Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Small child called his mother's attention to creature approaching across their field. She took the children and ran away. Later her husband and other members of the railroad section gang found tracks indicating that the creature had entered a shed, bit and scattered salt fish from a barrel, then went down to the river, then back to the mountains. The tracks indicated that the creature had stepped over the railroad wire fence, probably about four feet high, not jumped or climbed. Where they went through the vegetable garden they crushed the potatoes in the ground. The Chapman home was on a small Indian reserve beside the Fraser River, only a few hundred yards from the mountain foot. A deputy sheriff, Joe Dunn from Bellingham, made a cast of a track. It was later lost but a tracing of it survives. Track depths shown in footprint report are those in vegetable garden, others were much shallower. Many people saw the tracks, including. Mr. and Mrs. Esse Tyfting, Mr. and Mrs. George Cousins and a Mr. Foley, George Chapman Charlie Chapman, Ivor Lettonen, Bob Quinton. The Tyftings and the Cousins in 1957 signed statutory declarations as to what they saw. Joe Dunn's children said he photographed the tracks and sent copies to Mrs. Chapman, but no photos have turned up. Foleys and the Tyftings in 1957 gave sworn statements as to what they saw.