Merritt

Date: May, 10/ 2004

Occurrence: My sighting happened in May of last year the 10th to be exact and since then ithas been on CTV and in several newspapers but I wanted to tell you and your reader's if it's okay. On this day I was driving from Merritt B.C. to KamloopsB.C. on the Coquihalla (Coke-i-Halla) highway to pick up my wife and daughter from the hospital. As I left home I had driven almost 38 km's or roughly 25miles from home when off to my right about 300 feet away I noticed what Ithought were a father and son dressed in dark clothing out for a day's fishing.Within a couple seconds I realized they weren't people at all and must be bears MAN WAS I WRONG. As I was getting closer (around 150 feet) the bigger of the two bent down to get what I thought was a drink from the pond and that's when I knew110% that I was looking at an adult and juvenile Sasquatch. All of this is taken place over about 12-15 seconds so I had lots of time to see and observe these 2amazing animals. As the big one was bent down ( I should say kneeling down on one leg) I could see the formation of the left leg where it meets the hip as it rested on one leg. These animals were huge compared to people I know and I'd have
to say the big one must have weighed around 300-400 pounds while the smaller one was around 200-300 pounds. The smaller one's arms just hung down it's side as it stood there watching me and the arms on the big one were clearly bulky with lots of muscles they just looked super fit and in shape to me. Both of their heads seemed to be attached to the shoulders without a neck in the middle if that makes any sense to you and their hair seemed to be almost combed it didn't appear to be ratty or full of knots just well groomed. The adult never paid any attention to me at all but the smaller of the 2 sure did and that's what will
stay in my mind the most I think because the way it watched me as I was driving by really scared me and I felt that if I had of been out in the open that I would have been in some serious danger. I could see it turning watching me the whole time almost as if it were the lookout while the adult was occupied and by the look of it, it was doing a very good job at being a lookout. Both animals had dark hair on them but the smaller one had lighter hair on it's face I could see that much for sure. I couldn't make out any real facial details other then what I've mentioned because they were just a little out of reach for to me focus
and also because I was driving , I had to also pay attention to the road. When I arrived at the hospital my wife instantly knew something was up but I didn't tell her what until we were out of the hospital and back in the car that's when I started trembling and told her what I had seen which she believed me and still does til this day. On the way back home past the sighting area I slowed to an almost stop but couldn't see much of anything from the other side of the highway and because I had gotten a terrible fright from the smaller of the two, I certainly wasn't going to be getting out of the safety of the car to go and have
a look NO THANKS... When I got home I went straight away to my computer to find out anything and everything about these animals and eventaully I hooked up with Thomas Steenburg who made his way up here to look at the site. We went with a freelance reporter and Thomas had found what appeared to be a real possible partial track but couldn't say for certain but I knew better. Since that
unforgetable day back in May 2004 I've been searching anyway possible every day without missing a beat and I've found that there have been around 96 sightings up here since roughly 2000. My sighting made CTV News and several newspaper articles which helped a lot because I wanted to talk to other's who may have had something like this happen to them and since then I've had some very credible people contact me with their A/B sightings and these keep me interested enough to keep searching. I'll never forget this event and now when I'm out in the field I keep a close watch on my surroundings because I really was frightened by the look of the smaller Sasquatch that day I wish everyone could have seen this.
 
WCSRO Note: This report has been written out in the exact way that it was submitted to us, with only the witness’s email address being removed.
 
Witness: T. Martindale
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WCSRO, 2005.