DATE: Approx. 4:00 o'clock, Fall of 1995.
LOCATION: British Columbia, Canada, Nearest City Prince Rupert,B.C.,Princes Royal Island-, closest Native community is Kelmtu(100people). Incident occurred on the East side of Princes Royal Island(Mid-Island) The Island is Approximately 400km long and is 2km from the mainland. Person accessed old cutblock by floatplane. It is called the Spirit Island(Keremodi(rare white bears)Island.
OBSERVED: Incident described second hand to me by a forestry technician who moved from the Prince Rupert District, and he was told the incident from a Female forestry technician and he vouched for her that she doesn't BS or tell lies and was shaken up about the incident. She went by floatplane to check on a Spacing project on a old cutblock(harvested in the 1970's). The spacer's had finished the project and she was alone on the site. She was finished checking the site, approx. 4:00 in the afternoon and was walking out of the block on an old road. She was walking down a hill and she noticed something watching her, she turned around and saw a tall Furry (Dark Brown,long armes)animal taking two strides and hiding behind a large boulder. When it walked it was bent at the knees. It was not a bear. She was spooked and took out her bear Mace(guard) and took off towards the beach(pick up spot) at I would say a good pace.
ENVIRONMENT: On Old road within a Spaced Cutblock, Coastal trees(Hemlock, Douglas-Fir,Cedar), probably steep mountainous terrain at the center of the Island.
ALSO NOTICED: None noted
ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES): finishing checking a spaced block, walking down a logging road
CONFIDENTIALITY: Forestry field technicians wanted confidently-and I collected the incident from her co-worker
COMMENTS: Newspaper article-told to me by the same forest Technician. Prince Rupert paper, Two fisherman hit a rock in a Storm, and bailed out of sinking fishing boat,into a lifeboat, they made it to Banks Island,100 kms from Kitimat, B.C. They radioed out for rescue help, and spent a couple of days on Banks Island waiting for rescue. Late one evening they saw a bigfoot walking on the beach, One came and checked out their camp, they noticed large tracks around their camp, they didn't hear the bigfoot. The incident happened in the Fall of 1993.
Witness contact information supplied upon request to researchers.
Uploaded to BFRO database by Dawn Harrack <Dawn@BFRO.net> and Matt M. <Matt@BFRO.net>