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I am of Aboriginal descent and I
have hunted all my life. A friend

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and I decided to search for a
new area to track moose and deer,

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and we both live in Prince George
and we know all the areas within fifty

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miles or so, but we had
the itch to go see some new country.

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We hooked a jeep to the back
of the motor home and off we

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went toward the mountains and Pine Pass. We found a perfect spot just off

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Highway ninety seven, eighteen miles south
of Chetwynd. It was noon when we

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disconnected the jeep and immediately drove up
the older trail to see where it would

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take us. To our surprise,
the road was in pretty decent shape.

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As we immediately started to climb up
the mountain, we came to several awesome

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clearcuts that allowed us to see an
alder directions. We were in the middle

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of one of these clear cuts and
decided to hide the jeep back in the

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heavily forested area and walked to a
good vantage point that was in the middle

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of the clearing. We were sitting
on a knoll that was about twelve feet

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above the skitterer trail, which we
could see through the willows. We figured

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that we would enjoy a couple of
sandwiches and didn't really expect to come across

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anything unusual, as we had driven
through with the jeep twenty minutes earlier.

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It was a beautiful day and we
were sitting with our backs to each other,

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me watching the downhill and my partner
watching the uphill. The grade was

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ten to twelve percent, with small
willows not blocking our vantage point, and

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we could see five hundred yards in
all directions. Four massive bucks came out

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of a patch of trees that were
only one hundred and fifty yards on the

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downhill side. Well, that was
a good sign, and since it was

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the day before the season opened,
we headed back to set up can and

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we decided that we would walk to
the same spot in the morning. We

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set out before daylight because we figured
it would take us an hour to get

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there on foot. I have to
admit that this was a bit unnerving for

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me because I like to see my
surroundings when I'm in grizzly country. But

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nevertheless, off we went. My
partner had done this night walk hundreds of

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times, and he said that we
would be fine he was such a nice

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guy that if we happened to come
across at grizzly in the dark, he

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was going to trip me and get
the hell out of there. He didn't

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get the chuckle out of me that
he was expecting anyway. We arrived about

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twenty minutes before shooting light, and
we just sat there and listened to all

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of nature's sounds. Now, this
next part is very important and it needs

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to be explained. There was no
way in hell that even a coyote could

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be in the vicinity without one of
us spotting it. There was nowhere for

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an animal to hide unless there were
crouched within the same small clump of trees

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that the bucks had emerged from the
day before. It was an uneventful first

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few hours, and it was now
approaching the same time of day that we

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had initially seen those deer. There
wasn't much wind, except for a slight

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breeze from time to time. I
had just remarked to my buddy about how

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quiet it was, when all at
once I could hear a high pitch,

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buzzing sound, and I thought it
might just be my ears ringing. The

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best way to describe the sound was
as if someone had put a tuning fork

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to my head. I looked over
to my buddy and he said he could

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hear it too. On the Skiter
trail right below us appeared a dark shape

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that we could see through the willows. There was literally no way that this

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thing could have walked up on us
because we could see ninety percent of the

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terrain all around us. It had
hair rather than fur, and then all

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at once it stood up on two
legs and it was staring right at us.

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That freaked me out, and my
buddy with the cooler had warned me

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not to shoot, but to take
the safety off and be ready. This

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thing stared at us for what seemed
like an eternity but was probably only seconds.

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It dropped back down on all fours
and it let out a scream,

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and it shook us to our core. We should have caught a visual twenty

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feet down the Sketterer trail, but
clearly it had serious stealth going for it.

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The high pitched sound was hitting our
ear drums again as we sat there

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for another hour, concerned that we
had not seen it leave the area.

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We knew it was still close and
being ambushed was on both of our minds.

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The stalemate drug on until my buddy
finally said that he was going to

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walk down to the skitter trail and
have a look. Well, I was

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terrified, and I was about to
see my friend get torn up right in

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front of me. It only took
him a minute or two before he shot

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to me to help him estimate how
tall this thing was by raising one end

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of his gun up in the air. His arm sockets were straining as he

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held the weapon above his head.
We guessed the beast appeared to be at

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least ten feet tall, judging by
my buddy's rotator cuffs. I've heard stories

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over the years about sasquatch and always
blew them off as folklore. Whatever this

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thing was, it had somehow eluded
us and vacated the premises. I was

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shook by my experience, and I
chose to leave. On the ride home,

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my buddy told me about several encounters
he'd had with sasquatch over the years,

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and based on his well worn travel
tales, I assumed that they must

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be everywhere. When he invited me
out into the wilderness for another overnighter,

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I declined I couldn't bring myself to
get back out there. He tried to

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convince me that sightings were few and
far between and that the sasquatch would rather

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be left alone. It's why he
warned me off from shooting my gun at

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it that day. After letting the
encounter simmer in my head for a few

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weeks, I'll let my buddy talk
me into another hunting trip. He thought

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facing my fears by going out to
the same general area would be good for

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me psychologically. All was nervous as
hell while we were there, but after

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bagging two really nice mules and an
immature bull, I started feeling like my

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old self. It's always mystified me
how the thing I saw that day managed

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to vanish without us viewing its escape
something they travel through portals, or that

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the high pitched ringing we heard was
something to do with their ability to teleport.

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I don't know if I believe that. It doesn't make me feel any

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better knowing that these things can appear
wherever and whenever they want. I don't

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want to stop going out into the
bush, so I'll continue on as I've

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always done. After thirty five years
of living in metropolitan Portland, Oregon,

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I moved in late two thousand and
six to a tiny incorporated town of Springdale,

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Washington. The population there is two
hundred and ninety four. It's about

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an hour northwest of Spokane. I
began a job doing community development planning and

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grant riding for the Northwestern Indian Tribes
in the early summer of two thousand and

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seven. I was driving home from
work. I had just left the Spokane

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Indian Reservation, heading north on a
country road that is the eastern boundary of

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the reservation. Along the east side
of that road is a steep embankment,

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and looking down, I spotted a
small sasquatch. It was maybe four feet

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tall, that had scraggly and dusty
looking charcoal hair that was about four inches

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long. It had wideshow like a
human in no visible tale or ears.

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I couldn't determine if it was a
male or a female. I saw it

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only in profile as it stepped forward
nearly on all fours. I never got

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a glimpse of its face. When
I asked my coworkers the next day about

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Sasquatch sightings, I was told that
they were not uncommon, but were more

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often seen in the western side of
the reservation that bordered there by the Columbia

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River. The ute Indian grandmother with
whom I became friends in Springdale, shared

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with me that she and her grandson, who attended elementary school, had seen

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a sasquatch a couple of years earlier
as they entered the town from the east.

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It crossed the road in front of
their car and an area dotted with

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a few houses in the woods.
Now they claimed it was carrying a full

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green trash bag over its shoulder,
as if it had just raided a garbage

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can. Well. While in Springdale, I began following sasquatchts and discussions on

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YouTube. I particularly enjoyed hearing Coombo's
encounters and information sharing David Polattis Sasquatch and

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Missing four one stories, and West
Gurmer's Sasquatch chronicles. I realized I had

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a loose connection after hearing garmer Zone
riveting encounter near Ecult, Washington, so

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as a planner, I used to
drive there to help the town develop public

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works grant applications. In twenty sixteen, I moved back to the west side

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of the Cascade Mountains, this time
in the backwoods of Washington, west of

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Mount Saint Helens, a place rich
with the recorded reports of sasquatch sightings.

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My highway area is partially forested,
but with open fields and scattered homes,

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and I have always thought it likely
that there were sisquatch frequenting this area.

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Well. One night in the wee
hours, I was sitting in my living

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room watching a free YouTube movie.
I was suddenly startled by an awful crashing

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sound that shook my house. I
could hear metal being bent and twisted,

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and I thought something was happening with
a vent to my kitchen range. There

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was a noise so loud that it
caused me to envision my kitchen cabinets falling

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off the wall. I checked around
my house and I found nothing but a

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mirror that had come loose, and
it had not broken. I decided that

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multiple tree limbs must have landed on
my roof, and I planned to check

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the damage the next morning. I'm
seventy four years old and my vision is

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poor, so I phoned a neighbor
and she came over to check the roof

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with me, but she saw no
fallen limbs. But what I did find

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was that the decorative little wash basin
I keep filled with large seashells had five

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of them removed and arranged in a
perfect semi circle. I asked the neighbor

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if anyone had reported strange goings on
recently. Apparently, an elderly woman to

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the east to my house was awakened
the night before by something repeatedly hitting the

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backwall o her house. I decided
that I would camp out in my utility

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room with the back door propped open
and see if my unruly visitor return.

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Well that night. It was cold
and uncomfortable and scary, so I gave

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up after about an hour. A
few mornings later, however, shells were

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being removed from the tub and arranged
in a semicircle again. The shells became

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a running theme, ending up in
various places around my home, arranged in

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the same similar pattern. I wondered
if my Sasquatch friend had a flare for

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decorating. Perhaps it was meant as
something sinister, a calling card for future

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violence. The fall rains have arrived
and it's been quiet. I really do

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not want to be face to face
with a sasquatch. Us indigenous tribes believe

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there's strong evidence it shows the cryptid
to be a human hybrid and not an

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animal, and as such I will
likely be looking over my shoulder as a

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garden in the spring