In 1977, I came home on vacation and Dad and Mom and I drove the North Cascades Highway, from Burlington through to Winthrop. Over the Pacific Crest, between Washington Pass and Rainy Pass, there was this sign along the side of the road. I just had to stop and get a picture of it and the footprints that were painted along the road.
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I had not heard of Sasquatch until the middle sixties, but it was a very big Campfire tale around here. It was never seen, just hinted at, and there were occasional sightings in the North Cascades, and down around Mt. Shasta in California, and Around Mt Adams and Mt St Helen’s even once or twice on the Olympic Penninsula. Nothing substantiated.
Soon the tale grew, and people were faking the sightings, and then it got to the point that everything was suspect. People who may have sighted it, were not telling for fear of being ridiculed.
When I was The General Manager at the Navy Exchange in Fallon, Nevada, I had a young woman of American Indian heritage working for me, and she was from Bellingham, just North of us here. Just South of the Canadian Border. She tells the story of when she was about 12, and her and another young girl were in the woods playing, and when they were picking blackberries they poked through the bushes, and came face to face with a Bigfoot. They were terrified, and ran home. They got the elders of their reservation, and brought them back to where they had sighted the animal, but nothing was there. They were poo-pooed and they swore they would not talk about it again.
I had heard many tales, but just put them away for a campfire. A few years ago on the discover channel I was watching a documentary on BIGFOOT. And there on TV was Wendy’s story!!! I was amazed!! She believed it was a real sighting, and obviously someone else did too.
Yesterday on the news, was this story about several people seeing the animal. Footprints and a hunk of hair were found. So Now DNA evidence can tell if it was a bear, a man a monkey or a real honest to God Sasquatch. I believe. I really
do!!
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Roger Smarch of Teslin, Canada, shows off track where mysterious creature was spotted (courtesy: CBC) The legendary creature "Bigfoot" has been spotted again, this time in Canada, where nine people in the Yukon community of Teslin claim to have seen the legendary creature. According to the CBC, the witnesses, some of whom are children, saw the hairy, human-like creature pass in front of a house window, and then later behind an abandoned car near some houses last weekend. Those who claim to have seen Bigfoot, which is also known as a sasquatch, said they heard trees snapping and creaking despite the lack of wind at the time. They say the figure was running too quickly for them to keep up with it. "He ran through the backyard, and that's when I seen him," said one man who was on his porch at the time. "You could see a big, black thing go by, and you couldn't see no head or nothing. So, I figured it was somebody messing around." "We weren't gonna tell anybody at first 'cause we thought everybody was gonna look at us and say we're all snakin' out or we're crazy," said another eyewitness. "It wasn't too much fun explaining it at first, but once everybody starts believing us, it's not so bad. They wanted to see the track, they wanted to see the pictures, they wanted to see the hair and stuff like that. ... I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark, back alley or anything like that. Geez, it stands over ten feet tall, [it would] proabably tear my head off or something." The men said some evidence was left, including a footprint about twice the size of a human print, and a patch of hair which has already been sent to a conservation officer in Whitehorse for possible DNA review.
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