The Sasquatch - In Northern British Columbia, Canada
Courtesy HBCC UFO
Research
Does a large
hairy covered humanoid roam the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest ?
Chances are more likely that you will encounter this creature close to
civilization than in the deep woods. If very lucky it may even be in your
own back yard. This creature was no stranger to the first nations people
of western Canada and the U.S. In fact the name "Sasquatch" loosely
translated means "Wild Man of the Forest". It's tracks and sightings have
been made from the mountains ranges in northern California to the tundra
of the Yukon and Alaska. To the none natives in the U.S., it is called
"Big Foot", and in the Himalayas the "Yeti". A recent T.V. program on the
learning channel revealed that a dozen other countries, including
Australia have similar creatures with their own names.
In this
article we will only cover our own area. For obvious reasons many peoples
names and some locations cannot be given. Also the sightings will be given
in the order that they were received in the late 1960's a veterinarian by
the name of Dr. Proctor opened a clinic on the 4600 block on Lakelse Ave.,
just east of the Bank of Montreal. In the front window there was a pair of
large plaster cast footprints. When he was asked for the reason of the
display of these footprints, the reply was that he was very interested in
this creature. The sight of these big feet may bring in more information
and it did.
Sighting # 1
In 1974 a friend and I applied for
two expired gold placer leases on Lorne Creek, 30 miles east of Terrace,
British Columbia, on the railroad side of the river. The boat used to
cross the river was tied up at Jim's place on the highway side of the
river. Since there were grizzly bear in the area we carried rifles. In
shooting the breeze one evening, we asked Jim what kind of wildlife
was in the area. Of course there was Moose, but recently he had seen
something different. While doing some work there he spotted a moving patch
of brown a short distance away. Curious as to what it may be, he sneaked
closer. It appeared to be a brown colored bear that had its back towards
him and was standing up on its hind legs eating Saskatoon berries,
however, it was using its front paws like hands. The last cover was 50
feet from this creature and this was as close as he could get. from this
point he saw that the paws were hands and this was not a bear, but some
kind of hair covered human like creature a little over 6 feet tall. Also
it had a very strong odor that reminded him of a camel smell when he once
worked in a circus. After about 10 minutes the creature sensed that
something was near it and turned sideways and spotted Jim who then saw it
was a female as it had breasts. The creature then just trotted
off.
It was then Jim's wife spoke up. The pervious summer about the
same time of the year she was home alone. Suddenly their two tied up watch
dogs raised an awful commotion, more so than if a bear was around.
Stepping outside she saw through the
trees about 100 yards away skirting the yard a large black bear walking on
it's hind legs. She knew a bear didn't walk on it's hind legs. This couple
were told of Dr. Proctors interest and if they would be willing to grant
him an interview if he came out. They agreed and he was notified.
Later on down the street I asked him how he made out. His reply was that
it certainly appeared that this is what they saw.
Sighting #
2
This also occurred in 1974. At that time the new highway bridges
into Terrace had reached a point in construction where it was safe for the
public to inspect them after working hours. Taking advantage of this, Dick
and a friend decided to cross to Ferry Island from the Terrace side and
explore it. On the river bank they found fresh large footprints. They went
back and picked up some plaster of paris and a camera. After the casts
were made a through search was made for the creature but it was not seen.
They kept their find a secret until they were sure it was no longer
around. It is quite possible that this was the one that was seen at Lorne
Creek.
Sighting # 3
This took place near the end of January
at one of our local landfills. At about 2:00 AM a worker returned to the
landfill to pick up a set of keys that had been left in a piece of
equipment. As he was walking past the area where the last dumping was, he
saw a figure crouching amongst the garbage. He called out with a "hello
there, what are you doing in the dump at this time of the night." The
figure stands up and this worker who was about 100 feet away was amazed at
it's huge height and size. It stood at over 10 feet tall. The creature
turned and looked at the worker, then just walked out to the bush at the
rear of the landfill, looking back several times to see if it was being
followed. When it was a safe distance away the worker went to the spot
where it was first seen. The footprints were 5 feet apart, further than
the worker could spread his legs. Also it walked through 2 feet of snow as
easily as a human could walk through ankle deep snow. It was learned later
that 2 days after this sighting, a similar sighting, maybe of the same
creature was made at Usk about 12 miles east of Terrace.
Sighting #
4
This took place around 1950. Two logger brothers set up a bush
sawmill on the Babine Lake road just out of Smithers. The staff and
workers built cabins to be near the mill. One Sunday having nothing else
to do, the younger brother decided to do a little exploring in the woods.
Coming across a game trail, he decided to follow it. On the trail were
giant footprints that looked like those made by a large grizzly bear, but
they had no claw marks on their ends. Also the steps were 5 feet apart and
still 4 feet apart even when going up a steep hill. The logger was 6 foot,
2 inches tall and could barely match the stride by stretching his legs to
the limit. Even when going up the hill his steps were only half as
long.
While following the tracks he noticed the trail was littered
by a lot of fresh stripped twigs. Looking up he saw all the alder trees up
to 20 feet on both sides of the trail had all of their upper branches
stripped bare. The taller 20 foot trees had 4 inch trunks near the ground.
It was very evident that this creature was big and strong enough to bend
over these trees to get at the tender tips, leaves and buds on he top
branches. The twigs that broke off were spit out like humans do with fruit
or berry stones. When the logger tired to bend these trees he could hardly
move them.
Sasquatch researchers have long speculated what these
creatures ate, and especially during the wintertime in the woods. So far
two things were mentioned, Saskatoon berries and alder buds and
shoots.
Sighting # 5
This took place around 1980. two men
were driving to Kitimat one summer morning. Coming down the airport hill
they could see a ground fog over the William Creek flats. This was a 2
mile fairly straight stretch of highway that was built over a swampy area
that was part of the north end of Lakelse Lake. The grade or fill here
varied between 5 to 6 feet high. As the car came around a slight bend at
the bottom of the hill they could see arms waving in the fog ahead of
them. Thinking that someone had gone off the road they prepared to stop.
Since it was foggy the driver had to get over the white line and right on
the shoulder. When the vehicle was still several car lengths away
from the figure, the passenger who told me this story saw that it was not
human. It was a very tall hair covered human like creature that was
standing in the water at the foot of the grade and was facing the highway.
When the car came to a stop they were alongside the creature. The
creature's head was level with the occupants in the car and about 5 feet
away from the passenger. After a brief moment the creature's eyes and
mouth opened wide in terror. The head was thrown back and it's arms
crossed over the front of it's head as to be warding off a blow from a
club. It then turned around and dashed into the swamp, going at times
through waist deep holes of water until lost in the fog and leaving two
stunned men in the car.
While mulling over this story I measured
the eye level height off the road in a similar type of car and it was 4
feet. Since the grade shoulder would have sloped a bit it would have been
about 5 feet above the water. The creature was standing in water halfway
to it’s knees. Adding up each foot of height on my fingers took all ten of
them. This was followed up by another visit where two questions were
asked. The first was if the creatures face was relatively free of hair as
we see on the T.V. shows of the chimps and apes. The reply was that the
face was covered with hair much the same as a full beard would be on a
man. The next question was, "did you see the dished face of a chimp or ape
or was it more human like"? The answer was that I saw a human face. It
definitely was not the face of a chimp or ape.
What apparently had
happed here was the Sasquatch was feeding on the brush on the road grade
as it was standing in the water. The movement of the arms through the fog
was the creature reaching out and pulling the bushes towards him. Like
most wild creatures it did not pay much attention to the traffic as they
went by at highway speed. However, if you slow down much or stop, then
they are gone. You can imagine the creatures surprise when this large
object suddenly stopped in front of it.
Sighting # 6
This
sighting was from a lady now living in terrace, B.C. in 1985, she was
living in the Queen Charlotte Islands in a cabin by the Honna River. One
afternoon an acquaintance stopped by to tell her of a strange event he had
just witnessed. He had been fly fishing further along the river when a
very tame Deer came out of the woods near him to drink from the river. he
had stopped his casting to admire the Deer. Suddenly a rock flew out from
the trees, striking the Deer and knocking it down. This was immediately
followed by a very tall hair covered human like creature who threw the
Deer over it's shoulder and dashed back into the woods. Of course this
took the pleasure out of further fishing and he didn't want to stick
around with the rock chucking ape in the vicinity. This is the first that
I heard of the Sasquatch being on these islands. According to this lady,
the local native people speak quite openly about them. Now if anyone is
curious whether or not this Deer was roasted, just read
on.
Sighting # 7
This took place in 1967. Fred arrived in
Canada in 1960 along with a flood of German immigrants. In 1967 he was in
the Houston area where he had joined an outdoor club. In the fall
Fred went hunting because it was a man think to do. This is an urge that
harkens back to a dim and distant past where humans had to hunt in order
to survive. A favorite place to hunt was on a prospector trail that ran up
a mountain in the direction of Kemano in the Bower Lake area campground. This weekend Fred
was only accompanied by a medium sized dog as he was after a young Moose
that he could drag back down the trail himself. Halfway up the mountain he
ran into a fresh fall of snow a foot deep. Suddenly he was hit with a very
strong pungent odor similar to a large decaying carcass. He was up here
the weekend before and there was nothing like that here. When he tried to
go on, the dog laid down on it's belly blocking his way. When he tried to
go around the dog, it crawled forward continuing to block his way.
Fred then climbed up on top of a rock that was beside the trail but he
could see nothing ahead. However, he decided to heed the dogs warning and
headed back down the mountain much to the dogs relief.
In sighting
# 7 Fred had moved to Terrace in 1974. During that summer he visited
another German immigrant family with 8 children who were living in an
acreage community of Rosswood about 30 miles north of Terrace. There was a
houseful of guests that day and the hosts had a strange story to tell. The
previous winter had a very heavy snowfall. In March the snow was still 4
feet deep but hard enough to walk on. The snow had melted away from around
the smaller jack pine trees to leaving them sitting in holes in the snow.
During the Easter school holidays the children saw two hair covered human
like creatures about 100 yards behind the house. One was an adult and the
other a youngster about half as tall. It was presumed that the larger one
was the mother but it kept its back to the whole family who were watching
from the back of the house. These two figures were going from one small
jack pine to another, picking and eating the needle tips of the branches.
Here we have another item on their menu.
Two days later on the
afternoon a large passenger airplane without wings, tail or engines, and
making no sound, flew very low and slow, following the path that these
creatures had taken. In my correspondence with UFO*BC they had mentioned
having a number of reports from people who had seen a Sasquatch and a UFO
in the same area around the same time. They were wondering if there as
some kind of connection between them. It is my feeling that the aliens are
every bit as curious about these creatures as we are.
This covers
the verbal stories collected so far. The remaining printed stories will be
photo copied.
A local moose hunter once mentioned that he could
easily have shot a Sasquatch. However, it looked so human like that he
didn't dare. Although it would have been a real boom to science, he was
concerned that he could be charged with man slaughter if it would be
classed as a sub human by these scientists. This question was put to the
homicide department of the local R.C.M.P. The reply was that they couldn't
answer this question and refered me to the crown prosecutor. His statement
was the same as the police, so the next visit was to the game warden.
According to him the Sasquatch was not a game animal, so it has nothing to
do with his department. If one was shot and declared a sub human, then it
would be up to the police and courts to deal with it.
It seems here
that the safest thing to do would be to capture one alive. If it turns out
to be some form of human, then it could always be turned loose. However,
if it realizes that it can just laze around and still be fed, it may not
want to leave. If food is put out for a homeless dog or cat, it sticks
around.
The next question would be, where doe the Sasquatch fit in to
the scheme of things. It appears that this was one of nature’s experiments
in evolution that got stuck in a rut. Anyone that listens to the news and
watches the T.V. educational channels will be aware the oldest human bones
found go back almost 6 million years. Here we have an upright walking
primate that was very good at climbing trees. However, its brain was the
same size as the primates that were still walking on their hands as the
chimpanzee does today. The chimp branch had forked sometime earlier with
each branch then going its own way. With the upright walking primates the
hands were now free for other tasks and the brain began to increase in
size to accommodate this dexterity. As these hands were used more and
became more skillful, the greater the brain increased in size until two
distinct species had developed.
Somewhere near the beginning of
this separation a third branch had spouted between these two species. This
primate also walked upright but it's brain remained chimp size. Here we
have half of each main branch, with the body following the upright walking
side, and the brain following the side where the primates still walked on
their hands, like the chimps do today.
However, it must have had
something going for it, for this species also survived along with the
other primates including the one that became humans. The Sasquatch is now
comparable in size and weight to the gorilla and probably has the same
size of brain. In all of natures evolution only the human primates has
made it into the stone age and beyond. Humans were the only creatures that
made tools and weapons. We are the only ones that used fire for warmth and
cooking. The other primates do not even have the intelligence of how to
keep a fire going. Humans were the only creature to have a full and
written language, and the only creatures that built permanent
shelters.
The Sasquatch had none of these and probably didn't even
need them. Its heavy fur coat was adequate for all weather. Like our moose
it just spent its days roaming the wilderness in search of food. There is
no evidence that it even had its own territory as many animals do. It just
followed its food supply. When needing to rest any comfortable place would
do. A permanent bed was a disadvantage as it would soon have been heavily
infested with fleas, lice, mites and tics. As its diet was mostly
vegetationit did not have to complete with the more intelligent human
primates for the available food supply. The Sasquatch was for the most
part a solitary creature that just came together with a female to mate
like much of our wildlife. Most of the sightings are of a single creature.
It was up to the female to raise the offspring alone. If like humans, it
would take a good many years to raise a youngster to where it could look
after itself. This would mean a mother could only raise 2 or 3 children in
its lifetime, which would barely sustain their numbers. This would explain
the scarcity of these creatures.
For those who have watched the
wildlife documentaries on the T.V. educational channels will be struck by
the almost human behavior of the chimpanzee. They tend to remind us of our
children quarreling. For a long time scientists had thought that the
dividing line between human and other creatures was in the use of tools.
However, many wildlife pictures do show that the chimps, other animals and
even birds will use sticks and rocks as tools in order to obtain
food.
With our recent rapid advancement of our genetic research
scientists are now saying that the chimpanzee, depending on its species
have from 98 to 99.3 per cent of the genes of a human. In fact they are
more closely related to humans than they are to the other large apes.
Because of this some scientists have started a movement to declare the
chimp a sub human with all the protection humans have. The Sasquatch with
its upright walking and very human face could fit in between humans and
the chimps. Does this mean the Sasquatch is the missing link? Not likely
as all 3 species evolved from an earlier life form around the same
time.
After all, in the scientific category humans are classified
as a primate or more crudely an ape. Keep this in mind the next time you
call someone a big or stupid ape.
Sighting # 8
This report
was received after my report had been completed and photo copies made. In
the summer of 1988 Dan and his wife visited a friend on Old Lakelse Lake
Road past Jackpine Flats. After awhile Dan had to stretch his legs and
decided to look at his friend’s garden, which was a little distance behind
the house. Midway on the way back on his left was a dense grove of low
leaf trees. Suddenly there was movement there and Dan thought he saw
what looked like a very large rear end of a moose taking off. Dan, an avid
hunter couldn't believe that a moose could be that high. At that moment
the owner let out his two small housedogs. Dan hadn't smelled anything but
apparently the dogs did. They ran yapping into the dense grove of trees. A
few seconds later they came yapping back with high-pitched yelps right up
to the house and scratches madly at the door to get back into the
house.
The owner came out and asked Dan what made the dogs act so
strangely. Dan said he didn't know but would take a look around. He
couldn't find any moose tracks in the grove of trees. There were a number
of large faint impressions in the moss that were still rebounding out. Dan
was familiar with the stories of the Sasquatch and suspected that this is
what he saw. However, since there was no firm evidence to back him up, he
decided to keep quiet rather than face teasing or ridicule. However, this
event shows that although the Sasquatch will usually avoid humans, they
can occasionally still stumble into their yards. In this area a story of
bear and moose in your yard is believeable but a Sasquatch still isn't. It
should also be noted in this report and the other information included,
the strange reaction of the dogs. These dogs will not hesitate to go after
a full-grown grizzly, but yet run and hide from a Sasquatch. Do they
instinctively know something that we don’t?
Sighting #
9
This took place in 1991 during ate July or early August. Dan and
his wife were returning to B.C. from a visit to Ontario. Midnight found
them near the Ontario - Manitoba border close to Westhawk
Lake.
Suddenly ahead of them in the car headlights they saw a large
hair covered human like creature running hard across the highway. Dan
remembers that the hair on the top of the creature’s head was standing
upright like a comb or brush. His wife noticed that steam was rising from
its shoulder. It was obvious that the creature was in a panic situation
and was running from something. Later they heard that others had seen it
and it made the news on the local radio stations and the
newspapers.
From the above report is proof that the Sasquatch is
not confined to the Rockies but can be anywhere, even on the
prairies.
My thanks goes out to a kind gentlman from my area for
his report.
If anyone wishes to contact me about this story, feel free
to at:
http://www.hbccufo.org/
Important:
I will not be giving out any personal information about the fellow who
sent me this report as I have been asked to keep his identity
private.
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