Alaska's Mysterious Bigfoot Encounters: Tales of Charlie, Kushtaka, and Iliamna Sightings

Sasquatch Discovery Project, a YouTube channel dedicated to all things mysterious and unexplained, recently shared a chilling account of a prospector's encounter with unknown creatures in Alaska. The video, titled "Terror in Alaska: Prospector chased by 'devils'!", shares a tale from Mary J Barry's book "Alaska's Bigfoot, Ghosts, Enigmas, Outlaws and Things That Go Bump" published in 1994. According to the video, bigfoot sightings have been reported in several parts of Alaska, with different names given to the creature by various indigenous communities. The Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska call it kushtaka, the Dena'ina Indians of South Central named it nantina, and the Eskimos of Southwest Alaska call it yuriuli or hairy man. The video shares a particularly haunting account of a prospector named Charlie, who encountered a group of creatures he described as "devils" while searching for gold in Thomas Bay in 1900. Charlie claimed that these shaggy beasts with long coarse hair, stinking and covered with sores, pursued him back to his canoe, scraping his back with long claw-like fingers. After returning to his comrades, two more of Culp's partners returned to the site of the gold speckled quartz ledge and also reported strange tales of these "devils". Other prospectors who scouted the same area were said to have suffered frightening experiences and behaved in a strange manner afterwards. The video also mentions mysterious happenings in the Iliamna region, where an eight-foot humanoid was reported to have almost run a Federal Aviation Administration worker off the road in 1994. A woman living nearby reported that a Bigfoot left watermelon-sized footprints in her yard and tore down her laundry. Squatchable encourages readers to watch the full video and share their thoughts on this fascinating account. The Sasquatch Discovery Project consistently shares intriguing stories and is definitely worth checking out for anyone interested in the unknown.