0:05 Hey guys, Chris here. This afternoon and
0:07 this evening, we are in the Sierra
0:09 Nevada and an area called the Blue
0:11 Lakes. I have three stories that took
0:14 place right here in this area and they
0:16 all involve people just going for a
0:18 walk, going for a hike or camping and
0:21 something in the wild does not want them
0:37 Okay, so I found a really nice spot
0:39 along this beautiful stream. I saw some
0:42 trout in here a little bit earlier in
0:44 this little pool. Pretty cool. Goodized
0:45 trout. So, I'm going to have to come
0:49 back with a fly rod. And also for the
0:51 third story, we're going to go up in
0:53 this plateau to the Lost Lakes. And
0:56 that's where this family was camping.
0:58 And that's where something happened to
1:00 them late at night. We're gonna go right
1:03 to the exact location or at least try to
1:04 find it.
1:10 Also, for our beer, we have moose drool,
1:13 which I put in this lovely little stream
1:16 here. Got it nice and chilled. And that
1:18 is a 5%
1:22 ABV on that. It's one pint. And that is
1:24 from the Big Sky Brewing Company of Montana.
1:26 Montana.
1:28 And that is out of Missoula, Montana. I
1:32 used to live up in Bosezeman, Montana.
1:34 And that's a big beer. I bought just one
1:36 of these. It's been saving me on buying
1:38 the six-pack and then drinking five
1:40 beers and saving one for the video. So,
1:42 I just buy one big one. Sometimes you
1:47 got to buy the one big one. And uh
1:50 also if you know anything about Montana,
1:53 it's uh Charlie Russell Country and
1:56 that's one of his little symbols is a
1:59 buffalo skull. He is the famous western
2:02 artist from the 1800s,
2:04 1880s, 90s, and early part of the
2:07 century there. And uh this is a a brown
2:10 ale, so it's going to be very dark. And
2:13 uh let's take a look at that. Whoa.
2:27 Wow. That is very mocha like. It's
2:29 actually pretty good. Not real bitter at
2:33 all. Not a bitter finish. Uh kind of
2:37 hoppy and really got a nice flavor. I
2:40 like that.
2:44 Yeah. 3.2. Two fluid ounces. One pint.
2:52 Yeah, it's really uh really pretty good.
2:54 I like that. Moose drool. I've had this
2:57 before, but I've never had the the big
3:00 brown ale like that in the big can. So, cheers.
3:10 So, I am in Alpine County and this is
3:14 the least populated county in all of
3:17 California. There's two people per
3:18 square mile
3:21 and the county seat is called Markleyville.
3:23 Markleyville.
3:25 Very small town. And they have the
3:29 Elorado National Forest, 768,000
3:34 acres of wildland that I'm in right now.
3:36 And this is where my story took place.
3:40 In 2005, October 16th of that year, John
3:45 and Gretchen, a married couple, mid30s,
3:49 came to this location just upstream from
3:51 where I'm at is the upper blue lake.
3:53 They parked in the same parking lot I'm
3:57 in. And they got their packs on, got all
3:59 their food, gear, got it all together,
4:03 and they went up this trail that's this way.
4:04 way.
4:08 to Granite Lake, two miles up the trail
4:09 and they're working their way up. It
4:12 took them a little bit longer than they
4:13 thought. It was some steep in some
4:16 sections and they passed this small pond
4:19 on the right and then work their way up
4:21 to Granite Lake. Beautiful lake. Kind of
4:25 a granite bowl around the uh the end of
4:28 it. Fish in there. And they took a break
4:31 there. had a nice time working their way
4:34 back down through this very thick forest.
4:36 forest.
4:40 They stopped again at this small pond,
4:43 sitting on a log, taking a break, having
4:48 some snacks, and John pulled out his
4:51 daypack, pulled off his daypack, and
4:53 pulled out his topo map. and he's
4:55 checking it out, looking at the whole
4:58 area, and he saw this evergreen lake,
5:02 which is south of here,
5:05 and he told Gretchen, "Hey, I'd really
5:06 like to go check this lake out. It
5:08 shouldn't take me too long. You're going
5:11 to Would you be okay staying here for
5:13 maybe 20 minutes?" She said, "Sure,
5:16 that's fine. Just don't be too long."
5:18 Uh, and she had some snacks she was
5:19 going to eat, and she was going to just
5:24 sit and take a break and read her book.
5:27 got his pack on and he worked his way
5:30 through this pretty thick forest. It's
5:34 very thick out here and he had a hard
5:36 time following these contours cuz it was
5:38 kind of steep and it kept kind of
5:41 pushing him down. And I looked at the
5:44 map and to get to this lake, it's called
5:48 Evergreen Lake and it's on a shelf that's
5:50 that's
5:53 above this kind of a couple of domes and
5:56 John was following the contours of these
5:57 domes and he needed to kind of pop
6:00 between them and come down to this flat
6:03 area and this is where this evergreen
6:05 lake is and then that just drops off
6:08 really steep. So, it's like a shelf up
6:10 here. And he couldn't find this lake.
6:12 So, he decided, I better turn around.
6:15 Gretchen's waiting for me. And this
6:18 forest is very thick and dark. It's a
6:20 little spooky. And he was comfortable
6:22 being off trail, but he was starting to
6:25 feel just a little spooked being off
6:28 trail. And then Grretchen being back 20
6:32 minutes or so in the wilderness.
6:34 He's going through the forest. There's a
6:38 lot of pine needle duff on the ground,
6:39 ground,
6:42 but there's areas that there's this
6:44 granite and then there's this kind of a
6:46 fine dirt and dust and then back into
6:49 some pine needles. And it had snowed the
6:51 day before.
6:55 This is midocctober and there was a
6:56 couple inches of snow and then it mostly
6:58 melted off but the ground was pretty
7:02 damp, pretty soft. And he came to this
7:03 section. And it was kind of an he called
7:06 it a natural pathway
7:08 going through the forest is what he
7:11 said. And he had been going through this
7:13 area. It was so thick and he was going
7:16 over logs and around trees and just
7:18 fighting to get through the forest. And
7:20 he thought this would be a great way to
7:21 get through the forest and make better
7:24 time. So he took a different route back.
7:27 and he knew if he just headed north, he
7:29 would hit the trail and then he could
7:32 find Gretchen.
7:34 Came to this stretch,
7:36 it's pretty flat
7:40 and there was no pine needles and he saw
7:43 footprints in the dirt. Two sets of footprints.
7:44 footprints.
7:48 The first set of footprints were about
7:51 11 in long, very humanlike,
7:55 but not human. You could see five toes
7:57 and this definite arch.
8:00 And he said they were about three and
8:04 three/4ers wide at the toe and the ball
8:06 of the foot that area. And then it
8:10 tapered down smaller, but they were
8:14 about 11 in long.
8:16 Clearly seeing these tracks going
8:18 through the forest, this natural
8:21 passageway. And then there was another
8:25 set of tracks at different locations on
8:27 these tracks. They were in superimposed
8:30 over the top of each other. And it
8:32 looked like the bigger tracks that he
8:37 found were following the smaller tracks.
8:39 And the bigger tracks were about 15 in long,
8:41 long,
8:44 6 in wide,
8:47 and the stride was about four plus feet
8:50 long. really wide. It did not have a
8:52 more of a definite arch. It was flatter.
8:55 And he said because of the softer soil,
9:00 they sunk in good 3/4 in or more. The
9:03 big tracks.
9:08 He took his 9 and 1/2 in size 9 and 1/2
9:10 shoe, put it next to it, and you could
9:13 see the difference. And he also pressed
9:16 down and he could barely make a dent in
9:18 the soft soil.
9:21 So he knew whatever this was was very
9:24 large with the big feet, literally big
9:27 feet. And right at that moment, he had
9:31 this not a aha moment, more of a uhoh
9:34 moment. Uhoh,
9:43 And he knew this area, especially that
9:45 time of year and especially how thick
9:47 this forest was, nobody's going to be
9:50 walking around in their bare feet with
9:52 all the debris, the pine cones, the
9:55 sticks, rocks. And then he thought about
9:59 Grretchen being by herself. And then he
10:02 had this kind of a panicky feeling come
10:06 over him like, I got to get out of here.
10:08 He didn't have a camera. And so he
10:10 thought, "Maybe,
10:12 maybe I'll come back and get some pictures,
10:14 pictures,
10:16 but right now I got to get out of here."
10:20 So he worked his way through the forest.
10:23 He didn't hear anything, but he was on
10:26 red alert, and he had this feeling of
10:28 possibly being watched. He just had this
10:30 kind of a chilling feeling.
10:32 finally gets to the trail, breaks through,
10:34 through,
10:36 and he didn't know which way Gretchen
10:38 was because it all looked the same. He's
10:40 thinking, "If I go left,
10:42 she's not that way, then I have to go
10:44 all the way back right." So, he thought
10:46 about it, and he just waited and
10:49 listened and he didn't hear anything.
10:51 And then he then he thought, I I got to
10:53 go to the right. I think it's to the right.
10:55 right.
10:57 He just found the trail. He just didn't
11:01 know which way to go to find his wife.
11:03 He goes down the trail. Sure enough, he
11:06 looks up ahead. He can see the pond off
11:08 to the left and he's like, "Okay." He's
11:11 kind of relieved. He keeps going past
11:13 the pond. He doesn't see Grretchen. He's
11:16 a little panicked. And then he looks off
11:18 to the right. And she's standing there
11:21 and she's looking off in the forest. And
11:22 then she turns around kind of startled
11:25 and she goes, "Honey, what are you doing?
11:26 doing?
11:28 And he said, "I don't know. I'm coming
11:31 back. I I just I couldn't find the lake.
11:33 Couldn't find this evergreen lake." And
11:36 um anyways, I'm glad I found you. And
11:40 she said, "No, honey. I I called you. I
11:43 was calling you."
11:46 She was yelling out his name. He said,
11:49 "I didn't hear you. I was just got off
11:51 back onto the trail just a minute ago. I
11:53 was hiking back from this." She goes,
11:56 "Well, I don't know what's going on cuz
11:59 I thought I heard you just in the forest
12:03 right over here." And I, she said, "I
12:06 was sitting on this log reading my book
12:08 and I heard
12:11 you, or at least what I thought was you
12:14 coming through the forest right towards me."
12:16 me."
12:17 And she said, "You were making a lot of
12:19 noise." And I thought, "Okay, well, he's
12:20 just working. He's coming through the
12:22 forest. She's going to be here any
12:23 second now.
12:27 And I said, "Hey, honey." And
12:28 And
12:32 what I thought was you suddenly stopped.
12:34 He goes, "That wasn't me. If you would
12:38 have yelled my name or said, "Honey,
12:40 I would have said, "Yeah, yeah, it's me.
12:45 I'm coming." And I was up that way. I I
12:48 came in from a different angle and I had
12:50 to walk down the trail to get you get to
12:55 you. She goes, "Well, I called called
12:57 out to you three times. I said, "Hey,
13:00 honey." And then I said, "John, John,
13:02 what are you doing? Get over here." And
13:07 then she said she heard whatever this
13:09 was. She could hear it kind of moving
13:12 around and then it quickly went the
13:16 opposite direction in the forest really
13:18 fast and it made a lot of noise and then
13:21 it was quiet again. And she said it
13:23 startled her cuz she thought, "Oh, maybe
13:26 that's a bear. I don't know." And so she
13:28 said, "The obviously wasn't you." And he
13:31 goes, "Honey, I am so sorry. I that was
13:35 not me. And I have something I need to
13:38 tell you that I found out there in the
13:40 forest, but I think it's best we just
13:43 get out of here now.
13:45 And she said, "I agree. Okay, let's just
13:47 get out of here. I don't know what's
13:49 going on. I thought it was you. Maybe
13:51 it's a bear. I don't know." Oh, and then
13:54 they took off, went down the trail back
13:58 across this dam to get to the parking
14:02 lot, got in the car. It was sun was
14:05 going down. It's fall. It's October. The
14:08 sun goes down way quick. Once it gets
14:10 behind the mountains, it's just it's
14:12 kind of like getting dark, getting dark,
14:14 and it's like somebody turns turns a
14:16 switch and it's black. and they're
14:18 heading down the road that I came up and
14:22 going to the past the lower blue lake
14:24 and then the road that works around
14:27 towards 88 which is the Carson Pass
14:30 road. And as he got out of the area, he
14:34 started to tell her what he saw
14:36 along his
14:39 backcount hike off trail. And he told
14:42 her about the footprints and how it was
14:44 a bigger one, smaller one. And it looked
14:47 like this smaller one was in front and
14:49 and very large prints. And she was like,
14:52 "Oh my god." I I don't know what I
14:54 heard, but whatever it was, it was very
14:58 large when it ran away and it sounded
15:07 And that is our story from Gretchen and
15:09 John in 2005
15:11 2005
15:16 right here. and uh on this trail. Pretty wild.
15:23 In July 1983
15:26 1983
15:27 that summer,
15:32 just downstream from here between
15:35 Lower Blue Lake and Twin Lake, which
15:36 we're going to go to later and have some
15:40 dinner if we have some time.
15:44 Daniel was walking between the two lakes
15:47 looking for these old home sites. Now,
15:51 in the Northern California here in the Sierras,
15:52 Sierras,
15:56 you can occasionally find an old cabin
15:59 or own homesteads and sometimes even
16:03 entire towns from the gold mining days
16:06 or the homesteading era. and he was
16:07 looking for
16:15 He was between Twin Lake and Lower Blue
16:18 Lake. There was a ridge down there and
16:20 then the stream and then there's this
16:23 really thick brush. And he was walking
16:26 along there
16:30 and he heard this really loud whistle
16:42 He said it was ground level
16:46 behind him and to the left in the thick brush.
16:48 brush.
16:50 Startled him. He said it was really
16:53 loud. And he said it sounded like it was
16:55 from a mammal. He said it did not sound
16:57 like it was from a bird. It sound like
16:59 almost like something was trying to
17:03 mimic a bird.
17:05 caught his attention and at first he's
17:08 thinking, "Okay, maybe it's a hunter.
17:11 He's trying to warn me."
17:14 Uh, but then he thought it's July and
17:17 this is not hunting season and this is
17:21 doesn't seem right. But he decided to
17:23 call out and say, "Yeah, is everything
17:27 okay? Just hiking through." Expecting if
17:29 it was a hunter sitting there, they
17:34 would say something. It was dead quiet.
17:37 He said this sound, this loud sound,
17:41 this whistle was about just 10 feet into
17:43 the brush.
17:47 And he decided to investigate. He was
17:51 young 20s, 1983. He said he'd been
17:55 working out, running, and even boxing.
17:57 And he was in really good shape, and he
17:59 didn't fear much. And so he kind of went
18:02 in the brush looking around. He couldn't
18:04 get very deep into it. But whatever this
18:07 was was just
18:11 8 10 feet into the brush. And he said he
18:13 didn't hear any animals. He didn't hear
18:15 any birds in the trees. It was dead
18:18 quiet except for that whistle.
18:20 And he's moving through this thick brush
18:22 and it kind of closed up behind him
18:24 because he went in a ways
18:28 and he just suddenly had this panicky
18:30 feeling like
18:32 there's could be something really dangerous
18:33 dangerous
18:37 just a few feet in front of me. Maybe a
18:40 bear, maybe a mountain line. He didn't
18:43 know, but there was this feeling of
18:46 danger came over him. He immediately got
18:49 out of there, followed the stream back to
18:51 to
18:54 the lower blue lake, and he asked his
18:57 dad about the sound that he heard this whistle.
18:58 whistle.
19:02 Now, his dad had spent several summers
19:05 as a campground host at these
19:09 campgrounds for the PG&E. This area is
19:12 run by the PG&E. It's within the Elorado
19:16 National Forest, Pacific Electric and
19:18 Pacific Gas and Electric. And they
19:20 operate this for recreational purposes.
19:22 And then they got the dam there for
19:25 hydro and electricity and power. And
19:27 they have these campgrounds and day use
19:30 areas and picnic areas. He was a host
19:33 there. And he he told Daniel, he said,
19:36 "I'm really not sure what that was. That
19:38 does not sound like any bird or animal
19:40 that I know of.
19:45 But I remember about four years ago,
19:51 late August, this storm came in when I was
19:53 was
19:55 being a campground host. He was by
19:58 himself and this storm, the wind was
20:00 picking up
20:03 and it was night and he went outside to
20:07 secure the campsite.
20:09 Take the folding chairs, put them down,
20:11 put them under the picnic table, bring
20:13 the lantern in, get the cooler off the
20:16 picnic table, secure that, bearproof it
20:19 in the bear box.
20:21 And he said he heard some movement or
20:24 some noise in the forest, but because of
20:27 the wind, he didn't really pay attention
20:29 to it.
20:31 He's moving around. The storm's coming
20:33 in. He's always going to get wet at any
20:36 moment. And then he hears this sound in
20:39 the forest again. So he reaches inside
20:42 the camper, pulls out this flashlight.
20:45 It was a mag light, really long mag light,
20:47 light,
20:50 and he shines it into the forest. And he
20:54 can see these yellow whitish glowing
20:57 eyes looking right at him about 30 feet
21:01 back into the forest.
21:04 And he said it really spooked him,
21:06 startled him
21:09 because he knew the forest around this
21:11 campsite. He'd spent the whole summer
21:13 there and spent several summers working
21:16 in this area as a campground house. And
21:18 he knew there was no trees there and
21:23 these eyes were 7 8 ft high and it was
21:27 not an animal sitting up in a tree.
21:29 Startled him. And he never told anybody
21:31 about this. He didn't know what to say.
21:34 He didn't know what they would think and
21:38 what they would say. And so he just kept
21:41 it to himself. But he told Daniel,
21:45 "I think this may be related to what I
21:48 saw." And that's all he said about it.
21:50 And then Daniel, thinking that this was
21:53 a mountain line or a bear, and he
21:56 actually went into this brush trying to
22:00 investigate and look for it, had this
22:02 chill come over him like, "Oh my gosh,
22:06 this this thing is possibly very real."
22:10 And also that week while he was here,
22:13 he talked to a man from Chico,
22:16 California, who had been training as a
22:18 runner. And he was running in this area
22:22 along the dirt roads that go between
22:25 Twin Lake, upper and lower Blue Lake,
22:27 and then it works its way up to uh this
22:30 Lost Lakes.
22:33 He talked to this man and the man just
22:36 said, "I had this really strange occurrence
22:37 occurrence
22:40 one evening. I was running. It wasn't
22:42 dark yet, but the sun was going down."
22:44 He had a really strange occurrence. He
22:47 said he did not want to talk about it.
22:50 And then Daniel said the next day he had
22:54 left to return again to this area as far
22:57 as he knew. and they were going to stay
23:00 in contact uh by the phone. This was
23:02 back in the 80s, so this just phone
23:06 contact. And so that is our story from
23:10 Daniel who spent several summers here
23:12 with his dad as well. And then his dad
23:15 would spend the whole summer here. And
23:17 so this is quite an interesting area. We
23:20 got the Malamanet Wilderness
23:21 Wilderness
23:24 uh just right over here and the Lost
23:28 Lakes Plateau up here. And to the south
23:30 of here is these volcanic peaks I've
23:32 been checking out and this uh upper and
23:35 lower Sunset Lakes. Really cool country.
23:37 So, all right. So, now we're going to
23:39 hike back upstream to the upper blue
23:41 lake and work our way to the the Lost Lakes.
24:08 Okay, so here is upper and lower blue
24:13 lakes here and here. And we got to head
24:17 up here for the lost lakes. And that is
24:19 where our story takes place. And I am
24:21 running out of daylight. So see if we
24:31 Okay, so this is the first of the two
24:33 lost lakes. I found it. I had to come
24:36 over this saddle here and I was heading
24:40 to this peak off to my left. And this is
24:42 where our story takes place at this
24:44 second lake. I believe they were camped
24:47 in that flat area on the other side. And
24:50 so what I'm going to do because we're
24:52 running out of daylight and it's going
24:54 to be dark soon and I'm going to have to
24:56 navigate through the wilderness in the
24:59 dark, which is not a great idea if I get
25:01 off trail. I got some good lights and
25:03 stuff, lanterns, but I'm going to head
25:05 back to the saddle and work my way down.
25:07 I should get back to the truck before it
25:09 gets dark. We're going to go to the
25:11 campground, get some dinner going, and
25:14 now we'll do the story of the Lost Lakes
25:16 there. So, all right, let's get out of
25:27 All right, we got a bit of a breeze and
25:31 we still got some light left. And I am
25:34 going to be doing a campfire. We're
25:35 gonna do the last story and then we're
25:38 going to be doing dinner over the
25:42 campfire and on the tailgate and we're
25:44 having that Sasquatch Sasparilla. So,
25:59 That is the uh Milwaukee
26:02 little mini splitting mall. So that
26:05 thing is 26 oz.
26:08 Says right there that thing really works well.
26:33 Pine needles and pine cones. They work great.
26:42 So, August 1st of 2001,
26:45 Raymond and Jan got in their Chevy Silverado
26:47 Silverado
26:49 and made the trip out to the Blue Lakes.
26:51 They did this every year. This
26:54 particular year, they brought their friends,
26:56 friends,
26:59 Kelly and Don.
27:02 They went to the Blue Lakes
27:04 and they got to the end of the upper
27:07 Blue Lake and they took the road, the
27:10 four-wheel drive high clearance road up
27:14 to the Lost Lakes.
27:16 Very rugged. And this is where I had just
27:17 just
27:20 hiked up this road. I'm not taking my
27:23 Ford Maverick up this road. And uh it
27:26 was a good move. I worked my worked
27:28 myself pretty hard getting up this this
27:30 road and then I busted off the road and
27:32 I went up the ridge and worked around
27:35 and I got that view looking down at
27:38 these two lakes, the lost lakes. And I
27:41 assumed getting to the top of this
27:43 plateau I would see them like straight
27:44 out like they were just going to be
27:46 right there. And they weren't. It was
27:47 like up and over and then there was a
27:50 ridge and they were behind and down. It
27:54 was the mountains are way more rugged
27:55 than you think when you're looking at a
28:00 map. And so this is where
28:03 Raymond and Jan were going to spend the
28:05 week. And they did this every year. So
28:09 they spent the week late summer
28:11 and they came up this road
28:15 went to the between the two lost lakes
28:17 which are the headwaters of the West
28:20 Carson River.
28:22 Pretty cool. And that on the back side
28:24 of where these lakes are, it just drops
28:26 off dramatically and then the both the
28:28 lakes drain and then they form the
28:33 headwaters of the West Carson River.
28:35 They had their camp set up between the
28:37 two lakes with their friends. They each
28:41 had tents. They had a fiveman tent and
28:45 they uh uh Jan and Raymond had a fiveman
28:47 tent and their friends had a little bit
28:49 smaller of a tent, but still tents you
28:55 They were there for about 10 days and
28:57 they enjoyed being up there. It was just
28:59 kind of their place and particularly
29:01 late in the summer
29:04 where during the week there was no one there.
29:06 there.
29:14 Raymond went around the backside of the
29:17 first lost lake
29:23 Was casting some lures out looking for
29:27 for some trout.
29:30 and he had this feeling something was
29:34 off. He kept fishing, moving a little
29:36 bit, was on the opposite side of the
29:38 lake from where his wife was and where
29:46 And he casts another time and then he's
29:49 got this feeling of being watched. He's
29:51 looking around. He doesn't see anything.
29:54 They had seen no other vehicles there. None.
29:55 None.
29:58 And again, it's a very rugged road
30:00 coming up. And there's people down at
30:03 the upper Blue Lake and the lower Blue
30:06 Lake campground, but they're about
30:09 84,000 ft up.
30:16 8,400 84,000 8,400 8,400 ft in elevation
30:24 He's continues to move around the lake
30:27 casting and finding these little rockout
30:30 crops and stepping out and casting and
30:33 he's still got this feeling that
30:34 somebody's kind of keeping an eye on
30:37 him. He just he's never had this before.
30:41 He never felt this feeling.
30:44 And then he's about to cast and he casts
30:47 out. He starts reeling and he looks over
30:50 to his left. Because he had moved, he
30:54 could see a little different angle and
30:56 on the same side of the lake, but off
30:59 into the trees,
31:02 he thought he saw
31:06 these shoulders and this head
31:10 silhouette in the trees in the darkness
31:13 of the trees.
31:16 He's looking at it. It didn't move.
31:19 And he's thinking, is that like a large
31:21 human? What? What is that? And he's
31:23 staring right at he sees this silhouette.
31:24 silhouette.
31:26 And then he's not sure what he's looking
31:29 at. He's thinking, maybe
31:32 maybe that's just a,
31:34 you know, his imagination kind of
31:37 piecing together like a tree and a tree
31:39 trunk and some different things going on
31:42 in the forest. and he looks back towards
31:45 his line as he's reeling up. He's ready
31:47 to cast again. And before he casts, he
31:50 looks back over and now that silhouette
31:54 that he saw in the forest
31:58 over about 60 yards or so on the east
32:02 side of the lake is gone.
32:04 He's a little shaken up. He's not sure
32:07 what the heck is going on. He's staring.
32:09 He's looking. Am I seeing things right?
32:12 was not sure what he's really looking
32:15 at, but whatever he thought he saw
32:17 before was now gone.
32:20 He didn't feel very comfortable, so he
32:22 reeled up his lure and worked his way
32:24 around the opposite side of the lake
32:26 from where he saw this thing. Went back
32:28 to camp.
32:29 And he doesn't say a word about what he
32:33 saw because he's really not sure what in
32:36 the heck he actually saw.
32:40 and he didn't want to startle Jan
32:42 and get her kind of nervous about
32:44 there's maybe somebody prowling around
32:47 the forest and who knows what this
32:50 person's up to. But they saw no other
32:53 vehicles up there. And people that go up
32:55 there to go camping,
32:58 they drive up that road and then they
33:06 So that night they had their dinner.
33:09 They had a campfire.
33:11 Everything was quiet. And he thought,
33:13 "Okay, well, maybe I just saw something.
33:16 Maybe I imagined some shapes in the
33:18 forest. I don't know.
33:20 I didn't hear anything. I just thought I
33:22 saw something and then it was gone. I
33:24 don't know."
33:28 They have a campfire and then they have
33:30 a really nice time with their friends
33:32 and it's just the the fourth night of
33:35 their week and a half stay. They're
33:38 going to be there for 10 days.
33:45 and for whatever reason, Jan
33:47 Jan
33:50 wakes up at 2:35
33:54 a.m. Just wakes up kind of stressed, not
33:57 sure what's going on.
34:00 And she didn't hear anything. She just
34:03 woke up,
34:05 picks up the flashlight, checks her
34:08 watch. This is 2001.
34:11 And then she sees the dog, their cocker
34:15 spaniel, Sadie, and he's sitting there
34:17 with his paws out and he's staring right at
34:18 at
34:23 Jan. Big eyes, floppy ears, cute little dog.
34:26 dog.
34:29 And normally every night the dog was
34:31 just pretty wore out and he was just
34:34 laying there just out just out like a
34:36 light. But this particular night he was
34:40 just staring at Jan.
34:42 And she was like, "Okay." She's looking
34:51 It's 2:30 in the morning
34:55 and then she hears some movement just to
34:57 the south and east of their tent. This
35:00 is a fiveman tent, big walled tent. You
35:03 can walk in it, stand up in it, and they
35:06 could she could hear something
35:11 over towards the lake, but it was had to
35:15 be 10 12 feet away. Just some something
35:17 moving around.
35:21 She waited and she listened
35:23 and she had the flashlight off at that point
35:26 point
35:30 and she's looking around. The dog starts
35:41 And right then she heard footsteps come
35:46 closer to the tent. Something walked
35:50 on two feet. The distance from 12 feet
35:52 to about three or four feet from the
35:55 tent, just a few feet away from where
35:59 she was laying on the air mattress.
36:01 Dog is still growling.
36:03 Got the flashlight off. Her husband,
36:06 Raymond, is sound asleep. He's a sound sleeper.
36:08 sleeper.
36:11 And she's listening very intently,
36:13 thinking, "Okay, it's a bear. It's a
36:15 mountain line. They're they're a family
36:19 of hunters, so they know all the animals
36:20 in the forest. They've hunted and
36:23 they've done this for years. And she
36:25 just does something's not right.
36:32 She's just about to turn the light on
36:34 and just yell like, "Hey, who's out
36:36 there?" Something. Just something. Just
36:39 anything to kind of let her presence
36:42 known and just kind of make a little stand.
36:44 stand.
36:47 And she waited and waited and she was
36:49 just about to do that. And then she
36:53 heard this extremely loud
37:04 Really loud and freaky.
37:08 Just a few feet away from her wall tent, just
37:09 just
37:13 outside of the tent. The dog, Sadie,
37:15 immediately starts barking and going
37:17 berserk, going nuts.
37:21 Raymond wakes up and he's disoriented
37:24 and he's like, he thought initially that
37:27 Jan was screaming because he heard this
37:31 scream. He woke up to the scream and it
37:34 sound like a woman screaming bloody murder.
37:36 murder.
37:38 She turned on the light and she says,
37:42 "Honey, there's something outside
37:44 and she's shining the light." She just
37:46 the tent wall like I don't know what
37:48 good that's going to do. And he's going,
37:51 "What in the hell is going on?" And she
37:53 said, "Just listen. Just shut up and
37:55 listen." And they're listening. And they
37:58 can hear this thing
38:02 start running by the tent and running
38:04 through the trees. and it was heading up
38:06 the road.
38:09 Raymond was going, "What is going on
38:11 around here?" She goes, "No, there was
38:14 an animal or something outside."
38:18 Right then, she could hear their friends
38:21 unzipped the tent
38:23 and then some movement over in their
38:27 tent. They were about 20 feet away.
38:30 And then about 30 seconds later, he
38:32 comes over. He goes, "Are you guys okay?
38:35 What's Did you guys hear that? And she
38:37 goes, Jan goes, yeah, I heard that. I
38:39 heard that. And then Raymond said, yeah,
38:41 I heard it as well. And he goes, I'm
38:45 smelling something really horrible out
38:46 here. Really rotten. There's some
38:49 horrible smell. And they could all hear
38:52 this thing running up the road that they
38:54 had come in on.
38:56 And it as it faded out, they could hear
38:59 the gravel and the rock as this thing
39:02 faded out and was now quiet. The dog is
39:05 still barking. He slowly starts settling down.
39:07 down.
39:09 They got out of their tent and then they
39:16 Rayman said,
39:19 "I didn't tell you guys this, but I
39:23 thought I saw possibly a bear or
39:25 something in the forest. I'm not sure
39:28 what it was." And then it was gone. I
39:29 don't know. I didn't want to alarm
39:32 anybody cuz I wasn't really sure what I
39:35 actually saw.
39:39 They had come up to this area for years
39:42 and they had never had anything like
39:50 And they all concluded that being that a
39:55 family of hunters that this had to be something
39:57 something
40:02 unusual or in the realm of paranormal or
40:06 or a Bigfoot or Sasquatch because it was
40:10 not bobcat, mountain lion, a bear, or
40:14 anything they could think of.
40:16 and they
40:19 spent the rest of their trip, nothing
40:23 else happened for the additional six
40:26 days while they were there. And they
40:29 left and they always remembered that one
40:33 night. It was August 1st, 2001 in the
40:38 lost lakes of the uh Elorado National
40:40 Forest, which is I was just up there
40:44 just about an hour ago. So,
40:47 and the sun is going down. It's pretty
40:49 much on the other side of the ridge
40:51 here. And so, we are going to get dinner
41:00 Cheddar smoked sausage. We're going to
41:03 cook that on the hot dog stick over the
41:06 fire. And then the rest we're going to
41:09 have uh waffle fries
41:13 and bushes maple and cured bacon beans.
41:17 That's a giant giant can there. Check
41:19 that out.
41:22 I'm not going to eat all that. And uh
41:27 and then we got these artist artisano
41:30 sausage rolls that we'll be putting the
41:34 sausage on. Smoked cheddar sausage. So,
41:36 uh, yeah, that's that's what we're doing
42:04 I am good to go with these the waffle
42:06 fries. These are great for breakfast, too.
42:09 too.
42:12 All right, let's get that good old beans.
42:15 beans.
42:18 A campfire stable.
42:20 There we go.
42:49 Just got to reheat them. That's the good
42:51 news about the beans. Just a little
42:55 reheat. Waffle fries.
42:57 Little ketchup. the old uh Sasquatch
43:18 All right, you guys. Thank you for
43:21 watching. That was a lot of fun. I'm
43:25 really enjoying uh getting out and doing
43:28 some uh late season,
43:33 camping, cooking, and and hiking. That
43:34 was a great hike up to that Lost Lakes.
43:36 Beautiful country up there. If you guys
43:39 like what I do, like and subscribe. You
43:42 guys know how to do all that stuff. And
43:45 I really appreciate you guys. And I
43:47 appreciate you watching. And uh we'll
43:49 see you in the next one. As always, keep
44:01 And always remember, whatever doesn't
44:04 kill you will make you stronger.
