Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Quinsom Investigation
The BCSO did a day time investigation in the Quinsom lake area on sat dec 11th/2010 .
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
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
Sunday Nov 21st/2010 , Josh and I took a trip to some areas of interest in Strathcona park .
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 .
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
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sighting Report Form
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
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
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
"LATE AT NIGHT" by Allex Michael, A True Story...
"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.Could it have been a sasquatch that night? I will never really know for sure but you can bet that I will keep telling the story as if it were."
"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
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