Sasquatch Sightings

Account

A crew was unloading equipment near a newly-drilled gas well at night. Myles Jack noticed someone kneeling in the snow near the trees. It took off immediatedly. Looked like a man but 7 to 8 feet tall. It was around for about an hour, but would run whenever anyone was looking at it. He told the Vancouver Province (March 18, 1987) that it was black and had heavy-set legs. He called to Bryan Mesdagh, who saw saw it standing in a corner of the clearing. It darted back in the brush. B.C. Report magazine, April 6, 1987, quotes Mesdagh as saying he saw enough to know it wasn't a bear. A Southam News report names Danny Crowe as a third witness, who glimpsed the creature in their truck's headlights. There was a fourth witness, nowhere named. That night and the next day men studied and tried to follow trails of huge footprints in powder snow two feet deep. They indicated that the creature had circled the clearing all around and kneeled down a coouple of times, once only 10 feet from the truck. They could not spend much time tracking, and their own tracks soon messed up the situation. Other people also saw the tracks, including a reporter and photographer from the Province, who learned of the incident as a result of someone overhearing the witnesses talking about. The men made no attempt to report what happened or to obtain publicity. Bob Titmus and John Green went to the site, but too late to learn anything from the tracks. Anne Rees, Province reporter, said the tracks were about 15 inches long, and six feet apart. Where it knelt the knees were far apart, the feet together. Knees were three feet apart and leg impressions a foot wide. Nobody could duplicate the stride or the impressions in the ground. She was there two days after the incident. Bob Zieglgansberger, site manager for the well owners, Canadian Hunter, said he had found where the tracks had crossed the road a mile from the campsite and followed them 400 yards into the bush. He said the stride was about 4 1/2 feet on level ground. He is 6'2" and had to jump to match them. They stepped right over a snowbank beside the road 3 feet high and 4 feet wide and he could not match that. He could not find where the tracks started from, only where they left the road. (Green and Titmus could find neither.) Mesdagh said sometimes the tracks would head into the bush and then just stop, no more tracks. He never did find a trail he could follow any distance.