Conservation officer Dave Bakica is convinced that whatever two Teslin residents saw early last Sunday morning, it shook them up.

Marion Sheldon and Gus Jules were travelling out of town along the Alaska Highway on an ATV, sometime between 1 and 2, when they passed what resembled a person standing on the side of the highway.

Thinking it was a local from their small community who might be in need of a ride, they turned around and headed back, Bakica explained in an interview Tuesday, recalling his conservation with Jules and Sheldon.

As the two lifelong Teslin residents and members of the Teslin Tlingit Council approached to within some six metres, they noticed the figure was covered in hair, but standing upright – the entire time.

Though natural light was dusky at best for that time of the day, with the aid of the four-wheeler, Jules saw what he believed to be flesh tones hidden beneath the mat of hair, as he relayed to Bakica.

Sasquatch, Big Foot?
“I have no doubt they saw something, and are convinced it was not a bear or anything in the ordinary,” the conservation officer said. “They are convinced this was something out of the ordinary.... And they are pretty shook up over it.”
Jules, Bakica emphasized, is an experienced hunter.

He described the figure as standing about seven feet tall, but hunched over. They could see it was not a person.

And as the two parties went their separate ways, the dark-haired figure took but two or three steps to cross the width of the Alaska Highway, about two kilometres northwest of town, near the airstrip.

Bakica said ground conditions, mixed with a few rainfalls, made it impossible to pick up any remnants of definitive tracks, and there was no hair on branches or the like to be found.

As well, by the time he’d talked to Sheldon last Sunday night and went to the scene Monday morning, half the town had been out to the site to have a look for themselves, as the conservation officer put it.

But Jules has launched an additional, more in-depth search for any evidence that could substantiate their experience.

“I have no doubt in my mind that they believe what they saw was a Sasquatch,” said Bakica. “Whether it was or not, I do not know.
“Just because you can’t prove something was there, does not mean it was not there.”

Sheldon and Jules could not be reached for comment.
Folklore and eyewitness accounts of the Sasquatch, Big Foot or whatever names there may be for a large, ape-like animal which was walks upright, have around for decades.

In April 1991, three Pelly Crossing residents reported seeing a Sasquatch while driving between Pelly and Stewart Crossing.

The creature fled back into the woods as the vehicle passed, but they did take picture of what they claim to be footprints measuring 37.5 centimetres (15 inches) long in the melting snow.

On the other hand, it was reported in December 2002 that the creator of the Big Foot myth died at the age of 84.

Ray Wallace is said to have started the myth in 1958 by having a friend carve wooden feet measuring 40 cm.

It was later claimed by Wallace’s family that tracks around a construction site had been faked.

But the myth caught like wildfire, and was quickly embraced by the North American lust for its own legend of the unexplained, just as the Himalayans had the Abominable Snowman.

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Freaky! :s

Aye, my aunt and her husband had an encounter with one of those large and out of place big cats...it was freaky.

There's something about Bigfoot that simply freaks me out... creepy...

Bigfoot is kinda creepy...and most likely smart too...no telling what it can do...

if there are bigfeet (is that the plural or is it bigfoots...or bigfoot) then they must be intelligent enough to beable to hide away from humans so well

Giant monkeys do not scare Moe.

Rednecks with rifles who hunt for giant monkeys scare Moe.

Ok, I doubt there's really a bigfoot.. I believe it's possible, but I doubt it. And I'm not really worried about running into one because obviously they're giant babies, hiding away like they're afraid of their own shadows!

*admits it*