Sasquatch sighting in New York (2013)

Account

The guest, then in early teens, was camping in a tent with a teenage friend and the friend's father at a lake-side campground in the Adirondacks. Late at night the woods went silent and heavy bipedal footsteps approached the tent, then a very large hand pushed the tent wall inward. After the friend's father mumbled in his sleep the hand withdrew, and the visitor rummaged through a cooler on the picnic table before walking into the lake and swimming away. In the morning the cooler had been moved, items were strewn, and an oily feel and stale smell were noticed.

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Hands src

three or four times as big as an adult man's large hands, finger and palm indents visible, pushed tent in five or six inches

Gait src

heavy bipedal steps with about two seconds between steps, thump felt through ground

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1. Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #15b65c64-de92-46eb-9043-028b9d424d3e Podcast Interview
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   Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts)