Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Albert Ostman tells of being carried off in his sleeping bag by a large male sasquatch and spending several days in a box canyon high in the mountains with this individual plus a large female, a large but apparently adolescent male and a younger female. The story is far too long and complex to summarize, or to represent coherently with computer answers. Ostman portrays a much more humanlike lifestyle for the sasquatch than is indicated in other reports. For instance, they lived in one place as a family group, with the mother bringing in food for all, and with a sleeping place apparently equipped with crude blankets. The story would be unacceptable if told at a later time, but is included because of the physical descriptions of the individuals, which have stood the test of time, and of cross-examination by experts in ape anatomy, but were quite different from the public image of the sasquatch in 1957 when he first wrote the story out. This was 33 years after the date of the event. Two incident reports are used here, one to describe the place where he was picked up, the other where he saw the sasquatches. Superhuman action by this individual included carrying Ostman and his sleeping bag over one shoulder, his packsack over the other, and going over more than one mountain ridge in part of one night.