The Sasquatch Night Siege! - Mysteries & Monsters (Bigfoot Evidence and Encounters)

 

Aliens and Sasquatch -The Stories That Divide The Subject

 Considering that this article was posted in 1999 it is interesting that the same arguing is going on in 2026!

Alien Issue Splits Vancouver's Sasquatch Symposium 1999

September 26, 1999 -- VANCOUVER (Reuters) - For sasquatch fans gathered in Vancouver this weekend, the debate is not over the reality of the large, apelike animal but over its relation to UFOs. "It's a huge divide," Stephen Harvey, organizer of the International Sasquatch Symposium, said in describing the dispute between the cryptozoology and paranormal wings of sasquatch studies. Sasquatch -- aka Bigfoot -- is an ordinary flesh-and-blood creature that just happens to have avoided capture, according to the cryptozoologists, or students of hidden animals. But to believers in the paranormal, or psychic phenomena, sasquatch is also an "interdimensional" being with strange powers and ties to extraterrestrials aboard UFOs. Both camps tend to think there must be more than one specimen around. And neither seems worried that no live or dead sasquatch has ever been produced for study or that mainstream science considers the idea of such an animal lurking in the forests of North America complete nonsense. "How can you expect a creature that can't build a fire to fly a spaceship?" grumbled Bill Miller of Illinois, one of about 150 people who came in Vancouver to trade the latest reports of sightings and accounts of their personal experiences. Miller's own brush with sasquatch took place in northern Minnesota in 1980. "Who'd have thought it would happen outside of the Pacific Northwest? But it turns out there are a lot of sightings in northern Minnesota," he said. ORIGIN IN INDIAN TALES The legend of a large, hairy creature lurking in the mountains of western Canada and the United States goes back to a time before Europeans settled the continent. The word "sasquatch""was derived in the 1920s from tales of the Chehalis Indians in British Columbia. Stories about sasquatch and his connection with flying saucers are also staples of supermarket tabloids -- a fact that has the cryptozoologists complaining that the paranormals give sasquatch research a bad name. "I mean, if you call the police to report a murder and describe what happened and say you saw little green men, how long before the police officer stops taking notes?" Miller asked a reporter. Members of the paranormal wing contend that their opponents' minds are closed and say that is why the cryptozoologists have never been able to produce more than circumstantial evidence -- such as alleged footprints -- of the creature's existence. "The way to go is to become more evolved ourselves," argued Jack "Kewaunee" Lapseritis, the author of "Psychic Sasquatch" and a member of the Self-Mastery Earth Institute in Trout Lake, Washington. Lapseritis, who reported having had five dealings with sasquatch in the last seven weeks, contended that since the creature could travel between dimensions of reality and space, it would not be found unless it wanted to be. So deep is the divide between the two schools of sasquatch thought that Harvey ended up scheduling their discussion sessions on different days. "I sort of had to segregate them," he said, alluding to problems at past gatherings. NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY If cryptos and paras have common ground, it is in complaining that mainstream science and news media will not take sasquatch, or their efforts to find him, seriously. "Mainstream scientists think they have a monopoly on knowledge," said Lapseritis, who described his research methods as being identical to those used by primatologist Jane Goodall in studying chimpanzees in Africa. "Yes, the evidence (of sasquatch's existence) is circumstantial. ... But if this were a murder trial, then sasquatch would have been convicted long ago," Chad Deetken of Vancouver said. Deetken, who also researches such puzzles as crop circles and was initially reluctant to give his name, said scientists needed to show "the same courage as Columbus""did in trying to prove the Earth was round. As for the future of the divided sasquatch research community, members of each side were quick to say they had no "personal animosity""toward the other but gave no hint of willingness to compromise. "I also believe in extraterrestrials ... but there is simply no connection (with sasquatch)," Miller said, shaking his head. - --- Copyright © 1999, Quebecor New Media Limited Partnership http://www.canoe.ca/ReutersNews/LIFE-SASQUATCH.html

Pioneering Bigfoot/Sasquatch Researcher Bobbie Short and Bigfoot Encounters

 

Bobbie Short died on 16th May 2013 and if you know anything about dedicated Bigfoot?Sasquatch research the name will be familiar. Her Bigfoot Encounters site and newsletter were must reading.

Most thought Bobbie was 54 when she died but she was actually 76! I own a couple of her bulky research books and Bigfoot Enounters can still be found with some articles still to be read there but the internet has done away with a lot of the pages so if you want to read up on the subject before You Tube and the internet made it a mess...

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/

Haunted Skies: The Great British UFO Learning Centre

 https://www.hauntedskies.co.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUSm_xwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5hPZGLyFhIFry2idb1Gm0A-Gcd_3WNpTLM_7YWHfOoVb2uh2M1u_mHZJ8rrA_aem_dIApEH79mYFAncHQDfqOuw

AOP Bureau Some Things Strange and Sinister -RARE documents uploaded to Face Book Group

AOP Bureau Some Things Strange and Sinister

https://www.facebook.com/groups/592791765729889

Uploaded PDF files on the following for those interested in Bigfoot/Sasquatch and these are quite rare documents that have gathered dust in my files over decades:

George F Haas The Present State of Bigfoot (1973)

Bay Area Group (BAG) info sheet (1973)

and

Kentucky UFO Investigators League Report on Faulk Monster encounter (1981)

NEVER Run

 

 Back around 1977 a member of a group -UFO International (less said about that the better)- offered to help me with compiling the CE3K/AE files.  I gave a sigh of relief as there were a lot of books and magazines to go through. After two weeks the volunteer (a manager for a major petroleum company) looked at me and said "I can't do it any more. Sorry" -so I asked why?

It turns out that after spending days going over the reports he had a vivid dream in which he was in some kind of hut or cabin in the countryside and he saw a landed UFO and some entities get out and move about. He felt trapped. Basically, this was his mind, while he slept, sifting through what he had learnt in order to explain or make some sense out of it all.

I had a similar dream when I startedand it was quite vividbut it never scared me off the work! I will give a more mundane example.

One job I had in the 1970s involved backing items into boxes and also rolling large prints and putting them into heavy duty postage cylinders. For two nights I had vivid dreams of the mundane, mind numbing boring chore of boxing up items. Vivid. As I needed to eat, pay rent etc I did not go to my boss and say "I quit. I cannot do this any more -I had vivid dreams of packaging things up!"  I did mention it to a co-workere who laughed and said "You, too?!"

I heard a similar story7 from someone who was working on business accounts for hour after hour and he told me that the vivid dreams of constantly opening up books, checking them was driving him nuts.

So, the fella with the CE3K work simply chickened out because of a dream.

I have read as well as spoken to supposed Ufologists who, seeing an object (large or small) come down behind a hill or trees will turn around and run.drive off. In one case an 'investigator' sent his father to investigate. Thankfully, that Ufologist being thoroughly incompetrent got out of the subject.  I have known others that would not go to speak to UFO repeater witnesses in case "something" happened to them. Those people need to step way back or simply leave Ufology.

I have watched and heard so many supposed "ghost hunters" run away screaming for their mummies when they hear a sound or someone says they thought they sawa shadow move! Again, give up the hobby and find a new one.

Cryptozoology is another field where you find this. Luckily, it's less embarrassing as most "cryptozoologists" never leave the comfort of home.

Around 1977 I was living with my grandparents in Downend on the outskirts of Bristol. Even on a sunny summer day everything stopped at 1700 hrs!  At night it was quiet even on the main Westerleigh Road -a little traffic might have helped as I walked past the large cemetery there! There was one large triangular patch of grass that was just off the Westerleigh Road on the Black Horse Estate. Returning from a UFO meeting on foot it was dark, warm but as I got more onto the country area the fog got thick. I crossed the patch of grass and turned as I heard a sound behind me. Fog too thick to see anything.

I continued walking but then heard foot steps behind me. I stopped andf they stopped. I thought it odd since it was hardly a robbery hot spot!  I started walking again and heard the sound again but now on paving I realised that what I was hearing were hooves. Two hooves clip-clop clip clop. I stopped again but the fog was so bad I could not see two feet (60cms) in front of me. I carried on walking along the concrete slabbed pavement between a brook and play area and the row of houses and I was not that far from home. 

I heard an odd sound as the two cloven hooves walked behind me. I stopped and said "Who is there?" but with a street light to one side all I saw were two very long horns. I turned and walked a bit faster but the clip clop stopped. I stopped. I could not see anything other than my feet on the pavement. I breathed a sigh of relief, Whatever it was was gone. Something warm then breathed on my neck. I ran to my grandparents house and there was a 6 feet high wooden gateway blocking the entrance to the back garden and from there I could get to the back door and into the house. I have still got no idea how but I vaulted over that gate. I stood with my back to the gate and listened as something was pushing the gate.

At bthat point what I call my "Gemini mind" was at work. One side panicked at what was going on while the other took over: I was "all mouth" about looking into the strange or unexplained when talking at meetings and here I was sweating like a coward. My more forceful Gemini side took over and I turned slowly and decided that what ever was on the other side of that gate I had -no options- to face it or I would simply be a useless coward. I slowly, and as quietly as I could, pulled bacck the gate bolt and lifted the latch. Calml;y I pulled open the gate.

What I confronted that night made sure that whatever I faced whether strange lights, odd sounds or mysterious figures I did not turn and run. I headed straight for it or observed and noted details because of distance. The "Devil of Downend" made sure I was always prepared.

Over the decades I have seen things.

As good a title for a post as any!

I have seen unknown, brilliantly lit objects and twice fairly close to. No, I do not believe they were "extraterrestrial craft" and work in later years led me to a theory (though not scientifically proven). On all of these occasions I was alone and this was before everyone had a camera!  Aboutr three years back I observed two objects moving across a clear blue sky and my two neighbours saw the objects. Distant but behaving very oddly.

I have witnessed first hand poltergeist activity as well as shadowy dark figures in one house -other "shades" were seen by family membvers either when by themselves or in twos.I have even been in one property where on a staircase I felt great fear and wanted to run back up the stairs. I did not. I turned around and walked slowly backwards up the stairs one of the people living there at the time said to me "That wasn't long. You feel it too?" and explained that his partner rarelt went downstairs alone. I tell this to people who look at me and say "But you never run away -is this a joke?"

In the mid 1960s, in Dalborn, Germany, I was with my mother and father -I believe my Opa was there- as we watched an airship cruise over the forest near the farm. We were told that there were no airships over Germany in the 1960s. Later back in England pupils in my class were asked to draw their favourite aircraft. I onpoy knew an airship so drew it and the teacher noted it was quite detailed so I explained where I had seen one. I was loudly mocked for the claim that I was one of 5 (I can't remember if my late brother was present) people who saw one.

I know how UFO observers feel when they are mocked for seeing a "flying saucer"!

I was with two other village boyts, again in Germany but between Dalborn and Lemgo and in overcast and quite thundery feeling weather when we saw a huge (6-7 feet?) misty figure at the top of a path. Well defined but featureless. We all thought it must be a farmer -we reckoned that rather than that it looked like a huge ghost!

Gathering fodder for my German grandfather (Opa)rabbits was achore that involved most of the family and we walked through lovely warm summer weather with fields to our left and the forest to our right. One day we saw something large and fur covered (fur had a gloss to it)suddenly leap about 10 feet (3m) into the forestry. It was so quick that we never got to see if before bthe blour leapt and we could hear it as it went through the tree branches. Seven of us saw the furred back as it shot off. I looked at my Opa and said "Was that a monkey?!"  He simply laughed and waved odff the suggested. "Nein. Es war ein Sturmgeist. Ich habe vorhin einen auf dem Baumstumpf dort drüben sitzen sehen" ("No. It was a storm ghost. I saw one sitting on the tree stump over there a while ago"). The point he pointed to was a wired off piece of field that had a tree stump in it and it was where our "blur" had more or less come from. I never found out why a tiny grassy field that was never used and only had a tree stump in it was wired off.

Interestingly, my second oldest cousin when he was told about this sighting later that evening went into a red faced rage telling -not suggesting- us we had only seen a "fishing bird" (cormorant) and I told him that we all saw the fur and --screeching and insistence followed that it had been a cormorant. It made no sense but my Opan signed to me to let the subject drop. Something happened but no idea what.

Just outside the village was the forestry and just before that the cemetery. On more than one occasion my Oman (grand mother) saw something in the forestry that scared her. On one occasion she heard a noise from the forestry and ran back to the village. She would never explain what had happened but "machine gun Marta" had lived under Nazi occupation, been part of the war time exodus to the West where her refugee column had been strafed by Allied fighters and lived under Russian occupation and seen some nasty things so she was not the panicky sort.

I think that after a major UFO flap in 1977.1978 that I was the only investigator of I deserved a holiday and...I was sat my the kitchen window in my grandparents home back in Dalborn when something caught my eye. About 1 kilometre away a bright object (ist mag)rose from the forestry and ascended in a step-like fashion upward. "Sod off" I said out loud just after drawing how it moved in the back of a book.

Probably the strangest thing that happened to me was when we lived on a farm in Dalborn and I must have bee 8 or 9 years old. It was winter and ice had covered the huge pond (I call it a mini lake). Ice had to be broken so the geese could use it so I was the youngest and left with a boating rod (a long piece of wood with heavy brass hook at the end) whikle the adults and other kids went to the far side of the pond.  At one point as I broke ice the weight of the brass hook and slippery ice grass combined to make me fall into the water. As I sank I could see the broken vegetation float by and the concrete vent that let fresh water into the bottom of the pond. That was it. Next thing I remember was that I was about 3 feet (90cms) from the edge of the pond -actually facing it- and in the background saw the adults and kids run along the side of the pond toward me having just seen me fall in. 

Weirdly I can vaguely recall telling everyone that I was okay and then walking home. Entering the house my mother asked "What have you done -you're soaked through?" My reply? "I fell in a puddle" -and, yes, that sounds ridiculous even after all of this time because the simnple response would have been "Oh, I fell in the pond" but "a puddle"?  I still cannot work out how I reached the botton of the pond (not even panicky as I recall) but then was on all fours facing the pond from a distance, As far as I know no one saw me get out of the pond. I've often wanted to have hypnotherapy for that!

My experiences have covered a wide field -including Cryptozoology: I spotted a black and white fox while in Gernany that I later identified as a raccoon-like dog and this was a few years before they were officially seen in Westphalia.

Some of this is detailed more in my books Some Things Strange and Sinister and Some More Things Strange and Sinister so when I say I am sceptical but open to evidence this ought to explain why.