Brian Vike's Favorite
Cases.
Newspaper Article.
By Bernice Tick.
Prince George Citizen Staff.
A Prince George man
whose greatest passion has been hunting for big game admits he's hooked on
proving the existence of sasquatch.
Leo Selzer, who has
spent 41 years hunting in the bush around Prince George, is convinced the
illusive creatures are around, and he spends as much time as he can in the bush
area where he believes they live. He says he's had one pretty clear sighting
and several occasions when he's convinced he was communicating with his"
furry friends."
In the mid- 1980s
when Selzer was moose hunting in the Gregg Creek area west of the city, he did
his loud moose calls that bring in the bulls during rutting season.
After a few
calls I heard a response -- like someone banging on a tree about a kilometer
away. I would call. The right away, bang, bang. A small black bear appeared,
wandering towards the banging sounds. The bear stopped and stood up on its hind
legs looking towards a tall fir tree, and then all of a sudden it hightailed in
the opposite direction toward me, veered off and went over the ridge."
It was then that
Selzer saw a tall, dark-coloured creature step out from the cover of the fir
tree into the open, and then quickly stepped behind the tree and was
gone," said Selzer, noting that logged-off has little human activity. In
2000 Selzer was again hunting at Gregg Creek when, at about 400 metres, he
spotted what he first thought was a large bear standing on its hind legs
watching the hunters.
"It was standing
next to a large, broken-off fir tree and was about the same dark colour, maybe
greyish around its shoulders and on its chest.
Thinking it could be
a grizzly, I kept a close eye on it, watching it shift its weight from one leg
to the other a couple of times for about a half hour.
"All of a sudden
it was gone, but later I realized a bear would never stand on its hind legs for
that long without getting down and back up again," said Selzer.
After studying that
area closely, he's concluded the creatures leave landmarks and directional
signs by piling trees into X marks behind closely knit trees, and bending and
shaping spindly trees into arches and shaped pointers carefully threaded
through willow tops.
He believes Sasquatch
eat bark from trees like aspens, and has seen markings showing large
fingernails and teeth were used to remove bark.
He's also seen large
footprints, but hasn't been fortunate to be able to photograph then fresh or
complete.
"One footprint,
going up a grade, was pretty clear, about 13 to 14 inches long, eight inches
wide at the heel, and about six inches wide at the top of the ball of the foot.
There were indications of possible toe impressions about one to three inches
beyond the ball of the foot."
In 1994 on the Hoodoo
Lakes road he could hear three individual voices give out a holler or two which
was responded to by" jabbering type of language."
"I thought it
must be some drunken people back there on a bush road or something, but I later
found out there is no road or clearing in that area."
In mid-June, Selzer
came across an area in the Gregg Creek, about 300 to 400 yards long, containing
a series of blinds and shelters, and tepee-like frameworks he believes were
built by a sasquatch.
The blinds are waist
to shoulder height with logs and trees pushed together to form a lean-to like
structure.
"The frameworks,
up to 50 feet high, are made with long spindly trees intricately intertwined to
form the structure., "said Selzer.
Brian Vike in
Houston, who reports on unidentified flying objects and such matters, has
received reports from residents about sasquatch sightings in the Buck Flats
area.
"Two Houston
women, driving up Buck Flats road, were startled recently when a large animal
walked upright across the road in front of their vehicle.
"The animal,
described much like a sasquatch, mad long strides into the forest, but did not
turn to look back at the women."
He said a camping
party at Silverhorne Lake reported hearing chilling screams in the night coming
from around the lake, which cannot be associated with the known animals in the
region.
"One other
sighting was reported on the Morice River Road when two people fishing
witnessed a large two-legged animal on the opposite bank of a river walk slowly
into the forest and disappear," said Vike.
American William
Dranginis, said he saw a bigfoot once - hairy, 7 feet tall, and sprinting
through the woods of Virginia.
The 12-second
sighting changed the life of Dranginis, who outfitted a 24-foot mobile
veterinary clinic as a Bigfoot Primate Research lab.
Equipped with scopes,
radios and a Night-Sight camera that can detect an animal in the dark at 800
yards away, he heads out at least two weekends a month. But still no second
sighting for Dranginis, who would like to push legislation to protect the
creatures.
"Do not shoot
it," said Selzer.
"They mean no
harm, but they are curious, and incredibly intelligent beings."
Selzer's latest
reported sighting on July 20 came from a visiting couple from Saskatoon.
They told Selzer
that, while driving Highway 16 East at about 8 p.m. near Tabor Mountain, they
saw what they first thought was a large man crossing the highway.
Describing the
creature as about 7 1/2 feet tall covered with hair, thick barrelled shoulders
and narrow waist, they said it crossed the road about 100 yards ahead of them
in about three steps.
The couple, who have
never believed in the sasquatch theory, were so haunted by the experience they
couldn't sleep.
After they got home
they contacted Selzer, who has added his investigation of the area to his
website: http://sasquatch-pg.net.
The Prince George
Citizen newspaper - http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/
