The truth ... is furry?

Written by Citizen staff
Thursday, 12 March 2009

He's back. Or perhaps that should say she's back.

No one knows its gender. No one knows for sure if it exists, although some will swear it does.

Photographs taken this week near Moricetown by Brian Vike show what he says are footprints that are 17 1/2 inches long with no tracks around them that might say hoax.

A resident of Moricetown called Vike, a noted paranormal researcher in the region who spends most of his time on the UFO beat, to get him to take a look at those mysterious tracks.

Vike drove the 90 minutes from his home in Houston and is glad he did.

Vike found blood in the one of the prints along with a hair sample that he's sending off for testing in Saskatchewan and Ohio - where, one presumes, they have facilities that can confirm or debunk the existence of sasquatches.

The sasquatch. It's our very own legend - sighted (some say) but unproved. - ranking right up there with Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, Okanagan Lake's Ogopogo, and Yeti, the fabled abominable snowman of the Himalayas.

Every so often there's a sasquatch sighting - or supposed evidence of a sasquatch - somewhere in B.C. The last one in this area was in 2005, when Leo Selzer of Prince George was in the woods near Gregg Creek when he came across a series of shelters and tepee-like frameworks he's convinced were built by a sasquatch. It was only the most recent of several strange sightings in the region by Selzer in the past 45 years.

And yet, like the Loch Ness Monster, Ogopogo and Yeti, there is no proof. No sasquatch has been wounded and captured. No carcasses have been found.

And maybe that's for the better.

Some people believe. Some don't.

But it's the not knowing for sure that makes his, and her, legend grow.