Father relates Native accounts from the Sangre de Cristo mountains to teenage son.
Account
The writer relays a story from a relative who as a teenager worked as a fishing guide and spent spare time hiking with an older companion. When the relative suggested hiking into a new area near Blanca Peak, the companion refused, saying that was where the Sasquatch lives and describing it as an animal that walks like a man. The relative dismissed it at the time but recalled it with surprise after publicity of the Patterson film.
What was reported
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Context & caveats
Described appearance
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- Gait src
- walks like a man
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
1940
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|---|---|
| Place |
Monument Lake, Costilla County, Colorado
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| Map point |
37.2137, -105.0469 (± 5 km)
USGS GNIS reservoir 'Monument Lake', Las Animas, matched from place name 'Monument Lake'
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| Account type |
Third-hand
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
discussing hiking into a new area
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| Witness's word for it |
the Sasquatch
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Source timeline
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BFRO report #1353 Primary
The report refers to
- “Reader's Digest article which discussed the Patterson Film”Not in the Anomadex yet