Anahim Lake

Date: September 1962

Occurrence: Early in the fall, Harry Squiness was camped in a hay meadow, with his family at Anahim Lake, 90 miles east of Bella Coola. During a bright moonlit night, he heard a disturbance and taking up his shotgun, stepped out of his tent to investigate. He saw two big ape-like creatures and three small ones. Since he had but three shotgun shells, not very effective except at point blank range, he kept very quiet and watched the strange beats skulk away. Next morning, looking at the tracks, and seeing where the hand of one of the creatures had skinned a small poplar tree about 8 feet from the ground, Harry decided to move camp and never returned.

Witness: Harry Squiness

WCSRO, 2006.