Incident #991231
Waskish, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
about 1979
Account
Harvey Cole said a beaver trapper went two miles into the bog east of Hwy 72, travelling in a network of old ditches by canoe. Under a powerline there was a pile of brush and there a sasquatch stood up and looked around, then ran away. Its face wasn't completely hair-covered. It had a large penis. He watched it for a quarter mile running along the powerline on its hind legs. He came out and reported the incident at Kelliher. The district forester there, Vince Buck, and two or three others went back that evening with plaster of Paris and cast a track, but it would not have been a clear track in the fibrous material. They left it to harden and never got back. Two years later Cole tried to retrieve it. The general shape looked good, but it crumbled. Where it had taken Buck and Co. far longer to get to the spot than they anticipated, Cole travelled easily on a beaten path under the powerline, trodden deep by something unknown, two feet wide.
When
- Year
- about 1979
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Minnesota
- County
- Koochiching Cty
- Nearest Town
- Waskish
- Latitude
- 4811
- Longitude
- 9031
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large male
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- marsh
- Tracks
- found later
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
- Nearby Water
- canal
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- The Sasquatch Report, Oct. 1990, Tim Olson interview with Harvey Cole, Minn. Dept. of Natural Resources, quoting unnamed beaver trapper.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on face
- Hair Shorter On
- rump
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- fled
- Genitals
- male
- Evidence Left
- footprints
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Material Tracks Made in
- moss
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- trapping
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýstudied