Shots Fired

During a spring seal hunt on the windswept far west coast of Alaska, Gabriel and his younger cousin Lenny were set up in a driftwood blind when the wind shifted, bringing an overwhelming, putrid stench of rotting meat. Feeling an intense, sudden sense of being watched, the two men temporarily abandoned their blind. While regrouping in the towering coastal sawgrass, Lenny spotted a massive, dark figure pacing them in the distance. Investigating the area, they discovered massive, 20-inch humanoid footprints deeply sunk into the coastal mud.

Tyler and Jacob were hired by a family friend named Sophie to winterize her aging home on the remote outskirts of an undisclosed Alaskan village. While replacing the exterior skirting on the house, the men noticed that Sophie's Pomeranian—who had been yapping constantly from inside the windbreak—had suddenly gone dead silent. Investigating the silence, they found the dog petrified and shivering in the corner. Above the trembling dog, the top of the door was warped inward, and a massive, greasy handprint reeking of death and body odor was smeared roughly nine feet up the doorframe.

Less than 72 hours after their terrifying escape from the remote Nushagak River cabin, brothers Douglas and Thomas were forced to return. During their frantic evacuation, Douglas's wife had left behind her vital, irreplaceable cancer medications. Accompanied by a heavily armed elder relative who had previous experience with the "hairy man" in the region, the trio traveled back to the Bristol Bay wilderness to retrieve the life-saving satchel.

In mid-June, two brothers named Douglas and Thomas reunited after a 12-year separation for a camping trip at a relative's remote cabin on the Nushagak River in the Bristol Bay area. Accompanied by Douglas's wife, the trio enjoyed a peaceful first day watching fishing guide boats drift by. However, the relaxing reunion was shattered on the second morning when Thomas spotted a massive entity lurking behind the property's outhouse.

In August 2026, Gus and Sophie, along with their adult son and young niece, traveled by four-wheeler to an isolated berry-picking spot. Leaving their village near Norton Sound, the family rode for nearly two hours to reach an untouched patch of tundra. Along the way, the young niece, visiting from Anchorage, repeatedly expressed a feeling of unease, though the family initially attributed it to her being unfamiliar with the remote Alaskan wilderness.

During an early spring hike up the finger valleys of Troublesome Creek, an adventurous young couple named Jenna and Mark stopped to dry off and build a small campfire after a mishap crossing the frigid water. The quiet isolation of the woods was suddenly shattered when Jenna’s distinct, sharp giggle was perfectly mimicked back to them from the dense brush behind their camp. Horrified by the impossible echo, the couple frantically began packing their gear to flee.

After saving up for five years, commercial fishermen Curtis and James, along with their friend Mike, booked a remote drop-camp trip off a feeder river to the Kuskokwim River in the fall of 2025. What was meant to be a relaxing wilderness retreat quickly devolved into an inexplicable, reality-bending nightmare. While investigating strange footprints on a nearby game trail, the men sat down to rest, only to experience a terrifying phenomenon: the middle of the day instantly vanished into twilight.

A few years after their harrowing survival at the placer mine, cousins Jacob and Charles took jobs operating skiffs, ferrying caribou hunters along a remote tributary of the Yukon River. While meeting at a secluded floatplane transfer point, Charles pulled his boat to shore only to find Jacob frozen, rifle raised, and signaling for quiet. Peering across a small ravine, they spotted a massive, reddish-brown entity partially obscured in the thick brush.

In this terrifying episode, a routine family berry-picking trip into the Alaskan interior turns into a desperate escape. Siblings Gabe and Rhonda were visiting a childhood spot with their extended family when Gabe, exhausted and hungover, dozed off while on bear watch. He was jolted awake by a massive, horse-like exhale directly behind him. Startled, he turned to face the treeline and locked onto a massive, dark entity moving stealthily through the shadows.

In 1979, two brothers, Derek and James, ventured up the Snake River in Bristol Bay aboard their 32-foot fishing boat for a post-season excursion. On their third morning, anchored in a dense fog bank, they were awakened by an incredibly powerful, sharp 'whoop' vocalization that vibrated the entire vessel. Investigating the shore, they detected a large, dark presence stalking them from the dense grass line.

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.

During the early 1980s, Nate and his wife Teresa were homesteading a parcel of land in the Copper River Valley when they began experiencing aggressive, unexplained activity. The phenomena began with the forceful uprooting and inversion of timber stumps and escalated to a direct, violent assault on their livestock, where half of their chicken flock was slaughtered and plucked in a predatory frenzy. While working the land, the couple encountered a massive, ash-gray skinned entity that performed a 'spider-crawl' through the underbrush to ambushing them near their coop.

In 1982, Paul and his son Alec, who was ten years old, were on a hunting and fishing trip when they came across a hairy man.  As Paul navigated Alec and himself down the trail back to the cabin, they were followed.  Once back at the cabin and inside, they were terrorized all night.

Samuel and his son had an experience together encountering a hairy man on the banks of the river while on a skiff. 

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.