Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Boyd Johnson was living in a camper truck by his trapline on the Coeur d'Alene River below Rose Lake, when he heard strange sounds in the night, close at hand, a repeated woof-woof-woof that caused a nearby dog to bark in reply. This went on for about 15 minutes, then sounds started getting farther away and ended with an extremely loud scream that sounded very human. This got him thinking about some strange tracks he had seen coming out of the river a quarter mile away which he assumed were bear tracks. He went to look and found them washed out by rain, but there were newer ones, much deeper, coming from the river across 15 or 20 feet of flat muddy ground, then up on a hard grassy bank where they did not show. Size slightly more than 1 foot long, 6 to 8 inches wide, with four long narrow toes, leaving the balance of the foot almost square, more like a hand than a foot. Five or six tracks with a 3-foot stride. Some time later he showed them to Ray Rogers, a big game biologist with Idaho Fish and Game Dept., who told Russ that the tracks were not faked but were not made by any known animal. Johnson took pictures, but they were distorted by camera angle.