles, and little breeze going through the trees, mainly the rain is really a heavy rain. Gotcha, So not entirely one hundred percent quiet, but you're still hearing a few birds, Okay, gotcha? Do you remember what your emotional reaction was in a few seconds you saw this happen first? I was in a daze and I stood there probably two three minutes after it left. I couldn't move. Almost felt like an out of body experience, like I was paralyzed.

12:53 Did you tell anyone right afterwards what had happened? Or did it take a while for you to share what you experienced. No, I didn't tell anybody for six seven months. I've only told about three four people. Is there a reason why you took so long to share that. I was trying to figure out what the hell could be for sure. I don't like jumping on things and just coming up with theories. I know. I have a really good friend of mine, and he'll see aliens everywhere. There's aliens in the supermarket and lizard people and all that other stuff. But I was thinking of I've been in the forest of my whole life.

13:37 I was logging since I was fourteen, so I've seen bears. I've been logging in Alaska for six years now. There's wolves, there's bears, there's deer, and in southeast Alaska that's about it. Large animals. I've seen some. Really, there's mangy bears. They get sick sometimes and they'll lose hair. They look really weird, and sometimes they'll stand on two feet. This thing is not a mangie bear, and I couldn't figure out what it was. I was questioning my sanity. For a while. Wow, some other questions about what you had seen. Do you remember anything about the arms of the creature at all?

14:22 Apart from them being hairy and all that. Was there anything weird about the length? They were long? For sure, longer than proportionately we'd see on a bear. The hands definitely went lower to the About the knees, I'd say a little bit about the kneecaps, or the fingers. Would be resting if he's standing straight up big. For society will be right back after these messages. Did it look like you're looking at a creature that had normal amount of digits like we would have, like five fingers and five toes or I don't know if that's something you were able to notice at all.

15:18 Or I wouldn't be able to tell for sure because he's soaking wet and some of those hairs are bunched up. Might have looked like fingers. But I couldn't think more than five in less than four. Gotcha? Was is there anything that made you Were you able to tell if you were looking at like a male or a female of the species or anything like that. It did have a big chest well, again too graphic. It didn't look like a guy. It looked like mammaries there. Okay, gotcha, that's that sounds like it's the first major interaction you've had, because I was thinking back to the first story and it sounded like at that point you only saw a creature that was in the water. Did that creature ever get out of the water that you saw or know? How did you feel it?

16:15 It's just a It was swimming and it was an animal. It wasn't a log for sure. It had was making noise in the water. You could see trying to breathe and stuff. How much of the animal were you able to see in the water? Was it shoulders up or just the head or. The water was pretty clear. We could see the head up in the water, and when it would swim. You could see parts of the upper shoulders, but you couldn't see anything definite. Below the water line there. Okay, what were the main features? And since you weren't able to see a lot of the creature like you were the one that we just talked about, were there major features that you saw that were like you're like, okay, yeah, this is a sasquatch or kushtaka or kushtaka oh kushtaka.

17:12 Yeah yeah. Still that the flat face, but the heads on they're so odblong that look like they could be a snout, but they aren't pointed in the direction that the animal moves. If that makes any sense. It's the peak of the head points back and the animal is moving forward. It wasn't on a bear. I think seeing bears swim and any other animal I've seen swim, the snout is always pointed in the same direction bears in them. They don't do backstroke. Have you ever seen any other creature that has a head shape similar to that? No, Okay, you said the one creature looked more like a had a rangutang face to it. Was that also similar to the one that you saw swimming or was that a completely different setup.

18:09 We weren't close enough to be able to make that out. Gotcha, Yeah, asking some basic questions either of these encounters, were you able to get any pictures or audio recording, or see any tracks, any evidence like that. I did not take pictures, and I just honestly don't look to take any pictures of anything. I'm not a good photographer. So I did come back not long after, and I looked in the river there for any tracks, but it's hard to find tracks here. It's all moss and anything's there an impression. The best luck you have is around a riverbank, and when it's raining, you won't find much.

18:54 Going back to the orangutang one, do you have any idea of what the creature might have been doing there at that spot when you sounds like you stumbled upon it. Was it trying to do any certain activity? Or I would assume it was fishing because it was a salmon run and it was leaning over the water. It had the prime arms there in the water, and it was looking in the river watching. It wasn't looking anywhere else before I showed up, So probably fishing. Did you ever do any research to see if you could find any or talk to anyone who had seen similar things in that area where you were at.

19:40 Yeah, my friend from Casan, I talked to him, and the locals around here, they'll tell you that it's kushtaka, and their stories and descriptions of them are pretty similar. What they look like, what they're up to, where you find them. They almost fall always seemed to be around water. That's the one commonality in all those encounters I've ever heard of up here. Did you grow up on the island then No, I came up here to work, Okay, ended up staying. When you first got to the area, did you notice the presence of sasquatch and the culture right away?

20:23 Oh? Yeah. Before I came up here, I was logging in Oregon and Washington, and it's pretty similar as far as a prevalence in the folklore and culture of the region. I would say it's very intense and closely tied. Guys that you were working with, did they have similar experiences themselves. Or if they did, they don't tell anybody. And it's pretty hard for me even to talk about it. You don't talk about this kind of stuff. It's a pretty no nonsense industry. Oh. Absolutely, and I'm I'm very very thankful that you are able to talk about this. I know it's a thing where you are still in your career, and I can tell that at times this is hard to talk about for you. If you had the choice whether to see it again, would you want to see it again or.

21:21 I'd absolutely like to see it again. I'd love to because it's a special thing. It's something that I don't think there's a whole lot of them left. It's like walking in an old growth forest. Only a handful of people will ever be able to do that, unless as the world is closed up and we destroy. More of it. Really probably going to go out again and look for it at the card. That would be awesome. Definitely let me know if anything comes to that. Is this a thing where the memories were coming into your dreams things like that? Oh, I couldn't tell you. I don't think so. I had to dream about it, But it's not like a thing that had happened all of a sudden, like magical shamanistic deal, more like a PTSD dream.

22:11 Quite honestly, Do you. Have any advice for people that maybe they've had an encounter like this of ways that they can move past it and just be able to deal with everyday life. Yeah, eventually you got to tell somebody, and I wouldn't be too concerned if they believe you or not, because who gives a rat whether or not anyone believes you. You can only believe your own two eyes and your nose and your ears. Why do you think it's important to actually be able to share to someone else?

22:51 Partially because you drag them into it with you, and all of a sudden there's another person who's they might not believe it. They might, but now there's more people who have to at least think about it. Gotcha, Dylan, It's a very interesting encounter. Thank you so much for sharing what you saw with me and my listeners. I hope you are able to go back to that area if you are able to notice anything weird up there. Definitely keep us in the loop. Thank you so much for taking some time chatting with us tonight. Do you have any closing words about your experiences?

23:33 I suppose the last thing to say would be, I really hope that nobody comes out here to hurt them. That's about it. Because we get a lot of trophy hunters, and I would imagine they'd love to get their hands on something like that. I would hope it never comes to that. That's totally different than getting a specimen for science I think trophy hunting thing. But yeah, I hope that it definitely does not come to that. But Dylan, thank you so much for your time tonight. No problem. May ask you a question. Yes, do you get a lot of reports from around here?

24:15 So I've only had the opportunity to talk to one gentleman who was a chaplain with the Salvation Army about his time up there a Prince of Wales Island. From what I've heard, there are many people. It's just being able to get the connection to them, which is why I resorted to pretty much posting in random Prince of Wales Island Facebook groups and then someone I think sent a message to your tagged you in it. But I know there are lots of people in your area that are seeing things. It's just being able to get in touch with the right people.

24:55 Yeah was he from klook? Oh yeah, okay, yeah. It was a klobak thing. Yeah, So it's pretty interesting if listeners are listening and there's other individuals that have had sightings in the Prince of Wales Island area. I would love to talk to you as well. You always send me an email at big for Society at gmail dot com. But yeah, I've had the privilege of talking to one other person so far. Hopefully more in the future. All right, all right, Dylan, thank you so much for chatting. Feel free to reach out there's anything that I can ever help out with, and hope to be in touch with you in the future.

25:40 Sure, thank you. All right, have a great rest of your night, Dylan. Is this not working tonight? Oh my goodness. Oh yeah, Bill, I'm going to call you back right now. I apologize. Let's see, this is going to take a minute. I am going to have to call him the old fashioned way real quick. Okay, Hello, Hey Bill? Hey, who's this Hey? This is Jeremiah. Oh hey man, Hey, calling you back? All right. Yes, I didn't have it set up right on my side, so it's my fault. But thank you so much, Colin. What's going on, Bill? I didn't get a chance to listen to your voicemail.

26:21 Yeah what you got? I just basically rambled about there. It's a terrifying event to see these things. It's not a Harry and the Henderson's feeling. There's no warm fuzziness to it. I'm calling from Keene, Alaska right now. Oh, Frank Key and I Alaska? Yeah, oh wow? How about miles away from Port Chaplain where the Sasquat say and everybody. Else, You're two miles away from Port Chatham, twenty miles? All right? What have you experienced uf there? What it started? Before I even knew what perring in their Sasquatch or Bigfoot was. I was six years old and one was looking in my bedroom window on the second floor of our house, which was eighteen feet off the ground, and its whole face and head filled the window, and I freaked. I counted on my brothers and sisters door, and they were like, oh see mom and dad. So I ran to my mom and dad and that's when it started. But my wife and I have seen him recently many times over the years. It's been that's part of the reason we moved from Fairbanks to Kenai.

27:40 Did you move to get away from them or to get closer to them? We moved to get away from those specific ones. They had pretty much proven that they weren't afraid of anything I had to offer In defense of my property. They did what they wanted. They walked through there when they wanted, They did that they wanted we got. I have four dogs. In between the four of them, they're almost seven hundred pounds of dogs. And the dogs would just be terrified, absolutely workless for any kind of protection at that moment when they're hiding behind you. They don't do that for bear or moose or anything else. They'll go aadly go after those. They would chase my dogs back to the house.

28:28 What kind of dogs we've seen. I've got an English mastif that's two hundred and forty eight pounds, a Great Dane that's two hundred pounds, a Saint Bernard that's one hundred and sixty pounds, and a half Husky mix that's one hundred pounds. He's the lapdog. They all think they're lat dogs, but they're not. But they're huge. And to see him go after a grizzly fearlessly and then cower from stuff that we couldn't see, it was terrifying. It was like I had know. The only thing I could tell my wife was we were walking from We had no running water at our house. We were building it, so we would go to my mother's house to bathe, and then at night we walk home and we had this one hundred foot long trail that snaked up through the woods, and there was one about ten feet from us.

29:36 In the dark. You could see its hand because we had left the kitchen light on in our house and my mom had her porch light on, so we had plus cdy come outs of light. But you could see its hand and it was well bigger than my chest. It could have grabbed me by the chest and picked me up. I'm five six. It could have grabbed me by the chest like a if it wanted to. It was huge, and it growled at us, and you could feel it in your bones, your everything, just you could feel it ripple through your body. And I told my wife, because my wife stopped and looked at me, just panicked, and she could tell I was just as panicked because it was like, yeah, there's nothing I'm going to be able to do but stall you. I told her. I said, don't run, keep walking.

30:34 Big, for society will be right back after these messages. Get in the house. That's your only goal. So she turned and she started walking towards the house and walked about fifty more feet up the trail and then boom into the house and slammed the door behind her. So I finally started walking, and it was all I could do to stand there for fifteen seconds to give my wife time to get into the house. And then I started walking, and it let out this grumble, and then you could hear it take off in the dark. And as soon as I heard it running away from me, I ran away from it. I know it wasn't running away from me. It wasn't afraid of me. It was just done scaring me. But they seemed to get off on scaring people. So we finally we put up with it for fifteen years and left. We couldn't deal with it no more.

31:51 So you had encounters like that for fifteen years. What was the thing that broke the camel's back? Because if you put up with fifteen years, it would have had to been something wild that happened that made you're like, okay, this is it. Well, the slapping on the house where it would shape the whole house and knock pictures off the walls, and the growling and the constant terrorizing. They seem to like to scare the dogs a lot to just keep the dogs in the house. No, we're out here. We're going to hang out here, We're going to do what we want. You're stuck in there, and because you couldn't drag them out, you physically could not drag them outside, they would not go, and more often than not, they would block the door with their bodies. Two or three dogs sometimes hold the door shut just so I couldn't go outside to have a cigarette. I took that as my something from God right there. It was like, yeah, no, I'm not going to open that door. I don't need a cigarette that bad.

32:54 Yeah, those regrets today. Did you ever get a good clear look at the face of the creature? I yes, I've seen several of them, much closer than I've ever want to be to one. Again. I can tell you that there's skin varies, but they all look human in the face, human enough to recognize there's part human in there, some kind of human. It's not all demon or whatever the hell they are. Are you able to describe the features that are in your memory from what you've seen over there? Like one they really like to mess with this. His skin was so black it was almost blacker than black.

33:44 It's hard to describe. Because he had these his eyes would change colors. You'd see sometimes his eyes were white with a blue iris, and then white with a red iris, and brown it's the same thing, but its eyes always changed. And sometimes at night you could see red eyes like emanating light out of the woods around the house. And it was like, yeah, no, we're not going outside tonight. We're done. We lived in the woods compared to what a lot of people think the woods are. How far away was the nearest neighbor. By then they'd opened up a subdivision, and I'd warned all my neighbors that lived in the immediate area where I had seen them, look around you when you're outside, don't don't just assume you're safe. Look around you and you're walking around, especially at night. And one of our neighbors had an incident where one roared outside of his house.

34:52 And his house was one hundred and fifty yards from mine. And I'm sitting on my front porch at three o'clock in the morning having a cigarette. You're having a pool tournament, and I had to smoke outside, so I sat on the porch. I had a bench, and I heard this crack, like an entire tree just broke. And then I heard that again and again, and then this war came and you could feel it he you, like a wave in the ocean just splashed up against you.

35:33 Have you ever heard any baby cries in the woods? Yes? Really, right in Fairbanks, Alaska, we were my house. I built my house seventy five feet from my mom's house so that I could take care of her, because I had taken care of her all my life. She was suffering, hurting, and so we built our house seventy five feet away so that we could get to her quicker. So there was no drive time, no wait, no lag. It was like bam, we're there. And we had all just got done eating Thanksgiving dinner. There was probably fifteen or twenty of us, my cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, whatnot, and everybody walked outside to stretch their legs. And there was a warm night for Fairbanks. It was like twenty five above then, and we heard this baby crying, and several of my aunts and uncles were like, whoa, We're going to get that baby. It was like, wow, no, you're not. Nobody's leaving the yard. There's no reason nobody left a baby in those woods. I promise you we'll go look from upstairs with flashlights before we go walking out there. And then everybody got terrified and just started bum rushing the house all at once, and you get

37:06 two people at a time through the door. So everybody just lauded up on the outside of the front porch, and me and my uncle stopped because we both had cigarettes lit, so we couldn't go inside, so we stopped right outside the door. And it continued for a while, and then it changed to owl noises and bird noises that you wouldn't hear in the dark, and it just it got terrifying all of a sudden. Other people, What was it that became that made it become terrifying for you all of a sudden. There's like a pressure that they seemed to push off that I don't know. It just it's scary because they're there and they either know they're there, so they I don't know what it is, but they put in make this pressure that you can feel, and you just automatically or terrified. It might be into I don't know, but because I know for them to be able to rattle their bones when they growled at my wife and I wage on more than one occasion. There's got to be some level of infrasound there because nothing else does that.

38:29 Was that a one night occurrence where you had the baby cries and then you heard the birds that shouldn't be there, and or did that happen multiple times? That happened multiple times over the years in that area. It was got off and on. I'm fifty five now. I didn't realize what was going on till I was in my twenties because I had no grasp of what could be out there, what is out there? What was it that kind of turned the lights up on where you realized that, hey, this is what I've been dealing with, is something way outside what I can control. My father and I were moose hunting one time and we had four by a long ways into this mountain valley.

39:21 He didn't want to risk going farther and getting stuck and having to walk that much farther out. We ardored around and turned the truck around to make a good flat kickoff area when we were going to leave, and we walked even farther into that valley on foot, and I seen his shoulder of one as it was going behind this huge spruce tree, and I told my dad, I said, there goes a moose right there. And my dad was already like straight up like some got his attention. And I turned to and looked at him, and he lowered his gun down. He didn't aim, but he was pointing to the gun in that general direction and he said, that wasn't a moose. Let's go. And then I realized what I thought was the butt of a moose was the shoulder. It was probably about nine foot off the ground, rolling behind this big spruce tree. And to see my dad scared was in an event because you didn't ever see him afraid. He fought in World War two, in the Korean War. He was not that kind of guy.

40:37 He was a John Wayne kind of guy. Didn't get scared. And that really made me nervous. So we backed our way out for a long way. It's probably a quarter of a mile before we turned and just booked it. And we got back to the truck and I asked him, I said, what did you see? And he goes, He's seen the same thing I seen. And I said, all's I seen was its back. He goes, I seen it looking at us, and I was like, oh, brilliant. Well, needless to say, we never most hunted in that valley again. Are you able to share? What is there a name for that valley? Or I don't even know?

41:19 Okay. We would just take off in his truck and go for miles. And when you want to get big moose, you got to go deep into the woods, deep deep miles. This was before cell phones or anything, so I had no GPS or anything. It is like just nothing but rolling hills up there in Fairbanks. You drive forty or fifty miles out of town and start driving into the mountains and rolling hills. Everything looks the same. Oh sure, yeah, definitely. Something I hear a lot from different interviews when it comes to Alaska is that the Sasquatch can be extremely aggressive up there. Is that something that you've run into from things that you've heard, The.

42:08 One that my wife and I had encountered seemed to be more aggressive than not. They weren't afraid to let you know they were there. Yeah, they weren't afraid of you at all. We were barbecuing one night outside of my mom's garage, like I'm remember and sing for Ma because we were leaving. We were done. We couldn't be there no more. Mom has passed away years before and it was time to go. And so we were doing one last barbecue and party at the garage and one ran by the front of the garage. Well, my wife was sitting out there and scared her so bad. She ran into the garage and closed the door and said we're going home now, and she was ghost white, wow, And alls I caught of it was like a gray and white and black haired leg running by. But it shook the concrete foundation of our garage.

43:11 That's wild. Did you happen to get any pictures or recordings. Of any kind. I've got boatloads of pictures and stuff that The strangest thing is everything around these hairymen or sasquage is crisp and clear in the picture that they're always blurry. That is usually the case, isn't it. Yeah. I used to have a photo lab, and I think that they can mess with an electrical field. So if you're using film, you can get a crisp, clear picture.

43:53 But I think they can do something to cameras. I don't know, but they didn't like the infrared light produced by the cameras. They would skirt around that light. They would show up in the middle of the day sometimes, and it just amazes me how some people refuse to see what's really going on around us. Oh sure, definitely, would you, even though they're blurry. Do you have any available if to maybe email to I. Get email them to you, but it'd take me a little while because I would have to take them off my computer, put them on my phone, and then send them to you. I don't have internet where I live.

44:38 Oh okay, if you are able to, I would. I think it'd be really cool to see them. I appreciate it, but only if you have the time to do it. So I got Oh I am forced to retired. Okay, so you've got some time. I spend all my time in my friend coach. Sorry, my dogs are going so remind me. Are you currently having interactions right now with the big. The last one I had, thankfully, was three months ago, and he was fifty feet from me. I'm assuming it was a juvenile that looked young in the face. It was only about six foot tall, but it was built bigger than any linebacker I've ever seen, and it was pulling these branches down, looking at me on my porch with the same confused look. I gave it, and as soon as we made eye contact, he turned and disappeared into the brush.

45:42 If you had to categorize them as something, sometimes people will say, look more like an ape, or it looked more like a human. Would you be able to do either of those or would you have to use a certain number. One I've ever seen looks more human than I had a very human ness quality to them, if that's even a word. I gotta do something. My dog, he's on the other side of the house, which shocks me. Something is going inside out. Samson, Hey, Samson, get down, hush now. Hard to tell a seven and a half foot dog when he's standing on his hind legs to hush now.

46:24 Yeah, hopefully there wasn't a big foot out there, right, I don't. We've heard some weird noises. I just I believe in God and I pray. When they're dumb, you can actually rebuke them and the name of the Lord and they will run away from you. Really, yeah, even if they're being terrifying, just like feed away from you. Interesting. I don't know what they are, but I know there they got to be more human than people think. They're not apes by any means. I'm sure there are different varieties of them, given the descriptions from all around the world.

47:08 But it's a terrifying event every time. It's never fuzzy and happy. I can't imagine going through the stuff that you've gone through before you moved. That just is really that. It is wild. I don't know what I would. I feel bad for your wife, definitely. Yeah. My wife is tougher than nails. She's five to two and just tough as nails because I don't think I've met another woman in my life that would stay around something for stay in a marriage, in a household that long, with something that terrifying going on all the time, all the time. Yeah, over the years, that's a long time.

47:54 I give her a lot of credit. I call her my big burly wife that she's five to one hundred and twenty. She'll stand up to any bigfoot for sure. That's great. Oh, Bill, I appreciate you calling in. This has been a fun chat. Please keep me up to date. If you experience anything else and send me. I will I will. Just called in on a lim it was like, yeah, time to say something about it. I appreciate you sharing your Alaska Bigfoot encounters with us. It's been a good time. Thank you so much. Bill. Thank you, it was nice talking to you. We'll talk later, all right, good night, all right. That was Bill from Alaska. Fun to talk to you.

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