SO EP:642 Beware Of The Bushman

can guide ourselves around fair enough. Hey, I'd do the same thing if I was in the same position. So Blake and Riley. This was basically for their fifth wedding anniversary. They decided to come towards the end of summer, beginning to fall. Riley his wife really joyed fall, the colors and all that. They planned to be up here two weeks. During the first week beautiful, the weather was great. They went up by Danale from Anchors and then in the

Fairbanks and then back on down. On their way back down, they took the Richardson going towards glenn Allen and they got to glenn Allen and they were like, ah, let's backcheck a little bit, head back towards Danale. It was so beautiful and there was some more pictures that Riley wanted to take. They still got another week. They're at their own schedule. As they're heading back and they're taking

the Denale Highway from Packson. It was this particular day it was getting on into darkness, and their book pretty tired from just the constant running in, the excitement, being in the Laska, the fresh air, all of it was just it was catching up to him. So they decided, Hey, we'll just pull out side of the road just camp right here, which many people do. Guys in their pickup trucks do that. I've done that, so why not they pull off. They do the little procedure to make sure

they're level and stuff like that. This particular pull off is not too far from the Triangle Lakes pull off that has a trail to Sweet Lake and on down to the alphabets and stuff, a spot with many encounters from the past. So where they were parked, they'd just come up. Anyone who's been there, you're coming out of packs and you come up to a point where you got this little switchback that gets up onto this higher plateau.

So they were just past that. The particular spot they picked was on the right hand side of the road heading towards Dnati. Now this is very near the same area where a couple of women had some crazy stuff happen. Right, they get set up, everything's level for the stuff they needed to do, as far as the requirements for the RV and whatnot. There was a small slide out that they extended out, and then they dropped the awning. As they were getting things set up. It wasn't a very

clear day that day. It was low ceiling. They couldn't see as clearly. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't the photo opportunities that Riley was hoping for. No big deal. They still had time, so they sat there, they made their dinner. They came out and had some long chairs underneath the awning that they had out. They're basically facing souths so they're on the north side of the road and they're facing south. They're just sitting in their chairs.

Periodically someone would drive by. It was just calm. It was relaxing. They're both really tired, especially after eating, and they were already burned out from the travel and so excited it was hard to sleep. They decided, hey, let's just turn in and we'll start right and early continue on. Blake said. Riley went in, was cleaning up a little bit of the mess they had in there or whatever, and he was just walking around the area making sure

he accounted for everything as far as RV requirements. He goes to the back, he removes a little panel and slides out this little thing that was holding the little generator on it. He fires it up because they were gonna fall asleep watching a movie. When he put fuel in this particular little generator, he found that if he only put in like a half a gallon, that it would run long enough for a movie or two and then die out. He wouldn't have to worry about getting up,

going outside and shutting it off. He does all that. He gets inside, they select their movie and stuff their kicked back. Where they decided they were going to crash out was where the little slideout is, where the seating area was. The tabletop drops down and then it turns into a mattress, little sleeping area right there, right about not quite the size of a double bed. They closed it up there, and they were watching their movie. They fell asleep. Blake remembers being in that fog and hearing

the generator dying down from being out of gas. But it was doing the little fluctuation thing, so he listened to it for a second, just fades back out. He has no idea what time it was when that happened. He said, it couldn't have been too much longer after that that all of a sudden, the whole thing just shook. He said, it shook hard. He said, so hard that it was startling. Right, they're up, Riley digging around for this little headlamp they had, and also had this little

led lantern took batteries. It was shaped like an old school kerosene lantern, but it was actually led lights in it. So she finds that stuff. As she turns it on, she sets it on one of the little smaller tables right across from him. They're looking at each other and they're talking, and they could hear movement outside it. What the hell is that? And Blake's starting to yell out hey, because again it was startling, how hard it shook. It

felt like another vehicle had struck it or something. Riley's quite down. Listen, Blake, I'm not going to be quiet. Riley calms down and says listen, and they could hear movement. Blake's had it. He didn't know if they were struck because they were woken up by this violent shake. He grabs that little lantern. He goes out the door, and he said when he got out the door, he could tell that the back end of that RV had slit probably two three feet. He's holding up the lantern. He's

looking around. He's yelling out, who's out here, who's out here? Doesn't hear nothing. A moment later, Riley comes out with the headlamp on. He's holding up the lantern, and because she had a more focused beam on her headlamp, he was like, hey, point your headlamp over in this direction. They did, and then down the road and up the road and across the road he goes, and he sets

down where they had their two lawn chairs sitting. They were still sitting, but they had closed him up and just laid him down on the ground right there, because again it was under the awning right, but with the shift and everything, it was a little different. But he had popped one of those chairs up real quick and set the lantern down on it and asked Riley for the headlamp. She hands it to him. She grabs the lantern,

goes back inside. He starts walking around the thing. He had picked up a couple of big rocks right because they heard something out there and the whole places shook, so Blake knew that someone was out here. He's yelling, hey, we don't appreciate it. We're here visiting the state. What he assumed initially was like some locals, not like in tourists, which I understand. I think it's one of those things. However, he goes around to the backside and he notices the

way that the back end was pushed. It was off onto the softer part of the shoulder, right on the gravel. But he was a little concerned about that. Again, he's got the headlamp on. He hears something and it sounds like it's directly off to his right. So he turns and he looks, and he doesn't see anything. He's looking and looking. Then as he's doing so, he notices this shade of reddish brown that doesn't quite match the rest

of the terrain. This was just past the brush off the side of the road, the way that the road went down. In his position, it was just beyond the brush. However, in the scheme of things, was probably fifty feet away. So he's looking and he starts focusing on this weird reddish brown color. He was like something was off, and

he immediately felt panicked inside. And as he was trying to figure out what the hell he was looking at, because it was just so out of place with all the other colors of the tundra and the brush and stuff. He said. He backed up, and he backed up into that open little slide out for the generator. That caught his attention. So he turned back real quick because he was startled by it. And then when he turned back, all of a sudden, this reddish brown thing or whatever

it was that was just over there. All of a sudden, he noticed the movement and he follows it right. He's watching and the way it's moving is pretty fast, but it's quiet. So he's trying to keep up with it and figure out what the hell he's seeing. As he's doing so, he's just noticing this reddish brown He was like, oh, crap, bear. So what he does is he turns around. He goes back around the backside, not the same direction this thing

was moving. Goes around the backside and gets back into the RB and he was like, it was a bear. I just saw a bear over there. Riley's a calm down, Calm down, it's Alaska. There's bears. We have bear spray somewhere. Let's just make sure we have it handy. Maybe it came in because this smelled our food. We cleaned up, but still the food smell is gonna ling her. And so they're explaining this away as they're doing so, this particular RV was open all the way into the front

where you can se see out the front window. There was this little partition thing that he could slight close or what have you for privacy or whatever. It wasn't closed. They didn't close it before they went to sleep. They're sitting there talking and explaining away this bear. The way Blake was standing, he was facing towards the front of the RV. Riley's in front of him, sitting down on that little bed thing, and they're talking about this bear. He had turned off the headlamp, but he still had

it on. As they're talking, going back and forth or whatever, he glances towards the front and he notices something odd outside of the window. He sat there for a second, look back at Riley, continued the conversation, but then was drawn back again because he saw a movement. So he clicked on the light, the interior light where she had

the little lantern going the little led lantern. It didn't have enough candela power, enough light power basically to fully see what movement he saw, because again they're thinking bear. He was half expecting a bear to be looking in the window, but when he turned on the headlamp with the more focused beam of light, it wasn't a bear. He said, this thing looked like a caveman. It looked like it was very curious. It had its hands on the hood of the RV and was leaning and looking.

And when he turned on the lamp and saw it, tried to avert its eyes and stuff. He said, it put its hands up and its hand was massive, and he said he freaked out. And that's when Riley turned. She saw it and screamed, All of a sudden, this thing disappears out of you. He was like, it was a cave man. What did you see? What did you see? She's on the verge of needing some medication to calm him down. Blake tells her, hey, I saw it. It looked like a caveman. Other than that, I don't know.

So they're discussing it at this point, they're talking in hush tones. Blake said that he started shaking, had to sit down next to his wife. He's sitting there. He was like, I don't know what the hell a caveman is doing. But that was a cave man. That was not a suit. That couldn't have been a cost to I saw its eyes. Its eyes had a little bit of a red eyeshine, and the way it moved, it

wasn't someone in a suit. In those moments, Riley was trying to explain it away, maybe if someone playing a prank, and he was like, no, it wasn't a bear. It wasn't a prank. Whatever it was alive, it wasn't a suit. So they're discussing what to do. They got stuff outside, They got the little slide out open, they got the generator that needs to be closed up, and the thing of it is that they knew without the slide out going in and the other stuff that the RV wouldn't

go into gear. They start brainstorming what they're going to do, and immediately Riley's up. She's moving everything she has to to bring in the slide in. She does that Blake, we got that generator, we need to close it and shut the panel. She goes, don't worry about that right now, let's just go and he goes, hold on the awning. We got attended the awning. There's those jacks that drop down to help level the thing. We got to adjust those.

There are certain things we have to do in order to not have to pay out a whole lot of money or basically buy this thing. So they take a little bit calm down. They find that canister bear spray. He has Riley shine out the window. He has on the headlamp. She's holding up that lantern at the window for whatever reason. I think sometimes when people go in

the shot. Because I had a conversation with Blake briefly about this, I was like, what was the purpose of having her hold the lantern up in the window because it's not going to cast all that much light. He honestly didn't know. He wanted her to feel like she was part of her keep her eyes out on him to make sure he was safe. Whatever it worked out to be, he wasn't quite sure. It was just what came out. So he goes out. He's got the bear spray.

He tends to the one jack just outside the door back behind the back tire, tends to that, goes around, shuts the generator in, shuts the panel, takes care of the jack that's right underneath that area, and then he goes up to the front. They only use the outside one up front. At this point, Riley's on the inside. She's up at the front inside the cab, up in the windshield and stuff holding up the lamp. He reached down and he's doing what he has to do with

this little thing, little handle. He gets set taken care of. He comes around and he has a headlamp on. He glances up because he heard a booth sound. He looks across the road and then the brush across the road. There's this thing standing there watching him. He freezes. Now where he stops, he's back around basically at the driver's side door. Almost when he's here's the sound and looks across.

So he's frozen, right, He's trying to assess again what he's seeing because he's just so thrown off, he said by the appearance of this thing. He said, it was every bit of nine foot tall, if not taller, but at least nine foot tall, very wide. While he's stuck staring the overwhelming fear he had, not making a noise or anything, just you know, like full of indecision, do I move, will let attack? You know, he was basically

stuck in fear as he's snapping out of it. He turns as he's going back towards the door, he starts yelling out, get out of here. Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see will be right back after these messages something along those lines. There are some explicitives in there. As he's getting back to the door, all of a

sudden it lies open and there's Riley. She had found one of their other flashlights that they had stored away somewhere, and it was one of those old maglights, right, it was like a four D cell battery, one one of those big old law enforcement looking types. And she had that on it and saw it and it started yelling get out of here. But what Blake did not notice is she had that bear spray in her hand, right,

He didn't even notice because everything going on. Then all of a sudden he sees her raise her hand and yell at it and start spraying this bear spray. Now, it came out in a huge plume. It was evident in the light because his head lamp and her with the flashlight. This cloud just enveloped across the street. Again, the road is a very wide. It considered a primitive broke just gravel. As this cloud surrounded this thing across the road. All of a sudden they hear this hillacious noise.

It was like a hack, sneeze, cough all at once. Then the loudest, most thunderous scream. It was grouse scream, all of it mixed in one. They heard it thrashing it through the brush. It sounded like it was coming at him, So they rushed inside, shut the door. No sooner in the door shut they feel the back end again. Bam hard, real hard. At that point, that's where Blake was concerned that the ass end might be so far off on the soft part of the shoulder that they

might not be able to drive out of there. So he immediately runs up to the front. The keys that they had sitting in the center little area had knocked off from where they were, so he's looking around. He finds the keys. He starts up the vehicle. He said, when he put it in drive, when he initially gave a gas, it peeled out a little bit, so he gunned it. It caught enough traction to just work itself

up and off down the road. The whole time he was driving down the road, Riley was screaming, don't stop, don't stop. She was at the very back. In the very back, there was this little small window in the middle. When she looked at it, there was half of it was obscured by the ladder that led up to the top of the RV. But she was looking out the back. She saw it almost keeping up with the RV, and it broke off its chasing and went off in the tundra. She went over the other window. By then it had

disappeared into the night. He said. They drove all away from where they were to somewhere here in Wasilla. He doesn't know exactly where was some electrical place and the way he was describing it, I assume Brown's Electric over near Main Street. But they made it to their in part before they felt comfortable enough to rest. I want to thank them for reaching out. For a lot of people they investigate go down the rabbit the hole, so to speak, after they had an experience that they can't explain.

Feel was very similar for Blake and Riley. They went looking for answers of any kind. They'd let it go for a while and then started looking back into it. When they started their Google search or whatever. They found the channel and reached out. I appreciate them reaching out. I appreciate them being patient with the time it took to connect and hear their story again. That area. I

don't know how many encounters there's been over there. There's been some right near Monahan Flats there, Swede Lake Trail, Golkana River south of there. I wanted to share with you today. This comes from we'll name him Tyler. Tyler is an elder. He's getting up on there in age. He's in a Native Copper River valley up north. This is something that his dad has always shared with them. As he was growing up, whenever he would be going out in the woods, his dad would always sit him

down and tell him about this encounter. Now, years back, late eighteen hundred's the Taylor Highway area. That area, like eighteen eighty, there was a little gold rush and there's a lot of mines back up in that valley that cuts up back through there. It started off as a bunch of trails from locals coming from Eagle Chicken all these places they're going up to do their mining. Now, the Taylor Highway proper was actually not built until the winter from forty five to forty six, and it was

completed in nineteen fifty one. This is going back. His dad, Tyler Senior, told him ever since he was young, many times over the course of his life about this area, which I guess the closest reference we would have would be Taylor Highway at Mosquito Creek. There's a family that had saw these creatures with tails, So this is the area we're talking about. It was during this construction process. It was after the winter of forty six. It was

later on into the spring. Tyler Senior told him that during this time they were still doing so prospecting up in the area. As the highway is being built. It's labeled a highway now, but back then it was nothing better than a cat road cut in with the dozer. Don't get the impression that it was some modern kind of road. Is not the case. As any remote road

up here. It is primitive. So he always told them that in the spring they were extra careful when they were going back up in there due to the bushman, because the bushmen would wait until you were unsuspecting an attack. So Tyler would always ask, what do you mean. His dad would tell him that they would wait until the people in the area would kind of get complacent, if you will. Let's just get into what actually happened with

Tyler Senior. It was spring in nineteen forty six. The runoff and the breakup was most of the way done with. And as they were going up in there, it was called forty Mile at the time, him and two of his cousins, they had a small claim it was producing gold. They were up in there, they were doing their thing. They had been there about four days in this particular area.

They were doing a little bit of panning and going through some tailings that they had from the previous season, and just making sure they were accounting for every little morsel of gold they could find. Tyler Senior told him that he remembers it clearly. They had been there four days. Not a breath of any kind of wildlife in this particular area. It was odd because usually that's when animals

were stirring. Bearris would coming out of hibernation. They would usually at least see a handful of bears every season, regardless, moving out of the valley heading down towards a copper river. So not seeing them it was odd. It was very odd. He said that night on the fourth day, as they were just finishing up dinner, they were on the river bank. The river was still a little swollen, but it wasn't

very deep in that area. The way it sloped up away from the river was a lot of gravel and sand, was a little bit of a bank, and then the trees started, and then there's trees cutting back up, and then it went up to the mountain. And he said that night, just as they were finishing dinner, they started hearing noises up on that side, which would be to their east if you're facing north, it was to their east.

They became suspect because of the bushmen. Now these three people had dealt with it a few times in the past, so they were aware, but the severity of which things were gonna go was realized until this night. So as they were sitting there, they started talking. All the bushmen's back I was up there. They could hear making noises, weird noises that they hadn't heard before. Cooing like a pigeon,

but very loud, very powerful whoops, short sharp whistles. It would go on, but it was never coming out of the tree line. It was staying within the trees a little rocks being thrown at the camp, chunks and clumps of grass. Sometimes a piece of broken log would be rolled their way. Nothing large enough to really make them feel like it was trying to kill them or get them right. So he said they were on edge that night because something was off about that as well. It

was a different tone to everything. Someone might ask why would they go back? You got to understand how people are from that generation. If you don't know, look into it. These are the kind of people that we learned from. This world's gotten real soft. I'll just leave it at that. They had a hard time sleeping because this noise continued

through the night up until dawn the next day. Tyler Senior told them that when they got up the next morning, they had noticed that they could see where something had circled them a few times during the night, which really made the hairstand on their necks because it was noticed that these tracks stayed about fifteen feet away from the entire camp, which was a couple of wall tents set up the way it was laid out. It stayed approximately fifteen feet away, circled around multiple times as they were

going on with the morning. They never had it come out of the trees, but always stayed up in the trees, stayed out of view, made the noises and through stuff. So they were concerned that it's something's going on. It it's over here. So during the course of that day, there was some other miners that had come through just stopped by. There's some people they knew. They were heading a little further north to their claim to get things

started for the season. They made mentioned to them, Hey, we had some noises going on here, rocks being thrown. If you guys be aware. It kind of showed them a little bit of the trackway of the way this thing circled the room. The two guys that were heading up further north to their claim to start working it, they immediately were like, yeah, we've dealt with it at our camp the past few years. They had a little

short discussion about it being aggressive. The other two had stated that they had two dogs a few years back that they brought with them and this particular thing killed their dogs. So they took note, took it serious. The guys continued on. Understand, these guys were heavily armed, armed for bear. They were not playing games. They weren't just having some thirty thirties or anything like that. They had the old school forty five seventies, crazy powerful guns. The

day continues on into the night. At dusk, they got nothing done that day. They were constantly listening. It wasn't until dusk that the noises started. Rocks started being thrown, But the difference was the rocks were bigger. There was three rocks thrown initially that started everything off. Before the noise. Each of those rocks thrown hit each one of the individuals in the lake. It had hurt enough to cruple a grown man to the ground. The rocks were roughly

about half size of a baseball. These are river rocks. You got understand when you get into those river valleys. A lot of the rocks they're not jagged, they're smoothed over. They're rounded over from all the water and stuff. After this happened, they were inclined to start yelling up in the trees. One of the individuals, not Tyler senior, but one of his cousins, fired a couple rounds up at a tree that was closest to the edge where the

river line in the bank stop. Shot a couple shots over that way, and about twenty minutes later, they were all sitting there wondering what the hell was going to happen, because they had never been directly hit by these rocks before. It was mainly harassment before that little pebbles, little things coming near, hitting the fire, things like that. So to be directly hit each of them in the leg and it was between the knee and the foot, so right in the side of the cast. They're getting hit by

these rocks, very accurate. They were very concerned because it had ticked up a notch, going along with what their friends said earlier that day that were continuing up to their claim it was an ominous feeling. What to expect because they killed their dogs. It stalked us last night when we were sleeping. Now it's hitting us with rocks.

As they were having a discussion on what they should do of whether they should take watch, maybe to keep watch one keep watch, they were debating back and forth what would be the most optimal thing because they didn't want to be caught off guard like they may have been the night before. From what Tyler Senior said. As they were having this discussion, it was dusk, but they were just getting their fire builped up. During the course

of that day. Since they were all on edge, they collected extra firewood in case they needed a larger fire. They're getting this fire larger and larger, and they hear something downstream of them. It startled them. The guns ready, and all of a sudden they hear, don't fire. It was a person. Now, this particular person had a claim that they were heading to and they got a late start. This person comes and joins them in camp. They knew

the person. He had a claim further on up. He was basically running late that day and asked him, Hey, I can't put to you guys here tonight because it's dusk. I'm running out of daylight and I don't want to move in these damn woods in the dark. And they said, not a problem. Tyler Senior had a wall tent basically for himself and his two cousins shared the other one. So Tyler Senior was like, you can throw your gear in my tent there and you can both there. He

drops his stuff inside the tent. He noticed everyone armed, so he made sure he brought his rifle back out and said, you guys having bare problems? They said, no, we're not. It's a bushman the man got concerned and he told them, Hey, I had a dog last year that went missing. I think the bushmen took it. But they're like, yeah, we heard over there. They're dogs a couple of years ago went missing as well. They're all having this talk about this stuff happening. It wasn't like

nowadays there's a lot of hush toes. People want to whisper about it. But these guys in that element, they had to be honest with each other and tell them what was going on. And so the guy that came up to him that startled him coming from a downriver told him that he heard from somebody that this particular bushman in that area at the time hated people because it had been shot a handful of years prior. He

told whatever that instance was. And as they were having this discussion, they hear a scream come from couldn't have been more than one hundred yards away, but it was just inside that tree line. I was off to the east of them. From what Tyler Senior expressed to Junior was it was very powerful and very menacing. It had a very menacing tone to it, not like the stuff

they had heard prior, which was just noises. So as they were standing there, they all stood up and they're trying to focus on the direction that the sound came from. As that's going on, all of a sudden they hear something was thrown. But it landed like half the distance from the bank line the gravel and sand and stuff. It landed about half distance. It landed with the weird sound. It was obviously not a rock. What it ended up being was a caribou had the antleans had been broken off.

It was the head and part of the neck, and it looked like it had been wrung off of the body. And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back. After these messages, the two cousins they went over, retrieved it, brought it back, and they were looking at it near the campfire. The guy that had just joined them that evening, he got really creeped out. He goes, this is a message. This is a message. It's telling us we're going to face this kind of fate.

And they're like, calm down, calm down, we have our guns. It's just a bushman. They dismissed it right So as they're sitting there talking, sure enough, they hear crashing, just a whole bunch of chaotic noises coming from that tree line, and it sounded like it was coming at them. But they all got their guns up and they're waiting to

see what happened. Now, understand, at dusk in the spring, during that time, anytime in Alaska, it gets dark and silhouetted in the trees, but the sky stays pretty light. Unless you've experienced it, it's kind of hard to put into context. So even though it wasn't fully dark like pitch black, it was dark in the trees in very low light conditions. Right, So they're anticipating this and coming out, and all of a sudden, noises stopped. They start hearing

this weird noise. It sounded like something flying through the air. They're scattered a little bit, like anticipating another rock or a stick or something aimed for them. It wasn't. It was a hind quarter that had been stripped down to the bone of that. They assumed the same caribou because it flung and landed and everyone started looking at it. The guy that joined them that evening again said it's threatening us. It's threatening us. Maybe we should leave, Maybe

we should leave. I want to leave, but I don't want to leave alone and end up like that again. They're like, no, it's just trying to scare us off, basically dismissive yet again, Tyler Sr. Told the group, we need to keep an eye on. We'll keep watch. We'll do two keeping an eye out while two others rest. Let's do it one from each tent. So one of the cousins and I will start first, and then we'll let you know the other two rest, and then we'll trade out halfway through the night, so they get that

squared away. I'd have a hard time sleeping too. I wouldn't really be able to get much rest in those kind of conditions. However, Tyler Senior and his cousin taking the first watch. The other two retired into the tents. A little while later. As the night went on, it was just about an hour before they were going to swap out. Tyler Senior said he was sitting there sipping

on some coffee. They weren't looking at the fire. They kept the fire going pretty good size, but they would keep their eyesight off away from the fire, so they weren't tainting whatever night vision they would have. He said. He kept feeling like there was a dark shadow just right over there, just outside of the trees, moving back and forth, when he couldn't shake the thought, but he wasn't hearing anything, so he thought maybe his nerves and everything were working on him. He said, every hair on

his body stood up. He knew, without knowing for sure, that whatever that dark shadow was, it was the bushman over there, the Harryman moving back and forth. So he got his cousin's attention and was getting him, and his cousin gave the thumbs up, Yeah, I see it too, So they start whispering. Tyler Senior tells his cousin, I've been noticing that for a minute now. I didn't want to be over paranoid or what have you. His cousin said, no,

it's been going on for a little while. I've noticed it, but I didn't want to say nothing either because I couldn't be sure. As they're having this discussion, all of a sudden, they hear it was by pedal running coming towards them. Immediately they stood up, they raised their rifles, and they both fire in the direction that this noise is coming, hollacious, scream loud. It shook him to their core. As they're chambering another round and going to shoot again.

This thing moves so fast that it basically before they could even chamber another round, it had cleared the distance, basically ran through their fire in between the two tents, and back across to the other side, which was the higher side of the river bank where you go a little further and there would be the cut road, so it went that direction. It barreled through their camp, basically scattered their fire into a bunch of embers half burning logs,

So they were startled. The other two people in the tent, they come rushing out one of the cousins tent. One of the logs had rolled up next to it and tried to catch it on fire, but luckily it wasn't able to. They got to it in time and all that kind of stuff, so they quickly clicked what they can of the embers and the fire and they get it going again. They build it up, and now they got all four of them out there, they could hear this thing come back down stay just out of the light.

It was literally stomping in the rocks and the gravel, making its presence known, but staying just outside of the firelight. According to what Tyler Junior said his dad would express was that it was a dark shadow, blacker than black, that was just out of firelight. So it was hard to see if you were getting a good beat on it when you're going to take a shot. Because these guys weren't fucking around. As soon as they said dark shadow, dark shape, everyone started taking shots at this thing. The

first time. They lobbed avalli of shots that way. They heard it take off running after they shot, it ran back up the direction it initially came from. It was very loud when it took off. They said it sounded like it just kept going, like it didn't stop. It just faded out in the distance. They thought, maybe, okay, it retreated, it's had enough and it's going on about its way. At that point everyone calmed down a little bit. One of the cousins retrieved the caribou leg and started

getting better look at it near the fire. It was the upper part of the hind quarter leg bones was basically broken. They were looking at it and they were noticing teeth marks on it where this thing had been chewing the flesh off the bone where it was broken. There was a broken piece of stick down in the cavity where this thing was using the stick to pull

the marrow out, So they were contrigued by that. As that's going on, one of them gets everyone's attention and stands up and raises his rifle in that same direction. Because as they we're having this discussion very quietly, without a peep, this thing was back and it was just fairly inside the glow of the firelight, looking at them.

To say it startled them would be an understatement. Can you just imagine you're sitting there, You're already freaked out, the craziness is happening, and then all of a sudden, this thing is so quiet. It's right over there, just eyeballing the group, right, So they all jump up, they got their guns. This thing just looked at him. It was squatted down. Tyler Senior said that he had taken the lead and said, hold your fire away till everyone can confirm they got a good shot. Let's shoot it.

We're gonna shoot it, but let's shoot it together. So as everyone standing, they moved out of the way of the firelight. So the firelight was illuminating this thing as best as it could at that point, right there was two on one side, two on the other of the fire facing the direction of where this thing was squatted. As they were aiming and talking about getting a beat on this thing, this thing started swaying back and forth

faster and faster. It stood up, and when it stood up, it really freaked them out because everything else had been shadows quit running by or whatever. They actually got to gauge how tall it was, and it was like twelve foot tall, about four foot wide, kind of lanky, but very big, and so when it stood up, they said, holy crap, and get your aim ready, and then they all fired. I am from what he shared with Jor, this thing tumbled back, squirmed around a little bit, jumped up,

ran towards him, and as it was coming again. They had rechambered at this point, and they're getting ready to fire, and just as they're getting ready to fire, it was gone. It just disappeared. They all fired again. It may have disappeared, but they were ready to shoot anyway, whether it was a reflex fire or sympathetic shooting, whatever you want to call it. So those shots go off, echoes around and everything.

They were all stunne They're looking around, they're trying to figure out what the hell's going on now, very low light conditions, high strangeness. Everyone there was shaking at this point. Tyler Senior would tell Tyler Junior, you never want to engage with the Bushman's You always want to leave. If you don't leave, these things continue. That was the running game of the warnings the rest of that night, and the night was only halfway through. It would happen repeatedly.

This saying would all of a sudden be right over somewhere around them. Sometimes they would hear it on the opposite side of the tent, and when they would go to investigate, they would hear it run off or move around. It always seemed to want to show itself in a way.

It would always make itself known, almost like a threat, because what Senior would tell Junior is that every time they would notice it, it would be just at the edge of the firelight and doing the same things it was staring at them, and it would start swaying back and forth faster and faster outside of that, initially disappearing running at them when they would fire at it. After that, it would just all of a sudden not be there anymore.

They wouldn't necessarily see it run off, but with all the activity, they couldn't tell if it just disappeared or what had happened. That's basically what happened for the rest of the night up until morning. Tyler Senior said. In the morning, just before the sun was getting ready to rise, they would hear multiple long air raid siren type screams, yells that would start low and wind up to a

super high pitched. When it ended, they heard the first one, and the second one was heard further up the valley. Then there was another one heard. They couldn't tell because everything was echoing, but there was no less than four responses to the first screen. Everyone packed their stuff. The guy that had stayed the night because of the time and everything, he left with them. That's the day that

they actually stopped their little mining operation there. Again, it was known as forty Mile Road, I think in nineteen fifty one it was named the Taylor Highway. Again. This area was all a bunch of trails for gold miners. There's things to be said about gold mines and harry Man encounters because historically speaking, there's quite a few. I don't know what there is to it, but it seems like something about it. I want to thank Tyler Junior

and Atna elder for reaching out and sharing that. I want to thank the younger generation who have been bringing videos of mind to the elders, encouraging them to share, because again, this is about our safety out here. Man. It's crazy just to thought of shooting something in a disappearing because it's not the first time I've heard that. It's not more than a couple of handfuls of times. There is definitely something beyond we can even grasp. Rest

in peace to Tyler Senior, that generation marev crazy. Thank you guys for joining me. Lots more to come. Have a good day.