*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Physical Sighting
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = We were
out ona hot day on the North Saskatchewan river in the last days of school, my
boyfriend is a schoolteacher and he came home stressed and wanted to get me out
of the house and planned to go for picnic at our favorite get away on the bank
of the river, a secluded area, so he could mark exams. Well we got there and as
I walked to the side of the river it had risen very high, [name removed] said be very
careful the river is dangerous and fast today, I noticed a splash of water and
thought nothing of it but the water was over the banks the day before and it had
covered mud over some of the flat rock that was picked weeks before with a
smelly clay, very slippery, well we decided to leave the area because of the
misquitos attacking us, we loaded our rocks and decided to go across to the
lower bank where we could eat in the sun and get out from the heavily wooded
area, as we were about to cross the bridge we watched a harley blast by and we
slowly drove across the bridge looking at the beauty of the river we drove over
to the side road and watched a two-three old black cub eating garbage or
something and it ran off, we both said we'll have to watch for the mother if it
is still around, while we are eating. We parked the van and drove in reverse to
park near the bank, opened the hatch and starting bringing out our chairs and
picnic basket, I decided to wash my smelly hands, again Adrian told me be
careful it's slippery, no sooner than that said I fell in soaking wet and full
of mudd, i yelled and he pulled me out thank god for long hair and and a extra
tshirt I brought along, I would of been in great danger if I was alone for a few
seconds, within minutes of this I got out of the water, changed my tshirt, put
on my soaked runners and readjusted my hat I ate nervously and I kept thinking
about the mother bear. [name removed] laughed at me and said well we leave real soon
I'll mark the exams at home. With that said I was going to grab a lotion of
"OFF", or sunscreen. I was on the drivers side of the door,facing the bridge, I
noticed on the far side of the other side of the river a huge brown figure in
the water, walking about 6-8 feet from the bank walking with it's chest sticking
out of the water, not making any noise, no splashing just walking with the
current, it walked for about 50 feet and started going towards the middle, you
could see it very clearly, [name removed] was sitting in his chair I said to him come
here and I pointed out to the river look between the pillars see that, I said
it's not a bear, it's not a moose, that's f****ing sasquatch, just then we
watched it approach the middle of the river it walked up to the pillars it
sighted us or our red van, what scared us both it's speed and it's agressiveness
in the water, it was almost like it was in fast forward motion, we were both in
awe and tried to really focus on what it was going to do, it stopped- it's under
the bridge, it seen us now what, just then it peered it's head out from the
pillar, we both stood back and we were very afraid it was looking at us, there
was on coming traffic on the bridge, a rancher pulling a horse trailer, and a
semi drove by, you could see if did not know what to do it, suddenly it walked
straight across a pillars length width of the river would be a football field
-The pillars have to be 100-150 feet apart, this figure walked across in the
direction to the next pillar, more traffic, so it decided to back the direction
it came from, we were straining our eyes we thought it would hide or been out of
sight, I could not even blink, [name removed] said [name removed] it's going to get out of the water, it approached a bank it was a little taller than the bank when it stood
there, a passer by slammed on it's brakes and drove in reverse the figure
happened to just look straight up at the bridge and then it looked right back at
us, and in one leap it, one motion it was out of the water and into the trees in
seconds, we thought the people in the truck would come and talk to us at the
bank, but we are not sure if they even seen us there....
03 - Closest Town/ Road = Mrynam Bridge-Mrynam
04 - Date = June 21-2005
05 - Weather Conditions (if remembered) = Clear, hot sunny
06 - Is there anything else that you can remember? = The colour very brown,
blackened spots on the face, very huge it must of been 10-12 ft tall.
Did not like its speed in the water it was very misleading.
It's butt when it got out of the water, covered in hair but you could see the
skin outline-human like.
It's strength and curiousity under the bridge as it looked at us, it put it's in
face in the air like it was trying to smell us.
*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Vocalizations Heard
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = My
friend and I decided to take his 24 foot bayliner boat on a last cruise of
the season trip on the Shushwap lakes in BC while we both had some time off.
after baoting for most of the day we decided to pull into Cinnemousun Narrows
Provincial park, the area was completely deserted as it was off season, the park
is almost impossible to reach by land because of its isolation. We docked the
boat and set up camp and began gathering firewood, but because it was damp this
proved to be very difficult so I resorted to chopping off bark from the numerous
dead falls with my very dull hatchet, after several hours of knocking on the
dead wood i succeeded in gathering enough wood for a half decent fire, we
prepared supper as darkness fell and were enjoying the numerous stars. we
decided to pack up the dishes and food and haul them down to the boat as we were
concerned about bears as we dropped the first load off in the boat we heard an
extremely loud howl/vocalization about 100 feet away in the dense forest
directed at us. it was deep prelonged and somewhat menacing. here is our
conversation verbatim while we were cowering in the boat;
[name removed]: what the hell was that???
[name removed]: Jesus I don't know...I'm not sure
[name removed]: hell, you're the animal guy
[name removed]: well it's not an Elk moose cougar wolf coyote or bear, i've never heard
anything like that, ever! maybe it's an owl???
(second vocalization seemingly closer)
[name removed]: that's a pretty big owl!!!
[name removed]: err, um I don't know what it is but it does sound pretty big
[name removed]: yeah well owls don't sound like that
[name removed]:yeah er, I know... what are we going to do about the stuff at the
campsite? we can't leave it there do you want to try to go back?
[name removed]: yeah but gimmie the flashlight and the hatchet.
We slowly and cautiously went back to the campsite, the whole time keeping our
eyes on the area where the sound came from, the whole time i felt like i was
bieng watched and the whole time the hair on the back of my neck was standing
up.
when we got to the campsite our coleman lamp was still illuminating the area
well but we cranked it up all the way and gathered the stuff [name removed] immediatly
said, "what's that smell?" i was still a little stuffed up from the campfire so
(i didn't immediatly smell anything until i cleareed my nose) [name removed] said "it
stinks like wet animal or something its really strong!" as my nose cleared sure
enough there was a stench of wet dog or animal smell hanging in the air mixed
maybe with a fecal matter type smell it was very odd and quite pungent. By this
time i no longer felt safe and since it was to dark to move the boat we decided
the only thing that we could do was to try to scare what ever it was away, i
took out an array of fireworks starting with an airbomb and detonated it, what
ever it was crashed away into the night. although all night I kept waking up at
very sound and did not enjoy a fitful sleep at all.
03 - Closest Town/ Road = sicamous BC
04 - Date = October 13 2004
05 - Weather Conditions (if remembered) = clear scattered showers
06 - Is there anything else that you can remember? = after the experience i went
to the BFRO site and listened to the calls there it sounded very much like two
of the calls on that site. After listening to the calls I became convinced that
we had been visited by a sasquatch.
I am an experienced naturalist I have grown up studying nature and have spent
countless hours outdoors photgraphing wildlife, hiking and treking, my brother
is a DR of Ornithology and we spent years banding birds and doing conservation
work, in all these years I have never heard vocalizations like the ones i heard
that night, they were deep and gutteral, it was so clear i could even hear the
vocal cords creating the sound in the chest... it was odd, very ape or monkey
like in the way that the sounds were created and i sincerely believe that in
order to create the sound a huge lung capacity would be needed to create and
sustain the volumne that was generated.
In retrospect I am convinced that my chopping with the hatchet may have
attracted it to the area as i did it for several hours and it resonated
throughout the forest. the next day we checked the area where the sound seemed
to emulate from and found the approx. position on a trail, where a huge area of
moss had been recently dug up and disturbed, no tracks or droppings were found
but we were certain that that spot is where the animal had been possibly
feeding. Afterwards I consulted another friend of mine who grew up in Sicamous
and he immediatly told me that it had to be a Sasquatch as he had found numerous
tracks and had heard several eyewitness acounts while growing up in the area.
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*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Physical Sighting
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = I feel
kind of strange doing this; but I have something that may be of interest to your
organization.
I was driving on the Forestry Trunk Road on April 7 2005, near the Brown Creek
public campground when I spied something in the ditch. At first I thought it was
a bear, but soon the animal sttod up on two legs ran walked across the road in
front of my vehicle. The creature was immense; towering over my Landcruiser and
with the rack on top the Landcruiser must be near six an a half feet; I know
it's taller than I am. The....Bigfoot?; had reddish brown hair (fur?) and
covered the width of the road in 2 or 3 steps. I tried to get my digital camera
out, but the animal was gone before I could. I remember reaching the highway;
and noticed that I was shaking badly even though I wasn't frightened that much.
I had to stop in the parking lot of the motel in Nordegg to calm down. If I had
to make a 'guesstimate' on the animal's height I would say well over nine feet
tall; it must weigh near a ton; it was huge!
I must say that I'm not a believer when it comes to Bigfoot; The Loch Ness
Monster; UFOs and the like. I have tried to explain this to myself rationaly,
going through all the animals that I know of, even wondering if it could have
been a person in an ape costume. None of these come close. I think that I saw a
Bigfoot, even though I always though that you folks who look for them are kind
of crazy!
*Closest Town/ Road = Nordegg or Robb; depending on which way you are going
*Date = Thursday, April 7 2005
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = Slightly overcast; but warm
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = [edited for confidentiality].
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*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Physical Sighting
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = We were
driving on the highway towards banff.
We had just passed an overpass about 2 km outside of banff when my wife wife
yelled 'oh my god look at that thing' I thought she was pointing at a bear. When
i turned to look i saw a large hairy thing walking on two legs, it had just
crossed the highway and was walking up a hill in the ditch. Then it was gone
into the forest, we didnt stop to check it out, we just kept driving towards
banff. It was really tall much taller than me and i am 6 foot 1 inch tall. It
was covered in reddish brown hair and walked very fast, but it didnt run at all.
We only saw it for no more than 10 seconds, it didnt look at at us but just kept
walking. It was around 25 meters in front of our car.
*Closest Town/ Road = Banff
*Date = March 3rd or 4th 2005
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = windy with snow still in the ditches
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = We didnt tell anyone else
about this because we dont want our names out there for everyone to see.
*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Vocalizations Heard, Other
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = I feel
kind of weird telling this, so please bear with me if I sound stupid. About 2
years ago, some friends and I were camping in the north western alberta woods.
We had walked down to check out an old coal mine and were about half way back to
the main trail when we realized we were being followed by something. I thought
it could be a cougar and my friends thought that it was a bear. Whatever was
following us was showing genuine stalking behavior; it would stop whenever we
would stop. If we ran for ten or twelve steps; it would do the same and stop
when we stopped. This had all of us quite concerned, we finally did make it back
to the main trail and our stalker broke off following us.
We were walking towards my friend's truck, which we had parked on an old rail
bed. Suddenly a bloodcurdling scream came from the wood, then right after that
came a gutteral roar. I must confess that I almost wet myself, whatever it was
that made that roar was quite close to where we were standing. We jumped in the
truck and got the hell out of there.
*Closest Town/ Road = Nordegg
*Province/State = alberta
*Date = June or July 2003
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = sunny and clear
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = I didn't know what made the
sounds until a friend of mine suggested that it could have been a sasquatch. I
was not at all pleased when he said this.
I believe that it was the Sasquatch that was following us through the forest and
that it took and that when we reached the main trail it just took another route
so we could not hear it but it still followed us to where we were parked.
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*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Footprint Find
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = Found
some footprints of titanic proportion. In my best guess I would say that they
were at least 6 inches longer than my foot; which is a size 12. They were a hell
of a lot wider also.
*Closest Town/ Road = Salmon Arm
*Province/State = BC
*Date = August 2005
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = light rain
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = The footprints were found
near the Sandy Point Beach Campground.
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*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Vocalizations Heard, Other
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = We
decided to go bush camping as usual along the forestry trunk road just before
corkscrew mountain (after the Town of Caroline) on the banks of the clearwater
river.
This time there was a group of us and we set up right along on the bank of the
Clearwater river typically there were no other people around us for several
miles and so we enjoyed the privacy and remoteness of this location but last
year we had a very un-nerving experience and we are not sure what to think of
it.
we arrived and set up camp and built up a campfire we then settled in around the
campfire as it got dark.
after awhile we all had the distinct impression of being watched and we could
hear the breaking of twigs and stomping of footsteps of something heavy circling
our camp this continued for quite some time until we decided to walk around in
groups and try to figure out what it might be, so armed with sidearms we set out
to find out what was creating the noises and as we approached the area which
seemed to be the location of the footsteps we were overcome by a nauseating
stench of animal/urine and feces it almost made us throw up. My friend and I
thought at first it might be a bear but both of us have hunted bear before and
they have never made a weird smell like this one so it left us really unsure as
to what it could be, we made it back to our camp but the smell seemed to be all
around us.
After a while as we built the fire higher and made noises to frighten off what
ever it was, the noises and sounds stopped and the stench faded. But the
wierdness of the sounds and the threatfulness of the footsteps left us freaked
out and wanting to move... which we did the very next morning we moved a few
kilometres up the road to seven mile where we enjoyed our weekend undisturbed.
This is my first time with a weird unexplainable expereince such as this but
after thinking about it I'm certain that it may have been a Sasquatch that
hassled us that night.
*Closest Town/ Road = Forestry Trunk Road
*Province/State = Alberta
*Date = August long weekend 2004
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = warm partially cloudy
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = no.
*What type of Occurrence did you have? = Footprint Find
*Please tell us what happened (as much detail as you can remember) = In
1984,my father took my best friend and I fishing at Lynx Creek.We arrived in the
morning,around 9 or so.We walked around the place for a bit,looking for a good
place to settle down for a bit.My best friend was down the creek when he called
to us to come quickly.My dad and I ran down to see what he had found, when we
got there we found a bunch of really big footprints,but they weren't boot prints
or anything,they were giant bare footprints.From my best recollection they were
probably 15 to 16 inches or so long.My dad got kinda jumpy and said that we
should go down the creek the other way,we just followed him because it's what he
said we should do.
*Closest Town/ Road = Nordegg
*Province/State = Alberta
*Date = Early summer 1984
*Weather Conditions (if remembered) = sunny,I think
*Is there anything else that you can remember? = My best friend and I were 9
years old in 1984.