THE ROCK THROWERS

What to learn from these actions: sasquatch do not like people intruding upon their area of activities and would do whatever it takes to let the intruders know, much like us humans would.

Intruders

Here are a couple of examples:

In June of 1974, two young lads, one 15 years of age; and his brother, 17, were fishing at a local Whitehorse pond, the Pumphouse Lake, in the early evening. Having caught a few trout, they decided to paddle their homemade raft back to its mooring and head back home.

As they were tying their raft to a tree, a large rock came flying by, landing in the water with a big splash just a couple of metres from them. Then another one came by and the older kid was getting angry by then and yelled, “There are people fishing here, stop fooling around!” (thinking it was a person playing a joke on them).

Another rock was thrown by them, at about the same time, so the older kid ran up the bank, some 10 metres high, ready to face the rock thrower, but as he got to the top no one was there. However, he could smell a strong, eye-watering odour akin to a wet grizzly, as he explained to me.

Movement could be seen in the nearby pine forest, but no clear observation of the movement maker. Not wanting to frighten his younger brother, he yelled, “It’s going to rain soon, hurry up!”

They then walked quickly back to their car, which was parked by the gate of the access road. During their walk, a distance of 300 metres, some bipedal sounds were heard in the bush to their right. Upon arriving at the car, they quickly loaded their gear and started driving home.

They did not get more than three metres when a tall, huge, black-haired sasquatch crossed the road directly in front of them, stopping for a second and clearly looking at the kids, as if to convey a message of sorts … Do not come back

In the summer of 2015, the older brother contacted me, while visiting Whitehorse, and took me to the location to explain his 1974 encounter with the “wildman.”

During my investigation, I found out there had been two other sasquatch sightings (within a three-kilometre radius of Pumphouse Lake) that others had witnessed.

Even though I had been around that area for many years, mostly fly fishing around this small lake and hiking the trails, I had never experienced any occurrences that were possibly related to sasquatch activity.

Another rock-throwing occur- rence took place on Teslin Lake in July of 2013.

A Tlingit First Nation couple (from Teslin) decided to go fishing for lake trout. They put their boat in the water mid-morning and spent a few hours fishing; then, just past noon, they decided to pull ashore and have a bite to eat. They located a small, sandy beach on the northeast side, just past Morley Bay, which looked like a good spot to land as it offered protection from the wind. However, as they were just about ready to land, a volley of rocks came flying their way, mostly of medium size, about the size of softballs, they judged, coming from the cliff to their right, which they estimated to be about 10 metres high. The couple could see two or three humanlike creatures on top of the cliff—creatures they identified as sasquatch.

Not the expected reception

… These same beings were also yelling at them, along with other yells coming from across the lake at a distance of at least two kilometres, as they later mentioned to me during my investigation.

They backed off in their boat, as fast as they could, and went

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During my investigation in the summer of 2014, I landed at the same beach and spent some time looking around for signs of activity. I installed cameras in specific locations for three days, but nothing of interest was photographed. My plan is to return this summer. ■

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