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Backcountry campers in the Nopiming Provincial Park are approached and hear vocalizations
While camping on an island during a multi-day canoe trip, the witness and a companion heard a distant crying-like sound that grew louder and became high-pitched growling as something paced on the opposite shore after dark. They tracked the sounds with flashlights but never saw the source, though they thought trees were swaying. After a rifle shot was fired over the sounds, the vocalizations stopped and the source was heard running away through the forest.
Girl celebrating her birthday has encounter with upright animal walking through yard
The witness went outside to retrieve a bicycle. As relatives shouted from the yard and house, the witness saw a slim hair-covered figure with long arms walk past nearby, look toward the witness, and continue into the bush. Relatives searched immediately after and found footprints, from which a cast was made that was later lost.
Man recalls seeing a sasquatch in the early evening near Great Falls
The witness was heading inside for supper when a dog barked toward the river. The witness saw a large shaggy upright creature about 100 yards away running toward the river, which stopped, faced the witness, and gave a loud high-pitched scream described as roar-like. A strong rotten-fish odor was noticed, and the witness fled inside with the dog.
Childhood incidents in Manitoba
As a child at her family's Manitoba farm, the witness was picking Saskatoon berries with her mother when she noticed a large reddish-brown hair-covered creature standing very close and picking and eating berries by hand. After she got her mother's attention, her mother screamed and pulled her back to the farmhouse, and the witness did not see the creature leave. The encounter happened on a bright sunny afternoon at less than 15 feet distance.
Moose hunter shoots "bigfoot" to death
While hunting moose alone on the west side of a lake, the witness mistook a tall hair-covered biped seen from behind for the rump of a wounded moose and shot it between the shoulder blades, killing it instantly. The witness then walked around the body, noting its very large size, dark brown long hair, bare palms with opposed thumbs, and flat five-toed feet estimated around fifteen inches, before leaving quickly out of fear and concern about hunting without a license. The account was kept private for about thirty years until the witness recognized similar creatures in published film and began speaking about it.
Boy sneaks up on huge "man" at edge of playground at night
On a windy night in fall 1976, a teenager out walking reached a school track and noticed a very tall, naked, hair-covered figure standing near a baseball backstop. The witness hid behind a transformer and watched the still figure sway slightly for a few minutes before slipping away unseen. A check the next morning found no clear tracks.
Odor near Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba
On a later rainy visit with a companion the witness slipped on rock, felt watched, and the companion reported a rotten smell nearby while neither saw the source.
Vocalization in Manitoba
While singing at the lake on a morning walk months before the main encounter, the witness heard what sounded like melodic opera singing with syllables coming from nearby. She assumed it was a person practicing. She later wondered if it was mimicry.
Vocalization in Manitoba
While crying at the lake on a winter walk months before the main encounter, the witness heard what sounded like her own crying echoed from across the lake. When she stopped, the sound stopped after a second. She dismissed it at the time as cold air playing tricks.
Property disturbance in Manitoba
The witness found a garter snake tied in a knot on her doorstep the morning after her main encounter. She had seen two similarly knotted snakes on the trail the previous day. She interpreted it as a sign the animals knew where she lived.