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Post by Gerry on Nov 10, 2008 12:24:47 GMT -5
Let's discuss it!
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Post by rastaman on Mar 3, 2009 1:27:42 GMT -5
So Gerry, have you or Thomas ever gone back anytime this past winter to check the area out for tracks, or any other evidence.
Spring might be a good time to check the place out. It could be a migration route where they pass through a certain time of the year.
How certain are you of the veracity of the stories told by the witnesses in both incidents of the encounters?
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Post by bigfoothunter on Aug 11, 2009 8:02:04 GMT -5
I can say from speaking onsite with both witnesses is that their stories were supported by evidence that they knew nothing about its existence.
For example: The animal reported by the man driving down from the look-out point had come up the mountain. We know this for its impressions in the pine needles were back tracked about 60 yards before I was satisfied that this just wasn't a case of someone standing along the road in the shrubs waiting to play a prank.
Another interesting point was that the impressions were pointed up the incline in the direction the creature was walking whereas Tom and I had to turn our feet sideways to work our way up the same incline. Much like one does when side-stepping on an angle to work their way up an incline ... the creature didn't need to do this at all. Its ability to grip the ground was telling in itself.
The earlier guy who saw the Sasquatch by a stump (unless a different creature) had not known about the other story until it ran in the newspaper some three weeks or so later. One of the things we did was to check and see if he had read about the other sighting in the newspaper and was creating his story from that one. But we discovered that this younger guy had already told his story to people before the man and his wife had come down the mountain some 4 hrs later. So if the younger man's story was a fabrication, then it was an amazing coincendence that he could make a story up for a date and time that another couple had claimed to have had an encounter.
I might also add that the younger guy while in shorts had scaled down a very steep hill with Steenburg to look for any sign that the creature may have been hurt and laying at the bottom of the ravine.
In the end ... both accounts seemed credible and the witnesses would not give us more details that what they could only recall.
Bill Miller Bigfoot Field Research
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Post by Gerry on Aug 11, 2009 10:57:13 GMT -5
That area will become a regularly patrolled area. By that I mean that once every few months it would be worth a trip up.that winding trail. However, even such expeditions would be bleak at best for garnering evidence for the heavily forested mountain side provides little visibility and the road topography is very hard and rocky.
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Post by thomassteenburg on Aug 11, 2009 16:20:56 GMT -5
Reeks havoc with Suzuki drive shafts as well Thomas Steenburg
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Post by rastaman on Aug 12, 2009 3:20:23 GMT -5
Sounds like a good area for game cam use.
It would still take, however, a camera to be in the right place at the right time, or some good old fashioned luck for any clear evidence.
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Post by Gerry on Aug 12, 2009 11:36:21 GMT -5
You know! I have never been an advocate of running willy nilly around the countryside looking for clues of squatch. However, I am changing my mind on that one. It just might be as you say. Pure dumb luck! Right place at the right time.
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Post by Gerry on Aug 12, 2009 11:37:52 GMT -5
Reeks havoc with Suzuki drive shafts as well Thomas Steenburg I may have found a cure for that one!
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vilnoori
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Post by vilnoori on Aug 13, 2009 17:12:56 GMT -5
I heard that there was another sighting in the area this last June near the golf course. The fact that there are multiple sightings in this particular area in the same time of the year makes me think it is part of an annual route for this sasquatch, perhaps from Chipmunk Creek through to the Harrison Lake (East) area. It would make sense to have a look at the areas between Bridal Falls and the Fraser River, especially river shores that are more open, and take a look at the maps to see what areas are likely for movement under cover toward Harrison Lake East. Lots of scope for research in this very active area!
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Post by Gerry on Aug 14, 2009 12:09:08 GMT -5
That is a possibility of course. But it could also just be a lone squatch which has taken up temporary residence at the foot of Archibald. And there may be every reason to think that this creature did indeed wander over from the valley floor of Ruby Creek and the mountains around Harrison.
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Post by bigfoothunter on Aug 14, 2009 13:17:07 GMT -5
That is a possibility of course. But it could also just be a lone squatch which has taken up temporary residence at the foot of Archibald. And there may be every reason to think that this creature did indeed wander over from the valley floor of Ruby Creek and the mountains around Harrison. Interesting remark about coming across a Sasquatch being dumb luck for that is exactly why we have a Patterson/Gimlin film. A five minute difference either way may have caused Roger and Bob to have never seen the subject. If there is any part of Sasquatching that can't be said to be pure luck it is in the consistency and regularity the hunter is willing to go to so to have as many opportunities as possible to have that chance meeting. Roger and Bob was said to have been searching that area day and night consistently for nearly a month before having their path cross that of the creature's. The Archibald incident's came about for the same reason with exception that it wasn't because of any one person's efforts, but because of the infiltration of people into that area on a daily basis. I do not have a date in mind for the golf course sighting, but it was in June in a single 24 hour period that the two mountain sightings occurred. If I were to make an educated guess on the matter .... I'd say that because the sightings came so close together and not reported just prior and since that time, then I'd be inclined to think the animal passed through the area for what ever reason. It was months later that another sasquatch had been seen in Ruby Creek, but that animal was described to be smaller than the two June reports that I was personally aware of. Bill Miller Bigfoot Field Research
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Post by thomassteenburg on Aug 14, 2009 17:07:08 GMT -5
Just a little clarification here. Two two sighting reports which occurred within a four and half hours of each other happened June 18th@19th of last year 2008. The unconfirmed report at the golf course was in early June of this year, 2009. Unfortunately no names or any other contact info was collected by the woman who informed me of this latest incident, so this one is just hearsay.
Thomas Steenburg
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Post by bigfoothunter on Oct 6, 2009 21:51:14 GMT -5
You know! I have never been an advocate of running willy nilly around the countryside looking for clues of squatch. However, I am changing my mind on that one. It just might be as you say. Pure dumb luck! Right place at the right time. It was that very thing that allowed the Patterson/Gimlin film to happen in my view. Bill Miller Bigfoot Field Research
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vilnoori
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Post by vilnoori on Oct 13, 2009 0:09:10 GMT -5
Also it is a lot of fun.
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