My first post was a flop, so I hope these will be of interest to you. I have access to old newspapers, so I did a search for Sasquatch. Lots of articles came up, but I'm only going to post two of them. If there is an interest, I'll find and post more.


East North Central * Indiana * Hammond * The Hammond Times * 1935-10-25

REPORTS TELL
OF CANADIAN
MONSTER MEN
Settlers Fifty Miles From
Vancouver Describe
Hairy Giants

VANCOUVER, B. C.—(U.P.) —
Sasquatch men, remnants of a lost
race of "wild men" who Inhabited
the rocky regions of British Columbia
centuries ago, are reported
roaming the province a?ain
After an absence of several
months from the district of Harrison
Mills, 50 miles east of Vancouver,
the long, wierd, wolf-like howls
of the "wild men" are being heard
again and two of the hairy monsters
were reported seen in the
Morris valley on the Harrison river.
Residents in the district tell of
seeing the two giants leaping and
bounding out of the forest and
striding across the duck-feeding
ground, wallowing now and again
in the bog and mire and long, waving
swamp grasses.
Reported Agile as Goats
The strange men, it was reported,
after emerging from the woods,
came leaping down the jagged
rocky hillside with the agility and
lightness of mountain goats.
Snatches of their weird language
floated on the breeze across the
lake to the pioneer settlement at
the foot of the hills.
The giants walked with an easy
gait across the swamp flats and
at the Morns Creek, in the sh dow
of Little Mystery Mountain, straddled
a floating log, which they propelled
with their long, hairy hands
and huge feet across the sluggish
glacial stream to the opposite side.
There they abandoned the log and
climbed hand over hand up the almost
perpendicular cliff at a point
known as Gibraltar and disappeared
at the top of the ridge. They
carried two large clubs and walked
round a herd of cattle directly in
their path.
Indian's Story Retold
The return of the giants to the
legendary stronghold of the Sasquatch
monsters recalls the narrow
escape of an Indian at the
sarna spot last March. A huge rock
narrowly missed his canoe while
he was fishing and looking up, he
said he saw a huge and hairy monster
stamping his feet and gesticulating
wildly The Indian escaped
by cutting his fishing tackle and
paddhng away. The same Indian
declares the Sasquatch twice have
stolen salmon which he tied outside
his house out of reach of dogs
The latest appearance of the
monsters was peaceful. They avoided
the trails usually used by the
people of the valley and molested
neither cattle nor human beings.
People who have reported seeing
the giants on their rare appearances
described them as "ferocious
looking wild men, nine feet tall
and covered from head to toes with
thick black hair."

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East North Central * Ohio * Lima * The Lima News * 1934-03-04



"BOGEYMAN" OF
INDIAN TRIBE
APPEARS AGAIN
HARRISON MILLS,, B. C.,
March 3—(AP)—Indian children
clung to their mothers' apron
strings today for the terrible
Sasquatch—a giant, hairy and horrid—
is on the prowl again.
For hundreds of years the Sasquatch
has been a fearsome
"bogeyman" to the northwest
Indians.
None had been reported for 30
years, but horror swept the lodges
of the primitive Chehalis tribe today,
as word was whispered that
the hairy wild one had returned.
Frank Dan was first to report
sighting the monster. He went out
into the night to see why his dog
was barking so furiously and he
came face to face with a hairy
giant, tall, muscular and nude.
The Sasquatch and scores of
other demons are very real to the
Chehalis. They are things of horror,
emerging to "snatch" an
Indian into the unknown and to
devour babies.

A small number of us had a look-see in that region just a couple of weeks
ago. The whole area has stories such as those you've listed. 'Bushman' for
one, has heard of numerous things - some of it still on-going.

Harrison, is still one of those mysterious places where Sasquatch frequents.

Welcome Virraszto! I find the concept of thier using a floating log to cross water interesting!

Bobber

I'm certainly interested.

Welcome, virraszto, and many thanks for your efforts! Your first post may have been nothing more than genius unrecognized. I dig these old stories and really enjoy reading about the curious things that are noticed by the old time reporters/informants. A lot of the older sightings include details that we do not observe today, possibly because we tend not to 'live' as close to nature as we once did; although I'm sure BF still lives the same way today that he probably did hundreds of thousands of years ago (or more). Keep 'em coming!
Dudlow

Cool. Looks like Lake Pend-Oreille, ID, and Lake George, NY.

Virraszto, you may be interested in an old newspaper archive thread which I started a while back (see link below). I'd posted the newspaper stories I'd found in toto.

I've also compiled 400 of them into a book which you can buy from me on CD-R. You can find it at my website below. And, yes! please post any more you find...I'm sure you can find many that I didn't!

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5705

You can buy the PDF on CD-R here:
http://www.mcclean.org

Take it easy, tirademan

Tirademan,

I read through almost all of those clippings. Wow... You saved me some time, thanks. I'm glad someone besides me thought to do that. I love reading old newspaper articles, and it look like there were alot of mystery creatures, and bigfoot sightings back then.

I think I have access to the same papers you did, so I won't do any more searching. I was running out of search words..lol...

Thanks for posting those.

Virraszto, I forgot to mention that SnoChoJoe had put together a multi-media gallery of the clippings which you can find through here:

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?sho...=0&#entry194566

tirademan

ps- the book I created does fix some slight problems with some of those earlier posts...like the first 1839 Minnesota capture story. I was able to fill in the blanks correctly.