Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're looking at a Alaska Bigfoot Roundup.
That's correct. In Alaska Bigfoot Roundup.
This first sighting comes to us from the May of 2022.
It says in the Valdez, Chitnut, Whittier County which seems to
be down there near Anchorage. It says investigator notes
Richardson Highway north of Copper Center.
The crossing point is just north of the guardrails where Yetnick
Creek passes under the highway nearest town, Glen Allen.
This spring at approximately mile 106 on the Richardson
Highway, my wife and I were driving to the Princess Hotel
for breakfast on a Sunday morning.
About 1/4 mile before the right turn to the Princess Hotel, a
very large two legged creature ran across the road in front of
us and just three steps it crossed the road, entered the
ditch and disappeared into the timber.
I wish there had been snow on the ground, but the ditches
hadn't been mowed yet. There were no visible tracks,
only brush that had been pushed down.
I didn't see anything else until late summer in August. 1 evening
while watching TVI started hearing noises and thought my
surround sound was on. After meeting the TVI still
heard the sound which resembled wood knocks.
I went outside and realized the noise was coming from behind the
house. I live at mile one O 9 on the
Richardson and there are no neighbors in the direction for
quite a distance. The experience unnerved me
because I knew what it could be, but I haven't heard anything
since. I'm always carrying a sidearm
when cutting firewood or just out writing.
I truly believe we have a Bigfoot in our area.
Wow, that would be really something.
See one of these things crossing the highway?
They've got a picture of this highway.
Remote timber on both sides. Also noticed nothing else.
Other witnesses, my wife. Afterward I spoke with my
friends at work about the encounter.
Copper Center is nearby and they have seen large tracts in the
area that they couldn't identify.
Large barefoot prints since the time was 8:30 AM.
Environment. Heavy timber with Copper River
and Tazila River nearby and lots of drainage in the area.
Now it says the follow up investigation report by BFR
investigator Matthew Moneymaker. He says I spoke with the witness
George Gilman at length. Originally from Iowa, he has
lived year round in Alaska for 30 years, though he now spends
his winters in the lower 48. The sighting occurred in late
May 2022 in bright sunshine with no snow on the ground.
George and his wife were driving South on the Richardson Highway
from Glen Allen, roughly 65 miles northeast of Valdez,
Alaska. They were on their way to eat
breakfast at the Princess Hotel, which is formerly known as the
Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge in Copper Center.
The Street View image below shows the crossing spot from the
from the same angle and rough distance as seen by the witness.
The Saskatch was less than 1/4 mile away, crossing the highway
just before the guardrails began where yet in a Creek passes
underneath. I found it oddly coincidental
that George had also reported hearing Wood knocks behind his
home at night until he mentioned that he lives about 3 miles from
the location of this sighting. If you zoom in on the highway
image below, you'll see a small vertical red mark which I made
indicating where the figure crossed the highway just before
the visible guard rails. Both the witness and his wife
described the figure as upright and furry with dark fur,
possibly with Auburn tips. The arms and legs were generally
human like, as opposed to those of a four legged creature
walking on two legs. They were certain it wasn't
human due to its enormous size across the highway in just a few
steps, something no human could do that quickly.
I asked George about the deer population in that area and he
mentioned that he has rarely seen deer in 30 years, though he
does see a lot of moose which don't run in herds like deer.
Comparing the abundance of moose in that area to the deer in
Iowa, he noted that there are far more deer in Iowa than moose
in that part of Alaska. He added that there are more
deer to the South near the coast around Valdez, where the winter
temperatures are more moderate. I explained that a Sasquatch
would need an abundant, reliable protein source in the Copper
Center area. George mentioned the fish wheels
on the nearby Copper River, which catch copious amounts of
salmon, different species and different runs through spring
and summer. He also mentioned that the
people setting up the big fish wheels along that part of the
Copper River are mostly natives from the nearby village.
Some have reported that something comes at night to take
fish from their holding pins. They don't believe it's a bear
because they would likely see a bear doing it.
Nor do they think it's a person as stealing food from other
tribal members as unheard of in their community, especially when
fish is so plentiful during the salmon runs.
George also suggested that using trail cameras might help
identify what is taking the fish, as a small box shape of a
trail camera would blend in perfectly with the structure of
a fish wheel. It's possible that the Sasquatch
George and his wife Saul near a copper center may spend winters
near the coast around Valdez, where deer are more abundant.
They could then move inland in the spring when salmon are
plentiful and easily accessible in the holding pins of fish
wheels along the river at night. Wow, That's amazing.
Yeah. Wherever these things seem to be
at, they do have to have a food source.
And I don't know if you've ever eaten that fresh salmon up in
Alaska, but there's nothing better I can tell you that.
Very cool sighting. Let's go ahead and move on to
this next one. This sighting here comes to us
from July 2009, Fairbanks County, Alaska.
It says the intersection of Auburn and Farmers Loop is about
1 to 1 1/2 miles from the University of Fairbanks campus.
You should be able to find it on Google Maps easily.
Nearest town Fairbanks, AK. Nearest Rd.
Auburn Drive, about a mile north of Farmers Loop.
Observed in July 2009 in Fairbanks, AK.
I was heading South on Auburn Drive toward Farmers Loop, which
was about a mile away. The area is wooded, with homes
spaced about 100 to 200 feet apart.
The general area around the homes is cleared, but most of
the land remains wooded. I was driving by Pearl Creek
Elementary School, which is visible through the woods.
Some areas are thick with trees, but in the section where the
sighting occurred, the woods had been cleared, providing an open
view. The school and its vegetable
garden were visible from the road.
It was around 6:00 PM and I was heading home after work on a
deck. All day.
The weather was clear with the sun high in the sky.
As I drove, I noticed a man, quote UN quote, standing by the
right side of the road about 100 yards ahead.
At first, I unconsciously recognized it as a man, which
wasn't unusual in that area. However, as I got within 50
yards, I looked closer and thought, that's no man.
Shortly after, maybe one or two seconds later, the figure bolted
into the woods toward the school, like a wild animal would
if spooked. I didn't slow down until I
reached the spot where I saw him enter the woods.
I could still see him running away from the road.
When he was about 30 yards into the woods, he turned left and
began running parallel to the road in the same direction I was
heading. I got a good look at him, though
not his face. I could have seen his face had I
not been so mesmerized and had the presence of mind to look
directly at it. Instead, I focused on other
details. His fur or hair seemed to be
about 3 to 4 inches long all over his body.
It was a reddish rusty collar and I was mildly struck by how
red it was, though it did have some rustiness to it.
He was about 6 feet tall and appeared to weigh around £200.
He ran with a strange hoppy gait, not a limp, but one foot
pushed off in a more normal running motion, while the other
foot propelled him upward about a foot or less and forwards.
I watched him until he disappeared into the woods.
There was a road about 100 yards ahead, so I quickly drove to it,
turned right, and then turned right again to the road that led
to the school parking lot. The wooded area he entered
formed a sort of peninsula, so I expected to see him somewhere in
there. However, the woods were quite
thick from that angle and I didn't see him again, nor have I
seen him since. A little further up the road was
the school garden where about 7 to 10 people were present.
I regret not stopping to talk to them about what I had seen.
The next day as I drove to work on the deck, I naturally slowed
down, actually stopped in the area where I saw him surveying
the scene. A couple walking their dogs
approached, so I flagged them down and told them what had
happened the evening before. They mentioned that about a week
earlier they were on the other side of the school property near
the soccer field when three kids run up to them excitedly asking,
did you see the Sasquatch? Did you see the Sasquatch?
The couple also mentioned that an adult, possibly the kids
father, was with them, but he didn't seem too excited about
it. My conclusion as to whether it
was real or not is that it was either real or there was a man
in a very, very convincing costume.
I reported the incident to the Fish and Game office in
Fairbanks a couple of days later.
The person taking the report seemed skeptical, rolling his
eyes as he wrote it down on a scrap of paper.
I even had to ask him to take my phone number, just in case.
I saw some people the next day who mentioned that some kids had
seen it the week before, so it tells us that it happened around
6:00 PM. The lighting was excellent and
the weather was clear. And then the environment was
forced. Mostly Birch trees with spruce
trees intermingled. The undergrowth was low,
providing clear visibility into the woods.
And then we had the follow up investigation report by BFR
investigator Charles Lamaca. I was intrigued by this report
because I used to live very near the area where this sighting
occurred. I interviewed the witness by
phone and found his story to be credible.
The interview provided the following additional
information. The entire sighting, from first
glance to last seen, lasted around 30 seconds.
The creature was about 100 yards away when first spotted, but the
distance reduced to about 20 to 30 yards as the sighting
progressed. The witness didn't get a good
look at the creatures face or feet.
He described the shape of the head as being a cross between
that of a human and a gorilla. The hair on its body seemed
uniform in length, about three to four inches and was not
matted or scruffy. He has no explanation for the
unusual gait of the creature and and couldn't speculate to
whether it might have been due to an injury or deformity.
The witness is inclined to believe that what he saw was a
real non human animal, definitely not a bear.
He acknowledges the remote possibility that it could have
been a hoax, but if it was a hoax, the costume was extremely
convincing. Wow, that's a cool one.
So this sighting here comes from August 2008, date 8/20/2008.
Alaska SE Fairbanks County says this location is near Ketchum
Stock Mountain, about 30 mile journey by ATV to the West of
Taylor Highway, South of Chicken, Alaska.
Nearest town Chicken, Alaska, nearest Rd.
Taylor Highway sounds pretty remote.
This is an excerpt from a short story I wrote about a hunting
trip primarily for my family. I am 64 years old with 40 years
of law enforcement experience, currently serving as Chief of
Police. With hunting season not opening
until the day after next, we were in no hurry and enjoy the
evening with a touch of good single malt Irish whiskey,
reminiscing about past hunts and the one we were about to embark
on. Lloyd and Davis were not
expected to arrive until the next until the first day of the
hunt, presumably because Dave had become domesticated sometime
after the previous year's hunt and had to attend a retirement
party before being allowed to leave Valdez for camp.
With the evening winding down and the toll of the day upon us,
we were in our sleeping bags and doubtlessly snoring by 2300
hours. The stove was stoked with fresh
firewood and all was well. At about 2:15 I awoke feeling
too warm, so I unzipped my sleeping bag and threw the top
off. That's when I heard a resounding
crack of wood striking wood, similar to the sound of a
Louisville Slugger solidly hitting a large, sturdy Birch
tree very close to the cabin. Since there was no one within
many miles of us, my attention immediately focused on the
sound. A few seconds later, the sound
was repeated, and this pattern continued for several minutes as
I evaluated its source. Finally, I decided to wake Bill,
saying and just above a whisper. Hey, Bill.
He stirred and mumbled something that sounded like what, but then
didn't move again for 20 minutes until we finally woke up and
asked what was going on. Meanwhile, the noise had stopped
when I initially tried to wake Bill, and I was sitting on the
bunk of my with my 4:50 in my hand, waiting for whatever might
happen during 300 hours. I finally fell back into a sound
sleep, waking well into the following morning with a spot of
coffee in our gullets and explaining to Bill what had
happened the previous night. We explored the area around the
old village, including the nearby graveyard, in an effort
to find an explanation. We found numerous paths
traversing the grassy area around the cabins with a
multitude of bedding sites. However, we never found anything
that could explain the source of the sounds.
When I explained this to another friend after I returned, someone
with years of experience living in numerous villages, he asked
me if there was a native graveyard nearby.
It was less than 50 yards from the cabin.
Nevertheless, I named the source Sassy Under.
Also notice it says the moment I woke Bill the Wood smacking
sounds stopped. No other witnesses.
Bill slept through it. No other stories.
Time and conditions. 2:15 AM. It looks like the environment is
a combination of swamp, bog, streams and mountains.
And then the investigator says, after speaking with the witness,
I find the story believable. And they experienced wood
knocking outside their cabin in the early morning hours.
The witness has considerable experience in law enforcement,
is an avid outdoorsman and hunter, and is familiar with the
local wildlife and the noises they make.
It's pretty cool. Pretty cool story.
They're out in the middle of nowhere hearing these wood
knockings. This sighting here is from 2004
February. It says Anchorage County, Alaska
location details near power line clearings east of Potter Marsh
and Anchorage nearest town. Anchorage says on the hillside
nearest Rd. No real roads in the area
observed. One night, two of my friends and
I weren't bored, so we decided to go snow machining.
Although it was illegal to snow machine in Anchorage, there were
some good trails a little north of my house.
We took off around 11:00 PM, rode up the road about 1/4 mile,
then cut off onto the trails. It had snowed about 10 inches a
few days earlier, so there was a fresh snow with no tracks.
I led the way for about half an hour, and then we stopped to
talk for a bit. After that, we continued
cruising along some kind of game trail that led to a clearing in
the woods. I rode into the clearing with my
friends following about 50 yards behind me.
As I came over a small mound, I noticed strange tracks leading
to a spot in the snow where it looked like something had pushed
aside some snow and laid down. I figured it was just a moose or
something, but I followed the tracks over the next small hill
and as I descended the far side, my headlight pointed directly at
the back of a Bigfoot. It was only about 10 to 12 feet
in front of me, running in the opposite direction.
I slammed on the brakes because I was terrified.
It continued running, jumped over a dead log covered in snow,
and disappeared into a grip of trees and into the darkness.
Shocked and scared, I quickly turned around and rode back
toward my friends. I met them by the 1st mound and
said we need to get out of here before riding back toward my
house. When I told them what happened
they laughed and said it was probably a bear or someone in
the woods, but I was 100% certain it was not a bear or
anything else. The way it was running through
the deep snow convinced me it wasn't human.
For a long time I was ridiculed and called crazy so I didn't
like talking about it. Also notice there were tracks in
the snow and the clearing where it looked like a large animal
had pushed snow aside and laid down.
My two friends were snow machining behind me but did not
see it. If it had been light outside
they might have seen it, but it was pitch black.
The only light was from my snow machine of the stories.
I haven't heard of any other incidents in Anchorage.
It was the middle of the night. The only light was from the
headlight of my snow machine and the environment was in the
middle of the woods in a snow covered clearing with only small
shrubs and brushes sticking out of the snow.
It was the middle of the night. It says the follow up
investigation reported by BF4 investigator Dr. Wolf H
Frontbuck. The animal was running from the
approaching snowmobiles. It runs smoothly with angled
elbows, totally unimpeded by the fresh snow, which was about a
foot deep and still falling on top of a deeper base.
It was dark brown in color with a messy matted coat and no
perceptible neck. The area of the encounter is
near a clear cut lane for a pipeline and within about a mile
of the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge and Potter's
Marsh in wooded terrain. It's pretty fascinating.
You could imagine being out there on your snowmobile like
that, running into one of these things in the middle of the
night. This sighting is from December
2003 says on a Friday night in Anchorage County, Alaska.
Also, there are a few houses along the way and a power relay
station. To get there, head down Dowling
Rd., left off Lake Otis and follow a trail all the way down.
There are multiple entrances and trails.
Nearest town Anchorage, nearest Rd.
Dowling observed one night. A couple of friends and I were
bored, so I suggested we take a walk through the woods behind my
house. We had done this many times
before, so I didn't think much of it.
There were four of us and we set out at around 11:00.
At night. It was rather dark, but there
was light from the moon. The weather was cold since it
was winter. We walked along game trails used
by the moose, mushers, runners and cross country skiers for
about two miles, reaching a nether entrance where most
people enter. On the way we talked about
unexplainable events like Bigfoot and UFOs.
When we reached a bridge where most people come in, one friend
smoked a cigarette. We then saw a light and decided
to head back. On the way back, we heard wild
dogs barking wildly and decided to pick up the pace.
It eventually turned into a Sprint.
After slowing down, we continued talking.
That's when I realized something had been following us, possibly
testing or harassing us. At first, I thought it was my
friend Warren, who can be clumsy.
I assumed the noise is like slipping more from him.
But it turned out something had been throwing things at us.
I realized this about halfway back and asked Warren if he kept
slipping. He said he hadn't, and he
thought I might have been playing a prank.
He stopped to listen, and when I told the others that something
strange was going on, we showed a flashlight around and heard
noises like footsteps and branches moving and breaking.
The leader of our group thought I was joking, but when I
insisted I wasn't, he decided to walk behind me.
That's when something started throwing snowballs at us and
nearly hitting us multiple times.
He then realized this was no joke and we picked up a light
jog for most of the way back. As we neared the edge of the
woods, we again heard dogs and about 20 feet away, branches
breaking and something throwing things at us.
By the time we left the woods it was about 3:00 to 3:30 in the
morning. I didn't go directly home
because I didn't know if it was still following us.
I'm sure this wasn't a prank because the snow was more than
five feet deep in the woods and it would have been extremely
difficult for someone to pull off a prank like that.
Since we also noticed we we smelled the clone in aftershave.
One of my friends, Warren, smoked.
There were four of us, me, Warren, W Mann, and Sean.
We were at my house thinking of something to do because we were
bored. Stories, none time and
conditions. We started at 11:00 PM and
finished at around 3:00 to 3:30 AM.
The weather was cold with no clouds and the temperature was
likely in the high teens. The moon provided some
visibility. Environment A pine forest with a
bog or swamp on the right after entering from Dowling.
On the way there is a Creek and near the bridge is Campbell
Creek. Some of us had clone on and I
had shaved earlier that day so I smelled of aftershave.
Follow up investigation says by Doctor Wolf Ferenbach.
The area is at the eastern edge of Anchorage, continuous with
the substantial Chuga Mountain range.
Apparently there is no leash law in Anchorage and dogs often form
packs. The objects thrown at the group
appeared to be clouds of hard snow, as some ice crust was
present in places The participants The participants
also detected a rank odor resembling a carcass.
The moon was about 85% full on the date and time listed.
That would be a very, very distributing encounter I would
think. Let's take a look at a couple
more here. This sighting here comes to us
from 1998, September 3rd. It says Bethel County, Alaska.
Location details 45 miles by air West of Lake Liama, Alaska in
the Mulchanta River drainage. Observed.
My honey buddy and I were sitting on a Ridge watching for
Caribou. About 1000 yards away a large
clearing was in view. While we were glassing the
clearing for Caribou to come out of the brush, we watched a large
Gray animal walking on hind legs walking between two large spruce
trees on opposite sides of the clearing.
We are both long time Alaskans, avid hunters, and have logged
many, many hunts in North America.
I have haunted all of North America's deer, elk, black and
grizzly bear. I have never seen an animal like
what we saw that day. We watched it for over half an
hour, moved from one tree across the clearing to the other tree.
Eventually Caribou moved into the area and we lost sight of
the animal when it moved off into heavy brush.
We had never heard of a Bigfoot in Alaska, but we did tell the
Bush pilot that picked us up from our hunt that we had seen
something strange. He told us we had probably seen
the hairy man, a well known animal of the Liyama region by
the native people and since also noticed nothing unusual.
Scouting for Caribou with high quality binoculars.
Environment called Liyama Air taxi for latitude and longitude
of long lake. Topography is boreal forest of
southwestern Alaska. Man, I just imagine sitting up
there on the hillside looking at Caribou and you see this Bigfoot
walking back and forth. We'll do one more here and then
we'll finish this up. This last sighting says it was
the late 1970s summertime Fairbanks County location
details Black Rapids, Glacier, Alaska, and Richardson Highway
South of Delta Junction. I was part of a group of about a
dozen Army personnel training in the area.
It was summer on a warm, clear day.
We were above tree line and had been camped there for over
several days. I was looking across the nearest
valley when I spotted movement. It was on the base of a steep
mountainside in bare rocky terrain with snow fields
descending down the small gulleys on the hillside.
It was moving up the valley about a half a mile away.
When it crossed the snow you could plainly see that it was
not a bear. It walked upright with long
strides and arms swinging and moved fast across the white
snow. It was dark and color like a
bear. I have seen bears many times
since in the same type of terrain and they do not move
like this one did. It was too big and fast to be a
human. Bears can and do walk upright
usually for short instances when they need to see or smell
something and need the height. They don't travel in this manner
and not in difficult terrain. I pointed it out for the other
guys and we watched until it until you could no longer see
it. When it was out of the snow, it
was hard to see against the rocks.
We wanted to go look at the tracks, but everyone was scared
to go down there. We had to sleep there that night
and nobody would go outside after dark.
The next day we got out and never went back. 20 years later
I still would not go up there, even with a group and with guns.
The only thing I have seen that look like this is the
description of Bigfoot. This is other witnesses just
sitting around relaxing, other stories.
I was telling a friend about this and he said he found tracks
in the sand in Alaska out by king salmon.
He said they were over 2 feet long but looked human.
He has a lot of outdoor experience there and says they
were in no way the tracks of a bear.
This is this was also in a remote area where you don't see
other people, only planes. Environment, high rugged
mountains. Really cool thing.
Just go show these things have a long long history of being seen
and Alaska is no exception to any of the other states.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.