Sasquatch Sightings

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Dana Jacallen had climbed to 700 feet at the head of a fiord on Etolin Island planning to hunt deer on a meadow at dawn but his sleeping bag was suddenly yanked away about 1 a.m., leaving him out in the fresh snow. He thought his partner had done it to wake him up and started following footprints in the snow, then realized that the prints were barefoot, and twice the size of his size 10 boots. Heading for a hemlock tree at the top of a rise, which he planned to climb to look around, he confronted a hair-covered biped standing by the tree 15 feet away, one hand on hip, the other gripping a branch of the hemlock, "the biggest, hairiest guy on two legs I ever want to see." The creature looked him in the eye, its teeth showing in "a knowing smile." Jacallen could have shot it, but felt he was receiving a message, "Leave me alone." Then the thing turned and fled into the woods. After daylight the two hunters measured the tracks at 17 inches long, 5 or 6 wide. They estimated weight at 600 to 800 pounds, and measured to the hemlock branch, determining the creature's height to be 7.5 to 8 feet. Hair was long and silky, longest on the arm. Movements graceful, skin seemed leathery, eyes dark.