Classic Canadian Sasquatch Stories - Episode 1: The Agassiz-Harrison Valley

hello and welcome to classic canadian sasquatch stories episode 1. this video is a compilation of three smaller videos i've previously published on my channel on classic sasquatch stories from the agassi harrison valley located in southwestern british columbia about an hour and a half east of vancouver is a magical enclave in the lillewet range of the coast mountains which surrounds the vast harrison lake and the very shored harrison river the harrison being a tributary of the fraser river which empties into the ladder just north of the city of chilliwack each of these videos was generously narrated by my friend brian who runs an excellent and entertaining podcast called unexplained reality brian's podcast treats with true stories of the weird the strange and the unexplained all subjects which i personally find fascinating i've included links to brian's website and podcast in the description the latter two videos feature footage courtesy of my friend jason who runs a fantastic youtube channel called natural galant bodybuilding in his videos jason shares knowledge pertaining to nutrition and weightlifting which he acquired throughout his 27-year career as a competitive natural bodybuilder i've included links to jason's website and youtube channel in the description thanks for listening and enjoy the show [Music] [Music] in british columbia and the northwestern united states the sasquatch hardly needs an introduction this elusive wild hairy giant once an obscure character of first nations lore now serves as an icon of the pacific northwest eight years ago it inspired quachi a monstrous mascot for the 2010 winter olympics in vancouver british columbia for 12 years it has been featured in messing with sasquatch a series of hilarious jack links beef jerky commercials in which it is portrayed as the vengeful enemy of outdoorsy pranksters and for 16 years it has shared its name with a famous memorial day music festival in george washington usa another institution to which the sasquatch learned its name is the sasquatch mountain resort a ski hill tucked away in the douglas mountains an hour's drive north of chilliwack british columbia the resort is aptly named as most of its runs wind down the northeastern slope of mount kenan a formation once known as mount morris and the birthplace of the word sasquatch on the road from chilliwack to the sasquatch mountain resort in the vicinity of the bridge over the harrison river lies the shahelis indian reserve home of the shahelis first nation the shahelis people not to be confused with their cousins from puget sound with whom they share a name are a coast salish people whose traditional territory revolves around the mouth of the harrison river a tributary of the fraser back in 1925 an irish expat named john walter burns became both the indian agent and the school teacher at the chehalis reserve burns quickly earned the respect of the local natives and became fast friends with frank dan a prominent chehalis medicine man in those days the shehelys people were typically reluctant to share their stories with white men for fear of ridicule since jw burns had demonstrated an open-mindedness towards their myths and legends however they eventually opened up to him and made him privy to some of their most carefully guarded secrets among the most intriguing of these were tales of wild hairy giants who the chehalis maintained had inhabited the force surrounding the reserve since time memorial in 1929 burns compiled some of these stories and published them in an article in the april 1 1929 issue of the canadian magazine mcleans under the headline introducing bc's hairy giants a collection of strange tales about british columbia's wild men as told by those who say they have seen them the tales of harry wildman recounted in jw burns 1929 article in mclean's magazine are some of the most colorful of their kind to date the first of these anecdotes details the experience of a chahelis indian man named peter williams in may 1909. while walking in the woods along the foot of mount morris about a mile from the reserve williams heard a grunt in the bush when he looked to see where the sound had come from he found himself staring at what he first took to be a bear crouched atop a boulder about 30 feet away as he raised his rifle to shoot the animal it stood up and emitted a piercing scream it was a man said williams a giant no less than six and one half feet in height and covered in hair enraged a giant lip from the boulder and tore after the indian i never ran so fast before or sent said williams through brush and undergrowth towards the chehalis river a tributary of the harrison where my dugout was moored every so often williams glanced over his shoulder to check on his pursuer who was quickly overtaking him williams narrowly escaped the monster by leaping into his boat and paddling down river as fast as he could the swift river he said did not in the least daunt the giant for he began to wade it immediately when he finally reached the safety of his cabin williams made sure that his wife and children were safe inside before bolting the door and barricading the entrance then with my rifle ready william said i stood near the door and awaited his coming after about 20 minutes williams heard a noise in the distance somewhat akin to the trampling of a horse the noise became louder and louder williams eventually looked through a crack between the logs of the cabin wall and saw that the giant was approaching darkness had not yet set in he said and i had a good look at him except that he was covered with hair and twice the bulk of the average man there was nothing to distinguish him from the rest of us when the monster reached the cabin he began pushing the walls so that the structure rocked back and forth the cabin creaked and groaned yet by some miracle it managed to maintain its integrity clutching his rifle with trembling hands williams whispered for his wife to take the children and hide under the bed after prowling and grunting like an animal around the house williams continued he went away the family spent a restless night in the cabin and in the morning williams found the beast tracks in the mud outside which were 22 inches long but narrow in proportion to their length the giant so damaged their cabin that williams family was forced to abandon it the following winter [Music] sometime later that season peter williams went duck hunting on the north side of the harrison river about two miles from the reserve once again he found himself face to face with the same hairy giant he had encountered the previous summer as before williams ran for dear life and the wild man chased after him after about 400 yards the giant broke off and wandered back into the woods interestingly peter's brother paul encountered the same creature later that afternoon while he was fishing for salmon in a creek near the reserve the giant emerged from the forest and began to approach him terrified paul raced back towards his cabin with the monster hot on his heels the giant gave up the chase shortly before paul reached the cabin and walked back into the bush exhausted from fear and exertion paul collapsed in the snow and had to be carried inside by his mother and other relatives the first and second time williams told jw burns i was all alone when i met this strange mountain creature then early in the spring of the following year another man and myself were bear hunting near the place where i found him on this occasion we ran into two of these giants initially williams and his companions thought the creatures were tree stumps suddenly when they were about 50 feet away the wild men who had been sitting on the ground rose to their feet burns and his companions stopped dead in their tracks we were close enough to know they were man and woman william said the woman was the smaller of the two but neither of them as big or fierce looking as the gent that chased me williams and his friend ran home and were not pursued one morning several weeks later williams and his wife were fishing in a canoe on the harrison river not far from the reserve upon paddling around a bend they saw the same hairy giant that had destroyed their cabin the previous year fortunately the monster took no notice of the indians and they made their escape without incident another wild man encounter burns included in the article was the story of an elderly indian named charlie victor unlike williams charlie victor was not a member of the chealis first nation but rather hailed from the squad nation a coast sailor's tribe from the chilliwack area the first time i came to know about these people victor said i did not see anybody on this particular occasion victor was foraging with three other men on a rocky mountain slope about six miles from yale a town which lies on the cpr's main line just north of hope british columbia he and his companions were picking salmon berries wild fruits similar to raspberries in our search for berries victor said we suddenly stumbled upon a large opening in the side of the mountain this discovery greatly surprised all of us for we knew every foot of the mountain and we never knew nor heard there was a cave in the vicinity near the cave's mouth was a massive boulder which looked as though it once might have been employed as a primitive door the natives cautiously approached the cave and appeared inside but weren't able to see anything on account of the darkness in order to combat this they gathered pitch wood a type of pine heartwood naturally saturated with flammable resin lit it on fire and began to explore not far from the mouth of the cave the natives came upon a primitive stone house we couldn't make a thorough examination victor explained for our pitch wood kept going out we left intending to return in a couple of days and go on exploring when victor and his companions told the tale of their discovery to their fellow tribesmen back at the reserve the elders warned them not to venture near it again as it was surely occupied by a wild man that was the first time i heard about the hairy men that inhabit the mountains victor told burns disregarding the elders advice victor and his companions went back to explore the cave when they reached it they discovered to their astonishment that the massive boulder that stood near the entrance had been rolled back over the mouth fitting so perfectly that you might suppose it had been made for that purpose about 20 years later charlie victor and a couple of his friends were bathing in a small lake near yale british columbia after victor had finished his ablutions and was putting on his clothes a big hairy man stepped out from behind a rock only several feet away he looked at me for a moment victor said his eyes were so kind looking that i was about to speak with him when he turned about and walked into the forest in around 1914 charlie victor had a second encounter with a hairy wild giant while hunting in the mountains near the village of hatzik just east of mission british columbia mission being a town on the banks of the fraser river located a half hour drive from chilliwack on this excursion victor was accompanied by his dog upon hiking up to a plateau his dog rushed over to a large cedar tree and began to growl and bark at it victor noticed that there was a large hole in the tree about seven feet from the ground and that his dog apparently wanted to enter it victor lifted his dog up and washed it scurry into the hole suddenly a muffled cry issued from within the tree victor raised his rifle thinking that his dog had encountered a bear sure enough something large crawled out of the hole and fell to the ground instinctively victor took a shot at it an action which he immediately regretted for there at his feet sprawled a bleeding naked black-haired caucasian boy of about 13 years of age horrified victor dropped his rifle and approached the boy to examine the extent of his injury he saw that he had shot the boy in the leg but before he had a chance to dress the wound the boy cried out as if appealing for help from the forest from across the mountain a long way off victor said rolled a booming voice shortly thereafter victor heard the voice again this time a little closer the boy screamed again as if in reply terrified though he was victor's conscience would not allow him to abandon the boy he had wounded he waited on the plateau his dog whimpering fearfully at his feet while the boy guided his mysterious sylvan savior to his location less than a half hour later said victor out of the depth of the forest came the strangest and wildest creature one could possibly see the hairy creature he continued for that was what it was walked toward me without the slightest fear the wild person was a woman her face was almost negro black and her long straight hair fell to her waist in height she would be about six feet but her chest and shoulders were well above the average in brett victor told burns that although he had already met several wild men by this time he had never seen anyone quite so savage in appearance as this woman i'm sure that if that wild woman laid hands on me victor said she'd break every bone in my body the creature glanced at the boy before rounding on victor her face contorted with rage then something truly remarkable happened using the tongue of the douglas first nation a branch of the lulu tribe whose members lived at the northern end of harrison lake the wild woman snarled you have shot my friend victor who knew the douglas language replied that he had mistaken the boy for a bear and that he was sorry ignoring him the wild woman proceeded to dance around the boy chanting the word yahoo in a loud voice every time she was separated a similar reply came from the mountain soon the wild woman was joined by another creature like her who carried a six foot long cord which victor suspected was either a snake or the intestine of some animal but whatever it was he said she constantly struck the ground with it at the end of this strange ceremony the second wild woman effortlessly picked up the boy with one hairy hand that accomplished she turned towards charlie victor pointed the cord at him and said see wash you'll never kill another bear with that the wild women and the boy disappeared into the woods with tears in his eyes charlie victor admitted to jw burns that indeed he had not shot a bear nor any other animal since that fateful day another wild men's story which j.w burns included in his article derives from a letter which burns received from a young native man from vancouver named william point according to the letter point in a native girl named adeline august decided to pick wild hops one day in late september 1927 in the wilderness near agassi british columbia a town located about eight kilometers south of harrison hot springs just north of the fraser river when they were finished they returned to august's father's orchard by the way of the railroad track along the way august noticed something walking along the tracks in their direction i looked up red point but paid no attention to it as i thought it was some person on his way to agassi but as he came closer we noticed that his appearance was very odd and on coming still closer he stood still and were astonished seeing that the creature was naked and covered with hair like an animal nearly scared stiff point picked up two stones with which he intended to hit the creature if it decided to attack him or august he was twice as big as the average man point wrote of the creature with hands so long that they almost touched the ground it seemed to me that his eyes were very large and the lower part of his nose was wide and spread over the greater part of his face [Music] terrified of the creature's appearance the teenagers ran all the way to agassi there they told the story of their encounter to a group of natives who were enjoying themselves after day of berry picking the elders there informed them that the creature belonged to a race of hairy giants who had always lived in the mountains making their homes in tunnels and caves there are two factors which make jw burns 1929 article in mclean's magazine especially remarkable the first is that in charlie victor's tale of the wild woman of hatzik the wild woman around whom the story revolves demonstrated the ability to speak incidentally in the dialect of the douglas first nation to the best of this author's knowledge this is the first of only two stories in which a north american wild man is purported to speak using human language the second factor which makes burns's 1929 article truly remarkable is that it is widely believed to be the first instance in which the word sasquatch appears in print although there are older articles which reference the wild men of the pacific northwest burns is supposedly the first to actually refer to these creatures as sasquatch the name we know them by today most sources which purport to explain the etymology of sasquatch claim that the word is burns's anglophonic perversion of the word sesquite a hokumalam word meaning hairy mountain man hulkamalan being a coast salish language spoken by the chehalis the and other indigenous groups from the fraser delta one researcher named gnj grazar put forth an interesting alternative theory regarding the origin of the word sasquatch in his book recasting bigfoot quizar claimed that the word sasquatch was really a combination of two words saskahua and kenkach saskahua quizar claimed was the british colombian district for which j.w burns became an indian agent and kenkach quizar correctly pointed out is a chinook jargon term meaning english which derived from the words king george chinook jargon being an old pigeon trade language endemic to the pacific northwest according to quasar the coast salish indians from the fraser delta area referred to harry wadman as saskahua kinchoch literally englishmen from saskahua j.w burns quizar claims contracted this phrase into a simpler word sasquatch there's one major potential problem with quizar's theory to the best of this arthur's knowledge there was no very saskahua district in british columbia a closer look at jw burns 1929 article reveals that the truth behind the origin of the word sasquatch may have evaded both gian qazar and mainstream etymologists in his article burns quotes indian charlie victor is saying of bc's hairy giants the strange people of whom there are but a few now rarely seen and seldom met are known by the name of sasquatch or the hairy mountain men even more importantly burns later quotes directly from a letter written by william point the young native man from vancouver who saw a wild man on the railroad tracks near agassi an excerpt from this letter reads old indians who were present said the wildman was no doubt a sasquatch a tribe of hairy people whom they claim have always lived in the mountains and tunnels and caves assuming that burns faithfully recorded these lines as they were said and written it appears that the word sasquatch may actually be an old hulkamalam word or at the very least william points interpretation of the chehalis word for bc's harry wildman and not some distortion of jw burns [Music] at the beginning of this video we learned that mount keenan formerly mount morris home of the sasquatch mountain resort is the birthplace of the word sasquatch indeed this landmark is the setting for the first story of burns's article in which chehalis man peter williams had a brush with an angry sasquatch at the mountain's base in 1940 burns wrote another even more dramatic story of the sasquatch encounter on mount keenan which is perhaps the most extraordinary sasquatch story ever written this tale is so remarkable that it deserves a video all to itself join us again next week to discover this incredible story behind the naming of the sasquatch mountain resort [Music] [Music] [Music] in a previous video we explored the story behind the origin of the word sasquatch in this video we're going to take a look at the disturbing tale behind the naming of the sasquatch mountain resort a ski hill nestled in the douglas mountains north of chilliwack british columbia for decades the ski hill on the slopes of mount kenan situated an hour's drive from both chilliwack and mission british columbia was known as the hemlock resort ostensibly owing its name to a particular evergreen tree common to the rainforest of the pacific northwest in 2018 the resort announced an ambitious expansion plan which it inaugurated with a rebranding campaign in addition to adopting a new logo hemlock changed his name to the sasquatch mountain resort in a press release the resort claimed that its new name was an homage to the chehalis first nation on whose traditional territory the ski hill is located the sasquatch which is an anglicized pronunciation of sasquatch is the primary caretaker of the land in an integral aspect of shahelah's identity and spiritual beliefs historical experiences with ceskets have been orally documented and passed down from generation to generation the sasquatch ensures that the land remains plentiful and well taken care of although the sasquatch mountain resort has not indicated an awareness of this in its press releases or on its website its new name is doubly appropriate for a far more specific reason not only is the sasquatch mountain resort located within the traditional territory of the chehalis first nation a tribe closely associated with the legend of the sasquatch it is also located on the slopes of mount keenan a landmark formerly known as mount morris home to the most chilling sasquatch story ever recorded throughout the first half of the 20th century magazine and newspaper articles documented a strange legend espoused by members of the chehalis first nation chehalis elders whispered that once every four years the sasquatch the hairy wild giants of the coastal rainforest congregated at the peak of mount morris a mountain located just north of the chehalis reserve natives often encountered traveling sasquatch in the woods immediately prior to this quadrennial pilgrimage and some even observed signal fires flickering atop mount morris in the dead of the night perhaps evidence of some mysterious sasquatch pow-wow throughout the 1930s a scottish immigrant named jw burns who served as both the school teacher and the indian agent at the chehalis reserve wrote a number of articles on the sasquatch legend some of them set on or near mount morris in the first of these articles published in the april 1 1929 issue of mclean's magazine he documented a story told to him by an elderly chihealis hunter named charlie victor victor claimed that he had encountered a sasquatch woman in his youth and that the creature had spoken to him in the language of the douglas first nation a more northerly lillouette tribe burns published another tale involving a talking sasquatch the second of its kind ever recorded in the january 1940 issue of the wide world a magazine for men this story was told to him by an 87 year old chahelis woman named seraphine long who had lived in the area all her life her hair winged tail remains one of the most disturbing sasquatch stories ever told in 1872 seventeen-year-old seraphine long stumbled from the woods into the shahelis village near the foot of mount morris the villagers were astonished as seraphine had been missing for nearly a year and had long been given up for dead the girl was in a state of supreme exhaustion and was too weak to talk and so her inquisitive countrymen withheld their many questions and put her to bed later that night seraphine gave birth to a monstrous looking child which only survived for a few hours when she was able seraphine long related her incredible experience to her family and friends nearly 70 years later she told the same story to jw burns at the chehalis reserve on the day of her disappearance back in 1871 seraphine long had been foraging for cedar roots at the base of mount morris daydreaming about the brave she was engaged to mary on her way back to camp a hairy hand shot out of the bush and clamped over her mouth seraphine was hoisted into the air and thrown over the shoulder of a hairy giant i was terrified the lady told burns fault and struggle with all my might in those days i was strong but it was no good the wild man was as powerful as a young bear holding me easily under one arm with his other hand he smeared tree gum over my eye sticking them shut so that i could not see where he was taking me he then lifted me to his shoulder and started to run the sasquatch took seraphine all the way up what could only be mount morris although as frightened seraphine told burns i could not but admire his easy breathing his great strength and speed on foot the sasquatch brought seraphine into a large cave near the top of the mountain and removed the tree ground from her eyes i sat up seraphine said and saw that it was in a great big cave the floor was covered with animal skins soft to touch and better preserve than we preserved them a small fire in the middle of the floor gave all the light there was as my eyes became accustomed to the gloom i saw that beside the young giant who had brought me to the cave there were two other wild people a man and a woman to me a young girl they seemed very very old but they were active and friendly and later i learned that they were the parents of the young sasquatch who had stolen me for nearly a year the sasquatches kept seraphine long as their prisoner never allowing her an opportunity to escape the sasquatches spoke to each other in a language similar to the tongue of the douglas indians and in time seraphine learned enough of their speech to communicate with them they fed me well on roots fish and meat she told burns i asked the young giant how he caught and killed the deer mountain goats and sheep that he often brought into the cave he smiled opening and closing his big hairy hands i guess that he just laid in weight and when an animal got close enough he leaped caught it and choked into death he was certainly big enough quick enough and strong enough to do so about a year into her imprisonment seraphine long became very ill she begged her young sasquatch captor to return her to her own people so that she could recover at first he got very angry she said as did his father and mother but i kept on pleading with them telling them that i wish to see my own people before i died i really was ill and i suppose they could see that for themselves because one day after i cried for a long time the young sasquatch went outside and returned with a leaf full of tree gum with this he stuck down my eyelids as he had done before then he again lifted me to his big shoulder the return journey was a hazy nightmare for surfing long who was too weak to even cling to the sasquatch as he carried her down the mountain at last he laid her down in the forest not too far from her home and gently removed the sap from her eyelids when he saw that i could see again seraphine said he shook his head sadly pointed to my house and then turned back into the forest the villagers were wildly excited at seraphine's return too weak to reciprocate their enthusiasm she crawled into bed that night she gave birth to a child which only survived for a few hours i hope that i never again shall see a sasquatch she concluded [Music] [Music] if you drive east of chilliwack british columbia take a left on the bc highway 9 cross the fraser river and continue north for about 10 minutes you will enter an enchanting corridor through the coast mountains known as the agassi harrison valley this stretch of farmland flanked by dark green mountains cover from base to peak with thick coniferous jungle leads to a little village hugging the southern shores of the vast harrison lake if you meander through the streets of this tiny community and keep a vigilant eye you may begin to realize that there's something distinctly different about the place for instance you might notice that a hairy sentinel who keeps perpetual watch at the village entrance lounging contently on a wooden bench beneath the town's welcome sign perhaps you'll catch a glimpse of another more startling village guardian standing further up the road poised to hurl a wooden boulder at passing cars if you're especially observant you may detect a certain pattern in the titles of various establishments the names of various inns liquor stores and ski resorts hint at a recurring theme even the street signs are topped with a stylized silhouette of british columbia's most elusive resident welcome to harrison hot springs the sasquatch capital of canada sasquatch is a household name in the fraser valley inducing chuckles and some and primal shivers and others derived from an old central salish word meaning wildman of the woods it denotes a legendary race of hairy giants which according to first nations tradition and regional folklore roams the force of british columbia to this very day although a number of explorers and adventurers recorded variations of it in their little journals and memoirs the legend of the sasquatch was first introduced to the general public by school teacher and later indian agent named jw burns who began teaching at the chehalis first nation reserve located a mere 15 minutes from harrison hot springs in 1925. burns used the word sasquatch for the first time in an article published in the april 1 1929 issue of mclean's magazine and the name stuck throughout the 1930s and 40s burns published a number of accounts of sasquatch sightings which were reported to him by his chihala's friends these sightings took place in the mountainous country surrounding the shahelis reserve from the so-called mystery valley west of harrison lake to the sasquatch cave outside yale british columbia far to the east through what is probably sheer coincidence the epicenter of the various sasquatch sightings reported by burns's informants seemed to be harrison hot springs a resort community renowned for its thermal mineral waters which have been used by the chehalis for centuries in which were discovered by white prospectors during the fraser river gold rush the village's community fully embraced its newfound status as the sasquatch capital of canada and began holding an annual summer festival called sasquatch days with the neighboring residents of the chehalis reserve a cherished tradition which endures to this day since the publication of burns's first article sasquatch sightings have taken place in the wilderness surrounding harrison hot springs with casual frequency perhaps the most famous of these sightings is the one which took place just outside of ruby creek a tiny rural community situated on the banks of the fraser river about 14 kilometers nine miles northeast of harrison hot springs as the crow flies in 1941 a chehalis man named george chapman lived in a cabin near ruby creek with his wife jeannie and their three children one day while george was away from home working as a tie gang laborer on the nearby railroad the eldest of the chapman children ran into the cabin and declared that a cow had emerged from the woods alarmed by the inexplicable panic in her nine-year-old son's tone jeannie stepped outside to investigate and spied what she first took to be a grizzly bear ambling along a distant hillside her two remaining children aged seven and five were playing in a nearby field at the time and did not appear to be in any imminent danger nevertheless jeannie decided to call her children to the cabin as a precaution the bear's strange physical appearance unnerved genie and so she decided to keep an eye on it from the cabin door as it made its way down the hill towards the railroad upon reaching the tracks the animal to genie's astonishment reared up on his hind legs and began to stride towards the cabin like a human miss chapman quickly realized that the creature was not a bear at all but rather an enormous eight foot tall man covered with long brown hair i had much too much time to look at it she would later say of the incident jeannie described the giant as having an enormous chest and shoulders inhumanly long arms and a small head with dark face fearing that the monster was after her children miss chapman unfurled a blanket and used it as a screen to shield her little ones from the wild man's gaze ordering her children to stay behind her she walked backwards from the cabin in the direction of the fraser river when they had put considerable distance between themselves and the giant which had begun to examine the house jeannie and her children raced for the safety of ruby creek two hours later george chapman none the wiser returned home from work to find that his home had been ransacked specifically he found that his storage shed had been broken into and that a heavy barrel filled with dried fish had been hauled outside and torn open apparently without the use of tools george knew from the pair of 17-inch long human-like footprints which encircled his cabin that the intruder had been a sasquatch one of the legendary wild men of the woods of which his people had long spoken the tracks indicated that the giant had loitered about the home for some time before finally heading back into the mountains tripping over a barbed wire fence as it departed the chapman's property to his relief george quickly spied four smaller sets of human footprints leading along the fraser river in the direction of ruby creek he followed the tracks to his father's house where he discovered his family had taken refuge accompanied by george's father who armed himself with a hunting rifle the chapmans returned to their cabin the following day in the night succeeding the incident they heard strange howls emanating from the nearby woods sometimes they would awake in the morning to find huge footprints in the vicinity of the cabin when the terrifying nocturnal visitations persisted for a week straight the chapmans decided to abandon their cabin and relocate [Music] in 1957 the ruby creek incident attracted the attention of john willison green a canadian journalist and one of canada's most prominent sasquatch researchers greene was so impressed by the chapman's testimonies that he decided to settle in harrison hot springs where he lived and carried out his research until his death in 2016. the incident at ruby creek of course was not the only sasquatch sighting to take place around harrison hot springs not by a long shot back in march 1932 for example several newspapers around canada and the united states reported on an alleged citing experience by frank dean a resident of harrison mills located across the harrison river from the chehalis reserve one night the story goes dean was roused by the barking of his dog he stepped outside to investigate the commotion and saw an enormous hairy man standing in the moonlight the creature growled at dean and began to advance towards him terrified dean stumbled back into his cabin and barred the door the giant prowled about his cabin for some time before finally retreating into the bush in the summer of 1934 the experience of a miss james caulfield who lived with her husband on a farm outside of harrison hot springs hit papers across the continent while washing her clothes in the harrison river miss caulfield heard a noise similar to that of a hummingbird in her own words i turned my head but instead of a bird there stood the most terrible thing i ever saw in my life i thought i'd die for the thing that made the funny noise was a big man covered with hair from head to foot he was looking at me and i couldn't help looking at him i guess he was a sasquatch so i covered my eyes with my hand for the indians say that if a sasquatch catches your eye you were in his power they hypnotized you i felt faint and as i backed away to get to the house i tripped and fell as he came near i screamed and fainted fortunately her scream attracted the attention of mr caufield who ran to her assistance just in time to catch a glimpse of a huge hairy figure darting into the woods [Music] the ruby creek incident frank dean siding and miss caulfield's experience are but a few of the many sasquatch stories to come out of harrison hot springs from peeking through windows at hapless farm wives to hurling rocks at chehalis fishermen the sasquatch are said to have made fairly regular appearances in the harrison area throughout the 1930s and 40s some say that the legendary wild man of the woods pays the occasional visit to his old stomping grounds to this very day if like jw burns and john green you find yourself enthralled by the mystery of the sasquatch consider paying a visit to canada's sasquatch capital there you can hike the trails of sasquatch provincial park and natural area located about four miles west of ruby creek or brush up on your sasquatch lore at the local sasquatch museum a relaxing soak in harrison's thermal waters makes for an excellent wind down after a long day of sasquatch hunting in sasquatch days with its canoe races and traditional salmon barbecue offers a tantalizing glimpse into the culture of the chehalis people from whom the legend of the sasquatch derives if you do decide to pay a visit to harrison hot springs remember to keep your eyes peeled if you're really lucky you might just catch a glimpse of the most famous forest dwelling denison of the sasquatch capital of canada [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 47min 0sec (2820 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 05 2021