Dear Loren,

I can assure you and your readers that fear did play a part of our decision to not be all running around in the woods at night. As you know also, just walking in this kind of terrain at night is dangerous. Being hit in the head with a heavy rock in the middle of nowhere was a big safety concern for me and everybody on my crew.

I doubt this thing would of confronted us anyhow as the rock throwing is most likely a safe way to try to intimidate us from a distance (and it worked). What was not in the show due to time was the fact that a huge explosion like sound coupled with a vibration shook the whole cabin after we all settled down to get a bit of shut eye. This got all of us up again.

The youngest member of our crew started to go into shock after the last huge cabin hit and I was concerned about his health at that point. It’s easy to say I would do this or that but when it happens you just deal with it by instinct.

I will also add that lack of sleep played a part in what we did. However, after the first smaller rock hit the side of the cabin Curt Nelson stationed himself alone a ways from the cabin in the woods with a thermal cam and waited, something that took courage in my opinion.

I can assure everybody the incident was very real and, yes, it catches one off guard entirely.

In the morning we could clearly see the huge bang on the side. [On the] roof of the steel sided cabin was a piece of cord wood that was thrown at the cabin very hard. We believe it was pulled from the log pile at the back of the cabin 80 ft away.

The DNA test can be done over and over as we have enough material. Funding should soon be available for that. It needs to be done at different labs in order to follow correct protocol. These type of tests are not inexpensive.Doug Hajicek, Producer/Monsterquest for The History Channel