McGregor Lake

Date: 1890

Occurrence: I quickly read a good book on old time trappers around the Prince George area of B.C.(central BC) in the McGregor river area(headwaters of the Fraser River). The Novel was called “Crazy Man's Creek,” by Jack Boudreau, and is a best seller in BC. I was particularly looking for incidences that would relate to trappers and Sasquatch. And the book has some interesting stories/incidents. 1. An incident of a trapper ending up mysteriously dead, cause blamed on another trapper who was a bad dude or not some one to mess around with, but this may just be an alibi, for an incident with no obvious killer, just like the one I sent you and another one I read in Bigfoot in the news (Chris Murphy). The author was amazed by how many deaths happened to trappers in the area---but maybe many of them were not by accident? 2. In another incident he was fishing in daylight on a large river (McGregor) in the Canyon I believe, and something slapped him on the back, he was startled and left the area. He didn't see what it was but believed it was a bear, there is only one problem bears as far as I know do not slap people on the back!, but a Bigfoot that was a bit pissed that his fishing was disturbed by this silly human would do just that---slap him on the back and get him to leave! 3. The author noted that Wildmen had been seen around individuals houses/cabins in many areas around where he trapped, and many people were reporting these incidents and they made it into the newspapers(PG Citizen). 4. The most interesting case is one where a trapper had come by an area where it was kind of torn up at the bottom of a hill/gully there was a big stack of deer/moose bones, and there was large scratch marks on the trees down into the gully, the trapper noted that whatever had attacked the deer had grabbed onto the trees to slow down the deer/moose. i.e.. he didn't know what would do this, but surmised a black/grizzly bear. I would surmise that it was a Bigfoot that would sit in a tree and wait for a deer to pass underneath (game trail) and then it would jump down onto the neck, wrap its legs around the neck and hold on and slow the deer/moose down by grabbing on to trees as the ungulate ran down the gully. Once the animal had slowed down a bit, Bigfoot’s weight would drop the animal to the ground (if it hadn't suffocated by then ) and then it would just break the animals neck with a quick twist. i.e.. bears- black or grizzly don't do this type of stalking, it would nearly be impossible for a grizzly to grab onto an ungulate with its jaws and use two legs, arms to slow itself down, by grabbing/clawing trees! No this would have to be a Bigfoot to be successful, and the trapper noted that it was quite successful-since there were a lot of bones at the bottom of the gully--one of the strangest sights he had ever seen in the bush.

Witness: Unknown trapper.

WCSRO, 2006.