0:01 Hey guys, Chris here. Tonight we have a
0:04 story from one of our viewers living in
0:08 northern Utah. And there he was hunting,
0:10 solo hunting in the Cache National
0:13 Forest. One night while he was alone,
0:16 something came into his camp and
0:19 absolutely terrorized him.
0:33 Okay, so we are right next to this
0:36 stream in the Sierra Nevada and like I
0:40 said, what a perfect beer to have to be
0:43 in the Sierra Nevada is the Pale Ale. I
0:47 have had this before and
0:51 it is a good one. And we are going to
0:54 Let's see. I put some in the can here
0:57 and it's uh definitely got an amber
1:00 quality to it.
1:15 Yeah, it's got a smooth hoppiness to it.
1:18 It's a really good chilled
1:21 and almost a sweetness to it on the
1:23 finish. Just a little bit. It's not
1:26 super bitter and uh it just it tastes
1:28 really good and that's all I need is
1:32 about 12 ounces. So So there you go. So cheers.
1:39 So this story, like I said, comes to us
1:41 from one of our viewers. His name is
1:44 Nicholas. And Nicholas
1:47 heard or actually saw the story about
1:50 Rodney who was in northern Utah and he
1:53 was hunting as well.
1:55 And I did his story a couple of years
1:59 ago. And Rodney, if you remember, was in
2:02 the Cash National Forest, northern Utah.
2:04 And I believe his wife had just passed
2:07 away. So he's feeling kind of down
2:11 obviously. and he set up his camp for
2:13 the night and went for this walk and he
2:16 found this tent. I always remember this
2:19 tent and there was no one in the tent
2:21 and no cars there, nothing. There was a
2:23 couple of lawn chairs. One of them was
2:25 knocked over, I believe. And it looked
2:28 like someone was there recently and had
2:30 bugged out and bugged out in such a
2:33 hurry they didn't even take their tent
2:34 with them and a couple of the lawn
2:38 chairs. And then that night outside of
2:40 his I think he had a five or six man
2:42 tent, something came up out of this
2:44 drainage up to the edge of his camp and
2:48 was screaming this blood curdling scream
2:50 and moved around his camp.
2:53 A very terrifying story. And he was by
2:56 himself. Well, this same area about four
3:00 years ago, this is where Nicholas went.
3:03 I'm going to call him Nick. Hope that's
3:05 okay, Nick, because it's just easier to
3:08 say Nick versus Nicholas.
3:12 Four years ago, Nicholas Nick wanted to
3:16 go hunting with his good friend in the
3:19 cash national forest. C A C H E, like
3:23 they're going to cash some furs or meat.
3:24 That's what the mountain men used to do.
3:27 They would cash their supplies or their
3:29 goods and they would dig a hole and they
3:31 would cover it and they would kind of
3:34 like bury treasure almost. And this cash
3:37 national forest is also part of the Wasace
3:39 Wasace
3:42 National Forest which goes into Utah,
3:45 Wyoming as well. Utah and Wyoming. 2.2
3:48 million acres in northern Utah and Wyoming.
3:51 Wyoming.
3:53 Huge national forest.
3:55 And this is where Nick was going to go
3:57 hunting with his friend and they got two
4:00 elk tags and something came up with his
4:02 friend. His friend couldn't make it.
4:04 Something came up with his family. So
4:07 Nick decided to go by himself to this
4:10 area. Now this area was new to him. He'd
4:12 never been there before. So he wanted to
4:16 keep it simple, keep it easy, and he
4:19 followed the main road, got off on into
4:20 the national forest, and then he did
4:22 this little side road and just went as
4:25 far as he could, parked his vehicle, and
4:28 he called it a Suz, like an Isuzu. And I
4:30 looked it up. I all I got was Suz, so
4:35 I'm assuming it was an Isuzu rodeo SUV,
4:38 smaller SUV. and he went back there and
4:41 spent the night,
4:44 got up early the next day,
4:46 and he went to this area to the north of
4:50 him where he was parked. And this was uh
4:54 east of Highway 39 is what he said, and
4:57 then north of there,
4:59 whatever the map shows, but he's in the
5:01 Cache National Forest. and he went into
5:04 this northern section
5:06 of this forest
5:10 and he got this location,
5:12 pretty thick brush, and he said there
5:15 was like this hallway or avenue where he
5:17 could see elk that were coming out of
5:21 the private land into the public land.
5:22 and he thought this would be a good
5:25 place to uh wait for an elk to c come
5:29 across or maybe even use this corridor
5:31 as a route in this spot early in the
5:35 morning. Thought it was a great spot.
5:42 Good chance opportunity to bag an elk.
5:46 And after just a few minutes, he had
5:49 this weird feeling is what he called it
5:50 come over him.
5:52 this feeling of being watched, this
5:54 feeling of being vulnerable, this
5:57 feeling of being very uncomfortable and
6:02 unsettled and not even sure why.
6:04 And he's sitting there and he kind of
6:07 waited and he waited till about 9 and
6:10 then he waited till about 11:00. He sat
6:13 there for several hours, but he never
6:15 felt comfortable. In fact, this feeling
6:19 got worse and worse as he went. So he
6:22 decided to just get out of there and
6:24 just move back towards his vehicle and
6:27 then head east. This was to the north
6:29 and he was going to head east. And he
6:33 said right away he felt comfortable. He
6:36 felt fine. He felt as he moved away he
6:39 just felt better
6:44 about not being in that area anymore.
6:47 He continued his hunt. He was going up
6:49 up up these ridges looking for elk.
6:51 Didn't have any success.
6:53 Came back,
6:59 and was just hanging out in the camp,
7:02 enjoying the evening,
7:05 and he's in the cash national forest,
7:11 2.2 million acres. And we kind of uh
7:14 lose track in how large these forests
7:17 can be. We're used to being in a vehicle
7:21 and just going up and over a pass and
7:22 down the other side of a mountain. And
7:25 we can go over a mountain range in an
7:27 hour, hour and a half, depending on how
7:30 wide it is obviously. But if you go
7:32 north and south, if you're hiking, if
7:34 you're back there, if you're off the
7:39 road, these forests are so vast and so
7:41 really unexplored. people are mainly
7:44 along the roads, along the highways and
7:46 along the trails and obviously in the
7:47 little communities and that's where and
7:49 campgrounds. That's where people mainly
7:53 are found and those all those places are
7:57 next to or near the road usually.
8:00 And so there are just
8:02 millions, literally millions of acres
8:06 that there's just nothing but trees and
8:09 creeks and forests and ridges and
8:12 mountains and things that go bump in the
8:16 night. So, just saying. Uh, and I get
8:17 into that mode, too, where I'm like I'm
8:19 just flying down the highway and I just
8:22 see the wilderness as this big
8:25 paved trail that I'm following with
8:28 these overlooks and views and small
8:31 communities that I pass. And it's the
8:33 reality is you get up on on a a ridge or
8:36 a mountain and a high pass and you can
8:38 just see how vast it is. especially if
8:42 you're walking or on a small dirt road
8:43 and then you're hiking back in this. So,
8:48 just wanted to say Nick was by himself
8:50 at night in the Cash National Forest.
8:53 So, he had his dinner
8:56 and he still had this uneasy feeling
8:59 about being
9:01 just adjacent to this area to the north.
9:04 He called it the area to the north and
9:06 that is where he had these bad feelings.
9:08 Outside that he didn't have that and he
9:11 was right at the edge of that and he
9:14 just had this very uncomfortable feeling
9:17 all evening long
9:20 and he's sitting in his camp and he just
9:23 couldn't get settled. Decided to go to
9:27 sleep 9 10:00 at night.
9:31 Goes to sleep. He's sleeping in his Suz
9:35 Isuzu Rodeo. I might be off on that, but
9:37 that's what I'm assuming it is. And he
9:40 had a Winchester
9:44 Magnum rifle and a Glock 40 Smith and
9:47 Wesson handgun
9:50 with him. And that's how he slept in the
9:51 back of this vehicle. And I don't know
9:53 if he put a board down and then put a
9:55 pad on that and a sleeping bag. I'm
9:59 assuming needed some kind of a a make
10:02 makeshift setup to uh sleep in there so
10:04 he's comfortable.
10:09 Well, about 1 2 in the morning,
10:13 he hears some movement in his camp
10:17 and at first he thinks it's a skunk.
10:22 Then he thinks maybe it's a bear.
10:24 And he's listening. and he's carefully
10:26 listening. Doesn't want to jump out and
10:28 start yelling. He's got his weapons.
10:30 He's kind of coming up with a game plan,
10:32 thinking about, okay, what could be out
10:35 there. And he realized the back uh I
10:38 believe it's a gate door that closes on
10:41 the Isuzu was cracked about an inch. And
10:45 he was concerned about that because this
10:49 sound got louder. and he said it got
10:52 louder and louder and closer to his
10:55 vehicle. Now, he had tinted windows and
10:57 he couldn't clearly see out what was
10:59 going on, but he could clearly hear,
11:03 especially with the the 1 and 1/2 in
11:06 drop in the window. And then he was
11:08 starting to feel this terror come over
11:12 him, this fear that whatever this is,
11:14 it's not a bear, it's not a skunk,
11:18 raccoon or something. It's something
11:22 else. And almost like uh when a salesman
11:25 gets their foot in the door. You've
11:27 heard that phrase.
11:29 They literally get a crack in the door
11:31 and they can get their foot in the door
11:32 and then they can kind of keep your
11:34 attention and then try to get their way
11:36 in to sell you something. Well, he had
11:38 that same kind of feeling that what if
11:41 this thing could grab the window and
11:45 pull it down or bust it out and reach
11:47 in. And so he started to come up with a plan,
11:49 plan,
11:53 like a plan to protect himself if
11:56 something went wrong. And he's thinking,
11:58 he's not making a sound. He's still in
11:59 his sleeping bag. And he's thinking,
12:02 "Okay, got the Glock. I can get out of
12:05 the sleeping bag. Pull the Glock out. I
12:07 can start yelling and then I can shoot.
12:10 Got the rifle." He's got some options.
12:11 It's not what he wants to do. So he
12:13 thought, I'll just listen. I'm just
12:18 going to listen. Hopefully this thing
12:20 will go away. Whatever it was, it was
12:22 big. It was making a lot of noise. He
12:25 could hear footsteps moving around his
12:28 camp and then around his vehicle. He's
12:30 listening to this and he said after a
12:33 few minutes of this and when you hear
12:36 something in your camp, minutes feel
12:38 like I don't want to say hours, but they
12:42 feel like a long time, right? I mean,
12:44 you're something's out there. And even
12:47 20 or 30 seconds is long enough, but a
12:51 few minutes of this. And suddenly his
12:54 vehicle started rocking back and forth
12:57 like this. And he realized this thing,
12:59 whatever was out there, grabbed the roof
13:03 rack and was moving it like this,
13:05 grabbing it and pulling it back and
13:07 forth. And so if it was a bear pushing
13:09 on it, it would probably do something
13:12 like this. pushing from one to side
13:15 because bears don't have hands or thumbs
13:18 and but this was clearly going like that
13:21 like something had a hold of the roof.
13:24 He according to what his story was he
13:26 didn't see a dark shadow on that side of
13:29 the vehicle but he sensed that whatever
13:32 this thing was was right there. He instantly
13:33 instantly
13:36 got out of his sleeping bag.
13:38 He didn't say he grabbed his weapon, but
13:41 he yelled as loud as he could something
13:45 like, "Hey, knock it off. Hey." And he
13:48 this thing stopped and he heard this
13:52 loud crashing going straight through the
13:55 forest away from him.
13:57 Interesting. The direction it was going
14:00 was to the north. And this is where he
14:05 had that bad, terrible, no good feeling
14:08 in his chest and in his stomach
14:10 that there was something watching him
14:13 and something maybe even watching him
14:16 all day long. He didn't know, but this
14:18 is the direction of this thing that this
14:30 found the key and he couldn't see very
14:33 well, but he had it in his pocket and he
14:34 just grabbed it and it was all feel and
14:37 he crawled into the front seat, got into
14:41 the seat, started his suzo up, backed it
14:44 out, did a three-point turn and got out
14:48 of there and went down this dirt road to
14:50 the main road. Once he finally got to pavement,
14:53 pavement,
14:55 he pulled over, found a good place to
14:57 pull over where he felt comfortable, he
15:00 was far enough away,
15:02 and he wanted to make sure. He was
15:05 hoping it was a bear.
15:06 He was looking for some kind of a sign
15:08 that was a bear. He went out and checked
15:10 his roof rack, went around the side,
15:12 came up, looked, and he could see that
15:15 the roof rack, he he said it was broken.
15:17 I don't know what that meant. the rods,
15:20 one of the rods were bent or the the um
15:23 the framework that it's the supports
15:25 were busted out, but something was
15:29 pretty severely broken. And he said
15:32 there were no no bare marks. And I don't
15:35 know if I think he meant like bear dirt
15:38 paws or even claw marks, but there was
15:41 nothing obviously a bear, but there was
15:45 hair. There's brownish reddish hair that
15:47 was attached inside of the rack
15:50 somewhere like something had caught its
15:52 hair and it ripped out is what he said.
15:55 There's some hair that was on this roof rack.
15:58 rack.
16:01 He immediately went home. He said he did
16:04 not go back there for
16:07 four years and then he said this last
16:11 fall he went back and I didn't hear the
16:13 follow-up story. He sent me Nick sent me
16:19 his story in uh early spring and I just
16:21 got to it now. So I I got a lot of
16:24 stories kind of backlog but that is our
16:28 story from Nicholas Northern Utah elk
16:31 hunting. I I think I said deer hunting.
16:34 I He was elk hunting in northern Utah.
16:37 Great country up there. Uh the Uenta
16:40 Mountains. Very tall. The high uentas is
16:45 what they call them. And very rugged,
16:48 very steep. You can get 10,000 11,000
16:51 plus feet up there and still the peaks
16:54 are 12 I think even 13,000 up there. and
16:56 then the Wasach range and then some of
16:57 the other mountains and salt of there
17:00 and then up into Wyoming, southwestern
17:03 Wyoming. I I do love I do love me some
17:06 Wyoming. The cowboy the cowboy state
17:10 that's a good state. So
17:14 now that is our story from Nicholas. I
17:16 think I already said that.
17:20 But on my way up just tonight, I just
17:23 did a random pullover along the West
17:25 Fort Carson River. This is a tributary
17:28 that'll get there.
17:29 And I found, and I'm going to show
17:33 pictures as I talk about this.
17:36 I don't really know if this was man-made or
17:38 or
17:41 Sasquatch made, but I found clearly
17:46 clearly a structure that was built.
17:49 Okay, it was off the road, not too far
17:51 off the highway.
17:53 I walked down to it. I just wanted to go
17:55 down to the river, take some pictures.
17:57 cuz I always like going to the river and
18:00 hiking around in the rocks and spotting
18:03 for fish and uh just looking for great
18:06 places to take photos, things like that.
18:09 And I found this almost like a wiki up
18:13 uh like a like a structure, but
18:18 interesting. The main tree that made up
18:21 this structure was still intact in the
18:23 ground, but the top of it was not only
18:27 bent, but twisted and then broke and
18:29 then like that.
18:31 It and I'm showing you pictures right
18:35 now so you can see it.
18:38 And there was another one that was
18:43 broke. And then all the I noticed all of
18:46 the bigger ones were broken off or twisted.
18:48 twisted.
18:50 And I was expecting maybe
18:52 maybe
18:54 one of them saw it or a little more
18:57 something to it. So it looked
18:59 in it's just interesting. Really
19:02 interesting. Also, there was a downed
19:05 aspen tree. It had been clearly pushed over
19:06 over
19:09 like that, broken off right at the ground
19:11 ground
19:15 and this big old aspen tree
19:18 I don't know
19:22 very 12 13 14 in round at the base
19:25 broken over and then and this was just
19:28 10 feet from this little structure. So,
19:31 I don't know what that really was,
19:35 uh, if it was man-made or not, but
19:36 really interesting whenever there's
19:39 something broken off. And also, I
19:41 noticed some of the, uh, the the
19:44 branches were kind of um, woven
19:45 together, like a branch would wrap
19:47 around this way and this way. It was
19:48 kind of tucked in there, kind of
19:51 strategic. So, really interesting. I
19:54 found that as well. So, uh, just just
19:55 wanted to mention that. All right, you
19:59 guys. Thank you for listening and uh
20:01 watching my show. I really been loving
20:03 this stream behind you. Isn't that
20:06 great? It's like therapy.
20:08 I I I need to get this in my living room
20:10 and then I can sit in my living room.
20:12 Then then I don't even have to leave the
20:14 house. I could just have a a creek that
20:17 just cycles around like that and get a
20:21 couple pine trees in there and a big
20:24 a skylight to give give it some sun and
20:26 stuff. But uh there you go. So, all
20:27 right. Thank you for watching. If you
20:29 guys like stories about the strange,
20:31 unexplained, and things that go bump in
20:33 the night,
20:36 please like and subscribe, and we will
20:37 see you in the next one. As always, keep hiking.
20:44 So, I says to the guy, "What do you
20:47 think your Wookie of the Year?" And I go,
