Posted on 12/20/2006 6:38:42 AM PST by aculeus
Sightings of a large hairy creature walking upright in Saskatchewan and Manitoba have sparked renewed interest in the legendary sasquatch.
CBC Saskatchewan radio host Tom Roberts said he's talked with people from the northern community of Deschambault Lake who say a resident saw a sasquatch-like creature on Saturday.
They say a woman from the village was driving to Prince Albert on Saturday afternoon when she saw a creature near the side of the highway at Torch River.
"She slowed down, thinking maybe a bear," Roberts said. "She stopped and watched … and saw it going alongside the hill and knew it was not a bear."
The woman continued driving until she was in cell phone range, then stopped to call home. She described seeing a large, "very hairy" creature that walked upright.
Later, several men from the village drove down to the area and found footprints, which they tracked through the snow. They found a tuft of brown hair and took photographs of the tracks, Roberts said.
Similar sighting
On Wednesday, following reports of the Saskatchewan incident, a man in Flin Flon, Man., reported that he had seen something similar in the summer. Continue Article
Greg East said he was on a fishing trip with a friend, when they encountered a creature on the Manitoba side of the border.
"I looked over to the fellow driving the truck, a friend of mine, and said: 'What did you just see?' " East recalled. "His response, as he looked at me with a quizzical look on his face, was 'sasquatch?'"
East said he was afraid his friend was going to say that.
"I was sort of hoping he was going to say bear because I knew it didn't look like a bear, but I wanted some verification that I hadn't actually seen what I thought I saw," he said.
East described the creature as dark in colour, with dirty yellow patches over its face, chest and abdomen. It loped out of sight as they got closer.
John Bindernagel, a B.C.-based wildlife biologist who believes the creatures exist and has written extensively on the subject, said the Torch River sighting is intriguing. He said he would like to have a look at photographs of the tracks.
"The trail [of a Sasquatch] is different from a human and very different from a bear," he said.
Skeptics say it's preposterous that a large mammal could have evaded detection in North America throughout history, and note that despite all the alleged sightings, a sasquatch carcass has never been found.
IBHTP!........
This is news? Where have these scientists been since 1992? Sasquatch lived in the White House for eight years and has been leeching off the citizens of New York for the last six years, pretending to be a junior Senator.
I didn't realize that Gore Man-bear-pig was vacationing in Canada
Did Michael Moore forget to shave again?
Ping
LOL! I was waiting for someone to post that picture!
if they do exist, just think of all the money they are missing out on from doing Geico commercials like the caveman guys.....
Ya, but it was molesting little girls.
"Skeptics say it's preposterous that a large mammal could have evaded detection in North America throughout history, and note that despite all the alleged sightings, a sasquatch carcass has never been found."
And yet....
"Jungle secrets: 52 new species found in Borneo's 'Lost World' "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755647/posts
Interesting question. I believe that the answer could well be that the DNA of a close relative to a human is highly likely to be nearly indistinguishable from human. However, I'm no specialist in this field... I hope someone with more knowledge answers you.
"With so many sightings, we should have a lot of real evidence for Bigfoot. That Borneo thing has a lot of evidence."
That is true, but if we are dealing with something that is even mildly 'intelligent' then hiding from people might not be out of the question.
But,you are right in the sense that, by now, we should have had some kind of definitive proof of it's existence.
Maybe that 'tuft' of hair might prove useful.
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