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.
August 9, 2009
A stone aged Bigfoot footprint?
A man in Hudson’s Hope, British Columbia, thinks he may have found a Bigfoot print embedded in a rock found in his yard while mowing the lawn. Hudson’s Hope is a small community in the Rocky Mountain foothills close to the Alberta border, dubbed “The Land of Dinosaurs and Dams”.
Neil Bitterman’s rock is the size of a watermelon and contains what looks like a four-toed footprint, about size ten. So are we assuming the print is from a small Bigfoot? Could it have been from one of the humans that were alive at that time? I know people like to deny that humans lived on earth hundreds of thousands of years ago, but according to Michael Cremo of Forbidden Archeology fame, it is proven absolutely and without a doubt.
Source: Is Bigfoot’s footprint preserved in stone? published on August 6, 2009 by the CanWest News Service.
