A native resident named Mike joins Fred to share personal encounters and ancestral accounts passed down from his grandfather on a remote, treeless island in the Bering Sea. His grandfather recounted an ancient tribal incident where a rogue hairy man stole nine village children before being tracked and killed by a shaman. Beyond the hairy man lore, Mike details widespread modern encounters with the "little people"—powerful, elusive beings whose tiny footprints frequently appear around village homes, stolen dry-meat racks, and out onto the Bering Sea sea ice.
Encounters with the hairy man have remained an active reality across the island through the decades. In 1988, Mike watched through binoculars as a massive, hunchbacked creature with long hair and fur trailing from its hands took immense strides across the snowy airport runway before vanishing. Years later, Mike's wife and daughters were berry picking miles out of town on a four-wheeler when a 7- to 8-foot-tall, dark figure emerged from a rocky hillside, casually matching their 15 mph pace along the dump road trail while being photographed by a terrified companion.
The activity eventually followed the family directly back to their doorstep on the outskirts of the village. Over three consecutive nights in the fall, Mike and his wife were tormented by an unnaturally deep, guttural growling vibrating from underneath their porch, accompanied by a foul stench resembling a rotting marine carcass. Upon inspecting beneath the unskirted house, Mike found his tied-down heating fuel jugs violently tipped over and the securing rope shredded, confirming an immense physical presence had stalked them straight from the mountains to their home.
