During an autumn gold prospecting trip, two first nations brothers named Ivan and his sibling navigated their 18-foot Lund skiff as far upstream as possible into the headwaters of the King Salmon River, north of the Nuyakuk confluence. While meticulously searching the bank cuts for gold-bearing quartz veins, they pitched a light spike camp using a Coleman cookstove. On their third night, a terrifying vocalization that sounded exactly like a woman being murdered erupted from the opposite bank. Believing a berry picker had been mauled by a bear, the brothers crossed the channel; upon reaching the far bank, a series of heavy physical splashes ('splash splash splash') erupted behind them, and they turned to watch a large dark figure cross back over and vanish into an isolated stand of black spruce trees.
Realizing they were being targeted by a Sasquatch unit, they broke camp in panic, fumbling with a hot stove as a deafening shriek blasted from the thicket. Seconds later, a secondary vocalization boomed skyward, answered instantly by a massive alpha return shriek echoing from the upper mountain slopes. Because river grass consistently choked their outboard jet impeller, the brothers were forced to use push-sticks to manually forge their skiff down the shallow channel. Scanning the banks, the brother on the bow flagged a pair of massive forms heavily tracking their movement along the left bank.
Dropping the motor into the current, the engine failed to ignite; as Ivan yanked the cord, two heavy stones were launched from the brush, landing back-to-back in the exact same splash coordinate directly behind their stern ('boom boom'). Rushing into the main Nushagak River channel bend, they encountered a giant silhouette standing on the brush shelf; the entity executed a rapid series of squat-stands and torso sways before delivering a final shriek so powerful it physically vibrated through their clothing and the hull of the skiff.
