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Winnipeg man recounts Bigfoot sighting

By T.K. Randall
January 11, 2011 · Comment icon 34 comments

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70-year-old Winnipeg resident Archie Motkaluk recalls his encounter with Bigfoot in 1960.
He had been visiting his parents on their farm in Manitoba and was chopping wood when he noticed a figure approaching, when it got close enough he realised it wasn't a person but a hominid creature that he believed to be Bigfoot.
by the time the "man" got within a hundred yards or so, Archie realized his visitor was a Sasquatch, who, shortly after, confronted Archie in a manner that left him literally frozen in place till the fear subsided enough for both him and the Sasquatch to take a few steps back.


Source: Toronto Sun | Comments (34)




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Comment icon #25 Posted by Sakari 15 years ago
Take a walk through WallMart, there are a lot of males with boobs Oh come on , that is nothing , we all know Walmart is a Huge Cryptozoological Zoo ! They should charge people at the door for the freak show that goes on inside.
Comment icon #26 Posted by rice 15 years ago
oh koolz im from the peg as well . interesting article. of course he would only have a journal, it's not like everyone had a camera handy back then...at a farm, or afford one. also, alot of people don't have enough courage to stand up and tell their story. so maybe he was inspired to do so and i'm glad he did because the article was pretty interesting and kind of local to me.
Comment icon #27 Posted by JackTravis777 15 years ago
This is a very interesting article. I can easily see why he would wait all this time to tell his story. I personally believe that what he described is definitely not any known species of bear or other bi-pedal forest-dwelling creature.
Comment icon #28 Posted by fawkes2 15 years ago
Ask her if she remembers anything odd about 50 years ago. lol I did ask her and she told me she doesn't rember anything strange.
Comment icon #29 Posted by Thesantanafan 15 years ago
Actually hallucinating is very common. Happens most often with lack of sleep. A few days without proper sleep and you can easily start hallucinating. And sometimes you might not even feel tired but have the effects of sleep deprivation. I've had many hallucinations during the day, and they were very vivid. I'm pretty sure that's not normal. I have had plenty of sleep deprivation and I don't hallucinate, as far as I know. Unless you mean staying up for like 4 days straight then I suppose one might hallucinate, but I doubt enough people do that to account for every bigfoot sighting.
Comment icon #30 Posted by Boe 15 years ago
Yeah I mean staying up for four days straight. And a lot of things can speed up that process though, manual labor, trouble sleeping etc. If you're working hard and sleeping a half hour here and there...you can hallucinate. I think the physical exhaustion pays a huge part in it - manual labor...because its very common in my line of work, whereas people with insomnia who barely sleep dont always hallucinate. So its really case by case..but it happens. Im not talking about every sighting. But throwing it out there as a possibility.
Comment icon #31 Posted by DieChecker 15 years ago
I hallucinated a couple times in the Army on field exercises, where they keep you up and marching for like 3 days and then attack your camp with simulator grenades and mortors. I was on guard in the middle of the night and saw lights moving around the trees. Then I saw them going up into the tree branches. When I woke people up, they did not see anything. So, I ignored it and drank plenty of water and then crashed to sleep when it was my turn. Hallucinating is a common occurance, but I think that from this guy's deion that he was not hallucinating. He seemed to be just going about an everyday ... [More]
Comment icon #32 Posted by Sakari 15 years ago
I do not think he was hallucinating either.Not if he was in the middle of chopping / splitting wood , no way. Really there are only 2 possibilities , and we will never know the answer.... 1. He is lying. 2. He saw something that to him looked like a Bigfoot. Not like he has a website he is promoting , so I am leaning in the direction that he did see something , I think it is " mistaken Identity " personally , but none of us will ever be able to support our guesses on this one....I mean I can , Bigfoot does not exist ( I had to , no other way to answer this , I kept trying to word it politicall... [More]
Comment icon #33 Posted by quillius 15 years ago
Well, going on what we have, humans and all the great apes suggest males shouldn't have that feature. true....although that is , as you say, going on what we have today! (and today we have no physical bigfoot sample)
Comment icon #34 Posted by quillius 15 years ago
Obviously, all the story does is add to the mountain of anecdotal evidences. Of all the evidence that is out there, it's the testimony of just everyday average folks that still compells me. Even if you discount a huge majority as liars, frauds, cheats, and discount others as misidentifications, there is still enough credible witnesses that claim they've seen something unusual. That isn't enough for me to believe, but enough to keep me interested. well said...I agree!!!!


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