Christmas Day at home on Lipton Street, with all the family around him, Archie brought out a book containing handwritten notes and a drawing of the Sasquatch he had a very up close and personal encounter with on Dec. 29, 1960. One by one, the family took Archie’s book into a room adjoining their dining room, and read details of the day he oh-so-clearly remembers standing face-to-face, eight feet away from a female Sasquatch in the bush near Swan River, and wondering what was going to happen next.
Home for Christmas from attending school in Winnipeg, Archie was visiting his parents’ farm near Renwer, Man., (east of Swan River) and had taken a team of horses and the sleigh to go chop some wood three miles or so into the bush back of the farm.
With the horses tied to some nearby brush, axe in hand, about 10:30 a.m., Archie was chopping deadfall when about 400 yards across the clearing he was in, he spotted what he believed to be a man slowly heading his way, stopping every few minutes to examine the bushes. Wasn’t quite sure what the guy was up to, but by the time the “man” got within a hundred yards or so, Archie realized his visitor was a Sasquatch, which, shortly after, confronted Archie in a manner that left him frozen in place till the fear subsided enough for both him and the Sasquatch to take a few steps back.
His description of the event, much too long to recount here, is available on Sun Radio, in an interview Ian Shanley and I conducted with Archie Friday. Click for radio interview
One of the first questions Ian asks Archie is why he waited 50 years to tell his story, which I got additional details on following the interview. Seems Archie was recently watching a television program in which the guest declared there is no such thing as a Sasquatch, and Archie just couldn’t let it go. He decided regardless of the outcome, it was time to share his experience.
We’re glad he did. His description of the event is fascinating, particularly when he details the physical appearance and behaviour of his somewhat nerve-wracking forest friend.
Archie tells me the only person he ever told of his encounter was his mother upon arriving home that day, who got him to sit down and draw a picture of it, the same picture he displays at the front of his notebook, now featured beside a Sasquatch pic one of his grandchildren got online.
Following our interview with Archie, I called UFO-studies buff Chris Rutkowski to ask if he was aware of any other Sasquatch sightings reported from the area. He recalled Sasquatch sightings at Easterville in 1968 and 1970, one of them reported by a school principal.
Click for video - Easterville, Manitoba sighting
In the video above, the men are speaking Cree, and the translation of what they are saying is: “There’s someone standing here boy”…(another speaking) “it looks big”….”can you see it boy?”…”it’s kinda far away.”
Click for video - Bobby Clarke video
At dawn on Saturday, April 16, 2005, Bobby Clarke, a Manitoba ferryboat driver and Native of the Norway House Cree First Nation, was doing his job when he noticed something, a "big, black figure," "a massive creature" on the opposite bank of the Nelson River, about 300 meters (over 900 feet) away. Clarke had an old camcorder on board to record any wildlife he saw, so he picked it up and took two minutes and 49 seconds of videotape of what many say is a Sasquatch. He showed it to hundreds of locals at his friend, Georgina Henry’s house in Norway House, Manitoba, before he sold the first rights to screen it to the program, A Current Affair.
Clarke told the Globe and Mail that he "has been nervous ever since seeing the creature, especially when he takes the ferry to the side of the river the creature was on."
Despite a well-publicized A Current Affair expedition to Manitoba to search for the Sasquatch, and keep the story alive, no results were forthcoming. As fate would have it, the entire news magazine was cancelled by Fox Television a few weeks after the Clarke Bigfoot affair was no longer current.
Click for video - Interview
Below is the “Peguis Backroad BF Video” Large Sasquatch is filmed by a Native American after spotting it crossing road some 200 KM north of Winnipeg, Canada. Tree-pulling from reverse handshake. Long arms 60% of body height, coned head that looks up, brow ridge, rise and fall and pause at top of step indicates mid-tarsal break
Click for video - Peguis Backroad Sasquatch
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