Mt Sicker Sasquatch (This report is from the "BFRO")

YEAR: 2010




SEASON: Summer



MONTH: June



DATE: Sunday, 06



PROVINCE: British Columbia



COUNTRY: Canada



LOCATION DETAILS: This sighting was on Mt.Sicker just outside duncan B.C. The clear cut area has been cut for a few years but they have recently started logging areas nearby. (Specific directions omitted upon request.)



NEAREST TOWN: Duncan



NEAREST ROAD: Highway 1



OBSERVED: A friend and I were 4x4ing up in the back woods just outside of Duncan. We pulled up onto a look out on the top of a mountain in a clear cut area. The area is full of rolling ridges and hills. As we were sitting there I was looking out over the area and right near a bit or a ridge about 300-400 feet I saw a figure walking. It looked like it was on 2 feet approx...8 mabey 9 feet, kind of hard to tell at that distance. As soon as i realized i was seeing something i watched as it dropped down the ridge and dissapeared (this was around 9:30 pm) Jokingly i said to my friend "i think i saw a SAMSQUATCH"....quite often youll see a stump and go "hey is that a bear" but this thing didnt move like a bear. It looked like it was between 8-9 feet, his shoulders seemed slumped and draped in long black and brown hair, his arms seemed to hang lower than his waist and his head was a long oval again draped in hair... and then he was gone.



So we had out little laugh ya know, im seeing things.. 10-15 minutes later we were sitting there talking and my friend heard a noise at about the 2 o'clock position from the front of my jeep, we didnt pay to much attention but as we sat there we kept hearing it... Like a low deep grunt. We kept hearing the noise but only when we weren't really paying attention. Finally we got out of the jeep figuring mabey we will hear it better.. Needless to say i picked up some rocks and i started throwing them into the bush at first i through them towards the 5'oclock position and and then towards the 2 oclock. That got no results so my friend started yelling random things towards the bush making an echo... still nothing... we then moved back towards my jeep we were standing near the passenger side door when all of a sudden we heard that loud deep grunt again but this time it was coming from the 5'oclock position no more than 20 feet away from us. We heard no crashing through the bush even though the noise moved from the front of the jeep to the back of the jeep. This noise was like nothing i have heard before... the only way i can desribe it would be like 10 dogs in perfect synchronization letting out 1 short grunting bark at a time... It had so much bass that it just cut through the air... Instantly the hair was standing on the back of our necks and we ran back into the jeep. We then spun the jeep around to try and see anything with the headlights... with no luck, so we got out of there for about the next 3-5 kilometers driving down the mountain (about 15 kmh) it felt like we were being watched it was creepy. Its like whatever i think i saw travelled through the bush in front of us beside us and then up behind us.



ALSO NOTICED: There was a small black and white bird that kept squawking around us the whole time we were there. As the big noise that was close to us happend he was swooping around right around us..



OTHER WITNESSES: Me and my friend. We had just driven up to the lookout spot and hadnt been there more than 5 mintues



OTHER STORIES: Not in the same area, but more in the cowichan valley.



TIME AND CONDITIONS: I saw the creature at about 9:30 it was clear (we were above the clouds)and still bright.



The sounds started 10 minutes after that and proceeded untill about 10:10 when the noise was heard 20 feet behind us.. by this time the light was dissapearing and headlights were starting to be needed.



ENVIRONMENT: Top of the mountain in a clear cut area with rolling hills and ridges surrounded by pine and fir trees in behind us.





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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Cindy Dosen:



I contacted the witness on June 7 to verify the details of his report. The witnesses also agreed to meet me on June 10 at 7:30 pm where his sighting took place. I found this witness to be naive on the nature of Sasquatch. His accounts of this sighting I find to be credible.



On Sunday June 6, at approx. 9:30pm the witness and his girlfriend were out for an evening 4x4 on a local mountain top. They had parked on top off a small cut slash area that overlooked the valleys below. The witness and girlfriend got out of the truck to stretch, this is when the witness seen a large upright figure standing by a stump. The stump was located at the tip of a gully that disappears into the forest line. This figure then turned to its left and walked back down the gully. The witness had viewed this animal for 20-secs before he lost sight of it. He was adamant that it was not a bear, it had no snout, and arms hung beside it not in front of it. The witness was taken back by this visual, he turned and asked his girlfriend if she seen it. The two then moved back closer to the truck, and discussed what just happened. The witness said they were talking and laughing for 15 mins. when far behind them came a extremely loud bark-growl type sound. The witness said the sound hit him in the back of the head with the velocity of like being at a concert. The two witnesses were scared so they jumped into the truck and left.



On June 10 at 7:30pm we arrived at the meeting place where I introduced my husband and myself to the two witnesses. He explained where his position was when his sighting occurred. From this point my husband used a laser range finder to measure the distance from us to the stump. The distance was 96 yards to the stump and 105 yards to the edge of the gully. We walked out to the stump, leaving the girlfriend behind at the truck. She was still to frightened from her previous experience. We found several impressions in the soil around the stump. Then tracked the impressions heading south down the draw, into the 2nd growth fir trees. The impressions were not casted due to poor surface conditions. Three impressions had some good toe outlines, heel outlines and a complete foot outline. The impressions all measured 13.5” to 14” long and 5.5” to 6” wide. They were spaced out at a stride of 53” long. I asked the two witnesses to re-enact where they were, and what they were doing just before the vocalization occurred. We then used a search pattern to check for other signs. One more impressions was found 50 feet adjacent to them in a treeline area with dense brush and a water body. This grass impression measured 13.8” long and 6” wide. This concluded our evening with the witness.



On June 12 at 3:00pm two other BFRO Investigators, Dave H., Alex S., and myself arrived at the sighting area to do a larger search pattern of the area. I retraced the sighting information to them. Dave stood beside the stump for photo measurements of his height comparison to the stump. Dave's leg length foot/hip was 2' 7”. The witness stated the leg was almost even with the top of the stump, making the animal's leg approx. 4' long from foot/hip. This making the leg longer than a normal bear. Hands were hanging down past the top of the stump, making the arms longer than the average bear. The animal's height would have been around the 7' plus mark.



The search pattern conducted on the other side of the water area produced another impression. This was found by Alex and the measurements were again 14” long and 6” wide, with very similar toe and heel edges, as the other impressions.



We moved our search down towards an old logging trail approx. 2000 yards heading North of the sighting area. The overgrown trail was lush with ferns, mossy trees, and numerous elk signs. We walked for 8 mins. down the trail. We came across a water spring dripping down the embankment and wetting the trail in front of us. Dave found a deep water-filled impression in the embankment that measured 14” long and 5.5” wide . The toes had slid in the print making it undesirable for casting for any sharp detail. This was the last sign we found in our search.



This investigation has turned up some credible evidence that the witness sighting was of an animal he had never seen before. I have found other reports of sightings in this general area in the past five years. The area has been closed off to the public access for over 20 years. This spring the mountain has been re-opened for hunting & public recreation. The area had been logged off in areas long ago making this area rich with fauna for elk and deer. Large parcels of old growth fir still remain in areas as well.

My new site address is:

thesearchforsasquatch.webs.com

New Site.

Just to let everyone know I have been working on a new site and will post the address up here as soon as it's up and running......thanks Lee.

Sasaquatch/Bigfoot:Legend Meets Science:

A must see for all Sasquatch/Bigfoot followers...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBnxM4fqawU .

Summer Sasquatch Research

Over the last couple of months Josh and I have done extensive research in the Mount Washington area .

We have tracked pretty much every known animal there is on Vancouver island.

The bear population is at a very high number this year as well.

We have spent much time documenting different animal tracks specifically bear and cougar.

We  spent time investigating animal scat at different stages of decomposition.

We also spent time investigating what we initially thought was wood knocking only to discover the sounds we heard to be a species of bird nesting in a tree.

We have compiled some physical evidence as well which include fur samples,pictures of some oddly bent tree's and pictures with measurements of possible tracks.

We also did some sound blasting ( alleged Sasquatch calls) which at this time has turned up no results.

I have also picked up a game camera which snapped some pictures of a bear .

Over all we did a good job investigating the areas we chose to search.

We are now going to do some night time searches which will include sound blasting,(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeGPNC6qQCY)wood knocking(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVtnOlEeJ4,light searches,bating,trap cams and recordings...

The results will be posted as soon as our trip in completed.

Wood Knocking

I took a trip with my friend and team member Josh to Strathcona park .We met at the chain up area at the base of Mount Washington and headed past Wolf Lake making a left just past the lake and followed the back roads until we got into the area of Regan lake. We got out of the truck several times to investigate the surrounding areas for any trace of Sasquatch with not much luck but we were lucky enough to see a couple of big black bears.
We then came to another main logging road where we decided to get out and try our luck with some "wood knocking"which is a known way to communicate with Sasquatch.We tried this for about 10 or 15-minutes,Josh was wood knocking while I took the opportunity to check some muddy areas for foot prints it was during this search that I started to hear replies to Josh's wood knocking. I then went back to Josh and asked him to come up by where I had heard the replies.No sooner did Josh get to where I was standing just a minute earlier when we again together heard wood knocking replies.
At this point we walked down the road repeating the knocking and getting responses every time.We managed to pin point the loudest area for responses and started video taping the wood knocking session with some great responses which you can hear plain as day on my video camera.
Our wood knocking session from start to finish lasted about an hour with responses happening up until we left.
We also took the opportunity to plant some food traps in the area(muddy areas) so that maybe if a Sasquatch was around it would become curious and eat one of the food traps leaving behind a track or two for us to cast.
This was a great field trip with some great audio captured of what was possibly a Sasquatch trying to communicate with us.
We will be returning to this area tomorrow to see if our food traps caught any tracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVtnOlEeJ4

Little Anderson Lake.

On Sunday may 9th/2010 I took a trip up to the Little Anderson lake area to do some field work.The following is from my field log:
Observations:Just past the Little Anderson lake pull-off I drove over a small bridge (creek running under bridge)and was just coming into the slash area above the lake when I noticed a black bear on the right shoulder of the road,I immediately stopped my truck.I was approximately 110'from the bear.The bear looked towards me but seemed more interested in smelling out some food.I proceeded to grab my video camera and started to film.
I watched the bear for some time as it made it's way up the bank and eventually disappeared into the forest.
I drove a couple more minutes and decided to pull-over to do some wood knocking.I tried this for about 20-mins with no response."Wood knocking" is thought to be a form of communication between Sasquatch.
I then decided to investigate the area for tracks,skat or anything else out of the ordinary.I found what looked to be numerous remains of grouse who were probably killed by hunters.After searching the immediate area I drove down a short road which is located directly above Little Anderson lake and dead ends as the road moves to the right.I walked to the end of this road and looked over a bank which has a creek cutting through and observed a waterfall to my right.At this point I decided to grab my binoculars and pan the area. I fixed my binoculars along the tree line at the edge of the slash going back and forth looking for any movement but saw nothing(I repeated this several times throughout my trip).
I then turned my attention to the ground where I noticed what looked to me like a foot print with four 4-toes. The ground in this area was not overly soft so I thought it made sense that if something heavy was walking it would probably push off with its toes as it shifted to the other foot leaving a print.I took several pictures and checked the area with a fine tooth comb but was unable to find any other tracks.
As I made my way back to the truck I then heard a loud thump (sounding like something heavy hitting a hollowed out stump or an area where the ground in the forest has hollow voids.)I stopped and turned around in the direction I believed the sound was coming from (I believe the sounds origin was coming from down the bank on the other side of the creek just inside the forest,approx 300' or so feet from where I was standing)I again heard this thump , It repeated about 5 more times with about a 30-second delay in between,it then stopped.
At this point it was starting to get late so I ended my trip and headed home.

Weather details: Mainly sunny with a few clouds,slight breeze and temperature was +13
Type of area: Above Little Anderson Lake ,recently logged (last couple of years)slash,with mature forest.On mount Washington,Strathcona Park.
Reason for research in this area: Looking for evidence of Sasquatch.I have picked this area based on a triaglization of chosen sighting reports,vocalizations reports,rock throwing reports and footprint reports.This area turns out to be in the middle of the triangle.

Other notes:
#1: Footprint found and photographed was of a left foot.
#2: 1/2 klm away was where I had black bear encounter.
#3: 1klm away I found deer tracks and canine tracks.

Understanding Sasquatch.

I have had more Sasquatch reports filtering in from the Strathcona park area,these reports have been coming in to me second hand.
I am trying to follow up with the eye witnesses and will post the reports as the eye witnesses come to me.
The year and time I have been hearing is the same as the other reports in this area,between may-sept/2006.
I have been doing very little field research as I am waiting for the weather to improve some.
One thing I have been researching lately is wild animal behavior and there interactions with humans.
The animal I have been looking at lately is the cougar because it is rarely seen by humans.
Some common and interesting facts about the cougar are its hunting ground is generally the same through out its life and can range from 100 square miles to 200 square miles, its average life span in the wild is aprox 12-years.
It preys on a variety of animals like the deer,elk,rabbit and even small moose.
It is a master of camouflage and will generally attack its prey with 2 or 3 big leaps hitting the prey with a full impact bearing the prey to the ground where it will suffocate it with a prolonged bite across the throat.
Many avid outdoors men who have spent many years in the wild have never even seen a cougar in the wild due to the cougar not wanting a human encounter.
Most reported cougar sightings come from people who have seen them crossing the road well driving well most attacks are because the cougar is starving.
Some experts in the cougar field say you are more likely to be killed by your neighbors dog or a black widow bite then a cougar .

In closing I would like to say that in the beginning of my search for the Sasquatch I thought it would be as easy as getting a camera,plaster and some reports lol.
What I have found out is the deeper I get into this search the more complex it really is.
There is so much to do and learn,from animal tracking,understanding animal behavior,skat examinations,hair sampling,filing reports and thats just the tip of iceberg.
It is my belief in order to understand the Sasquatch you must first understand its habitat and everything in it.

My Thoughts On Sasquatch

Last Monday I was in a store which had a rack of books dedicated to Sasquatch as well as other local interests.After looking through a couple of the Sasquatch books I made my way to the cashier.Well waiting in line I noticed a couple of gentlemen over at the books,they then started discussing Sasquatch.One was a firm believer while the other was smirking and chuckling about the topic.It was at this point I cut into the conversation and told them that I was a believer and that I had had my own sighting years earlier.The one gentlemen who was a non-believer laughed and asked me if I was drunk when I saw the creature.This is a very common reaction to people who have not had there own experience or have chosen not to believe,this is also why a high percentage of people who have had sightings don't talk or report them.It is my belief that people usually laugh to these types of conversations for 2-reasons.#1 they think that the witness is joking about his/her experience.#2 there mis-informed (un-educated in this topic).It is also my belief if a person actually took the time to become educated in this topic they would at a very minimum leave it with a better understanding and have more respect for those who do believe.To those of you who come to my site and don't believe ,take some time ,go through my site and the links,educate yourself .Hopefully when you are done you will have a bit more respect for the Sasquatch and the people who believe.Oh ya one more thing,If you don't believe then why are you on my site???Something peak your interest???To those who have had an experience and have yet to report it please fill out my report form further down the page and if you would like to remain anonymous your name will not be published.

Kwai Lake (Strathcona Park)

I received a report, Jan 6th 2010, from a man who may have had an experience with a Sasquatch near Kwai Lake in Strathcona park, during the summer of 2006.The following account is that of the witness.
"One night in the late summer of 2006, 2 of my friends and I had this crazy idea to go hiking.We went and bought some flashlights and started our hike from Mount Washington parking lot at 10pm. We were having a few drinks and not worrying about anything,the moon was bright enough to see when we were hiking the rocky sections but for the wooded areas we needed flashlights.We were just passing an open area and heading back into a wooded area with flashlights on,one of my friends stopped and said "hey guys listen ....nice,quiet." (Too quiet but I didn't realize) My friend said "the sound of silence." Then all of a sudden it was like a hundred birds squawking right behind us,so loud you could feel it pounding your chest. I screamed "SASQUATCH" :like a reflex without even thinking about it we started running and quickly ran out of energy. We huddled behind a large stump that was covering our backs. We then took off our back packs and took out our hunting knives,we turned off our flashlights and prepared for battle.It sounded like the sound was moving around us but not getting any closer so after a few minutes of being totally freaked out we quietly put our back packs on and got out of there.As we walked the sound faded away from behind us and we started to feel more safe.We got such an energy rush knowing we witnessed something amazing.

Follow up:
I asked the witness to describe the sound he heard in greater depth,the following was his explanation;
"The only way to describe it is that it was like a gogoll,gogoll,gogoll,gogoll,gogoll,gogol it was continuous,no breaks between,we were actually thinking there was more then one like one after another going back and forth and it may have been smashing branches and stomping to get that powerful bass sound.I don't think it was following us.I think it just wanted us out of it's neck of the woods".
I also asked the witness if he or his friends ever had a visual of what might have made the noises and the witness said "We had no visual and I don't regret it,I don't think I could of handled it at the time.Whatever it was,it was big".

Notes:
Witness thinks it was in aug 2006 ,he could not confirm exact date of incident.
The experience happened in a wooded area about 2klm before Kwai Lake .
The witness had not heard of any previous incidents in this area.
The moon was bright,no clouds in area.
Between May and Aug of 2006 there were several reports all over Strathcona park which included possible Sasquatch sightings,rock throwing reports and vocalizations.
Wildlife biologist years earlier had lifted plaster moulds of Sasquatch tracks not far from this report at Lake Helen Mackenzie.

Sasquatch And The Pacific Northwest

When looking at the forests of the Pacific Northwest it's easy to see how one could get lost.Put Sasquatch into play in these forests and you can begin to appreciate how a species like this can be somewhat elusive.In British Columbia alone the forests take up approximately sixty percent of the land,much of it not explored and to rugged to enter.There have been numerous people who have disappeared over the years not to mention the amount of aircraft which has went missing with not even a trace of debris found.There are approximately 100 un-contacted tribes in the world today which have not been influenced by the outside world for hundreds of years,WOW pretty amazing in our technological advanced world of today that we could still have that many primitive tribes.One of these tribes had photo's taken of them via from a helicopter in May of 2008 on the border of Brazil and Peru,in the photo's (http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/05/five-uncontacted-tribes-nearing-extinction.html) you can see some of the tribe pointing there bows toward the helicopter in what I am assuming would be utter fear of this loud nuisance hovering above there heads.Getting back to the Pacific Northwest.One point that the non-believers of Sasquatch like to point out is that if there was a 600lb to 800lb Sasquatch wondering around our forests that they would not be able to sustain life during our winters because there's simply not enough food to live on?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjUt2sXo5o&feature=related.My) answer to that would be that an average adult male moose weighs in at 850lbs to 1180lbs well the females average weight is between 600lb to 800lbs there diet in the winter consists of 40 to 50lbs per day of twigs and assorted shrubs(http://www.mooseworld.com/)....Who's to say an animal like Sasquatch doesn't eat the same winter diet???There are other animals in the Pacific Northwest that are note worthy of a similar weight class to Sasquatch as well like the elk with the adult male averaging its weight in at 698lbs(http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/animals/elk.htm) . As far as the non-believers go they can throw that winter theory of there's out the window.In conclusion to this post I would just like to say that Science is evolving and changing it's theories on a regular basis and there discovering new species every year who knows what tomorrow may bring but there's no doubt in my head that one day they will have the evidence they require to put Sasquatch on our list of native animals to the Pacific Northwest.

Roger Patterson/Bob Gimlin Film

My thoughts on the Patterson/Gimlin film.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxuRIfFs0w .For starters I am very aggravated by this film simply because I have spent so much time listening,watching and reading peoples analysis for and against it.I have watched it hundreds of times at regular speed as well as slowed down frame by frame.I have listened to peoples claims that they know the person who was in the supposed suit.I have read and watched people try to dis-credit Roger Patterson (who may I say is not here and hasn't been for over 30-years to defend himself and his film) and Bob Gimlin ( who has always stuck by his word in saying it was NOT STAGED). If you are trying to form an opinion for or against the authenticity of this film I strongly recommend that you just watch the film and base your opinion on what it shows.It is my belief that what this film shows is a Female Sasquatch trying to move away from what she feels is a threat  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7DFQwKlfnk&NR=1  (Patterson/Gimlin).It is also my opinion that what those two gentlemen filmed that day is authentic.Come on people ??? just because you haven't personally seen it doesn't mean it's not real...I am 37-years old and in June of this year I saw my first cougar in person...Now prior to that did I believe cougars existed???...yes,because I knew people who had seen them,I have also seen pictures and video's of them...mmmm,kinda funny....I believe we have the same evidence for Sasquatch..... ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrPTtg00MI&feature=related )