Sasquatch sighting in Northern Ontario
Gord says: It's on the CBC's website, so it must be... (dun dun duuuun)... T R U E ! ! !"
Two Ontario women say they saw what might have been the legendary sasquatch in northwestern Ontario last week.Berry-pickers report sasquatch sighting in northern Ontario (cbcnews.ca)Helen Pahpasay and her mother were north of Grassy Narrows, Ont., about 230 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, to pick blueberries last Tuesday when they spotted a hulking figure from their truck at about 10 a.m. CT.
"It was black, about eight feet long and all black, and the way it walked was upright, human-like, but more — I don't know how to describe it — more of a husky walk, I guess," she told CBC News.
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It is Sasquatch season up there IIRC...
i think they be eatin' the fermented berries
It was just a Quebecois on vacation.
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"eight feet long ... the way it walked was upright"
That's a weird way to phrase it. Long? Tall, surely.
[insert phallic reference here]
If it was 8 feet long can you imagine how tall it must have been then?
Surely no mistaking something that big.
That'll do :)
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Six-toed footprint?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Black_bear_large.jpg/378px-Black_bear_large.jpg
Eight feet tall and hairy...are they sure it wasn't an Acadian lumberjack?
I grew up in this area. These ladies know what a bear looks like. Sounds more like it could be Randy; my long lost cousin. Depends if this guy had 6 toes on both feet.
"Helen Pahpasay and her mother were north of Grassy Narrows, Ont., about 230 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg"
Rural Canada, where the cities are so few that you have to reference one from the next province over to locate the story spatially.
IT was true
True that two women say they saw a Sasquatch. It doesn't mean said Sasquatch is true, just that there are two women who said they saw it...
Don't you love logic?
Anytime I read things of this nature, I'm reminded of the book The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science by Robert Anton Wilson -- because it details so many (so many) strange sightings of creatures throughout history. And things of such improbable nature falling out of the sky, like frogs and coins... seemingly out of nowhere.
What a mindfuck that book is. I believe it's out-of-print though :(
#12: yes it is a heap big place...Ontario is 3x the size of Texas, Quebec, she be even bigger, you bet...and for 8 months of the year temps go below freezing...a nice place, I tell you, a good place...
IIRC about three or four dozen Canucks get lost for keeps in the wilderness every year...got to keep a eye on the little ones, that woods out back can go on for hundreds of miles...and the Sasquatch... she might take 'em if she ain't got none of her own,eh? She hairy like Canuck woman huh?
At least like Canuck women that I know...
These women must have just seen a bear. Mainly because there's no such thing as Sasquatch. Also, bears can look pretty weird and human-like, if they're starving and skinny but especially if they're soaking wet.
On a canoe trip in NW Ontario I took a photo of a bear that had been swimming across the lake we were paddling on, just as it climbed out on the shore. In the photo, it's standing up and scrawny and humanoid with its thick fur matted down: like a Sasquatch, as we even remarked at the time.
Local shaman sighted in bear phase..caught her bear naked so to say.
There have been so many sightings over the years by people highly familiar with the woods (hunters, conservation officials, park rangers) of Sasquatch that it is indisputable that they exist. For anyone who knows how bears look and act, these creatures could never be mistaken for bears.
I just have to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7D36Pwb6kY
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It could be human. If you were 8 feet tall and incredibly hairy, you'd probably want to go be a recluse too.
If you go to BFRO.net you'll see that there are reported sasquatch sightings in North America all the time, but people generally won't talk too much about them because they'll be ridiculed by supposedly open-minded people.
Have you ever driven by a field of cows and mistaken them for horses? So why should you believe someone mistook a bear for a large man-ape?
"Skeptics say it's preposterous that a large mammal could have evaded detection in North America throughout history." Well. . . that's not so hard to believe IF the creature was intelligent enough to deliberately avoid humans, and so many reported sightings end with the creature running away when it realizes it's been seen. Eric Rudolf hid in the North Carolina forests for two years without being found, and was only captured because he essentially got tired of running. Now imagine a wild creature perfectly adapted to that environment.
Most people never really think about the possibility of an unknown hominid living in North America, they hear the word "Bigfoot" and laugh it off as some fad from the 70's and it ends there.
If you were 8 feet tall and incredibly hairy, you'd probably want to go be a recluse too.
In some social circles, he'd be quite popular.
The Saskwatch in this case is real. I know because I bagged him with a nice hunting shotgun this morning. We made some delicious soup and steaks out of him, though I admit it was a little gamey.