These shares involve cabins and cabin projects—remote log places, inherited structures, and getaways where something outside, at the walls, or in the dark around the building will not leave people alone.
Common threads are fixed shelters, nights under siege, repairs interrupted, and families or work crews who expected quiet bush time. Browse these shares if you want cabin-centered harassment, not only trail sightings.
Cliff and Sylvester share their experience while staying at a cabin after kayaking at Skilak Lake near Bear Mountain in 2019. The following year, Sylvester had another incident and decided to leave Alaska and move back to the lower 48, even quitting his high-paying construction job.
Dillon, Christina, and their dog Rizzo had an experience while on a vacation near the Yukon River. Rizzo was trying to alert them of what they initially thought was a bear. This incident caused them to leave Alaska.
Brad and his then 8-year old son both share a terrifying experience from 2004 while on a camping trip in remote Alaska.
Two seasons ago, Cody came to Alaska to check off a bucket list item and camp at a cabin at Upper Russian Lake when he encountered a sasquatch who ruined his plans.
Back in August of 1972, Paul had an encounter he shared with us from Birches off the Yukon River with a group of guys.
Former military soldiers Marcus and Davie share a terrifying experience in June of 2011 while on a fishing trip at Bristol Bay while staying at a cabin.
Jonah reached out to share a story about his uncle's experience at his cabin outside of Prince of Wales Island.
Jeanette and Tracy share their terrifying story from June of 2021 while renting a cabin in a place they've been visiting for many years.
A log home builder named Charlie shared his experience from four years ago while constructing a log cabin for a client with his apprentice.
In early spring 1987, a professional analog wildlife photographer named Derek and his wife Gabrielle (Gabby) set up duck-hunting photography blinds near a large pond in a vast marshland just west of the cabins located at the confluence of the Mulchatna and Koktuli Rivers near the Jack Rabbit Hills. Having left general equipment behind at the site during a multi-day blind construction process, Derek arrived alone at 4:00 AM in the dim pre-dawn silhouette light to swap film canisters.
Around late July in 2017 or 2018, a group of four friends from Colorado—Billy, Chuck, Dennis, and Maria—set up a large two-room blackout tent on a gravel wash in Rainbow Basin, situated at the northwestern corner of Lake Nerka within Wood-Tikchik State Park. After encountering deep, sub-audible grunts that physically vibrated their folding chairs and a series of sharp, crisp whistles that closely shadowed Dennis and Maria during a walk, the group constructed a wide 50-foot perimeter using fine fishing lines rigged with 12-gauge shotgun shell proximity alarms.
A few years prior to 2023, Heather and Carl flew via floatplane from Lake Hood to a remote state park cabin at Klutina Lake near the mouth of the Mahlo River, northeast of Valdez. While exploring the marshy mouth of the river for wilderness photography, they were unsettled by a long, mournful, and sorrowful howl echoing through the tall grass. That night, while sitting outside, they observed a powerful, anomalous bright light across the lake that rapidly dimmed and performed an oblong, figure-eight tracking motion up and down the beach.
Outside of Yakutat within the Tongass National Forest, siblings Tatiana and Nikolai spent five years renovating an inherited family cabin that had been abandoned for two decades. The aggressive encounters escalations began in the second year when Nikolai used a weed-whacker to clear a switchback trail behind the cabin to mitigate bear encounters, unaware that Tatiana's Australian Shepherd had been consistently alerting to a presence hiding on the slope. Three years later, Tatiana returned with her city-dwelling fiance, Robert, and their dog, Roscoe.
A few years prior to 2023, Tabitha and Nicholas, two experienced long-distance hikers, set out on the Power Creek Trail near Cordova to reach the Ohman Falls cabin. After successfully navigating an initial major landslide approximately 0.8 miles into the trek under heavy rain, they reached a low saddle section of the trail filled with clear standing water and deep mud. Nicholas stepped off the trail to avoid the pool, prompting Tabitha to discover a fresh series of massive, water-filled muddy tracks that initially resembled large double bear prints.
