1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,540 Tonight's encounter comes to you from long ago. 2 00:00:03,540 --> 00:00:06,380 We're pulling this one out of the vault. 3 00:00:06,380 --> 00:00:20,780 Living in Vancouver puts me within reach of breathtaking rugged wilderness at almost every turn. 4 00:00:20,780 --> 00:00:24,920 British Columbia is a paradise for any lover of the outdoors. 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,220 It's also a paradise for Sasquatch. 6 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:32,260 I'd always heard that, but never gave it much thought. 7 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:37,460 But that changed one afternoon in August of 2019. 8 00:00:37,460 --> 00:00:40,900 One of my favorite hikes is up to Brunswick Mountain. 9 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:47,260 Now this hike is a challenge, but the stunning views of How Sound below and all the other surroundings. 10 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:54,180 Well, they're enough to make your jaw drop and your heart skip a beat from the beauty, and it's all worthwhile. 11 00:00:54,180 --> 00:00:59,900 On the weekends, the trail that goes up to Mt. Brunswick and Mt. Harvey is almost never empty. 12 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:05,020 Now during the weekdays, well, that's a different matter. It's a lot less traveled. 13 00:01:05,020 --> 00:01:12,420 Turned out one week, I had time off in the middle of the week, so I drove up to Brunswick Beach and made my way to the trailhead. 14 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:17,780 The first part of the climb is relatively easy from an elevation climb standpoint. 15 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:24,100 There are several switchbacks that help you make a gradual lateral climb without too much effort. 16 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:32,220 I was coming up to the spur that takes you to Mt. Harvey, and I encountered a group of five hikers that were coming down the trail towards me. 17 00:01:32,220 --> 00:01:35,300 They were all smiles, happy, and relaxed. 18 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:40,420 We nodded, said hello as we passed, but otherwise did not speak. 19 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:47,340 Passed the spur over to Mt. Harvey, there are two mountain streams flowing down to How Sound below. 20 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:53,100 This is a natural hollow dip between the two mountains, but I wouldn't call it a valley floor. 21 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:59,140 I came up to the first creek and off to my ride at some distance of some 30 or more meters. 22 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:06,460 I was shocked and surprised to see a tall, human-like outline moving quickly between the trees. 23 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:14,140 It's a long arm swung back and forth as it took wide strides covering great ground in a short time. 24 00:02:14,140 --> 00:02:22,220 At that time I didn't believe that the creature had seen me, but given later events, I do believe that it did. 25 00:02:22,220 --> 00:02:28,220 I believe it was going ahead to ambush me, but we'll get there. 26 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:31,020 I stopped in my tracks on the trail. 27 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:34,300 I waited, watched, and listened. 28 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:41,100 I was disbelieving of what my eyes had just seen and what my brain was trying to identify it as. 29 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,980 I wasn't panicked or fearful at that time. 30 00:02:43,980 --> 00:02:49,820 I didn't believe in a sask watch, and I would have to do that for any of those things to happen. 31 00:02:49,820 --> 00:02:52,780 I was calm and questioning. 32 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:58,380 I tried to observe it as long as I could before it was lost in the horizon of tree trunks. 33 00:02:58,380 --> 00:03:04,460 I looked around, half expecting someone to jump out from behind a tree and yell that it was a great joke, 34 00:03:04,460 --> 00:03:09,420 and they had played a good prank on me, and they got it all on film. 35 00:03:09,420 --> 00:03:17,580 That I looked around, and all I heard was the sound of a normal forest and the wind as it went through the trees. 36 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:23,500 I still am unable to explain what exactly was going through my mind right then. 37 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,060 It wasn't shock, exactly. 38 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:32,460 It was more of an unwillingness to allow that it was a sask watch that I had really seen. 39 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:35,500 I did not believe in such things. 40 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:42,780 I started out by telling you that one of the perks of living in Vancouver is the proximity to incredible wildernesses, 41 00:03:42,780 --> 00:03:48,460 and I have taken full advantage of that perk since I moved here with my parents when I was 12 years old. 42 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:53,100 Now whether it was with my father, my uncles, or a church group or some other entities, 43 00:03:53,100 --> 00:04:00,460 or just a group of friends as I got older, I can honestly tell you that I can account for hundreds of days and nights 44 00:04:00,460 --> 00:04:04,620 spent in some very far-flung remote areas of British Columbia, 45 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:08,460 and quite a few more down in the northern parts of the 48. 46 00:04:08,460 --> 00:04:16,700 And in all that time I have never had a moment's unease caused by a sight or sound that I couldn't firmly place 47 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:20,220 in the normal scientific world. 48 00:04:20,220 --> 00:04:26,220 But what I had just seen didn't exactly fit in the normal scientific world. 49 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:29,900 I was still calm but I felt my heart beating faster, 50 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:36,540 and I now had a bit of sweat on my upper lip that had nothing to do with the climb that I'd been making. 51 00:04:36,540 --> 00:04:42,060 I stood there for a few minutes, letting that natural world around me continue on 52 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:46,060 while I struggled to work through what I had just seen. 53 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:51,740 Now seeing it at 30 or maybe 40 meters doesn't seem very momentous, 54 00:04:51,740 --> 00:04:54,860 not when I say it like that anyway. 55 00:04:54,860 --> 00:05:01,900 But the way it felt, well it was like a kind of being Roger Patterson or maybe Bob Gimlin at Bluff Creek. 56 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:07,660 Only mine wasn't seen in an open creek area, and I didn't have a camera. 57 00:05:07,660 --> 00:05:12,540 Yes, their encounter was much closer and definitely more definable. 58 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:18,700 But the surprise of running into something like that, well it felt the same to me as I imagine it 59 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:25,660 must have felt to them. I was still not ready to admit that I had just seen a sask watch, 60 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:31,020 and after a few minutes I told myself it was some trick of the eye with the sunlight filtering 61 00:05:31,020 --> 00:05:36,460 down through the trees. I had seen something else that the sunlight and the shadows and the 62 00:05:36,460 --> 00:05:43,980 distance had made me think I was seeing something else. In hindsight it's really quite amazing 63 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:48,380 the things that you can convince yourself. Why didn't I turn around right then? 64 00:05:48,380 --> 00:05:53,980 Well I can't explain that other than I didn't believe that I had seen a sask watch. 65 00:05:53,980 --> 00:06:00,700 It was headed off to the right of me, while the trail I knew would be heading straight 66 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,780 and up to the left a bit, and then it would curve after the second mountain stream. 67 00:06:04,780 --> 00:06:09,740 I felt we were going in opposite directions. Little did I know. 68 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:16,460 After waiting those few minutes and seeing and hearing nothing more, I continued on on the trail. 69 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:23,420 I breathed in deeply, walking a steady pace to slow my pulse, all the while coming up with all 70 00:06:23,420 --> 00:06:28,860 sorts of things that I could have maybe seen, not what I thought it was, and some of those things 71 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:33,820 were pretty ridiculous, but none some ridiculous to me as a sask watch. 72 00:06:33,820 --> 00:06:39,020 I got to the second stream and I decided it was time for a rest. 73 00:06:40,140 --> 00:06:43,580 The most difficult part of the trail I knew was right ahead of me. 74 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:49,820 The closer you get to the summit, the more it becomes slippery shale and tumbling rocks, 75 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:54,940 and between where I was and that point, well it was some stiff elevation climb. 76 00:06:54,940 --> 00:06:59,980 There were times it felt more like mountain climbing than mountain hiking. 77 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:06,620 So I took this break time to get the trekking poles off my back, unfold them and extend them. 78 00:07:06,620 --> 00:07:09,660 I knew I would need them the further up I went. 79 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:15,740 Why it was that I deliberately chose to stop there and to stay for a bit? 80 00:07:15,740 --> 00:07:18,300 Well, that's still something of a mystery to me. 81 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:24,140 Knowing myself, though, I think my subconscious was forcing me to stay in that area, 82 00:07:24,140 --> 00:07:28,060 to confront or disprove what I thought I had seen. 83 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:32,780 Maybe it was a way to prove to myself that it had been nothing at all. 84 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:38,540 I guess I'll never really know because it turned out it was something after all. 85 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:40,940 And I was about to get a look at it. 86 00:07:40,940 --> 00:07:46,220 I was sitting, leaned up against a tree, just a few meters from the stream. 87 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:52,700 I was ready to get up and start the trail again, and I leaned slightly over to my right to pick up 88 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:58,060 my water bottle that I had just sat down next to me a moment before, only to discover that it had 89 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:04,060 fallen and rolled a little bit away from me. I had leaned over and was reaching out to get it 90 00:08:04,780 --> 00:08:12,140 when bang! I felt small bark chips and a good-sized rock rained down on my shoulder and my left arm. 91 00:08:12,140 --> 00:08:16,940 Instinctively, I sat up wondering what had just happened? 92 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:22,060 I thought maybe something had fallen down from the tree, so I looked up. 93 00:08:22,060 --> 00:08:28,940 Then I start to stand up, and I sidestepped the tree and stood away from it so I could look up at it. 94 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:36,140 When another large rock pounded against the tree at head height, exploding more small bits of bark. 95 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:42,780 In a split second, I saw the mark that had just been made and the one that was lower from it. 96 00:08:42,780 --> 00:08:50,300 Right where my head had been. Someone was targeting my head with very large rocks. 97 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:57,420 I was not connecting this with what I had recently seen. It would seem improbable, 98 00:08:57,420 --> 00:09:03,420 especially when I wasn't a believer in Sasquatch. To my way of thinking there was some crazy 99 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:10,300 person out here targeting hikers. That made more sense to me than Sasquatch trying to bring me with a 100 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:17,340 rock. I got behind the tree that I had just been sitting against. My heart was pounding now. 101 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:22,940 "Who would want to hurt me and why?" I had nothing of value with me. 102 00:09:23,980 --> 00:09:28,220 There were a stream of questions and answers and thoughts that ran through my mind. 103 00:09:28,220 --> 00:09:35,100 My pack, my trekking poles, and those were all on the ground on the other side of the tree. 104 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:40,540 I crouched low and took a peek around the tree, then reached out for my pack. 105 00:09:40,540 --> 00:09:46,460 Only to have another rock knick the side of the tree where my head had just been before I pulled my 106 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:53,260 pack and my head back around to the back side of the tree. If I had had any doubts before, 107 00:09:54,060 --> 00:10:01,180 they were now gone. I was being targeted. Specifically, my head was being targeted, 108 00:10:01,180 --> 00:10:08,780 and the thrower had a powerful and fairly accurate aim. I couldn't reach my trekker poles, 109 00:10:08,780 --> 00:10:13,900 but I no longer cared. I didn't care if I left those, those were replaceable. 110 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:19,100 My only thoughts were centered on getting back down to the trailhead to my car. 111 00:10:20,140 --> 00:10:25,900 I had nothing stronger than bear spray on me, which was one of the reasons I chanced it to get my pack. 112 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:32,540 Well, that and my keys were inside the pack, as was my phone, although I knew the phone was useless 113 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:39,020 in that area. It hit me very hard that someone was, presumably, trying to kill me, 114 00:10:39,020 --> 00:10:46,620 or at the very least, incapacitate me. Like a candle flame coming to life, I then thought of what I 115 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:53,420 had seen a half hour before, and the ideas sparked to life in my mind that they were somehow connected, 116 00:10:53,420 --> 00:11:00,460 that it might be what I had seen. After all, I still have believed that it was a prankster, 117 00:11:00,460 --> 00:11:08,460 another hiker, or something plausible along that vein. But if so, why would they want to hurt me? 118 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:15,820 Slow and powerful were the sounds I now heard of something large forwarding the stream. 119 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:23,740 I heard the rocks clatter and shift as it came to the bank. I swallowed my fear, got to my feet, 120 00:11:23,740 --> 00:11:29,660 and flipped up the safety guard over the thumb depression of my bear spray. Whatever it was, 121 00:11:29,660 --> 00:11:34,220 it was coming straight for me, and I could only assume it meant to finish the job. 122 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:41,420 The light breeze came from my back, so I was in the perfect position if I needed to use the bear spray. 123 00:11:41,420 --> 00:11:48,380 I stayed behind the tree as much as I could, then I leaned out and pointed the bear spray. 124 00:11:48,380 --> 00:11:55,180 This is the moment where panic and shock could have been the end of me if I had faltered. 125 00:11:55,180 --> 00:12:03,180 You hear and read about how big or powerful a sask watch is, but nothing prepares you for the reality. 126 00:12:03,180 --> 00:12:09,660 It was within 15 or 20 meters of me, and it was closing the distance fast. 127 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:16,220 This was a mammoth-sized sask watch. I presume it was a male, but I have no proof. 128 00:12:16,220 --> 00:12:22,060 Full black hair, deep set eyes, and a towering, powerful height. 129 00:12:22,060 --> 00:12:28,300 I had little time to take in more than those details, and I let loose with the bear spray. 130 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:35,260 My bear spray had a 30-foot range I knew, but with the breeze, it carried it forward, 131 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:40,700 and with the strong stride of the sask watch they met in the middle as it walked toward me. 132 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:48,460 There was a sudden gagging, shrieking sound. I saw the sask watch blindly wave its arms around 133 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:54,300 like it was looking for an opponent to attack. That opponent, of course, would have been me, 134 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:57,660 but I wasn't staying there any longer than necessary. 135 00:12:57,660 --> 00:13:04,300 I hit the trail at a dead run. I didn't know if I could outrun a sask watch, 136 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:08,460 but I knew I wanted to get as much distance between us as I could. 137 00:13:08,460 --> 00:13:16,140 My mind kept blinking out as I ran. All I could think of was one foot to the next, to the next, to the next. 138 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:21,660 I kept thinking this is not real. This isn't happening. This isn't possible. 139 00:13:21,660 --> 00:13:27,340 I kept thinking this is going to be on the news later tonight because somebody pulled a prank, 140 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:32,700 and they then ended up in a hospital from burns to their eyes from a direct hit from bear spray. 141 00:13:33,740 --> 00:13:39,500 But there was also a running theme whispering under all of those thoughts that I had just come up 142 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:44,460 against a sask watch, one that had tried to kill me with rocks thrown at my head. 143 00:13:44,460 --> 00:13:50,380 But I couldn't think of that at that time. It was just too much to process. 144 00:13:50,380 --> 00:13:56,780 It was only later that I began to give this some real thought, and I will share those thoughts with you, 145 00:13:56,780 --> 00:14:00,140 but for now I want to finish telling you what happened. 146 00:14:02,380 --> 00:14:06,940 I crossed that first creek, and I thought I had put enough distance between us, 147 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:13,900 and I was getting tired for sure. I am used to elevation climbs and challenging hiking, 148 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:20,300 but this is not the same as being a long distance runner. I was slowing to a jog by then, 149 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:27,580 but I made myself keep going. I was probably a half kilometer from the creek area, 150 00:14:27,580 --> 00:14:33,820 and I was coming up to the first switchback, then and only then did I feel I could start to slow down. 151 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:38,940 I was flooded with adrenaline still, but it was beginning to fade. 152 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:46,620 I no longer heard the creature behind me, so I felt safe, but how wrong I was. 153 00:14:46,620 --> 00:14:52,700 I had stopped to get my phone out to check for a signal. I had a very weak signal, 154 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:57,020 not enough to get a call out to complete. So I started walking. 155 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:00,060 And I suddenly heard a twacking sound behind me. 156 00:15:00,060 --> 00:15:07,500 I rolled around, and there was one of my trekking poles sticking up at an odd angle in the dirt wall 157 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:16,140 side on the trail. It had thrown my trekking pole like a javelin. I looked back, frantically looking 158 00:15:16,140 --> 00:15:24,460 for the sask watch. It had to be close, but I couldn't see it. I put on a burst of speed which could only 159 00:15:24,460 --> 00:15:30,460 have been possible because of another flood of adrenaline. The mortal human in me, though, 160 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:37,660 was getting close to giving out adrenaline or no adrenaline. The only thing that saved me was going 161 00:15:37,660 --> 00:15:44,300 down in elevation. If I had been going up still, well, I don't want to imagine that. 162 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:51,900 I looked back several times, and on the fourth or fifth look back, it was there on the trail behind me. 163 00:15:52,780 --> 00:15:59,100 Once again, it was closing the distance alarmingly fast. I'd like to tell you that the face was all 164 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:04,060 puffy and the eyes were amassed from the spray that I had really deltied a blow back there. 165 00:16:04,060 --> 00:16:11,180 But I couldn't tell anything like that. It just looked like a massive oversized human-shaped black 166 00:16:11,180 --> 00:16:17,980 fur barreling down the trail toward me. It wasn't running exactly. It was more like a speedwalk. 167 00:16:18,860 --> 00:16:23,820 I missed the area with me again with bear spray, and then I turned and ran. 168 00:16:23,820 --> 00:16:30,540 I heard it shrieking pain immediately when it hit that misty cloud that was hanging over the trail. 169 00:16:30,540 --> 00:16:37,420 By then my legs were true rubber, and my lungs were on fire, and I really couldn't think clearly 170 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:45,100 for the pounding of fear in my head. But I ran. I ran until I honestly could not run anymore. 171 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:51,180 By the time I made it down to the trailhead, I was a mess up quivering jelly. 172 00:16:51,180 --> 00:16:57,820 I had pushed my body to levels that I didn't know it could achieve. I don't think I've ever had such a 173 00:16:57,820 --> 00:17:03,580 sustained release of adrenaline in my life, and coming down from that kind of adrenaline rush, 174 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:10,140 well that's no fun. On the way down, I did pass a couple that was on their way up. 175 00:17:11,100 --> 00:17:17,180 I tried to tell them not to go up, but I guess I was a mess in shaking and hard to understand. 176 00:17:17,180 --> 00:17:22,860 They saw that I had a bear spray in my hand, and I think they assumed that it was a bear that I 177 00:17:22,860 --> 00:17:28,700 had encountered, and that's what I was trying to warn them against. They assured me they would be fine. 178 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:32,380 They've dealt with bears before, and they both showed me their spray. 179 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:37,260 They said they'll take a break right there and give it some time to move on. 180 00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:42,060 Nothing I said could convince them to not go further. 181 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:47,980 Truthfully, I was too terrified to stay there any longer with them, and continued to try to 182 00:17:47,980 --> 00:17:55,500 convince them. I even said the word "saskwatch." I did. I told them it was a saskwatch and not a bear. 183 00:17:55,500 --> 00:18:01,980 The looks on their faces and their patronizing words and tones told me I wasn't going to waste 184 00:18:01,980 --> 00:18:08,380 any more time with them. When I got down to the trailhead, I did try to report what happened. 185 00:18:09,180 --> 00:18:14,220 And you can guess how that went. Again, I finally said the word "saskwatch." 186 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:21,500 And again, it did not go well. I broke off making the report, and I told them I guess I was mistaken. 187 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:27,580 They asked, superstitiously, about the substances that I might be carrying or have used. 188 00:18:27,580 --> 00:18:32,860 I let them go through my pack to show them there was nothing there, and there wasn't. 189 00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:40,780 Well, I was still shaking by the time I arrived home. But once in the safety of my home, 190 00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:46,060 with the late afternoon sunlight coming in through the windows and the sound of traffic and people 191 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:53,180 just outside, well, what had happened to me earlier that day seemed more like a movie that I had seen 192 00:18:53,180 --> 00:18:59,180 rather than something I had experienced. I mentioned that I have a lot of thoughts on what happened 193 00:18:59,180 --> 00:19:05,500 that day, and that I would share them with you. So here it goes. Some of the things that have struck 194 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:11,180 me while learning about saskwatch and the history of events surrounding it has led me to tangential 195 00:19:11,180 --> 00:19:17,500 side subjects that most people will eventually come upon if you do enough searches on the subject of 196 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:26,460 saskwatch, namely missing people. My personal theory is that saskwatches will often use a rock to kill 197 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:33,900 or at least stun their prey, whether that prey is human or some other animal. I am no expert on 198 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:39,660 primitive peoples or their skill levels and what they knew at different times during evolution. 199 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:46,940 But I must believe the discovery of a headshot with a heavy rock was a very useful hunting technique 200 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:53,740 and that it came to those people rather early in evolution. I believe this is what has happened to 201 00:19:53,740 --> 00:20:01,580 so many missing people, including hunters. They never see that rock coming. Even if it doesn't kill 202 00:20:01,580 --> 00:20:08,380 them outright, a rock to the head will stun them or knock them unconscious, and that makes it easy 203 00:20:08,380 --> 00:20:14,860 to drag them away or carry them away. There is no blood at the scene usually where they have been 204 00:20:14,860 --> 00:20:21,340 taken. There are no sounds, there is no yelling, they are just taken, and no one is the wiser. 205 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:30,060 The rocks thrown that day were being thrown by a very powerful arm, powerful enough to make the 206 00:20:30,060 --> 00:20:37,020 bark of a tree explode when hit. I've since tried to recreate that by just throwing a heavy stone 207 00:20:37,020 --> 00:20:42,940 at a tree with everything I've got. I only make the bark fly with something that increases the 208 00:20:42,940 --> 00:20:49,740 velocity of the stone, such as a wrist rocket with a smaller stone. I can't begin to calculate the 209 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:55,660 force and strength that a stone roughly the size of a baseball or larger wouldn't need to recreate 210 00:20:55,660 --> 00:21:03,340 the same bark flying on impact and leaving the same deep wound in a tree. I've also been interested 211 00:21:03,340 --> 00:21:09,500 in native accounts of Sasquatches through the years. Many, both here in Canada and down in the United 212 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:15,420 States, say they are violent and that they have a history of hunting and maybe eating humans. 213 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:23,660 My question is, if any of their accounts detail how they hunt and kill them, I can't find any that 214 00:21:23,660 --> 00:21:30,140 explicitly say. If anyone listening has heard of how the native said Sasquatches killed people, 215 00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:37,500 please speak up and let me know. I really do want to know. You know what I think? I think stones have 216 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:43,580 been around long before humans, of course, and a stone was surely the first murder weapon in history. 217 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:51,580 I think it's still in use by Sasquatches today. I also think the rock to the head attack fits a lot 218 00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:57,580 of the strange missing person scenarios. You know, no one hears the rock that hit the last person 219 00:21:57,580 --> 00:22:04,940 in the group on the trail. That hunter, glassing down an area, he never sees or hears that rock smashing 220 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:12,220 him from the side or from behind. One powerful rock throw, that could explain a lot of bloodless 221 00:22:12,220 --> 00:22:18,380 disappearances where all of their things were left behind. It does make me wonder. 222 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:26,860 I have not gone back up that trail since. I probably never will. I also never hike alone now, 223 00:22:26,860 --> 00:22:32,300 although I do hike still quite a bit, and I always have a satellite phone with me now. 224 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:41,100 I survived that day. I feel like someone who walked away from a huge auto accident that killed 225 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:48,300 everyone else and should have killed me. At there I am, walking free. It's a strange feeling. 226 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:55,260 I wanted to share this for others to be aware, and to hear what others might know and what they 227 00:22:55,260 --> 00:23:03,340 think on this. I am genuinely interested. Do you think that Sasquatches kill people with headshots 228 00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:13,900 with rocks? I do. Thank you. Signed J.W. You've been listening to The Buckeye Bigfoot Podcast. 229 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:20,620 Find more stories, hundreds more, over on our YouTube channel. Just look for Buckeye Bigfoot. 230 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:43,620