Related: Things I liked in 2008 – Sasquatch sightings along Hwy 16
They’re baaack.
After enjoying a banner year in northern B.C. last year, sasquatches – well, their footprints, anyway – are once again being reported along Highway 16.
Residents along this fairly remote stretch of highway, a ribbon of asphalt that links Prince George in Canada’s westernmost province’s interior and the small seaport of Prince Rupert on the north coast, came forward with a number of sasquatch sightings in 2008, suggesting something of a rebound for the notoriously shy, quasi-mythical creatures.
Things were relatively quiet through the new year, but reports are starting to come in again.
According to the Canada UFO blog, on March 8, someone in the First Nations village of Moricetown reported hearing loud, unexplained sounds coming from the back of their property, in the middle of the night.
The next morning, this person told a family member about it who, in turn, went out to see if they could determine the cause of the noises. They claimed to see large, human-like footprints in the snow beside the fence on the property line, as well as some moose prints. Researcher Brian Vike of Houston, B.C., says he drove out there the next day to take a closer look.
“There was certainly no question in my mind that what I was looking at were tracks of something that walked on two legs, large footprints that were not just in a small area, but rather this thing traveled a great distance,” he wrote in a report filed to his blog March 10. The footprints were deep – about a foot and a half – and appeared to have a long stride. He took measurements and a “whole whack of photos”.
This isn’t the first sasquatch report to come out of Moricetown, a small Wet’suwet’en town on the banks of the Bulkley River, perched next to a steep canyon.
There were several reports last year, part of a spate of sightings across the northwest region.
And during his March visit, Vike says he heard about another “close encounter” from last summer: a frightening eye-witness sighting of a sasquatch picking up two large rocks and banging them together.
This summer Vike plans to head back to the region with a fellow researcher and friend to take video footage and interview witnesses.
Good luck, Brian. We’re looking forward to hearing a lot more.
