Alberta: Bigfoot Walking on Water
I just had to use that title! …But the water was frozen, so it was actually walking on ice. I recently received this Bigfoot sighting report from Alberta, Canada. The sighting was in 1991 – about twenty years ago.
It was January 1991 and I was south of Valleyview, Alberta Canada about 10 pm with a co-worker in the woods. We were crossing a bridge in our truck, and when I looked down I saw a large, black, being marching across the frozen river. It was swinging its’ arms. I knew it wasn’t a man because of its size and color. When I told people what I saw they just laughed, but I know what I saw was Bigfoot.
To the person who sent me this report: I’m not laughing because… I believe Bigfoot exists. I admit I laughed a little, but only because you saw one walking on water (frozen) which I believe is fairly unique! Maybe not in your neck of the woods, though. Where I live, the water doesn’t freeze over.
Because many people laugh and scoff at the idea of a Bigfoot sighting, many experiencers stop telling what they saw. I find that sad and frustrating because there are a lot of people, like myself, that love to hear about Bigfoot. We want to know the habits, habitat, and actions observed during each sighting so we can learn more about our elusive, primitive cousins.
On the map, near the sighting location, there’s a lot of forested territory. There’s also the Willmore Wilderness Area, the Kakwa Provincial Park, and five other provincial parks and three national parks! It must be a beautiful area!
September 25, 2009
Canadian Native Women Missing
By Linda Martin – © 2009
A shocking fact: 550 native aboriginal Canadian women have gone missing since 1970, 245 of those since 2000. From the news article: “…if those numbers represented any other community the outcry would be enormous but because they are aboriginal, their cases are being overlooked.” (From MP Neville wants Ottawa to look into disappearance of aboriginal women)
A Canadian Bigfoot researcher plans to look into these disappearances, to see if there might be any indication the wild men of the north might have kidnapped any of these women. Read about it on the Bigfoot Forums, here: Indian Women Disappearances in Canada.
September 3, 2009
West Coast Sasquatch
By Linda Martin – @2009 – http://www.bigfootsightings.org
West Coast Sasquatch is a Canadian site, focusing on Bigfoot activity and sightings in British Columbia. There are some fascinating interviews: John Green, Christopher Murphy, and Thomas Steenburg, all well-known Bigfoot researchers and writers in the Pacific Northwest.
This site has been online since 2004 and has accumulated a lot of text in the last five years. I clicked on Reports and found a page called Hoss’s Notebook. Great stories! Hoss managed to come across more than one Sasquatch, plus he picked up a collection of Bigfoot sighting reports from others living in the remote Canadian mountains around beautiful Pitt Lake in British Columbia.
The energy behind the website comes from G.C. (Grand Cherokee, Gerry) and Thomas Steenburg. You can meet them on the profiles page. There’s a forum on the site and a photo gallery.
Every Bigfoot researcher needs to be familiar with the great classics of Bigfoot research. The site points out that three of the four great classics happened in Canada! The are the Albert Ostman story of 1924, the Ruby Creek sighting of 1941, and William Roe’s experience in 1955. With so many amazing Bigfoot encounters in Western Canada, you can understand why Dr. John Bindernagle moved there to study Sasquatch.
Speaking of Sasquatch, where do you think that name came from? The answer is right here on the West Coast Sasquatch site: “The name Sasquatch was coined in the 1920′s by J. W. Burns, through ..what is believed to be.. a mis-pronunciation of an indian word, and for the most part is used primarily to describe our Canadian cryptid.” You can find that information on the page about J.W. Burns.
September 2, 2009
North America’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch – Dr. John Bindernagel’s Bigfoot Biology Site
Dr. John Bindernagel, B.S.A., MS, Ph.D., is a professional wildlife biologist based in British Columbia, Canada. He has studied Bigfoot evidence since 1975. In 1988 he found and cast a set of Bigfoot footprints near his home. In the mid-1990s he wrote a book, North America’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch Since that time he’s written some well-received scientific research papers about Bigfoot and some magazine articles as well.
I read his entire Bigfoot biology website today and appreciated his discussion of three types of Bigfoot evidence: tracks, sightings, and other phenomena. With his discussion of other phenomena he provided several excellent photographs of tree twists – broken by a force that’s hard to imagine unless it could be an actual Bigfoot.
I especially appreciated the page about whether Sasquatch witnesses are confusing Bigfoot with bears. He mentions that forestry workers and other outdoors people are unlikely to mistake a bear for something else. An illustration shows the vital differences between an upright bear and a Bigfoot, and even the tracks of each are examined for perspective.
Dr. Bindernagel doesn’t doubt that there’s a real creature called Sasquatch, and focuses on understanding the biological aspects of Sasquatch life. He’s documented the distribution of Sasquatch reports across the North American continent.
On his page about Sasquatch and science he wrote:
“One aspect of my own sasquatch research and writing is that of assisting in validating the sasquatch as a subject for serious research by mainstream sceientists. I have attempted to acquaint students of natural history, field naturalists and colleagues in science with existing data and evidence. I do not try to convince them to necessarily accept the sasquatch as an existing animal, but rather to recognize that it … may be a subject worthy of serious discussion and some research effort.”
Dr. John Bindernagle is a pioneer in the scientific study of Bigfoot. His contribution to Bigfoot research is very much appreciated.
August 24, 2009
Possible Stoneage Bigfoot Footprint, Revisited
On August 9 I reported that a Canadian news service ran a story titled, Is Bigfoot’s footprint preserved in stone?.
My original blog article: A Stoneage Bigfoot Footprint?
Yesterday this article received a comment with a link to photographs of the object, for your consideration: Unknown Print Found In Northern BC Canada – Photo Gallery & Press Releases.
My take on this is that the footprint could come from an ancient human, or from a bear. There’s no way to discern that it could be from a Bigfoot. Perhaps the fact that it has only four toes suggests that it could be Bigfoot, as there are reports of large creatures leaving less than five toes in their prints. Also there were many animals existing back at the time of the formation of this stone that no longer are with us… dinosaurs, sabre tooth tigers, etc. …and quite possibly many species we are not aware of.
I consider the footprint rock to be an object of interest, and am glad to see the owner has created a website showing this object clearly. However, proof of what it is could be a long time coming.
The last possibility is that this print isn’t a print at all, but some other type of anomaly. Please have a look at it and tell me what you think: Unknown Print Found In Northern BC Canada. Note that the author of the website didn’t go so far as to declare it a possible Bigfoot print, as did the author of the original CanWest News Service article.
May 22, 2008
Three Blogs That Link To Bigfoot Sightings
One section of my site statistics lists each website that has sent visitors my way. I’d like to thank each of these blog writers with a profile here.
The three blogs that sent the most visitors to Bigfoot Sightings during April 2008 are:
Professor Hex
Professor Hex, Scholar of the Strange and Mysterious, has been going strong since 2004 and has developed quite a following. I know this because his site sends more visitors to Bigfoot Sightings than any other. He is constantly scouring the web, including news sites, to bring news and links to you.
Stan Courtney
Stan Courtney is one of the most credible and professional Bigfoot researchers I’ve come upon on the web. He links to Bigfoot Sightings on his extensive links page, SquatchMarks, and I’m glad he does because he sends quite a few visitors to Bigfoot Sightings every month.
Encounters With The Unexplained
Encounters With The Unexplained is another very active paranormal research blog, and is the third most common referrer of visitors to this site (not counting search engines). Blogging from Canada is Aura who had many paranormal experiences as a child. She updates nearly every day on a variety of paranormal topics, including Bigfoot.
March 26, 2007
Mushmasta’s Bigfoot Video
This You-Tube video has been getting lots of attention lately as reported by a Canadian site, the Times-Columnist: Bigfoot or bear? YouTube viewers debate. The 94-second video may show a Sasquatch, though some think it shows a bear. The site of the filming is near Tofino, BC. It dates from last summer but wasn’t put on You-Tube until February 4, 2007.
The You-Tube page, in case you want to add to the 41 comments that already exist there: Strange Humanoid Encounter
A set of stills from the film:
My conclusion: The film shows something large and dark, walking upright. Hopefully not a prank (I’ve seen similar things turn out to be pranks, so I’m skeptical.) The location is perfect for a sighting. I want very much for this to be a valid sighting, but would have to see impressive corroborating evidence to become a believer. Please, people, if you have sightings like these, safeguard the scene, preserve the footprints, look for hair, broken branches, etc. . . . and if possible, call a local zoologist to visit the scene to give validity to your experience and findings.
