These shares involve construction, building, and heavy equipment work—cabin building, homestead prep, and remote job sites where labor draws unwanted attention.
Common threads are tools and noise, unfinished structures, and crews who came to work and left rattled. Browse these shares if you want encounters on job sites and builds, not only recreation.
In 1987, a father and son, John and John Jr., were working to finish a remote log cabin project in the interior of Alaska. Their labor was disrupted by an unseen entity that methodically sabotaged their equipment, including uprooting a generator shed and repeatedly banging on the cabin walls.
In the 1980s, an Alaskan homesteader named Ralph was prepping a remote property near the northern side of Hatcher Pass. He parked a small travel trailer on a temporary timber dunnage foundation during breakup, which caused the trailer to sink into the thawing muck and settle at an awkward, elevated angle. While working alone to set up a water pump system, Ralph was subjected to a terrifying siege.
In the early 2000s, two brothers, Joseph and Monty, spent three weeks restoring a dilapidated trapping cabin in the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. While elevating the structure and patching the roof, they were subjected to a harrowing acoustic and physical campaign. After the brothers were hit by a series of 'imitation wolf howls' that occurred at a distance and then closed in on their position, they hunkered down inside the windowless shell.
In 1984, an avid fisherman named John was driving the McCarthy Road toward a small lake north of McCarthy. While fishing a roadside tributary, John was repeatedly targeted by stones thrown from the dense alder brush—projectiles thrown with such force they shattered against the water's surface. Intrigued and slightly annoyed, John attempted to investigate but encountered only eerie silence.
Travis shares his experience while repairing a cabin for a client. The owner would have the cabin repaired frequently, under the assumption it was due to bear activity. The pilot who picked up Travis after the project knew about the hairy man.
While building his cabin back in the 1960s, Bernard was terrorized by a hairy man.
Randal shares his story from last August while driving a truck down the highway. His sighting caused him to swerve off the road into a ditch.
Another share from Gwen, who had an experience while flagging on a work site. A co-worker shared the experience.
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.
Heavy equipment operator Colin had an experience fifteen years ago while working on a project in remote Alaska off the Yukon River.
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.
During the historic gold rush era around 1898, an expedition consisting of six men—Austrian-German prospectors Fritz and Johann, two young greenhorn laborers from St. Louis, Missouri, and two Gwich'in Indian guides—traveled into the remote interior near the southwest slopes of the Beaver Mountains along modern-day Billy Goat Creek. After two weeks of constructing a windowless log cabin to support a multi-year gold panning operation, the two Gwich'in guides went berry picking along the mountain slopes.
During the final cleanup phase of a seasonal placer gold-mining camp situated off the Yukon River drainage, an imported heavy equipment operator named Doug was running a loader in a deep mining pit. During his pre-dawn shift, he noted an edge-of-vision dark form darting into the tree line. At midday, while sitting in the camp smoking area, Doug heard a terrifying, screaming howl echoing from the pit, prompting him to ride a four-wheeler down to investigate under the assumption that a co-worker was injured.
An experienced river guide named Rick ran a rinky-dink charter service on the Nushagak River for ten years, ultimately retiring after enduring four separate encounters with the Sasquatch population. His first event occurred near Sophie's Landing when three clients fishing for king salmon pointed out a large black figure that abruptly shifted from a crouched stance to stand erect and walk into the timber just 25 feet away from their anchored skiff. The second event involved five clients who were targeted by an intense shriek emerging from a slough near Portage Island.
In July 2015, a military veteran named Brian worked a reconstruction contract to clear a helipad and migrate a field recreation camp from a low-lying, flood-prone lagoon island near Bear Glacier outside of Seward to safer high ground. On July 18th, while resting inside a small nylon tent with his head protruding to manage a severe knee infection, Brian was abruptly awoken at 1:00 AM under a dense, black coastal sea fog.
