Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Cousins Ron Glover and Aaron Lengyel, then teenagers, were clearing an area on their grandparents' mining claim just west of Silver Lake, camped near Silverhope Creek. Another cousin, Don Price, also there, and Aaron's mother's boyfriend, Tom Harrison. The second night as they were sitting around the fire a log about a foot thick and 10 feet long was thrown near the fire, no one saw how. Aaron went to bed, leanto collapsed on tent, he got out, Don, who was sitting on a log (different log) by the fire acted hysterical, saying there was a bear there. Aaron threw some gas on the fire and as it flared saw something going away, "like the back of a moose." (No moose in that part of the country.) Ron said that as Don was sitting by the fire he rose and fell forward as if lifted from behind, and Ron saw a creature on the other side of the log behind Don, just about 15 feet from Ron, with red, red eyes and a well-defined shape, arms seemed matted with dirty brown fur, legs and shoulders huge, arms long. It was gone in three steps. Next day they found some apparent footprints, one quite clear on path, like a human but estimated 16 1/2 inches long, 9 inches maximum width, 8-inch heel. Five toes. Back two weeks later, heard a lot of noise and found more footprints in sand by the creek, apparently same individual.