Three years prior to 2022, two finance professionals from São Paulo, Brazil, named Louis and Franco, embarked on a high-priced guided wolf and bear combo hunt on the outskirts of the Katmai Wildlife Refuge down on the Alaska Peninsula. Operating from a remote spike camp carefully hacked out inside a ten-foot radius of thick willow shrubs to shield from heavy winds, the hunters hiked up a treacherous switchback path onto an adjacent high mountain shelf to glass a major north-south river clearing. At twilight, Franco spotted what he initially assumed were two black bears being pursued across a creek junction by a massive brown bear. Awakening before dawn the next morning, the men heard a heavy presence moving through their willow enclosure.
Armed with a .375 H&H Magnum rifle and a high-powered flashlight, they illuminated the thicket to witness an enormous dark silhouette trample down the perimeter brush just 40 yards away before fleeing. Returning to the mountain shelf to locate the target, Louis maxed his rifle scope's zoom to track a distant black dot across a slough, observing the bipedal entity execute bizarre acrobatic tumbles, leap across clearings, and bound back into the timber channel. While adjusting gear at their camp later that day, a sudden physical dread descended on the slough as a slender, basketball-player-proportioned humanoid over seven feet tall with a pitch-black hair coat rose up fully from the immediate willow thicket just 35 feet away. The creature issued a series of deep grunts before scaling the steep mountain face.
Looking back toward the upper ridge from a 220-yard distance, Louis was horrified to discover a coordinated multi-creature hunting unit consisting of an immense, light-brown colored alpha entity standing completely erect alongside two smaller, dark-furred sentries looking directly down at them. The encounter induced an overwhelming, debilitating wave of spiritual exhaustion, forcing the men to remain confined inside their tent reciting the Catholic Rosary for three days until their bush plane arrived.
