Reports & Investigations

Reports & Investigations......

Location: Ram Falls, AB.

Date: February 25, 26, 27/ 2005

Expedition Type: Scouting Trip

Report:

WCSRO researchers Sean Viala & James Ludwar, along with BFRO investigator Dave Bruce arrived at Ram Falls around 9:00pm on friday. We set up camp and scouted the general area for sign, none was found. At 10pm we blasted three calls from camp, Sean Viala sat with the Parabolic Mic listening for returns, but none were heard. The woods were checked with Nightvision, along with the aid of a IR Spotlight, no movement was detected.

Saturday

We left Ram Falls and headed to Nordegg for breakfast, on the return trip we stopped and check several possible areas of interest: a footprint trail on a frozen over creek, and some footprints in a field, but it was nothing definate. On the way back to our camp we noticed a large gathering of elk in a field acroos from the camp, all seemed to be in good health and were quite watchful at our approach. Later on in the day we drove closer to the field where the herd of elk were gathered. Once there, we blasted three calls from the vehicle, to see what their reaction would be. They ran, but we could not tell if it was from the recorded vocalization, just the noise, or from us stopping the vehicle. We returned to camp and scouted the woods behind our campsite, James found a trail of impressions in the snow that looked like something large had walked through, probably a week or so before. It wasn't the size of the impressions that got our attention, but the length of the stride between the footprints. I'm 6'6" in height, with a maximum (fully stretched) stride of 3.5 feet, the stride of the footprints was at least another foot longer, if not more. We took photographs and marked them "Of Interest". Around 9:30pm that night we decided to blast the calls once again, this time (within 45 seconds) we got a responce. It was four screams that finally tapered off into what sounded like a wolf's howl, but not quite wolf-like enough to be believable. Upon further analysis, we figured out that the four screams sounded almost identical to the screams heard on the 1973 Puyallup recording, taken by Henry Franzoni. I should also mention that the screams came from quite close by, no further than a kilometer in distance. My thought was that there may have been a creature in the area and that it may have heard the calls that we had blasted earlier in the day, and come closer to see if it could find anything. After the howling stopped, we waited 25 minutes and then blasted one call, but recieved nothing in return. We also noticed that the forest had fallen silent, completely silent. Nothing made any noise for the rest of the night. We retired at about midnight.

Sunday

On sunday we packed up camp, then took a final look around the area. I took some pictures of the scenery, then we left the area and headed back to the city.

Overview

Even though no creatures were observed, and no definate footprints were found. We still classed this as a success, if only for the reason that we recieved a Puyallup-like scream in responce to our call blasting. We will definately be doing more expeditions to the Ram Falls area.

Ram Falls Scouting Trip Photographs

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Ram Falls Campsite Sign.

Here is a photograph of the forest near our campsite, it would be easy for something to hide in these trees. Look how dense the forest is.

Here is a trail of footprints on a frozen-over creek. We figured the the stride to be 3.5 ft. We could not tell if they were created by a Sasquatch, we just class them as "Possible".

James found these impressions in the woods behind our campsite. The impressions here looked to be about a week old, but it wasn't the impressions that got our attention. It was the stride between the impressions (circled in blue), it was about 4.5 - 5 feet in length, compared to my footprints (circled in red) with a stride of 2.5 -3 feet maximum. Once again, not 100% proven to be caused by a Sasquatch. But we marked it down as "Of High Interest".

This is only a small patch of the mountainous forests here in Alberta, but you can see why a large creature could go on living here undetected. There is just so much space to cover!

This photograph was taken from the passenger seat of James' 4 Runner. Many sightings on this road (Forestry Trunk Road) are of creatures crossing the road in front of vehicles. Imagine driving down this road and having a large creature step out in front of your vehicle, a creature that's not suppossed to exist.....

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-Sean Viala, W.C.S.R.O. Co-Founder

March, 27/ 2005