If you have had an encounter with something you can't explain ( Sasquatch encounter , sounds , tracks , wood knocking , or anything else odd ) please follow the link on this page to the " report form " and fill it out.
The BCSO ( British Columbia Sasquatch Organization ) is also interested in 2nd hand reports, these are important to us as well , just add a contact email or phone number so that we can follow up on what you have heard.
Again I can't stress enough how important your encounters are to the BCSO , we use these reports to help us with our research and to gain a better understanding of the Sasquatch/Bigfoot .
To all of you who have given us your stories thank you .
We will only publish your story,name,location ect with your approval , your privacy is most important to us .
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our report form ..... http://thesearchforsasquatch.webs.com/sightingreportform.htm
BCSO
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Are you out there ? Searching for Sasquatch.
How does one search for something that isn't suppose to be there?
I talked with an archaeologist the other day , I have known him for some time on a business level and during our conversations I discovered that his job in tailed spending a lot of time in the forests of Vancouver Island .
lately he had been spending a lot of time on the west coast of the island and I just assumed he was a logger . During this conversation I discovered what it was he does , I then mentioned what it was I did .His initial response was like so many , a chuckle and grin , once we got through that he became more serious , I went on to ask him if he had ever seen or heard anything odd out in the forests ? He said in the 15-years he had been in archaeology he had seen nothing . I asked how remote the places were that he had went too ? he told me that they were very remote and that if there were a colony of Sasquatch living in the forests he would have found evidence of there existence.
My belief in Sasquatch other then my sighting is the shear amount of evidence which includes, sightings by witnesses of all backgrounds , the incredible amount of sightings reported annually , the tracks which have been found and documented such as pictures and castings , the screams and growls which numerous people have heard and even recorded , the video evidence which includes the much debated Patterson/Gimlin film and numerous other video's , the wood knocking and over powering stench which is associated with sightings of the Sasquatch.
In the one hand you have all this evidence supporting the existence of such a creature and in the other hand you have the critics , who claim because they have never seen this creature or have any physical evidence that it doesn't exist . Many of the critics go on to say that ALL WITNESSES are imagining it or misidentifying it like some sort of mass illusion . Who the hell do they think they are to make statements like that??? I have watched pretty much every documentary there is on the topic and when I see the critics grinning like they have just told there kids the Easter bunny doesn't exist it ticks me off. To be honest I find it hard to keep my cool , I would just love one of those critics to tell me what it was I saw with my own eyes along with the other two witnesses!!! Give me a break , I don't need them telling me anything with regard to what" I KNOW" I saw.
I also know that you can't believe everything you hear and that after all the investigations and debunking is finished and your still left with evidence pointing in the direction of the existence of such a creature you must recognize it.
There is no way that everyone who has had an encounter is lying,imagining or misidentifying it .......NO WAY!!!
I talked with an archaeologist the other day , I have known him for some time on a business level and during our conversations I discovered that his job in tailed spending a lot of time in the forests of Vancouver Island .
lately he had been spending a lot of time on the west coast of the island and I just assumed he was a logger . During this conversation I discovered what it was he does , I then mentioned what it was I did .His initial response was like so many , a chuckle and grin , once we got through that he became more serious , I went on to ask him if he had ever seen or heard anything odd out in the forests ? He said in the 15-years he had been in archaeology he had seen nothing . I asked how remote the places were that he had went too ? he told me that they were very remote and that if there were a colony of Sasquatch living in the forests he would have found evidence of there existence.
My belief in Sasquatch other then my sighting is the shear amount of evidence which includes, sightings by witnesses of all backgrounds , the incredible amount of sightings reported annually , the tracks which have been found and documented such as pictures and castings , the screams and growls which numerous people have heard and even recorded , the video evidence which includes the much debated Patterson/Gimlin film and numerous other video's , the wood knocking and over powering stench which is associated with sightings of the Sasquatch.
In the one hand you have all this evidence supporting the existence of such a creature and in the other hand you have the critics , who claim because they have never seen this creature or have any physical evidence that it doesn't exist . Many of the critics go on to say that ALL WITNESSES are imagining it or misidentifying it like some sort of mass illusion . Who the hell do they think they are to make statements like that??? I have watched pretty much every documentary there is on the topic and when I see the critics grinning like they have just told there kids the Easter bunny doesn't exist it ticks me off. To be honest I find it hard to keep my cool , I would just love one of those critics to tell me what it was I saw with my own eyes along with the other two witnesses!!! Give me a break , I don't need them telling me anything with regard to what" I KNOW" I saw.
I also know that you can't believe everything you hear and that after all the investigations and debunking is finished and your still left with evidence pointing in the direction of the existence of such a creature you must recognize it.
There is no way that everyone who has had an encounter is lying,imagining or misidentifying it .......NO WAY!!!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Cowichan Sasquatch Legend
The Cowichan People gave him the name “Thumquas”.
Are they real, or are they myth? A Seven to Nine foot tall man ape has been sighted in North America for centuries. The mysterious ape-like creature; also known as Bigfoot, is said to inhabit remote regions of the Pacific Northwest.
While most Canadians consider the Sasquatch a mythical creature, for the Cowichan People they are very real. Before the European invasion, Native Americans knew of the creature and gave him the name Sasquatch, which means “hairy giant.” The Cowichan People gave him the name Thumquas.
One of the earliest recorded sightings of a Sasquatch by a white man occurred in 1811 near what is now Jasper, Alberta by a fur trader named David Thompson. Since then there have been hundreds of thousands of sightings of this mysterious creature in Western Canada, and in several states of the U.S.
There have been more than 700 footprints attributed to Bigfoot collected over the years, having an average length of 15.6 inches and an average width of 7.2 inches. Invariably, the sighting of a Sasquatch is accompanied by a very strong, very foul odour.
Daily Colonist, July 20, 1905. Vancouver Island, BC. He is still wild, the Cowichan Leader says: "The wild man of Vancouver Island has again been seen by a prospector while out in the mountains last week near Cowichan Lake.
He reports seeing what he believes was the much-talked-of wild man. He saw something through the bush, and at first sight thought it was a bear and raised his rifle, moving a little closer, when to his surprise a man straightened up before him. He immediately lowered his gun and shouted to him, but the wild man at once sprang into the thicket and was soon lost to view. The prospector tried to follow his track, but on account of the dense undergrowth was forced to give up the chase."
Not many people have heard the lonely, chilling cries and howls of Bigfoot. But those who have, and know the sounds of the wilderness, say it’s an unforgettable sound like no other.
On the night of July 08, 1975, a Native Man camping at the “Barn” located beside the Cowichan River at the furthest end of Mission Road; also known as the “Power Lines” to the local Natives, reported a strange and unsettling occurrence to the local RCMP detachment.
“I made camp yesterday down beside the Barn, in the evening I cooked a few trout that I had caught earlier in the day. After eating, I was getting a little tired so I decided to turn in. I climbed into my tent and lay down on my bedroll. I let my dogs run around because they always stay close to camp.
I started to dose off to the crickets chirping when suddenly I woke up it was as if I had one of those dreams where you are falling. I could tell there was something very wrong. It was dead quiet – no crickets, nothing, and then my dogs came running into my tent whining and shaking. I quickly jumped up; these dogs were very aggressive dogs, I'd never seen them scared like that. I grabbed my knife along with a flashlight and stepped outside the tent. I couldn’t see anything, but I had that sensation of being watched.
I grabbed some more firewood and threw it on the embers left from the dinner fire. Then I heard some very heavy footsteps right behind me in the trees. There was also a very strange odour, almost like a cross between a skunk and something dead.
Then the stillness of the night was broken by an eerie sound. The kind of scream no cougar or bear could ever squeeze from their throat. Piercing, echoing, guttural; a single, horrible high-pitched-yet-throaty, inhuman, unnatural sound that makes your skin crawl. This thing circled my campsite all night long. I didn’t sleep all night, I sat there and waited for daybreak, and in the morning I packed my gear and left”.
16-Jun-2003. Original headline: “Tracks in strawberry patch left by Sasquatch”.
Francis Joe kneels beside a trail of huge footprints crossing the strawberry field beside his home at the end of Boys Road. Francis Joe, 78, was born on the Native reserve south of Duncan and has never seen tracks like these before. He believes they belong to a legendary ape-like creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas and others call a Sasquatch or Bigfoot.
That's not the tracks of an ordinary human. You could tell if it had shoes on," he says. Something tramped across Joe's fields sometime Sunday night, leaving a straight line of 15-inch tracks running north to south, three feet apart in soft soil. His fields are bounded by bush to the north and the Cowichan River to the south, likely ruling out a trespasser. Joe paid no mind to dogs yapping outside Sunday because they often "bark all night." Local fishermen recently told him they've heard growling noises in the brush along the river.
The track also led to memories of when his three daughters saw what they think was a Sasquatch at the end of Wilseem Road about 30 years ago. "It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at us," remembers daughter Jeanne Bob, who claims she saw a Sasquatch about 40 feet away. "It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very strong smell. I wasn't kidding then and now I really believe it."
John Kirk, president of the B.C. Scientific Crypto zoology organization, says the footprints in Joe's berry patch are "a hoax or it's the real thing." The soil was too soft to reveal a double ball on the foot, an indicator some investigators believe sets real Sasquatch tracks from fakes. The double ball would be needed to carry the weight of an eight-foot creature, Kirk said. "Each foot print also has to be different because of walking mechanics. With fakes, every footprint is exactly the same."
The footprints found in Francis Joe’s strawberry field are three inches deep, which Kirk says is very significant, because, "An imprint that much deeper than a human's indicates a much greater weight".
Is Sasquatch real? Like the cougar he’s rarely ever seen. Over the centuries the Cowichan tribe’s people who have witnessed it have become true believers of the existence of a species known to the Cowichans as Thumquas. One thing is undeniable; there is a substantial amount of evidence that supports the existence of such a creature.
Are they real, or are they myth? A Seven to Nine foot tall man ape has been sighted in North America for centuries. The mysterious ape-like creature; also known as Bigfoot, is said to inhabit remote regions of the Pacific Northwest.
While most Canadians consider the Sasquatch a mythical creature, for the Cowichan People they are very real. Before the European invasion, Native Americans knew of the creature and gave him the name Sasquatch, which means “hairy giant.” The Cowichan People gave him the name Thumquas.
One of the earliest recorded sightings of a Sasquatch by a white man occurred in 1811 near what is now Jasper, Alberta by a fur trader named David Thompson. Since then there have been hundreds of thousands of sightings of this mysterious creature in Western Canada, and in several states of the U.S.
There have been more than 700 footprints attributed to Bigfoot collected over the years, having an average length of 15.6 inches and an average width of 7.2 inches. Invariably, the sighting of a Sasquatch is accompanied by a very strong, very foul odour.
Daily Colonist, July 20, 1905. Vancouver Island, BC. He is still wild, the Cowichan Leader says: "The wild man of Vancouver Island has again been seen by a prospector while out in the mountains last week near Cowichan Lake.
He reports seeing what he believes was the much-talked-of wild man. He saw something through the bush, and at first sight thought it was a bear and raised his rifle, moving a little closer, when to his surprise a man straightened up before him. He immediately lowered his gun and shouted to him, but the wild man at once sprang into the thicket and was soon lost to view. The prospector tried to follow his track, but on account of the dense undergrowth was forced to give up the chase."
Not many people have heard the lonely, chilling cries and howls of Bigfoot. But those who have, and know the sounds of the wilderness, say it’s an unforgettable sound like no other.
On the night of July 08, 1975, a Native Man camping at the “Barn” located beside the Cowichan River at the furthest end of Mission Road; also known as the “Power Lines” to the local Natives, reported a strange and unsettling occurrence to the local RCMP detachment.
“I made camp yesterday down beside the Barn, in the evening I cooked a few trout that I had caught earlier in the day. After eating, I was getting a little tired so I decided to turn in. I climbed into my tent and lay down on my bedroll. I let my dogs run around because they always stay close to camp.
I started to dose off to the crickets chirping when suddenly I woke up it was as if I had one of those dreams where you are falling. I could tell there was something very wrong. It was dead quiet – no crickets, nothing, and then my dogs came running into my tent whining and shaking. I quickly jumped up; these dogs were very aggressive dogs, I'd never seen them scared like that. I grabbed my knife along with a flashlight and stepped outside the tent. I couldn’t see anything, but I had that sensation of being watched.
I grabbed some more firewood and threw it on the embers left from the dinner fire. Then I heard some very heavy footsteps right behind me in the trees. There was also a very strange odour, almost like a cross between a skunk and something dead.
Then the stillness of the night was broken by an eerie sound. The kind of scream no cougar or bear could ever squeeze from their throat. Piercing, echoing, guttural; a single, horrible high-pitched-yet-throaty, inhuman, unnatural sound that makes your skin crawl. This thing circled my campsite all night long. I didn’t sleep all night, I sat there and waited for daybreak, and in the morning I packed my gear and left”.
16-Jun-2003. Original headline: “Tracks in strawberry patch left by Sasquatch”.
Francis Joe kneels beside a trail of huge footprints crossing the strawberry field beside his home at the end of Boys Road. Francis Joe, 78, was born on the Native reserve south of Duncan and has never seen tracks like these before. He believes they belong to a legendary ape-like creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas and others call a Sasquatch or Bigfoot.
That's not the tracks of an ordinary human. You could tell if it had shoes on," he says. Something tramped across Joe's fields sometime Sunday night, leaving a straight line of 15-inch tracks running north to south, three feet apart in soft soil. His fields are bounded by bush to the north and the Cowichan River to the south, likely ruling out a trespasser. Joe paid no mind to dogs yapping outside Sunday because they often "bark all night." Local fishermen recently told him they've heard growling noises in the brush along the river.
The track also led to memories of when his three daughters saw what they think was a Sasquatch at the end of Wilseem Road about 30 years ago. "It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at us," remembers daughter Jeanne Bob, who claims she saw a Sasquatch about 40 feet away. "It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very strong smell. I wasn't kidding then and now I really believe it."
John Kirk, president of the B.C. Scientific Crypto zoology organization, says the footprints in Joe's berry patch are "a hoax or it's the real thing." The soil was too soft to reveal a double ball on the foot, an indicator some investigators believe sets real Sasquatch tracks from fakes. The double ball would be needed to carry the weight of an eight-foot creature, Kirk said. "Each foot print also has to be different because of walking mechanics. With fakes, every footprint is exactly the same."
The footprints found in Francis Joe’s strawberry field are three inches deep, which Kirk says is very significant, because, "An imprint that much deeper than a human's indicates a much greater weight".
Is Sasquatch real? Like the cougar he’s rarely ever seen. Over the centuries the Cowichan tribe’s people who have witnessed it have become true believers of the existence of a species known to the Cowichans as Thumquas. One thing is undeniable; there is a substantial amount of evidence that supports the existence of such a creature.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Late At Night
"My family has always been notorious for doing things at odd hours and as you may well know, the strangest things always happen late at night. It was an unusually warm autumn, some years ago and at 16 years of age I had just finished a summer job as an arts and crafts camp counselor. The only thing left to do was pick up a rather large trunk filled with my belongings. Unable to fit such a large trunk inside the VW Beetle, I had purchased just a few weeks before, my mother was volunteered to transport it from the mountains back to the city in the larger of the family cars.
Summer camp was a very wild place for me, with staff partying every night until the wee hours of the morning. My room was near the entrance of the staff residence where all these parties took place. By late July, sleep deprived party wimps like myself were weeded out. So I built a single mattress size platform in the woods and then covered it with 'poly-plastic.'
It was a fifteen-minute walk through dense forest to get there from the residence or the road. Bow Valley Provincial Park, an undisturbed protected forest was only a stone's throw away. It is there that my mother, a small dog named Willow and myself were going to retrieve my trunk at three o'clock on a Monday morning. Why three in the morning? I could say it was the heat, but it was mostly because my father had not yet been told that the car would be leaving town. There was also my adolescent fear that knowledge of the platform construction would somehow reflect itself in a summer paycheck I had not yet received.
My mother had to be at work by six thirty so we had less than an hour to complete this covert action. As we approached the highway turnoff, a sliver of the moon cast a glowing border around southwestern Alberta's Mount Yamnuska. Driving several miles along the gravel road the camp looked deserted. Summer staff had cleared out several weeks before and a handful of permanent staff were either taking days off in the city or asleep in cabins several miles from the summer campsite.
Angling off on the side of the road, my other left the headlights on, pointing into the trees. There was some discussion about taking the twenty-pound dog-named Willow for protection. However, Willow's track record for wandering off severely threatened a successful completion of the mission. Plus very uncharacteristically, the dog named Willow refused to get out of the car and was now partially hidden under the drivers seat.
Car headlights were of no value after the first few seconds of meandering through the forest. We had a flashlight, but I was having difficulty remembering the exact location. The fifteen-minute walk turned into a 30 minute skin-scraping bushwhack, but finally we arrived at the isolated platform even though the flashlight batteries were now dead.
I assured my mother, all that needed to be done was to take down the poly plastic rain cover and carry back a mattress and the trunk. It should only take two trips.
She was noticeably silent as we began working in the darkness. My mother began untying strings securing the poly to the ground and I was kneeling on the top of the four-foot (l.2m) high platform. Stretching up to reach some tangled binder twine knots tied to a tree, a pungent smell suddenly flooded the air. My eyes moved from the knots to the tall length of plastic.
There, distorted through the semi-transparent-poly was a huge shadow only about 7 feet (2m) away. With the four-foot platform and me kneeling on top, the creature was easily at eye level. A split second later, there was an incredibly loud screaming roar. Although I know of nothing to describe it, the sound was like a peacock scream, a bear growl and a lion roar all somehow combined.
I can't tell you if I screamed. I can't tell you much of anything other than my eyes continued to peer through the plastic at this massive shadow. My five foot three inch (l.6m) tall mother had somehow leaped into the air and was now up on the platform beside me.
Whatever it was finally turned and walked slowly away on its long hind feet. We continued watching as each heavy step could be heard contracting the ground. There were no visible ears, just a sparse "Mohawk" like fringe sprouting up from the tapering top of the creature's head. From behind, the upper body appeared massive. It continued to walk upright until disappearing into the trees.
We stayed on top of the platform motionless for some time after. Then finally I started ripping down the plastic. I have no idea what my mother did during the next forty or fifty seconds but my next memory was power-walking through the forest! Balancing a single mattress on top of my head with one hand and carrying the handle of the trunk in the other, I assumed my mother was holding up the other end of the trunk.
With Willow still hidden under the driver's seat, it was a very quiet drive home.
Late at night, they say that your mind can play tricks on you but I am so certain.....
Brown bears had been in the area that summer, but I have never seen a bear walk upright that smoothly or for that long a time. Or could it have been a very large, long furred man standing over seven feet (2m) in height? I say man because intuition tells me that the creature was a male.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sasquatch Report Form
If you have had an encounter with a Sasquatch/Bigfoot please follow the link and fill out the "Sasquatch Report Form. Your privacy is number 1, if you would like to remain anonymous your personal information WILL NOT be shown...Thanks Lee BCSO.http://thesearchforsasquatch.webs.com/sightingreportform.htm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Comox Lake Sasquatch #2 ( Full Story)
Due to my first post (Comox lake Sasquatch) getting so much interest ( net hits) I feel I owe it to my viewers to give them the complete story of my sighting .
Two of my brothers showed up from our home town , Duncan B.C for a visit.We had no intentions of going camping but decided on a whim as we were all pretty young back in the early 90's and like many other young people made a last minute decision .After packing some things we made our way to Comox lake
If my memory serves me correct it was around 12am when we left my house. (I have left my brothers names out as per request, so I will make them new names.) My brother Aaron was driving well my brother James was sitting in the middle back seat, I was riding shotgun.We were about 1klm from the lake (Courtenay's side) when way off in the distance we saw something move from right to left crossing the road just beyond the headlights , James said " Hey , did you guys see that?" I said "Yes , something walked across the road ", Aaron said "I didn't see anything" . The distance was quite far and it didn't look like anything more then a obscured dark shadow in the distance ( We gave this incident no more thought).
We arrived at the lake a few minutes later,we drove over the dam and checked a few different spots only to find others had already taken them .We cruised around for quite some time before becoming discouraged . We then decided to leave this area and head back to my place.
As we were driving away from the lake we were coming into an area known as the coal hills . ( The area has dramatically changed since the early 90's with tons of fill being added and a clear cut slash opposite the coal hills on the right hand side of the road.) As we rounded a bend on the road (high beams on) We saw a hair covered creature step out of the woods to our left,standing on two feet and moved quickly across the road to our right and into the woods , I figured it to be approximately 20' to 25' in front of us and was in full view of the headlights from head to toe. I estimated the creature to be 6'6" to 7' tall and blackish in color.I had enough time to observe it from head to toe ,what I noticed was it resembled an ape but moved more like a man.It's face was dark and it's eyes could not really be seen because of the shadowing of the night,the rest of it's body was covered with fur as well as the tops of it feet.When the creature was about a third of the way across the road it turned it's upper body and head towards us and then turned away as it moved off the road and into the forest ( This sighting happened about 2klm further from the lake then what James and I had seen well coming into the lake ,what ever that may have been?) At this point all three of us were beside ourselves , there was a lot of excitement about what we had just seen.My brother Aaron put the peddle to the metal as we drove straight to the police station to report what we had just seen.
When we showed up to the Police station we were all still very excited over the whole experience .
I buzzed the intercom and the lady on the other end asked what it was we wanted . We said we wanted to talk to a constable about a Sasquatch we just saw out at Comox lake , she said "really?" I said "yes, my brother drove around a blind corner near comox lake and out came what looked like a Bigfoot right in front of us",she sounded just as excited as we were and said she would send a constable right out to talk to us.As soon as the constable came out he was kinda smirking and was quick to ask us if we had been drinking or doing any drugs ? We were quick to tell him that we had not and that they should probably get out there and take a look around . I said " if it's someone playing a joke then there going to get hit and possibly even killed ". The constable did not at all seem interested in what we had just told him. He did say " look , I'll tell you what , we will send out some tourists tomorrow with some blaster and they can get some footprints casted " then he laughed .It was about then we left the station and headed home.
My brothers and I can say for 100% certainty that what we saw was absolutely not a bear and that it was a bipedal creature which looked like the Sasquatch/Bigfoot which was filmed by Roger Patterson( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXv3fKulTXA ) in Bluff creek during the late 1960's about the only difference is the Patterson/Gimlin footage was of a female, our sighting was of a male.
Two of my brothers showed up from our home town , Duncan B.C for a visit.We had no intentions of going camping but decided on a whim as we were all pretty young back in the early 90's and like many other young people made a last minute decision .After packing some things we made our way to Comox lake
If my memory serves me correct it was around 12am when we left my house. (I have left my brothers names out as per request, so I will make them new names.) My brother Aaron was driving well my brother James was sitting in the middle back seat, I was riding shotgun.We were about 1klm from the lake (Courtenay's side) when way off in the distance we saw something move from right to left crossing the road just beyond the headlights , James said " Hey , did you guys see that?" I said "Yes , something walked across the road ", Aaron said "I didn't see anything" . The distance was quite far and it didn't look like anything more then a obscured dark shadow in the distance ( We gave this incident no more thought).
We arrived at the lake a few minutes later,we drove over the dam and checked a few different spots only to find others had already taken them .We cruised around for quite some time before becoming discouraged . We then decided to leave this area and head back to my place.
As we were driving away from the lake we were coming into an area known as the coal hills . ( The area has dramatically changed since the early 90's with tons of fill being added and a clear cut slash opposite the coal hills on the right hand side of the road.) As we rounded a bend on the road (high beams on) We saw a hair covered creature step out of the woods to our left,standing on two feet and moved quickly across the road to our right and into the woods , I figured it to be approximately 20' to 25' in front of us and was in full view of the headlights from head to toe. I estimated the creature to be 6'6" to 7' tall and blackish in color.I had enough time to observe it from head to toe ,what I noticed was it resembled an ape but moved more like a man.It's face was dark and it's eyes could not really be seen because of the shadowing of the night,the rest of it's body was covered with fur as well as the tops of it feet.When the creature was about a third of the way across the road it turned it's upper body and head towards us and then turned away as it moved off the road and into the forest ( This sighting happened about 2klm further from the lake then what James and I had seen well coming into the lake ,what ever that may have been?) At this point all three of us were beside ourselves , there was a lot of excitement about what we had just seen.My brother Aaron put the peddle to the metal as we drove straight to the police station to report what we had just seen.
When we showed up to the Police station we were all still very excited over the whole experience .
I buzzed the intercom and the lady on the other end asked what it was we wanted . We said we wanted to talk to a constable about a Sasquatch we just saw out at Comox lake , she said "really?" I said "yes, my brother drove around a blind corner near comox lake and out came what looked like a Bigfoot right in front of us",she sounded just as excited as we were and said she would send a constable right out to talk to us.As soon as the constable came out he was kinda smirking and was quick to ask us if we had been drinking or doing any drugs ? We were quick to tell him that we had not and that they should probably get out there and take a look around . I said " if it's someone playing a joke then there going to get hit and possibly even killed ". The constable did not at all seem interested in what we had just told him. He did say " look , I'll tell you what , we will send out some tourists tomorrow with some blaster and they can get some footprints casted " then he laughed .It was about then we left the station and headed home.
My brothers and I can say for 100% certainty that what we saw was absolutely not a bear and that it was a bipedal creature which looked like the Sasquatch/Bigfoot which was filmed by Roger Patterson( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXv3fKulTXA ) in Bluff creek during the late 1960's about the only difference is the Patterson/Gimlin footage was of a female, our sighting was of a male.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Cowichan Gets A Double Shot Of Movie Magic
Love’s lessons and sasquatch legends are the subjects of two separate movies being shot this week in Cowichan.
Louise McMurray of Film Cowichan said the made-for-TV flick Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was being filmed at various locations, as was a global documentary about the hairy critter also called Bigfoot or Tthamuqwus in the Hul’qumi’num language.
“Apparently there’ve been quite a few sightings around here,” McMurray said of the elusive sasquatch, a creature called the yeti in Asia.
One episode happened in June 2003 when the News Leader Pictorial reported what some locals said where bigfoot tracks in farmland soil on reserve land near the Cowichan River.
McMurray said sasquatch documentary crews were shooting in the Mesachie Lake, Chemainus River and, Mount Sicker Road and Quw’utsun’ Cultural Centre areas.
McMurray’s heard of sasquatch sightings in the Quamichan Marsh area too.
Meanwhile, producer Paul Raymond of Vancouver’s Front Street Pictures said his “low-budget” romance flick — starring Richard Thomas, alias John Boy of TV’s The Walton’s fame — found the right atmosphere in downtown Duncan for Hallmark Network’s project under director Gary Harvey.
“Duncan has that small-town look. This picture’s set in a small town that’s almost a character in the story.”
Yesterday’s other local sites include the Cowichan and Cairnsmore lodge areas, Quamichan Inn, Genoa Bay Road and near Just Jake’s bistro.
“We could shoot this in Victoria but we’re always piecing together small towns.
“Duncan’s like a back lot to us. The community’s been very supportive,” Raymond said.
Marvelous, hinted McMurray.
“It’s a pretty major production for our area,” she said.
Yesterday’s plot sees Thomas as a small-town reporter who heads to the big smoke to work on a daily where he writes a controversially tragic story.
“He runs back to the small town and discovers his roots, and how much he missies the small town,” Raymond said.
“He also recaptures his love,” he said of Thomas’ lover, portrayed by Christine Chatelaine.
It was unknown when Yesterday would air in Canada but it will be screened in early 2011 stateside.
He said more Front Street pictures could come to use Cowichan’s various rustic locations.
“We hope to be back
Louise McMurray of Film Cowichan said the made-for-TV flick Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was being filmed at various locations, as was a global documentary about the hairy critter also called Bigfoot or Tthamuqwus in the Hul’qumi’num language.
“Apparently there’ve been quite a few sightings around here,” McMurray said of the elusive sasquatch, a creature called the yeti in Asia.
One episode happened in June 2003 when the News Leader Pictorial reported what some locals said where bigfoot tracks in farmland soil on reserve land near the Cowichan River.
McMurray said sasquatch documentary crews were shooting in the Mesachie Lake, Chemainus River and, Mount Sicker Road and Quw’utsun’ Cultural Centre areas.
McMurray’s heard of sasquatch sightings in the Quamichan Marsh area too.
Meanwhile, producer Paul Raymond of Vancouver’s Front Street Pictures said his “low-budget” romance flick — starring Richard Thomas, alias John Boy of TV’s The Walton’s fame — found the right atmosphere in downtown Duncan for Hallmark Network’s project under director Gary Harvey.
“Duncan has that small-town look. This picture’s set in a small town that’s almost a character in the story.”
Yesterday’s other local sites include the Cowichan and Cairnsmore lodge areas, Quamichan Inn, Genoa Bay Road and near Just Jake’s bistro.
“We could shoot this in Victoria but we’re always piecing together small towns.
“Duncan’s like a back lot to us. The community’s been very supportive,” Raymond said.
Marvelous, hinted McMurray.
“It’s a pretty major production for our area,” she said.
Yesterday’s plot sees Thomas as a small-town reporter who heads to the big smoke to work on a daily where he writes a controversially tragic story.
“He runs back to the small town and discovers his roots, and how much he missies the small town,” Raymond said.
“He also recaptures his love,” he said of Thomas’ lover, portrayed by Christine Chatelaine.
It was unknown when Yesterday would air in Canada but it will be screened in early 2011 stateside.
He said more Front Street pictures could come to use Cowichan’s various rustic locations.
“We hope to be back
New Sasquatch Forum
I have created a new Sasquatch/Bigfoot forum at the following address : http://vancouverislandsasquatch.freeforums.org/vancouver-island-sasquatch-sightings-bcso-t3.html
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Mt Sicker Research.
The witness in this report said well 4x4ing with a friend he saw a animal standing by a stump aprox 8' or 9' tall and 300'or 400' away,he observed it for about 20-seconds before it moved out of sight down a ridge.While standing by his vehicle he and his friend joked about it for about 15-minutes when about 20' away just inside the woods they heard a powerful grunting sound sending a base like feeling through there bodies ,scaring them into there vehicle and down the mountain.To read the full BFRO report click the link : http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=27847 .
Josh and I arrived at the base of Mt Sicker at 7:20am Sat oct 2nd/2010 . We drove up the mountain from the Mt Provost entrance driving for about 15-minutes when we came to a recently logged area which looked like a good spot to check for tracks, so we pulled over to see what we could find . A side from the usual suspects,human,elk and deer we found nothing out of the ordinary.We carried on to an area of Mt Sicker known as the "plantation".In this spot we drove all the roads and became familiar with our surroundings.It was at this point we decided to take a walk to check the area for any possible evidence.This turned up nothing , we decided to do a call blasting session which started at 8:10am ,the session turned up no replies.
We then turned to rock knocking which to turned up nothing..
Josh and I then made our way to the end of a short logging road a little further up the mountain with a great view of a slash below . We decided to get out of the truck to take a look for any movement in the slash or the bordering tree line below ,again we saw and heard nothing.
We then moved around to the backside of the mountain and into some heavy tree cover , I noticed a small sand pile to my left just off the road ,I also observed what looked like a possible track which was quite weathered just in front of the sand pile, at this point we decided to pull over to investigate the track. The track measured 14"inches in length and 4.5" inches is width. After covering the rest of the area around the sand pile Josh and I turned our attention across the road where we noticed some fresh wolf scat and a large blackberry bush ,to the left of the blackberries I noticed a heavily cover area of evergreens which when I lifted some of the branches looked like a possible bedding area for black bear ,Josh and I decided to move into this area for further investigation.We found some old bear scat ,we guessed it to be at least 6 to 8 weeks old , as we moved back deeper into the forest Josh was about 20-feet in front of me when to my 11 o'clock position I heard something big move off deeper into the forest away from us ,I stopped immediately and turned toward Josh,Josh was crouched and very still looking towards the direction we had heard the noise.At this point I walked up to Josh and asked him if he had had a visual of whatever it was? The following is what Josh said "Ya , I had a visual ,man did it ever move .It looked like two black bear legs moving away at an incredible speed,wow,weird.The legs seemed too skinny to be a bear and wow did it ever move quick".I then asked Josh if he saw anymore of the animal then just it's two legs?Josh said "no,the bush was to thick to see anything above the two legs but whatever it was it definitely moved away on two legs or at least that's what it looked like".At this point we decided to not pursue the animal in case it was a bear and pissed off.
We decided that setting up the trail cam at this location with some bate was a good idea so as we got back to the truck I looked at the blackberry bush to see if maybe a bear had been eating them ,what I observed was the bush was full and didn't appear to have been eat in from.
The trail cam was set up at 9:21am ,we then left the area in hopes that whatever we heard and Josh seen would come back tripping the camera's sensor.
We drove a couple klm's away where we came to the top of a valley . We then decided to drive down into the valley and do some more investigating on foot. We tried some more wood knocking which turned up nothing.We then decided to take some human foot measurement in a small patch of mud that we had found,we wanted to record our average stride for data ,we also wanted to see if we could create the 53"stride that the Sasquatch had made which the BFRO team had recorded on Mt Sicker in June of this year.
The following is what we recorded:
Note:Josh and I are the same height,5'11.5"
Average human stride = 29"
Maximum human stride (stretching legs as far as possible) = 49"
Jumping between steps = 59"
Measurements were made by either measuring toe to toe or heel to heel.
After a little further investigation in this general area we decided to retrieve the trail cam.
We arrived back to the trail cam at 11:20 am,there were no pictures taken.
After another quick look around in this area we moved to the old Sicker mine.We poked around for a while but found nothing out of the ordinary.We retraced our steps back to the "plantation"area and took a walk up an old road , Josh found a few interesting tracks but because they were in moss and quite scuffed they were unidentifiable.We then came to a trail on our right so we ventured down it coming across a few smaller sized trees which looked like they may have been deliberately busted and pulled across the trail.After further investigation we could not come to a final conclusion.We both thought it too be odd .
We then returned to the truck moving to the top of Mt Sicker opposite the radio tower.This spot looked like a great area to do some more sound blasting and wood knocking , we did both but primarily stuck with the wood knocking.This carried on for quite some time , we received no replies .
As we moved back down and around the mountain we found a couple trails running parallel too each other so we decided to stop and check the trails out . Other then the both of us feeling like we were being watched nothing else was seen , heard or smelt.
We then decided to call it and headed home.
All in all we feel the trip was a success though the elusive Sasquatch remains elusive.
A second follow up trip is already in the works.
Notes : Trip start time 5:30am . Trip ended 5:30pm
Weather conditions on Mt Sicker : 7:20am,temp +13, light cloud cover , slight breeze .
Maximum Temp +18 , clouds dissipated at 11:10 am , remained clear all day with slight breeze.
Other notes : Original BFRO report was omitted upon request, exact location of Sicker Sasquatch incident unknown at this time.
This post with extra pictures from our trip can also be found at my new site "British Columbia Sasquatch Organization" http://thesearchforsasquatch.webs.com/apps/blog/
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