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Mar 1934
Harrison Hot Spring, Morris Creek, British Columbia
Newspaper story refers to unnamed Indian fishing from a canoe on Morris Creek when a huge rock landed close enough to almost swamp the craft. He looked up and saw a fierce sasquatch on a shelving ledge above him, stamping…
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about 1937
Osooyos, Anarchist Mountain, British Columbia
Jane Patterson went looking for rhubarb in the old garden of an abandoned house near her ranch. She ducked under a tree branch and confronted 10 feet away a light brown creature like a monkey, but larger than herself, sitting…
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early 1940's
Coombs, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Alex Oakes in early 1940's saw "damn near human" covered with hair run from a field across the road and into the bush, clearing two fences on the run, with long hair flying from its shoulders. It was brown and…
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late 1940's
Klemtu, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Bob Titmus was told that several Klemtu Indians hunting from a boat saw three or four large, very heavy, dark hair-covered creatures on shore. Story to vague to put much stock in.
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about 1945
Osooyos, Anarchist Mountain, British Columbia
Mrs. Hazel Smith told John Green that her brother-in-law, Don Dainard, of Rock Creek, B.C. while riding southwest of the Patterson ranch at Bridesville, saw an animal sitting on a log which took off running faster on its hind legs…
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1947
Bella Coola, Burke Channel, British Columbia
Bill Mounce was on a tug between Kwatna Inlet and South Bentinck in Burke Channel, about 200 yards from the south shore. He and the skipper saw an animal the colour of a grizzly walking upright on large rocks on…
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about 1950
Kemano, Kitlope River, British Columbia
Chuck Davis, commercial fisherman, recalled being told by Indians from Hartley Bay about a sasquatch seen at Kitlope River in 1950. Witnesses were Johnny Paul, Kemano Channel, and Whyler Robinson, Hartley Bay.
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1952
Terrace, Skeena Valley, British Columbia
Man from Terrace visiting N.J. Dyck's dinosaur park told him that he saw something standing beside a main road, slowed down and stopped his car. The creature, standing upright, watched him for a while then turned and walked away. It…
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1950's
Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia
Klemtu Indians said seaplane pilot landing at Klemtu had asked what everyone was doing swimming in fur suits at Kitasu Lake.
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Sep 1953
Courtenay, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Jack Twist was on camping trip at the Oyster River, walking back to camp on an old logging road at dusk, when he saw a dark figure ahead of him on the road about 200 or 300 yards away. Thought…
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Aug 1956
Sechelt, South Coast Dis, British Columbia
Mike Amacher had a letter from a man who said he was one of three staying in a shack near Sechelt. One night one opened the door to go out, screamed and came back in the room. After he calmed…
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Aug 1956
Sechelt, South Coast Dis, British Columbia
See 1000148
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Feb 1960
Langley, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
Mrs. D. Mott wrote that her younger son went out about 7 a.m. to clear the barn before milking, came back in the house very agitated, and said he had seen through a wide opening in boards of a shed…
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early 1960's
Nelson, Kokanee Glacier Road., British Columbia
John Bringsli told John Green he had talked to some Doukhobor men who had seen a sasquatch dump logs off their logging truck. He would not give their names.
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Apr 1962
Bella Coola, Burke Channel, British Columbia
Clayton Mack told John Green that a woman and two children had seen a sasquatch mother holding a child by the hand on the bank of the Bella Coola River right in Bella Coola. He said there were other sightings…
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early 1960's
Invermere, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
George Thornton, Invermere, told Rene on the phone in 1968 that he had seen a white or grey sasquatch west of Invermere a few years before.
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early 1960's
Gold Bridge, Chilcotin Dis, British Columbia
Chilco Choate was guiding two hunters at the headwaters of Relay Creek when they all saw, through telescopic sights, the head and shoulders of a man-like creature covered with hair. Might have some sort of beard. Head very round and…
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1963
Minstrel Island, Thompson Sound, British Columbia
Informant told museum staff that he was rowing in to the flats at the head of Thompson Sound when he saw a monstrous creature get up on its hind legs and move off that way.
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1963
Bella Bella, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Jack Wilson, Bella Bella, told Bob Titmus that in 1963 that he had seen a big, erect, hair-covered creature on the shore of an island near Bella Bella.
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Jul 1964
Chilliwack, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Doherty, Mike Dika, George Swencera, Linda Dumas and Wolfgang Schultz were planning to camp out in the vicinity of Cultus Lake. Driving on a dirt road about 2:30 a.m., they saw four white eyes ahead, then…
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about 1965
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Lady said that her son and two other boys were hunting frogs when they looked up and saw an erect creature across the pond covered with long hair, female. It broke off a 4-inch tree at shoulder height. Boy white…
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about 1966
Boston Bar, Harrison Lake N., British Columbia
Dave Mathews, 105 Handley, Sea Island, was hunting with a partner near Fire Lake. Scanning a berry patch with scope sights they saw what they thought was a bear, with a beautiful tawny brown coat. It stood up on two…
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Jul 1966
White Rock, Boundary Bay, British Columbia
Letoul reported to police that he saw a sasquatch come up a trail in the moonlight, fool around by his shack, go down to the beach, return and go up a ladder and over his house, then on up a…
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about 1966
Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Man said he was hunting in rocky, steep, dense, remote area, waiting for deer at the foot of a ravine in the early morning, when he saw a man with a black shiny pelt a couple of hundred yards away,…
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about 1967
Nelson Forks, Northeast B.C., British Columbia
Steve Villers told newspaper he flew a trapper out from a winter in the Scatter River area who said he had seen an abominable snowman, about 1967.