Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Fred Richardson was one of two (or three, according to C.E. Ricketts) men working a placer claim on the South Fork of the Clearwater River near Golden, Idaho. Something had been entering their plastic-sheet tent in their absence and disturbing their food supplies, but had not eaten honey or jam, only a bag of pancake flour (salty), which it had taken. They followed a flour trail across a creek and a short distance up a hill among the timber, where they found the discarded sack and also some tracks 14" long, 5" at toes, 2.75" at heel (Ricketts). Later that day (Richardson) or previous to the flour incident (Ricketts) Richardson and another man (Oscar Ruckman, according to Ricketts) saw a cinnamon-coloured creature at a dam they had built in the creek, which ran off up the bank "in a manner unlike any bear" (Richardson) hunched over so they never saw its head (Ricketts). The creature left an odor of brimstone. At camp about 4 a.m. they several times heard strange wailing sounds. No bear sign in the area.