Bigfoot no tall tale to witnesses
TESLIN, Yukon - It was a quiet night in Teslin when the woods began to crackle and the dogs started to howl.
Melvin Harper heard it, and saw a figure flitting near a neighbour’s light post, then through a forested island next to the log houses in this Yukon town of 400.
“It was something big, about eight feet tall. It’s black, hairy, muscular. It was huge,” he said. “He was, like, teasing us, making noises in the bush, coming back and forth.
“It freaks me out that they do have stuff like that out there, that you never seen in your life before. And that big means they are breeding.”
“It was like a sasquatch,” said Tom Dickson, who also saw the creature. “Like how you see it on TV, how they advertise it — the same image. You can’t see no eyes, nothing, just black, but it was moving pretty fast.
“It was a shocking feeling, like if you see a bear.”
It’s at least the third sighting of a bush creature in Teslin in a year, leading locals to surmise that perhaps a sasquatch — or a family of them — has migrated north from more typical haunts in northern California and the interior of B.C.
[see Edmonton Journal]
