Maria Recounts The Scariest Moment of Her Life - She thought I was killed in the bush!

This is both a sad and intense video, where Maria recounts how a few days ago she thought I had been killed while deep in the wilderness fishing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She held it together good for the video, as she talks, but she was hysterical only a few minutes earlier. Literally choking down tears, as she cried. This truly is one of those bizarre anomalies I've ever experienced in life. Everything had to happen perfectly for it to happen at all. We were 14 miles back in some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48 states. We had been there several times previously, and naturally saw no one. Not a single car or sign of life. Which is the reason the little creek has huge brook trout--nobody fishing them. We kissed goodbye, and I set off on an exploratory mission. About 1.5 miles up I was hoping I could cut through the beaver swamp and find the river. Very very sketchy and dangerous. An average of 70 people a year vanish from gigs part of Michigan every year. Most just stupidly get los.t. I have come very close. The possibility of getting lost is high, unimaginable. There is nothing for many miles in every direction. There are wolves, bears, lions, and Gold only knows what else. I'll publis another video of the walk in, as I felt this one deserved to be alone.Show more

After walking close to a half mile, I suddenly started hearing a man yelling frantically across the valley. I guessed him about 1/3rd of a mile away. Very bizarre since we never see anyone out there, le alone someone yelling for dear life. Maria heard it and radioed me, but like a dumb ass I had forgotten to turn mh radio on. There wa more yelling. She thought she heard "Maria!! Help!" Yes this guy was yelling frantically for about a minute. Never knew why. Maria was freaking out. She became desperate, running up and down the trail to try to get a better signal on the radio. Twince she ran a quarter mile o the bdcige over the creek. Nothing . Radio silence. I was deep in the bush, and she was all alone back near the czar and river access point. She had been quietly hunting mushrooms when the yelling stared. She grabbed the first aid kid and began preparing for the worst. Then the yelling stopped, and she thought, tragically, I had expired. There she was, 14 miles off the already super remote road, in the wilderness. No phone signal. Alone. And in her mind, she was convinced that I had injured myself and lost my radio. "Impaled on a stick," she said, on the bottom of some cliff, bleeding out, unable to even yell anymore. Maybe I was attacked by a bear or mountain lions? Maybe wolves? Maybe I had a broken leg or back? Maria, God bless her soul, was coming to save me regardless. But what would she do? I'm a 230 lb man a half mile from the ca, on the side of.a cliff. Impossible to drag me out. No phone signal so 911 was out. She ddn't care. She was coming to save me. Now THAT is gangster. THAT is why I married her. That is why she is my forever angel from GOD! Eventually, when I made it back, she was ecstatic and balling. Every horrible scenario imaginable had flashed through her mind. Even funeral arrangements, the future of my unpublished works, on and on. Can you imagine the trauma? You think your greatest treasure, your most loved love one, is impaled on a log in the wilderness, or just attacked by a bear, bleeding out, dying, and YOU are the only hope? I hope I never experience that. I can't imagine. I don't want to imagine. Horrible. But she was a trooper. Listen to her tell the story. I make light of it, but the truth is, what we do out there , is extremely dangiouers and risky. Many bad things can happen. But for us, it is a risk we are willing to take, we love it out there that much. I tell her alll the time, if I go out this way, it's okay, I'm going out doing what I love.She gets it. It's what she loves too. Which is why we are Ying and Yang.