May 19, 2003 – B

 

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization
http://www.bfro.net/

“…It’s a fact that for more than 400 years people have reported seeing large, hair-covered, man-like animals in the wilderness areas of North America….”

 

Pre-Columbian and Early American Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings
http://www.bfro.net/legends

“…The Iroquois (Six Nations Confederacy) of the Northeast — although they live in close proximity to the eastern Algonkian tribes with their Windigo legends — view Bigfoot much in the same way the Hopi do, as a messenger from the Creator trying to warn humans to change their ways or face disaster. However, mentioned among Iroquois much more often than Bigfoot are the “little people” who are said to inhabit the Adirondacks mountains….”

 

A Medieval Sasquatch
by Dr. W. Henner Fahrenbach
http://www.bfro.net/legends/Iwein.asp

…Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1140-1190) wrote an epic “Yvain”, which was recomposed in Old High German by Hartmann von Aue (ca. 1165-1210) in about 1190 as the Celtic Arthurian epic “Iwein” (pronounced “ee-vine”). In the introductory section of this rhymed poem of over 8,000 lines, a knight by name of Kalogrenant recounts an excursion …

 

Dr. Jane Goodall’s Comments on NPR Regarding Sasquatch
bfro.net, Sept. 27, 2002
See also: http://www.bfro.net/news/goodall.asp

“…I’ve talked to so many Native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them. I’ve probably got about, oh, thirty books that have come from different parts of the world, from China from, from all over the place, and there was a little tiny snippet in the newspaper just last week which says that British scientists have found what they believed to be a yeti hair and that the scientists in the Natural History Museum in London couldn’t identify it as any known animal…”

 

Bigfoot Sightings in Ontario

 

Ontario Bigfoot Sightings
A few are selected.

 

From: Geographic Database of Bigfoot/Sasquatch Sightings & Reports
http://www.bfro.net/gdb/

 

Hwy 557, near Blind River, Ontario, 2002
http://www.bfro.net
Great story:

“…Moose make odd noises also bears but neither had the weight of this sound it was a BIG sound. I have heard owls make the most amazingly complex series of whoops and yells at ear splitting volumes but they don’t have the weight or bass these sounds had nor the organisation in the way the sounds that we heard were vocalized…”

 

Hwy#11, North of Nipigon, Ontario, 1997
bfro.net

 

Kirkland Lake, Ontario, 1975 and 1986
bfro.net
Teen watches as sitting bigfoot eats blueberries

 

Geraldton, Ontario, 1978 (http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=67)
bfro.net: from Niagara Falls Review Oct. 10, 1978

“…animal about 2.2-meters tall, covered with long, reddish-brown hair…”

 

Smithville and Campden, Ontario 1965 (http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=65)
bfro.net: from Beamsville Express Aug 25, 1965
“Smithville Creature”

…the thing he saw a yard behind his car “just looked like a great big gorilla.”

 

Temagami, Ontario, 1994
bfro.net

“…we saw a 7 foot tall humanoid that looked completely brown scooping up water into its mouth with its hand…”

 

Lindsay, Ontario, 1996
bfro.net

“…[the dogs] came back crying and wimpering. Then in the distance I saw a hairy, tall and ugly thing. It was probably 8 feet high…”