Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Abel Leionen came to Peter Niemi's home near Woodland and told him that while walking past Shoemaker Hill he came face to face with a hairy animal at a spring. It was not a bear, more like an ape, with a flat face. Mrs. Hansen, Niemi's daughter, heard Leionen's story. Mr. Niemi accompanied Leionen on his way home and returned saying he had seen in the muddy place (presumably at the spring) very deep footprints like a persons but much bigger. He thought it weighed four times as much as he did. Local Indians said they had seen such a creature. It was either in autumn or in spring, cool and dry.