The investigation intensified in this area due to a previous investigation turning up some evidence which included possible tracks .
Friday, January 7, 2011
Quinsom Area Follow-up Investigation Continued........
The investigation intensified in this area due to a previous investigation turning up some evidence which included possible tracks .
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Quinsom Investigation
We spent a lot of time searching a young second growth forest (aprox 10 to 12 years old) for any signs of Sasquatch activity . We investigated some oddly uprooted trees which we determined were uprooted due to heavy rain and snow which had recently hit this area pretty hard.
We arrived at the Quinsom river at 12:43pm , moving up the river we looked for anything out of the ordinary , after following the river for sometime we decided to head away from the river and into the forest .
We found a game trail and decided to follow it , aside from some elk scat and some old deer bones we heard and seen nothing . Moving back in the direction we had come from we noticed a large tree which had been severely chewed by a beaver and was leaning over the river, as we inspected the tree we could hear some thumping sounds over the noise of the swollen Quinsom river . After listening for some time we could not come to a final conclusion nor could we cross the river to get any closer to the sound .The thumping went on for 15-minutes starting at 2:20pm. ( A guess for the sound we heard possibly a beaver) After a little more time investigating this area we made our way back to the truck .
We decided to follow some logging roads moving deeper into a large old growth forest , we found a few extremely interesting areas which we will devote more time to in future investigations.
We then started to make our way out when we came across another side road which we decided to investigate . As we drove this road we looked for any signs of tracks as it had been raining extremely hard in the days leading up to this investigation and the roads were very muddy.About 5-minutes into this search I observed to my left about 12-feet off the road what appeared to be some big animal tracks. The following is what we observed :
Time 4:05 pm , dusk was just about to set in , Cloudy , light rain ,slight breeze and temp +4 .
Found two tracks, 1-left and 1-right . Left track was of a full print , Right track was of a half print ( top of foot and part of lower )
Measurements taken of left track : length 14.5", ball of foot 6" in width , heel of foot 4" in width .
Measurements taken of right track: length 8.5" , ball of foot 6" in width , no heel to measure due to hard packed soil (ground)
Stride measurement : Measuring toe of left track to same toe on right track was 58" .
Depth measurement : Left track 5/8" and right track 1" (measured in toe region )
The tracks were very obvious with great out lines but were to poor to cast and not a lot of toe definition was left.
Numerous pictures were taken using a tape measure for length and width comparison.
Age of track unknown due to rainy conditions but best guess was 1 to 2 days old.
The area was recently logged ( aprox 2-years old) with an old growth forest just beyond the slash approximately 300 to 400 feet away from where tracks were found .Direction of travel moving south west through slash to old growth forest and mountains beyond.
Observing the opposite side of the road adjacent to tracks we found a game trail with some scuffs on the ground leading out onto the logging road but the markings were not distinguishable . The forested section on this side of the road was a second growth forest with the trees standing about 12 feet in height.
Exact location of tracks will remain omitted from this report due to further investigation of this area.
This investigation turned up some great evidence and our efforts will be focused to this area for further research and possible evidence .
BCSO
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Strathcona Investigation
We started by following some logging roads up the backside of Big Anderson lake , it had recently snowed in this area , the roads were mainly clear but as we started to climb in altitude we noticed more and more snow collecting on the road . We came to a hill which to me didn't look to bad but as we climbed we noticed that it was pretty much all ice, about three quarters of the way up the truck could not climb anymore and we started to slide backwards , the truck started to turn side ways as I was tapping the breaks so I decided at that point to straighten out as best I could , kept my foot off the break and crossed my fingers that we didn't slide off the bank or hit a tree . Lucky for truck and us everything worked out ,we came back down safe .( note to self : buy snow chains for truck )
We couldn't get into the Anderson lake area so we decided to check out some other areas of interest .
We ventured into a rock quarry/gravel pit , where we picked up on a fresh set of deer tracks in the snow, following them up the backside of the pit where they intersected a fairly fresh set of cougar tracks which from on top of the pit we could see that the cougar had come up from down below in the pit.We managed to track the cougars direction of travel moving from west to east into the gravel pit and up onto the top side of the pit and across a trail in to a dense patch of forest where we lost the tracks .
We then decided to move north on the trail to see if the cougar had re-emerged further down .Five hundred feet or so north of the last cougar track the trail ended at a big slash pile with a second growth heavily forested area just beyond . As we stood there scoping out the hillside we heard what sounded like very light wood knocking coming from the northeast , ( time was 2:54 pm ) it was about 30-seconds in between knocks in a series of 3-knocks , 3-knocks , 4-knocks .5-knocks and 3-knocks for a total of 5-times , we tried replying for about 15- minutes with no responses . At this point we followed the trail south back in the direction we came from , it eventually ended at another main road . We then wrapped up our search in this area after a little more investigation.
We then doubled back to the area my truck had slid down the hill .There was an area there near a creek we wanted to set up the trail cam . After setting up the cam we decided to move down the Duncan Bay Main .Darkness had just set in and we wanted to do some spot lighting . We had noticed earlier in the day that a hunter had thrown the remains of a moose on the side of the road,(note: there are no moose on Vancouver island so the hunter had brought this moose from the mainland ) as we approached this area we observed a wolf at the remains which didn't stick around for more then about 5-seconds once it noticed our head lights on it. After spot lighting for a good 45-minutes and finding a few deer , we wrapped up our investigation .
Other notes:
Temperature : -1 , cloudy , light snow at times , no wind.
Nov 28th/10 picked up trail cam , no pictures taken , camera was on , I think due to the cold and wet conditions camera's sensor was affected. Noticed 2 or 3 day old bear tracks in front of trail cam , bait set was gone .
All in all this investigation went well , Cougar tracks,bear tracks and a wolf was spotted.
Possible Sasquatch activity : faint wood knocking near rock quarry .
Hunters ( gun shots), 4x4ing and quads noticed .
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Strange Encounter On Hornby Island
I received a report of a possible Sasquatch Sighting on Hornby Island . This sighting took place back in sept of 1990 . This sighting is the most unusual report I have received to date . The following is a word for word account of the witness :
" My friend and I were returning to his house on Hornby island , we went up to his room, opened the window and had a smoke out on the roof . As we sat there we looked across a small field , maybe 100 to 125 yards across above the fence line there were tall spruce and fir trees about 75' to 100' tall , not huge trees but second growth . At first we thought that it was a gust of wind that was making the branches move up and down but as they did the movement continued along the tree line about 20' off the ground . I started to make out the shape of a tall figure and it was jumping /swinging through the trees . We both were like "what the hell is that ?" .As we looked on completely able to view this animal , it stopped ,turned and starred right at us . It had bright yellowish glowing eyes and its hair was a greenish moss color just like it was old mans beard . The animal looked at us for a moment , definitely knowing we were there. Then it took off straight into the bush away from us and the encounter was over .
The witness was also asked what time of day or night the incident occurred ? witness says " encounter happened at around 5pm and was a nice day , maybe a little cloudy ". The witness went on to say " It's been a long time since and very little (few) people believed us and the story just got old ". The incident happened just north of the Hornby Co-op general store . There were 2-witnesses to this incident.
When the witness was asked further as to anything else unusual about his encounter ,he went on to say "I do believe that the animal appeared to be hunting or searching for something . Cruising a long in the trees perhaps looking for food. The animal appeared to be very camouflaged , we had to look really close to see what it was but once we made it out , it was clear as day . It was really tall , approx 6'8" to 7"0" , thin and weighed approx 200lbs to 250lbs . It's hair was wavy but longer around the cuffs of the hands and feet .It was droopy looking , a lot like an orangutan . It was really mean looking . It also didn't look really happy that we seen it and gave us the worst looking stare ".
The witness also went on to tell me that they were completely sober when this incident occurred and that the creature was in perfect view .
The witness also went on to say he remembers another odd incident on Hornby island where he seen a friend come home completely bruised and beaten with blood all over him . He says his friend never saw what attacked him and went on further to say "what ever it was was either invisible or to quick to see" , he was thrown around and beaten until he was knocked out.
BCSO
" My friend and I were returning to his house on Hornby island , we went up to his room, opened the window and had a smoke out on the roof . As we sat there we looked across a small field , maybe 100 to 125 yards across above the fence line there were tall spruce and fir trees about 75' to 100' tall , not huge trees but second growth . At first we thought that it was a gust of wind that was making the branches move up and down but as they did the movement continued along the tree line about 20' off the ground . I started to make out the shape of a tall figure and it was jumping /swinging through the trees . We both were like "what the hell is that ?" .As we looked on completely able to view this animal , it stopped ,turned and starred right at us . It had bright yellowish glowing eyes and its hair was a greenish moss color just like it was old mans beard . The animal looked at us for a moment , definitely knowing we were there. Then it took off straight into the bush away from us and the encounter was over .
The witness was also asked what time of day or night the incident occurred ? witness says " encounter happened at around 5pm and was a nice day , maybe a little cloudy ". The witness went on to say " It's been a long time since and very little (few) people believed us and the story just got old ". The incident happened just north of the Hornby Co-op general store . There were 2-witnesses to this incident.
When the witness was asked further as to anything else unusual about his encounter ,he went on to say "I do believe that the animal appeared to be hunting or searching for something . Cruising a long in the trees perhaps looking for food. The animal appeared to be very camouflaged , we had to look really close to see what it was but once we made it out , it was clear as day . It was really tall , approx 6'8" to 7"0" , thin and weighed approx 200lbs to 250lbs . It's hair was wavy but longer around the cuffs of the hands and feet .It was droopy looking , a lot like an orangutan . It was really mean looking . It also didn't look really happy that we seen it and gave us the worst looking stare ".
The witness also went on to tell me that they were completely sober when this incident occurred and that the creature was in perfect view .
The witness also went on to say he remembers another odd incident on Hornby island where he seen a friend come home completely bruised and beaten with blood all over him . He says his friend never saw what attacked him and went on further to say "what ever it was was either invisible or to quick to see" , he was thrown around and beaten until he was knocked out.
BCSO
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Recommended Sasquatch Reading
Anything by Christopher L.Murphy , this guy in my opinion has all the newest up-to-date information with regard to the Sasquatch/Bigfoot and lays it out perfectly.
If you know nothing or very little or just want a good informational book on the Sasquatch ,I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you give Chris Murphy's "Meet the SASQUATCH " or "Know the SASQUATCH / BIGFOOT " (Sequel and Update to Meet the Sasquatch ) a read . Its a true work of art and my bible with regard to information on the Sasquatch. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
This guy talks about everything from the first nations history and beliefs with regard to the Sasquatch .He also includes all the most famous documented Sasquatch encounters including : Fred Beck's Mt St.Helens Sasquatch attack , Albert Ostman's journey , The Ruby Creek Incident , William Roe's Experience , Jerry Crews Tracks , Patterson/Gimlin Film . All the physical evidence including: tracks and castings , Skookum cast , maps of encounters , mentions all the top researchers , scientists and investigator's .Chris also amassed an unbelievable collection of pictures. The above mentioned topics he covers are just the tip of the iceberg . These books are truly a master piece on the Sasquatch.
I particularly liked an article written in his second book (Know the Sasquatch/Bigfoot ) by Henry Franzoni titled " Beyond Rationality " To me it basically sums up the search for Sasquatch , if your going to spend time in this field you must give "Beyond Rationality " a read .
Hats off to Chris Murphy
BCSO
If you know nothing or very little or just want a good informational book on the Sasquatch ,I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you give Chris Murphy's "Meet the SASQUATCH " or "Know the SASQUATCH / BIGFOOT " (Sequel and Update to Meet the Sasquatch ) a read . Its a true work of art and my bible with regard to information on the Sasquatch. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
This guy talks about everything from the first nations history and beliefs with regard to the Sasquatch .He also includes all the most famous documented Sasquatch encounters including : Fred Beck's Mt St.Helens Sasquatch attack , Albert Ostman's journey , The Ruby Creek Incident , William Roe's Experience , Jerry Crews Tracks , Patterson/Gimlin Film . All the physical evidence including: tracks and castings , Skookum cast , maps of encounters , mentions all the top researchers , scientists and investigator's .Chris also amassed an unbelievable collection of pictures. The above mentioned topics he covers are just the tip of the iceberg . These books are truly a master piece on the Sasquatch.
I particularly liked an article written in his second book (Know the Sasquatch/Bigfoot ) by Henry Franzoni titled " Beyond Rationality " To me it basically sums up the search for Sasquatch , if your going to spend time in this field you must give "Beyond Rationality " a read .
Hats off to Chris Murphy
BCSO
Monday, November 1, 2010
Mt Sicker Night Time Investigation
This is the BCSO's ( British Columbia Sasquatch Organization ) 2nd investigation on Mt Sicker.
Both investigations we have done were sparked by a report which was given to the BFRO ( Bigfoot Field Research Organization ) Which included a visual sighting , possible vocals and tracks .
Our first investigation was done during daylight hours and turned up some interesting finds.
Our follow-up investigation was done during the night as the Sasquatch is reported by many to be a nocternal animal and many encounters are purported to have taken place during night time hours ( including my encounter ) .
I would also like to thank our newest BCSO team member Cory for his input and help during this investigation.
The following is from the BCSO log :
Josh , Cory and I arrived at the base of Mt Sicker at 5:35 pm,Sat,Oct 30/10 .
Weather conditions at 5:35 pm : Temp +9 , cloudy , raining , windy and extremely foggy .
We started our investigation from the Mt Sicker road entrance , we first stopped and checked for tracks at the dirt pile we found possible track during our first investigation , no additional evidence was found .
We moved around the mountain struggling to see with the extreme fog we encountered through most of our investigation .
We arrived at the Mt Sicker mine area at 6:50 pm trying to spot light with little luck due to the fog ,we decided to stop and try some sound blasting which turned up no replies.Moving past the mine we drove for aprox 2 to 3klm where we decided to stop and again do some sound blasting , this turned up no replies.
We spent much of our time checking the roads for fresh tracks as the rain softened the ground and made it very easy to see if an animal had stepped onto the road.
At 7:32 pm while spotlighting we found a 2" round snapped tree which looked rather odd so we stopped to investigate . Observations made : No tracks noticed around tree.Tree was 2" round in diamiter , measurement taken: 49" from ground to break , adjacent tree 6" round with a section of bark peeled , measurement taken: 76 1/4" from ground to start of peel , 2nd measurement taken: from ground to top of peel 90 1/4 " ,3rd measurement taken : total length of peel 14" . 4th measurement taken : width of peeled section 2".Also noticed 1/8" gashes in peeled section along with some pine branches piled together at base of tree. Possible suspects for the peeled bark most likely an elk or deer rubbing its antlers against tree .( pictures taken )
We then made our way to the area known as the "Plantation",here we tried some sound blasting and wood knocking both turned up no replies.
Fog started to break at about 10:30 pm eventually disapating by 11pm ,this gave us an appurtunity to do some spotlighting which throughout our investigation didn't turn up more then 6 deer ,we found this a little odd due to the previous investigations we have done at night always turning up numerious deer especially in recently logged areas. Not sure, maybe the Cowichan valley lacks a high deer population?
We spent a couple more hours peridically stopping at different areas to sound blast , wood knock and spotlight.
We then drove hill 60 for sometime stopping at a heavily wooded area to set up our night vision camera.
we monitored our camera from the vehicle for sometime, this too turned up nothing,it was at 2:30am that our second investigation ended at Mt Sicker.
This investigation turned up very little due to the extreme weather conditions we faced. The fog allowed us to see very little while the wind and rain didn't allow us to hear very clearly for responses to our sound blasting and wood knocking.
On the plus side we were able to try our night vision for the first time in the field as well as the audio feed coming from the camera .It was also Cory's first field investigation and I feel he was an asset to our research.
The BCSO is planning a 3rd Investigation to Mt Sicker before the new year , this investigation will cover some of the areas already investigated as well as some new areas we found during this investigation. It will be a daytime investigation.
Additional notes:
Start time : 5:35pm
finish time : 2:30am
Temp at 5:35pm +9 , fog , cloudy , rain , windy
Temp at 10pm +8 , fog , cloudy , rain , windy
Temp at 2:30am +7 , no fog , clearing , no rain , slight breeze
This search had an eerie feel due to the heavy fog which stuck around for much of the investigation .
Throughout our search we tried numerious times to take pictures only to have the fog distort many of them.
BCSO
Both investigations we have done were sparked by a report which was given to the BFRO ( Bigfoot Field Research Organization ) Which included a visual sighting , possible vocals and tracks .
Our first investigation was done during daylight hours and turned up some interesting finds.
Our follow-up investigation was done during the night as the Sasquatch is reported by many to be a nocternal animal and many encounters are purported to have taken place during night time hours ( including my encounter ) .
I would also like to thank our newest BCSO team member Cory for his input and help during this investigation.
The following is from the BCSO log :
Josh , Cory and I arrived at the base of Mt Sicker at 5:35 pm,Sat,Oct 30/10 .
Weather conditions at 5:35 pm : Temp +9 , cloudy , raining , windy and extremely foggy .
We started our investigation from the Mt Sicker road entrance , we first stopped and checked for tracks at the dirt pile we found possible track during our first investigation , no additional evidence was found .
We moved around the mountain struggling to see with the extreme fog we encountered through most of our investigation .
We arrived at the Mt Sicker mine area at 6:50 pm trying to spot light with little luck due to the fog ,we decided to stop and try some sound blasting which turned up no replies.Moving past the mine we drove for aprox 2 to 3klm where we decided to stop and again do some sound blasting , this turned up no replies.
We spent much of our time checking the roads for fresh tracks as the rain softened the ground and made it very easy to see if an animal had stepped onto the road.
At 7:32 pm while spotlighting we found a 2" round snapped tree which looked rather odd so we stopped to investigate . Observations made : No tracks noticed around tree.Tree was 2" round in diamiter , measurement taken: 49" from ground to break , adjacent tree 6" round with a section of bark peeled , measurement taken: 76 1/4" from ground to start of peel , 2nd measurement taken: from ground to top of peel 90 1/4 " ,3rd measurement taken : total length of peel 14" . 4th measurement taken : width of peeled section 2".Also noticed 1/8" gashes in peeled section along with some pine branches piled together at base of tree. Possible suspects for the peeled bark most likely an elk or deer rubbing its antlers against tree .( pictures taken )
We then made our way to the area known as the "Plantation",here we tried some sound blasting and wood knocking both turned up no replies.
Fog started to break at about 10:30 pm eventually disapating by 11pm ,this gave us an appurtunity to do some spotlighting which throughout our investigation didn't turn up more then 6 deer ,we found this a little odd due to the previous investigations we have done at night always turning up numerious deer especially in recently logged areas. Not sure, maybe the Cowichan valley lacks a high deer population?
We spent a couple more hours peridically stopping at different areas to sound blast , wood knock and spotlight.
We then drove hill 60 for sometime stopping at a heavily wooded area to set up our night vision camera.
we monitored our camera from the vehicle for sometime, this too turned up nothing,it was at 2:30am that our second investigation ended at Mt Sicker.
This investigation turned up very little due to the extreme weather conditions we faced. The fog allowed us to see very little while the wind and rain didn't allow us to hear very clearly for responses to our sound blasting and wood knocking.
On the plus side we were able to try our night vision for the first time in the field as well as the audio feed coming from the camera .It was also Cory's first field investigation and I feel he was an asset to our research.
The BCSO is planning a 3rd Investigation to Mt Sicker before the new year , this investigation will cover some of the areas already investigated as well as some new areas we found during this investigation. It will be a daytime investigation.
Additional notes:
Start time : 5:35pm
finish time : 2:30am
Temp at 5:35pm +9 , fog , cloudy , rain , windy
Temp at 10pm +8 , fog , cloudy , rain , windy
Temp at 2:30am +7 , no fog , clearing , no rain , slight breeze
This search had an eerie feel due to the heavy fog which stuck around for much of the investigation .
Throughout our search we tried numerious times to take pictures only to have the fog distort many of them.
BCSO
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