During a fall caribou hunting trip along a trail leading past Swede Lakes down to the North Fork of the Gulkana River south of the Denali Highway, an eight-man group of experienced hunters successfully harvested five caribou. Late one afternoon, a solitary hunter stayed behind to watch a fresh carcass while his companions returned to camp for additional game bags and tools. Left alone in the gathering dark with only a headlamp, the hunter was aggressively confronted by a 9-foot-tall, bipedal creature that issued a highly abnormal, complex 'chirping and bellowing' vocalization. Out of caution, the hunter retreated from the kill site, allowing the massive entity to easily snatch the heavy caribou carcass by the neck with a single hand and slump away into the shadows.
The next morning, as the party prepared a modified snowmachine tow trailer to transport the remaining meat, they noticed the leaf-spring suspension and ratchet straps rattling under a campfire's boundary light. Upon investigating a sudden snapping sound, they discovered a heavy tie-down strap had been completely severed and a full caribou quarter was missing. Sweeping their headlamps toward the perimeter alders, the group froze upon making direct eye contact with a giant humanoid. The creature stood perfectly silent with an eerie, menacing smile on its face while holding the top of the stolen game bag in its hand, before turning to vanish into the timber line.
While breaking down their canvas tents later that day, Tim experienced an intense feeling of surveillance and located a small black spot moving along an open tundra ridge roughly 400 yards away. Glassing the location with a companion, both men realized the bipedal entity was traversing the bare grass line in full daylight. Two hunters rode four-wheelers up the rise for a size reference; upon reaching the crest, the top of the riders' heads were barely visible from camp, confirming that the entity they witnessed walking the high ground was of immense, colossal height.
