Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Peggy Papadakis, living on the Fort Hall Indian Reserve, saw many tracks in new snow in her yard made early in the morning of Jan. 14, but thought they were human and did not examine them. That night a dog on the next property was barking furiously and a horse there was kicking its shed. She went outside and saw on her side of the boundary fence something moving around as if teasing the animals. She got a dull flashlight beam on it and it whirled to face her and froze, arms out sideways, making a sound like an outrush of breath. Covered with hair, appeared black with silver shot through it. Over 6 feet. She went back in the house. Animal control officer later told her that the next evening a lady living a mile to the West had been frightened by something that left big footprints in her yard. She then investigated the tracks in her yard from two days before. One set of prints very large and broad, another smaller and narrower and a third small enough for a child. Where they went over a fence to enter her property prints showed five-toes. A few days later there was a report in the paper that a woman at the store in the Arbon Valley, between Pocatello and the reservation, had been frightened by a 9-foot creature that walked around the building and tried to get in.