About 20 years ago, two 14-year-old boys were getting wood for camp in interior Alaska. It was summertime and they drove the boat about half a mile from camp. They carried a boy’s axe and chainsaw.
It was a wood yard with spruce trees and a lot of stumps. The wood was good and dry in that area. The cut bank was steep and about eight feet high. They had to climb up the bank.
The first boy carried the axe and the second boy carried the chainsaw. The first boy went to take a leak after climbing up the bank. He was by a stump.
When he was done, he turned around and looked at the second boy who was staring in the woods. The second boy mumbled something, and he thought he said “moose”.
The second boy’s eyes were really big. It was like his eyes had popped out of his skull and he had a look of extreme fear on his face. That boy then took off at a run down the bank. He threw the chainsaw into the boat and untied it. He did it in a matter of a few seconds.
Then the first boy looked at where the fleeing boy had looked and thought he saw a moose laying down on the ground until he saw the thing stand up. He said, “I turned around and caught a glimpse. I saw it and got scared.” He also took off down the bank. He left the boy’s axe behind leaning on a stump.
The second boy already started the motor and was pulling away from the bank when the first boy reached the bank. The first boy had to jump from the water’s edge to get onto the bow of the boat. He bruised his shins on the bow of the boat.
As they were pulling away, a log about two-three feet long was thrown over the bank. The log landed in the water and made a big splash. They drove back to camp as fast as they could.
When they got back to the camp, they told their family, but the family told them not to say anything about it. An elder burned a little bit of food and prayed in Koyukon Athabascan to protect them.
The next morning when the first boy got up and went to wash his face, he noticed the boy’s axe he had left behind was leaning against the side of the cabin. Seeing the axe there freaked him out a little bit more, just knowing that the thing had went into theior camp. At the same time, it made him realize that what happened the day before, really happened. The first boy said, “We knew we weren’t just seeing things.”
The first boy only went back to that camp a few more times, and the second boy never returned again. The first boy described it as ‘big, tall and hairy.’
The first boy was curious about it for years afterwards and asked questions about it later. He said, “I was trying to understand what I saw, so I could get over it and move on.” The elder said it was Hutłanee, and people shouldn’t play games or mess around with it.
It was a scary experience. The first boy said, “Something did happen 20 years ago. It’s an experience I’ll never forget.”
Credit:http://www.deltadiscovery.com/story/2014/07/09/hairy-man/bigfoot-seen-by-wood-gatherers/2262.html
Carol S
That was right neighborly, bringing the ax back! Maybe the Bigfoot was trying to make up for pitching a log at him 😉
We all have bad days!
Gail d
Wow that is kind of hard to believe;that a squatch would return the axe.?