An Ahtna tribally enrolled woman named Mary recalled a profound historical account from her childhood in Chitina during the early 1970s, where a village elder shared an encounter from his youth on the eastern side of the Copper River. While hunting deep inland on an open flat situated directly above Horse Creek, the hunting party experienced an intense, creepy atmospheric dread and followed a strange chattering sound up a ridge line. Peeking carefully over the crest, the hunters discovered a large family group of multiple Sasquatch entities of varying ages and sizes congregated in a clearing; horrifically, the juvenile creatures were actively throwing and kicking around a fresh human skull amidst scattered piles of human bones.
Later as a young girl, Mary and her little brother witnessed a massive, dark hair-covered humanoid deliberately pacing through the dense timber across a mountain draw a quarter-mile from their Chitina home. Later in her adult life, Mary returned to Alaska with her young son and daughter, pausing overnight at a roadside pull-off en route to Fairbanks where an ongoing series of owl hoots on a nearby ledge abruptly degraded into a complex, highly bizarre, non-human 'garbled language' conversation. Some years later, Mary drove her son down to the Gulkana River near Gulkana Native Village—specifically near a pipeline and overpass access corridor located one mile south of Sourdough Creek—to fish a secluded river bend.
Over several hours, they heard faint, garbled speech patterns coupled with distinct, heavy 'bloop' splashing sounds emerging from the opposite bank. As they packed up, Mary's son walked ahead up the access road where he abruptly locked up and began backing away in absolute panic as a massive, hair-covered entity stepped out to look down at him from over the top of the local six-to-eight-foot tall river brush—exposing its frame from the center of the chest up. The entity stood an estimated eight to nine feet tall with a rugged, human-like appearance, locking eyes with the boy and radiating an intense feeling of malicious danger before turning to melt into the willow line.
