Alaina Urquhart

Yeah.

And this obviously wasn't like super manually intensive.

This wasn't like the labor that they were going to do.

Yeah.

It was still physically taxing.

And each night Patterson looked forward to going to sleep in the tent.

He was like, this has been a long day.

I look forward to going to sleep in my bed every day without doing much.

And if you got a tent, why not?

Never have I ever looked forward to sleeping in a tent.

No.

never have i ever slept in a tent there you go uh but he would be exhausted he said every single night but he wrote in a journal he kept a journal of everything so he wrote i little knew then what adventures awaited me in this neighborhood and if i had realized that at the time two savage brutes were prowling around seeking whom they might devour i hardly think i would have slept so peacefully in my rickety shelter

What pros, right?

So as soon as he'd arrived in the camp, Patterson began hearing stories of men disappearing from camps in the area.

Not what you want to hear upon settling.

Upon arriving.

At first he was like, okay, whatever.

Like maybe they're just like legends, you know, like people love to talk shit.

Like, they're just trying to get me scared.

You know, we all love it.