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.