Good evening. This happened in March of 1983. I was part of a geological survey team working up in the Northwest Territories. We'd been out there for about two weeks, taking ice core samples, mapping terrain. Cold like you wouldn't believe, some days hitting 40 below. I was alone that afternoon. The rest of the team had gone back to base camp to resupply. I stayed behind to finish up some measurements at our northern site. The sun was low on the horizon, that flat Arctic light where everything looks washed out. I'd just packed up my equipment when I saw it.
Out on the ice, maybe two miles away. At first I thought it was a pressure ridge, you know, where the ice buckles up. But then it moved. It was massive. Had to be at least 30 feet tall, maybe more. Covered head to toe in dark fur, brown or black, hard to tell at that distance. Walking upright on two legs, but the proportions were wrong. Arms too long, hanging down past where the knees would be. Each step it took covered ground like nothing I'd ever seen. Must have been 20-foot strides, easy. I grabbed my binoculars. My hands were shakingfrom but I got them focused. The thing was moving parallel to my position, heading east. I could see the fur rippling in the wind. Could see the way its feet, and they were feet, not paws, pressed into the ice with each step. Didn't break through, didn't slip. Just walked like it owned that frozen wasteland.
I watched it for maybe ten minutes. It never looked in my direction, just kept that steady pace. And here's what got me, there was no sound. The Arctic is quiet, sure, but you can usually hear something. Wind, ice cracking. This thing moved in complete silence. silence is eerie - Peter' Thirty feet tall, walking across the ice, and not a sound. I fumbled for my camera, I'd been using it earlier for documentation shots. Got it out, tried to zoom in. But the thing was too far away by then. Just a dark shape against the white. I took three photos anyway,[ just to have something.[ Proof that I wasn't[ losing my mind out there.
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