In the autumn of 2011, a Yup'ik villager named Vincent Wasley, his sister Grace, and a cousin traveled by skiff up the Kayugajak Lake River system near Nunapitchuk for a moose hunt. Stepping onto the riverbank, Vincent walked 200 feet onto the open tundra to forage a local berry patch, where he was suddenly halted by a colossal, booming cow-moose call imitation that echoed powerfully around the entire lakebed. Recognizing that the extreme acoustic volume and length exceeded human or animal capabilities, Vincent retreated to the skiff in shock.
Simultaneously from an adjacent rise, Grace and her cousin watched a tall, remarkably skinny, and brown bipedal entity traverse a distant ridge slope at a 45-degree angle; the creature repeatedly advanced to stand motionless right next to a small isolated tree—staring directly down toward Vincent's foraging position—before tracing its steps back. A year or two later within the Kilbuck-Kuskokwim/Johnson River region, the same hunting group tracked a trail through dense brush into a clearing where they discovered and photographed a massive, deep footprint pressed through the thick tundra moss completely down into the base soil layer, documenting a stride weight requiring well over a thousand pounds of force. In a third regional incident in 2021, a group of village women and children were waiting near their parked skiffs 3.6 miles outside Nunapitchuk while the men harvested berries inland.
Spotting a dark figure pacing back and forth across a distant tundra rise, an elder confirmed the entity dwarfed human scaling at that distance. Seeking to shield the inland berry pickers, the women remained totally silent, watching the giant humanoid abruptly drop flat onto all fours into the uneven tundra moss and low spruce shrubs, executing an elusive 'spider-crawl' style concealment to vanish completely from their line of sight.
