These shares involve stalking—prolonged following, watching, and pressure over time rather than a single flash sighting.
Common threads are repeated approaches, the sense of being hunted, and trips cut short. Browse these shares for multi-hour or multi-day stalking patterns.
A veteran 92-year-old trapper recounts a terrifying ordeal from the twilight of his trapping career in 1984, northeast of Bethel in the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Relying on an isolated backup cabin he typically avoided due to eerie sounds in the distance, his trapping season began smoothly—until he discovered his newly set wolverine traps repeatedly sprung and empty, reeking of a potent, musty ammonia odor.
This encounter involved a trio on the Yentna River at the end of caribou hunting season in 2019 while trout fishing.
This encounter happened to Dee, his little sister, and two of his aunts in 2017 outside of Ruby, located in the interior of Alaska off the Yukon River. This is another encounter that demonstrates these creatures are not our friends.
These events occured 1998 in the Wood-Tikchik State Park in a canoe on the Aguluwok River with my friend Brian. This area has a long history of encounters.
I share an encounter I experienced with two other relatives in 2007 on the Nushagak River. I've shared this experience before, but I give some more detail in this video.
I share a terrifying encounter from Jason who was on a hunting trip with his two young sons in the Fall of 2021 South of the Denali Highway.
