Living Alongside a Pack of Wolves

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Now, hey, that's interesting because typically that symbolizes a compromised emotional status, you know, like instability or manipulation but when I see this card usually it's on somebody that's very moody which does not seem like you at all Vince Um Yeah. Did you shuffle the deck? Maybe you didn't shuffle them good enough. I I I don't know. Don't worry about it, son. We're gonna keep going. Uh let me let me just welcome our visitors here. Hey everybody, welcome back to Radio Rental. Long time no see. I'm Ricky Lee Bagley and I've been manning the counter here at Radio Rental, which is as you know, a video rental shop with an exclusive collection of scary stories told by real breathing people . And this here is Vince, the junior associate clerk. We've had a bit of a slow day. I'll admit that today. It's been kind of slow, so I've been doing a turret reading for old young Vincent here . Anyway, I know what you want. You've been very You want one of our exclusive scary stories. One of the tapes that we keep in the secret box in the back beh ind the beaded curtain I love that curtain dude I swear anyway let's uh let's see what we got in here ooh ooh, this one. This one right here. Vince, pop this one in while I draw your next tarot card, okay, bud ? Oh, geez, Louise, Vince. You got the devil card. That represents destructive behaviors, inner demons. Does that resonate with you ? Uh no, definitely not. This story happened about 16 years ago in the summer of 2010. I was just coming out of my freshman year of college . The neighborhood that I lived in in high school was a really nice golf course community. It bordered the rivers and estuaries that bled out into the Atlantic Ocean, so it was a really beautiful place to grow up. I remember one day my mom brought out these blueprints of the house and the surrounding property . And I asked her, I saw these all these exes in the forest . And I was like, oh what are those? And she's like, well that's why I wanted to show you. I think you might find this interesting . These are unmarked graves. And apparently they go all the way back to the 1800s . We kind of took it upon ourselves, my brother and I, because we had watched those ghost adventure shows on travel channel and I think everyone's familiar with these types of shows. You go out with a recording device and you start asking questions, who are you? What are you doing here? And my brother and I were like, oh that'd be really cool. We should get some friends and go out there and just ask some questions and see if we can capture something . It's myself and seven others out there in the middle of this forest. Ten thirty at night, maybe eleven o'clock. We There is anything. I open garage band and I just hit record and we just started asking questions, a bunch of us. You know, the typical who are you, what are you doing ? As we're out there, we start seeing like these unmarked graves. Some of them look unmarked, they're like covered with moss and mud, and they're kind of just jutting out of the forest everywhere. And there's dozens of them just scattered about this patch of forest . It's already kind of an eerie vibe. You know, we're just asking these questions, not only myself, but friends of mine as well. I asked the question, is there anyone you'd like us to contact for you? For you, for you. But if you are here and if you have any loved ones that you'd like us to contact , come up and say something now into the device I'm holding , and I can send your message to them . I'm scared of fucking snakes right now. You wanna say that to the computer too? As we're asking questions , I see this grave only a few feet away from us that says Eliza H9, 1892, and it's jutted out of the ground and there's moss covered all over it. We're out there for about 15 to 20 minutes. As we're going back inside , I noticed that my laptop is really drained of battery, which I thought was really odd because I just purchased this laptop a few weeks prior. It was, you know, at the time, the best MacBook you could And so we go into the kitchen and all eight of us are kind of around this laptop. And as we start playing back the audio, we start hearing voices that don't belong to any of us talking under us as we're asking these questions and that we're talking amongst ourselves. Kind of like layered beneath when we were talking and asking questions . It's really hard to make out. It's definitely female. It sounds distant almost with a reverb on it. And you hear my brother on the recording go, Man, I'm scared of fucking snakes right now because you know he's worried. You know, what could be in the forest. And as he's saying that, you hear what sounds like a female voice, very distant . It sounded like it was saying, Mama . I'm scared of fucking snakes right now. At least that's what it it seemed to me. Mind you, we weren't hearing any of this in real time because we're recording garage band, we don't have headphones on, and it's just a bunch of us friends out in the forest just asking random questions . It was you who spoke earlier would you like to speak again ? Would like to make yourself known. They're audible, but you can't hear exactly what they're saying, which just makes it a level creepier . We're startled, we're like, oh my god, like what do we have? Like what what the heck just happened ? It was a really strange experience. At that time we really didn't think much of it. We were just like, oh God, that's spooky. But we just kind of forgot about the whole thing, saved the audio file and then just went and partied, you know, that night I think, and just kind of forgot about the whole thing . A few days later, my brother and I were like, hey, let's do one more test. And we walked out with the laptop again I was standing out there with the laptop on the edge of the forest. My brother was on the porch and he was kind of coaxing me. He was like, okay man, let's you we can come back in now . I remember again this floodlight coming from the hotel , very clearly just piercing through the trees at nighttime. I played some music. I was messing around with my laptop and I looked back up and the hotel floodlights completely blacked out. And it looks like this really large black mass kind of in front of it. And it has it kinda took me a second to gauge what's happening because obviously it's dark. I'm looking at an L C D screen or just a computer screen and back . But something was clearly blocking it and it was very tall and it was just really weird. So I just kinda like stepped, went inside the house, and just kind of forgot about it . Archived the the audio and just was like, oh, that's an interesting experience . Two years go by , my friend Craig, who just so happened to be out there the first time we were doing those recordings called me and said, Hey man, I got an even creepier place that you should check out. And it's literally a mile and a half down the road in the same stretch of forest They just saw some really creepy stuff. Way more revved up. And again, we kinda have that adventurous spirit and we're like, okay, let's go out and check this out. I mean we did it before. We should see what's up ? The oddest part about it was I remember Craig showing me a Google Earth image of this dome structure in the middle of the forest. And it essentially looks like a flying saucer just sitting in the middle of the forest. I was like, oh my God, what's that? And he's like , that's apparently the hub of this activity . So my brother and I, we got some flashlights. We go out to where this place supposedly is. And we're kind of standing outside this thing. We didn't really want to break in or anything. We were just kind of trying to get an idea of what's going on and what this place is . We see this old fence and it says something along the lines of biohazard area, keep out . Something about that just initially read like BS . We saw a part of the fence that was already peeled open. So my brother and I were like, well, let's just walk through . It's around 10.30 at night at this point. It's really humid. It's really dark. There's almost like steam coming off the ground . My brother's on the left and I'm on the right. I had a backpack with my laptop with the hope of, hey, let's go to this place and do recording like I had done two years prior . As we're walking , trying to follow this map , all of a sudden , I heard what sounded like a female voice press up against my ear . Directly in your ear, it's almost like you'd feel someone's lips touching the little tiny hair follicles on your ear it was that close . I couldn't discern what it was saying. And I got so scared. I just stopped, got shivers down my spine. I'm like, Trev, did you fucking hear that? Hear that, hear that, hear that? I look to my left and he's already pointing at something in the forest . And he's like, no, but do you hear that ? I'm not hearing anything at this point and I'm starting to get kind of freaked out . My initial gut reaction was go like, hey, who's there? Into the forest . My brother turns to me again, he's like, you didn't hear that either? And at this point I'm like, what what am I not hearing ? I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about, but I just heard a woman's voice whisper in my ear . He said, I heard by pedal footsteps run up to us, pause, and then when you yelled, it I heard it step back a few paces and then run back in the forest . Like just someone barefoot running through the forest. So you didn't hear that woman's voice just now ? No . We're both having these subjective auditory experiences . We're already creaked out at this point. I think most people be like, F this, I'm going back . Maybe it's just the adrenaline. We were just like, let's keep going forward . We're getting closer to where this apparent building is . And I see this small , almost like a military bunker made of concrete, no windows, no doors, several yards in front of us . I knew it was a part of it, because it just had the creepy vibe. It kind of looked like the same texture of the building from the satellite view. How old this building was, I was really wasn't quite sure. I'd never really quite seen anything like it . We just see this little blown-out bomb shelter looking thing, and there's nothing in it. We were about to walk forward again and all of a sudden it felt like disorientation . It felt like the atmosphere shifted. Both of us at the same time felt it . All of a sudden, it just felt like the forest lit up . As if all the fauna in the forest just woke up at the same time as if it's feeling the same energy my brother and I are feeling . All these animals just like screeching and making noises. Birds, frogs, bugs, whatever else was in the forest at the time. It just felt like this symphony of animals reacting almost to the same atmospheric shift my brother and I were feeling. Because it was almost instantaneous . Something just felt unsettling and just not right about the situation. Like as if we stepped one step closer and then we'd see something that maybe we would never want to see or remember. Something that might like kind of scar us for life. That's at least what it felt like . I turned to my brother and I'm like, are you feeling that? He's like, yep, we gotta get the fuck out of here. And we just booked it out of there as fast as we could. We didn't have time to like whip out with the laptop and start doing another recording. 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Slow burns, second chances, chemistry you can feel through the screen. Your next obsession is waiting. Watch only on Prime . Alrighty, we're back and let's just dive right into another tape. Hey Vince, shuffle that deck again, boy. I uh I'm gonna start a new reading. I didn't feel good about the last one I was working as a research biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That job that I was taking entails flying out to the Cuscaquim, Yukon River Delta sometime in early June, and then living in a remote tent camp all of June, all of July, all of August, September and to early October. What I'm doing there is I'm there to look at uh uh fecundity or or native success of different species of salmon that are coming up into a particular river system. And there's biologists all the way up and down the Cuscoquim river system . So all of our research projects were up way up in the in the headwaters of these mountains. And first of all, you're very far from a native village. You're probably three to five hours from a native village . In addition to that, you're an additional three to five hours by boat from any sort of town . When you're in these areas, especially the first time, and that's what this was, this is my first time up in that area, you get all your gear ready, you're you're starting to prep your mind, and even when you're applying for these jobs, it's quite interesting because when you're interviewing for these positions, at least this is what I thought. I thought there's gonna be a lot of questions around science and around genetics and around fish. And how I answered those questions was how I was going to get the job. But really, what the biologist wanted to know is how comfortable are you by yourself? How comfortable are you for many , many months dealing with wildlife and weather and isolation and living in a space that is so quiet that you're just listening to the wind or your own footsteps ? Have you spent any time outdoors by yourself in any great length, it's a natural essence to look over your shoulder. Especially when it's quiet. Going up here, I was I was thrilled. I wanted to be outside, I wanted to fish, I wanted to see the mountains and the wildlife and and of course do my job. I wanted to to study salmon and and contribute to science and help this region uh manage their fish population . But when I got there , and you see the expanse of this area, picture an alder-choked river. And by alder-choked, I mean this is a species of tree that grows kind of, if you picture the head of Medusa, the trunks grow in all sorts of kind of tangled configurations. They get big green leaves on them in the summer. They turn dark brown at the end of September, October, and then they fall to the ground. But during the summer, the essence is it feels like they're impenetrable. The edges of the rivers are lined in in this species of tree and it's very, very thick, very dense, and then outside of that, there are a lot of spruce trees and a very dense forest, a difficult forest to navigate. And then on the side where I had my camp was tundra . You can see for miles and miles and miles where where I was camping, all the way up to these big, huge g,orgeous Kilbuck mountains . You start to understand who you are in a hurry. The quiet at night, the quiet during the day, like I said, you're not really speaking to another person that frequently . It was early in the summer that year and I would work all day and then at night because I enjoy angling, I would go down on the river and I would fly fish. And the river that I was on was pretty small and pretty choked with these alders. And so I would go down and I would wade across the river and I'd go on the sandbar that was on the other side of the river from my camp. As the rivers rushing by, that's what consumes your hearing . It's not deafening, but it's so overpowering to your ears that you can't hear anything else, and you're not even hearing birds, you're not hearing the rustling of the leaves, you're hearing the water . And so I'm fishing, and I don't know if it's that I had a sixth sense that I was being watched. I didn't hear anything, but I sensed that I was being watched . And I turned around . And I was staring at the alders . Looking at this wall of vegetation. I can see grass is matted down. I can see where salmon were ripped apart last night. The backs of the heads are bitten off the salmon and their skin and, you can just see their carcasses all around it . And I was looking at all the leaves, and I was kind of trying to pick up movement behind there, or just look to see if if why I was feeling a bit more spooky this night than otherwise. My mind is telling me that you're gonna confirm that it's your imagination, you're gonna go back to fishing . And as I was looking , my eyes just truncated down on this space in the trees . And there's a wolf face in this hole. She was very close to me, just a few feet away . It was as though I was watching a horror movie where you see you know the face of a ghost or the face of a man looking through a window as the camera pans by she was just looking at me I was looking at her of course, I got my hackles up . So I watched her . I spoke to her in a calm voice and I called her mama. I was like, hey mama, what's going on? I'm just down here fishing. So I was casting my fly rod, and that wasn't odd of being a tough guy, that wasn't odd of my fishing is super important . I didn't want to change what was happening because I didn't want to elicit a different response . And I just kept looking over my shoulder, and one of the times when I looked over my shoulder , she was gone, she was gone, she was gone, she was gone . And then I looked to the right , and she was right there . Right next to me, very, very close . The wind was blowing upriver that night. And I can specifically remember that because of how I was casting . She had circled down wind of me and was walking downstream into the wind and trying to get smell me and understand, I think, what I was as well . She was half the distance or even maybe even a third of the dist ance of what she was before . Clearly getting my scent, and she was smelling it more . I just went back to fishing and just kept my eyes off of hers, but I was keeping an eye on her a little bit. And she came all the way up behind me . I could see her in my peripheral, and when I wasn't looking, she would be leaning way into me . She was nervous. She had trepidation as well, so she had her feet kind of backed off and she was leaning as far in as she could without taking a physical step to get closer to me. When I turned around when I would make eye contact with her, she would snarl. She would start to lift her lips up and show her teeth. I'm sure my pupils were dilating and you know obviously my heart's beating even more and she's so close now, and when she shows her teeth, you know, you're just like, oh man, this is maybe going from good to bad or bad to worse. When I turn away and I'm looking at her in my peripheral vision, and I can see that she is no longer posturing, you know, then then I'm starting to understand I'm scaring her as much as she is, in an essence, scaring me aring me hearing me hearing me hearing me hearing me hearing me it was the next night I was preparing some gear again it was in the evening time I wasn't gonna fish this night and I heard a distant howl . Close but a distant howl . A few moments later I heard a very large haunting howl, a howl, an an an empty kind of howl up river . Hollow and signific ant. So I walked to the edge of the river and I howl back, back, back, back. Lo and behold, she came walking out on the sandbar right where I had been standing the night before . And she sat down like like a dog. She sat down as though it was uh a domesticated dog. She didn't howl back at me, but she sat up. She was sitting already, but then she sat up and paid attention, like, oh, he just howled to me, and we can now see each other . I started communicating with her in other different vocalizations, like you might hear a coyote do. I started making those noises to her and she lay down and she's facing me laying down now with her head flat on her paws. And then I made a little half-howl. She picked her head up and looked at me . And then I howled again. She sat up all the way up, but sitting on her but t . This was for a few minutes . And she went back in the brush one time and she came back out and she went back in again . That was the last time that I saw her that night . That night I was sound asleep in my tent and a big howl was right outside my tent. Three, four, five feet outside my tank woke me from a dead sleep that sounded significantly different. I sat up, I had a 12-gauge Remington stainless steel 12-gauge pump shotgun, grabbed my gun and I shucked one in the chamber and I just sat there kind of panting, if you will. I was startled. I'm sure my pupils were dilating. And I was just trying to make sense of it. Cause now I couldn't hear the howl, right? I just knew something woke me up . I could hear outside of my tent there's a a little plywood call it a front porch if you will. Well I could hear this wolves pads on the wood of my platform . And so I kind of unzipped my tent a little bit and I peeked out. I'm assuming it was the alpha male or one of the dominant males, but he was very, very large and he howled right there right there right there right there you know it calmed me down that it was a wolf as silly as that is to say and so I zipped my tent back up unloaded my gun, got it field ready again hung, it back up, and went back to sleep . Starting that next morning, almost every day when I walked out of my tent, within a few feet, I would have a wolf next to me . Within a few moments, they might be fifty yards away, they might be a hundred yards away, they might be ten feet away. But they were in my area. And I would walk to the genetics tent and I would turn on and say, hey, and I talk to them all the time. I'd tell them good morning and and I tell 'em this is the these are the things that you do when you're by yourself. These are the things that you do when you're in the wilderness. I would have conversations with them and with myself and I'd walk to the genetics tent, do my work. But every time I came out of the tent, I was eyeballing them because it became such a consistent engagement . And a few days after this, I went for a long hike, a really long hike, probably 10 miles. And lo and behold, while I was hiking , three wolves went with me. The female that I had originally been howling to, and then he's too young, is my anticipation . I didn't see the big mail. And I went on this big, huge walkabout, and there were times when I was on that walkabout that I just had this idea of, you know, again my imagination would get a hold of me. It's, you know, now I'm away from my camp. I'm away from my weapon. I didn't bring my weapon with me . And I just have a backpack on. It's essentially my fake day off which really didn't exist, but I just had an opportunity here to go for a long walk. I wouldn't say that they were necessarily walking with me, but they were always within a hundred to two hundred yards . This is how my summer um kinda continued. If you know the salmon life cycle, they're born in freshwater as a little tiny fry, what you would consider a minnow . And they travel all the way down their natal river, all the way down the major system, the Cusco Quim, for hundreds and thousands of miles out to the ocean. They live in the ocean for three to five years. And then they return all the way up and they follow scientists believe by scent. They come all the way up the Cusquewim and they go all the way up their Natal river, go all the way up to these very clear, shallow waters of the headwaters, and they go and spawn for the next generation of salmon, and then they die . And as their carcasses, they either start slowly swimming downstream or they just outright die and their carcasses are floating down. That's really why the wolves were there . They were there for the fish. They were there because my research gear would stop the carcasses from floating downstream and they would kind of snag up and build up there, and just so happens where my research camp was, was a very good area for them to pick up these dead fish . That was my summer of living with the pack of wolves, and that's essentially how it ended . It ended just as um spooky as kind of it started and it was that just one day they were gone. She was gone . The wolves just up and laughed, up and laughed, up and laughed, up and laughed. That right there is now seared into my brain. With Plan B Emergency Contraception, we're in control of our future. It's backup birth control you take after unprotected sex that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts. It works by temporarily delaying ovulation and it won't impact your future fertility. Plan B is available in all 50 U.S. states at all major retailers near you with no ID, prescription, or age requirement needed. 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