By KJ Lincoln
March 20, 2013
=7C Volume 15, Issue 1
A man and his 10 year old son who were
checking their blackfish (can'giiq) trap on the frozen tundra are the most
recent eyewitnesses in sighting a Bigfoot-like creature.
The sighting took place in mid-January
2013. The man and his son were traveling from their home, Toksook Bay Ingriaraak Mountains
The man said that the weather that day was
beautiful and balmy. He decided it would be a good day to take his son out to
check the trap for blackfish.
They snowmachined to where the trap was set
and checked the trap.
However, when they were done and ready to
go back home to Toksook
Bay
After calling, the man and his son walked
down back to the snowmachine to wait. It started to rain and the boy was getting
cold. The boy wanted to start walking and since there had been no reports of
upcoming bad weather for that day and the trail markers were visible, the two
decided to start walking back towards Nightmute.
The man wanted to bring home his catch so
he unhooked his sled from behind the snowmachine and pulled it behind him while
walking. His son rode in the sled for a while and then got out to walk beside
his father. They were still quite a ways from reaching the Qalvinraaq River
They had been walking for about an hour
when the man happened to look behind them. About 200 yards away there, behind them,
was a very tall, large, dark, strong-looking, muscular person-like creature
standing, watching them.
The man's heart quailed but he did not
show it to his son. His son, in the meantime, also saw the creature and waved
to it, thinking it was a member of the search and rescue team coming to get
them.
At this point, the thought that it may be
Bigfoot did not cross the man's mind. Fear flooded his mind, thinking it was an
alangruq, or ghost. The man remembered his mother's words to not look back no
matter how powerful the urge was to turn and look. He maintained his control
and calmly told his son not to wave at the creature or to look at it.
So on they continued walking towards
Nightmute, following the trail markers because the man knew that any search and
rescue party would be coming for them following that same well-marked trail.
Only when he saw the lights of the
oncoming snowmachines did he dare look back. And when he did, he did not see
anything except the frozen tundra. He told the rescuers about what they had
seen and experienced and asked if they could all go back to see if there were
any footprints made by the creature. But no, the rescuers did not want to. It was
getting dark and they were anxious to get back to the village.
During the time when they were walking,
the man had taken out his phone to record what was behind him, pointing the phone
over his shoulder without looking behind him. When they were safely in the
village at Nightmute and eating at the home of a friend, the man told them what
they had seen. He remembered his recording and took out his cell phone to view
the footage, but alas, it had been somehow accidentally erased or deleted, or
there was the possibility that he might not have hit the recording button at
all.
His sharp-eyed son also described the
creature as a yugpak, a very large person. He said the shoulders were very
broad and powerful. The arms were long and strong-looking, like a wrestler's
arms. They reached down to its knees. There were also some light colored markings
or textures on the creature's chest and stomach where the muscles stood out.
Back home in Toksook, the man told his
wife and it made her feel scared. He told his wife's parents, his parents, his
grandparents, and his friends what they had seen. The next day he read about
the Bigfoot sighting that occurred in the spring of 2012 in Kasigluk in the
latest issue of the Delta Discovery, the January 16th, 2013 edition. It was the
first published eyewitness account of a sighting in the newspaper.
The following day the man wanted to go
back to that same area to look for footprints but the weather turned and a blizzard
blew in so he stayed home.
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