These shares involve grunting, growling, and heavy non-human vocalizations—sounds witnesses describe as animal-like but wrong for known wildlife.
Common threads are close-range audio, fear at night, and animals or people reacting to the sound. Browse these shares if you want growls and grunts at the center of the story.
Alaskan park hosts leave their jobs after encountering a Hairy Man 20 years ago. HERE IS THE VIDEO I mentioned of the dentist Keithie6 who recorded the Sasquatch screaming and throwing objects next to him while he was looking for metal.
Hoping to harvest some fresh morels, Cheryl and two of her retired friends drove just north of Willow to explore an old, steep wildfire burnout area near the Alaska Speedway. Navigating the tangled, charred "pickup sticks" of fallen trees was exhausting work, so the ladies sat down on a sun-bleached log around midday to enjoy some tea. Their peaceful afternoon shattered when the entire interconnected pile of logs beneath them began to shift and jiggle.
In 1997, an experienced bush pilot flew a wealthy, inexperienced hunting client west of Iliamna toward the Bering coast to scout for massive moose. After landing his floatplane on a remote lake and tying off the pontoons near a beaver slip, the two men hiked a narrow game trail into the dense black spruce. The situation took a disastrous turn when the client pulled out an elk bugle he didn't know how to use and blew a horrific call into the woods, instantly triggering a terrifying chain of events that sent them sprinting back to the water.
While searching the woods just north of Willow along the Susitna River, a property owner followed a game trail across the shallows, hoping to find any trace of his senior dog that had gone missing a week prior. Hearing movement in a dense patch of alders about 30 yards away, he stepped closer, only to be met with a deep, unnatural, guttural growl. As he cautiously backed away toward the riverbank, something massive began hurling debris from the thicket. To his absolute horror, a severed piece of his missing dog's leg was thrown from the brush, landing directly at his feet.
Back in the late 1980s, a land surveyor was hired to plot a large private subdivision in the dense wilderness just west of the Parks Highway, north of Talkeetna. Working alone with an old-school transit scope, his first morning on the job turned bizarre when he spotted a towering, neckless humanoid silhouette pacing behind the willows.
Gathered around a hunting campfire in 2005, a First Nations elder recounted a harrowing 1968 encounter west of the Kvichak River. While hiking through the sparsely wooded tundra with two friends, they spotted a dark figure darting among the black spruce. Assuming it was a fellow hunter, they called out, only to be answered by a massive Hairy Man that suddenly burst from the brush. The men immediately opened fire, sending the creature sprinting toward a nearby beaver pond, where it dove in and vanished beneath the surface.
Craig and John were on a caribou hunt where they had a terrifying experience.
This share is an encounter experienced by a couple, Tom and Mary, while setting up their commercial set-net fish camp in Bristol Bay. Being the first to arrive for the season, they were alone on the remote beach when they began hearing strange, moose-like calls and noticing dark figures darting between the massive rocks along the shoreline. Their curiosity quickly turned into terror when they realized they were being actively stalked by at least three entities—one standing over ten feet tall, a smaller scraggly creature, and a massive black shape maneuvering along the bluff above them.
Paul and James, two of my cousins, had this encounter back in 2007 at Harris Creek. These two cousins were with me during the Nushagak River Ambush encounter only a few weeks prior to this.
I share an experience by a photographer from June of 1999 at Nuyakuk Falls. He no longer does photography in Bristol Bay.
