Reports & Investigations

Reports & Investigations......

Location: Brown Creek, AB.

Dates: April 29, 30 & May 1/ 2005

Expedition Type: Physical Sighting Investigation

A report was submitted to the website about an actual Physical Sighting near an area known as Brown Creek. Of course, our research team jumped at the chance to investigate this reported sighting. WCSRO investigators James Ludwar, Sean Viala, & Brian Baillie, along with BFRO investigator Dave Bruce headed out to Brown creek on April 29/ 2005.

Friday: April, 29/ 2005

We arrived at the Brown Creek campground after searching for it along the Forestry Trunk Road. We all noticed that there had been alot of logging in the area, mostly around Blackstone Mt. & the Blackstone dehydrator. We wondered if this could have possibly driven the Sasquatch from the area. We decided to chance it, and set up camp. The afternoon and some of the evening was taken up by the mundane tasks of preparing camp, as is done on every investigation.

When night fell, we decided to perform Call Blasting. We blasted 2 different calls at two different time, about 30-45 minutes apart. James Ludwar & Sean Viala manned the Parabolic Mics, listening for any return calls. We heard some very distance howling, but it was too far away to accurately say what it was for sure. Brian Baillie manned the Nightvision equipment, and scanned the forest and ridges around the camp. Nothing was spotted

We turned in around 12:30am.

Saturday: April 30/ 2005

The next morning we rose from our beds and made the journey into Nordegg for a hot breakfast. If you are ever in Nordegg, stop for a meal at the Hotel restuarant, the food is very good.

We arrived back at camp around 10:30am. And proceeded to scout the area for Sasquatch sign, they were several impressions in the remaining snow and in the mud of the ditches, but most of them could be explained away as tracks from known animals. There were also several tree breaks in the area, but nothing that I would class as Sasquatch sign. We scouted the ditches along the Forestry Trunk Road near the campground, looking for footprints from the reported sighting, but found none. We found an impression in the grass that looked like a very large human footprint (See Pic#2), but it cannot be proven that it was made by a Sasquatch. We also found another possible relation to Sasquatch in the area, a broken deer leg. The only reason we considered this deer leg is because it was laying on top of the snow, and there were no animal prints around it for at least 10 feet, the point of this is to point out that it could not have just been dropped by a wolf, coyote, or bear. They would have left impressions in the snow. We snapped a photograph of this deer leg (See Pic#3), it is being held on a stick by WCSRO researcher Sean Viala, while BFRO investigator Dave Bruce looks on.

Later on in the day, some of the research team decided to go for a nap. But I stayed awake and fiddled about the camp. I was sitting on the picnic table carving a stick when suddenly the loudest powerstrike I have ever heard sounded off north of the camp. This powerstrike startled me, but I quickly walked across the camp and struck a tree 3 times with the stick that I was carving to give a return strike. James Ludwar also heard the powerstrike while he was laying in his tent, he stated that "the volume of the strike sounded like it was coming from inside the camp, but the echo let you know it came from a distance". Nothing else Sasquatch related happened during that afternoon, at least nothing that we noticed.

That evening we performed our usual call blasting, but recieved no results.

We retired for the evening around 12:45 - 1:00am.

Sunday: May 1/ 2005

Sunday morning we packed up camp early, as various team members had appointments that they had to deal with. We were out of the campground by 12:00pm. We snapped a few pictures of the scenery on the way out, but this was the end to the Brown Creek Expedition.

Overview

Although we did not find any totally clear footprints in the area of the reported sighting, we still consider the trip a partial success. We found a Sasquatch track-like impression, and heard a very loud, very clear Powerstrike that was not to be confused with a falling tree. Even though we recieved no confirmed return calls to our calls blasting, we will still check out Brown Creek in the future.

I should not fail to mention the possible track that Brian and James discovered along the banks of Brown Creek, near to our campsite. Brian had brought along some quick dry mortar, and I used it to cast this track. It turned out rather well.

Brown Creek Expedition Photographs

Brown Creek Entrance

Brown Creek Campsite

Rock Formation built on sandbars in the creek.

Footprint like impression

Broken deer leg

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-Sean Viala, WCSRO Investigator

June, 29/ 2005