A second bigfoot sighting has been reported by a young girl, and her play mates in Paupanekis Point, Norway House, Manitoba, which is located on the south end of the same First Nations reserve where ferryman, Bobby Clarke, videotaped a large, dark, bipedal creature walking along the bank of the Nelsen River.
The girls were close to a residential area, which borders the woods, at around 7:30-8:00 pm on May 20, when the encounter occurred. The woods are bordered by knee high grass, which is where the creature was standing in plain view, apparently watching the children play. One of the girls fainted from fright, after seeing "a huge creature." None of the children were hurt, but they are understandably still quite shaken, and afraid to be left alone.
Immediately following the sighting, a search party was assembled to investigate the surrounding area. Footprints were found where the actual sighting occurred, as well as deeper into the woods. Several more expeditions have been conducted since, and have resulted in finding more physical evidence. The size of some of the tracks measure "larger than a man`s size 16 shoe" said one witness, and have a clearly defined outline of the toes. The tracks have been preserved, photographed, and videotaped by Norway House residents.
Hair samples have also been found at several locations, including on the inside edge of one of the footprints, and at another location, clinging to a pine tree where more tracks, and a strong lingering odor was also reported. The odor was described to be a mix between wet dog, and skunk. A witness who has collected some of the hair samples reported, "I thought they would be thick and course and black, but they look kinda longish, half black and half white and (on some) the very bottom looks almost fine and spliced up like a fine razor split the hairs into many on one single strand."
The physical evidence collected following the most recent sighting raises some interesting questions. Where as the Nelson River tracks measured 20 inches in length, with a six foot stride, in Paupanekis Point, tracks measuring 13 inches in length, as well as 20 inches have been found. Also, hair samples given to the ACA`s expedition team were dark in color, according to Cherie Curry, a member of the team, yet the hair samples found after the second sighting are half black, and half white.
Some N.H. residents have theorized that the smaller prints may belong to a juvenile, and that it has possibly wandered away from an adult/parent, which might explain the ongoing incidents surrounding Norway House, including the frequent howls coming from wooded areas close to homes. Bobby Clarke also reported hearing strange howls on several occasions preceding his sighting.
Although details are still sketchy, a third encounter in which the creature is said to have returned to the same area as the second sighting, moving large rocks in it`s path has been reported. I`ll update if/when I learn more. I am also waiting for more photographs of tracks, and hair samples, which I`ll photograph, and post once they arrive.
This rash of sightings is not the first in this area. In 1976, multiple sightings, spread over a length of time, were reported in Poplar River, 76 miles south of Norway House. The following is the report submitted to the Vancouver Lower Mainland Division of the RCMP, following a police investigation. Norway House RCMP Report
"Norway House to Vancouver Lower Mainland Division, attention Sergeant Doane.
It was reported to our office on the 26 July 76 by the chief of the Poplar River Indian Band that many of his people have sighted on the reserve many times a large hairy animal that walks on two legs. Poplar River is located approx. 76 miles to the south of Norway House. An investigation was conducted and the results are as follows:Several people were interviewed and they all stated that the animal was approximately seven to eight feet tall and was very broad at the shoulders. It had the general body structure of a man only many times larger. A foot cast was taken of the foot impression that was left behind by the so-called monster and is held at this detachment. It measures 16 inches by five inches, and has only three toes. It's fur is a glossy gray color and it has white hair on it's head. They stated that it was very powerfully built and one man reported that he saw it swimming. To date there have been no further reports of sightings in our area. It should be noted that this so-called monster seemed very inquisitive towards the people and would come around the houses on the settlement and look in doors and windows."- Excerpt from the 1976 RCMP Report, posted on the BFRO website.
The May 20,05 Paupanekis Point sighting follows a report, and video footage, taken of a large dark creature walking along the Nelson River, in Norway House, Manitoba on April 16, 05 by ferryman, Bobby Clarke. After the videotape was aired on A Current Affair on May 4,05, ACA sent an expedition led by Dr.Franklin Ruehl, to Norway House to look for evidence. Also on the expedition team was ACA producer Brett Hudson, and artist, singer, author Cherie Curry.
An ongoing on discussion Bigfoot, and the Norway House sightings on Blogcritics. - Participating in the discussion are members of the ACA Expedition Team, and residents of Norway House, Manitoba. To view, and/or participate, scroll down to the comments section. All are welcome to join in.
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— go to most recent comments26 - Sharness Henry
This girl who saw this creature in the bush is about 9 years old. Im not too sure but i think thats how old she is. i dont know if the other kids saw it. maybe they did, that is why they are so scared to be alone now.
27 - George Bush
Anyone who believes this sad joke must be chewing too much sugar free gum. What are you kidding me? Can't you all see that someone dug a hole with a sand shovel? No feet kill grass. And the headline is misleading! There is no siting of anything.
Stop chewing gum, you fantasy addicts.
28 - td
Woo Hoo!
More foot prints. Add them to the other hundreds of prints that cannot be proven not to be fakes.
Hair samples. Great, I can't wait until the lab results come back and they cannot determine that the hairs are not from a human. Just like they have with the other so-called BF hair samples collected.
Lol...and I like the explanation for why many footprints have different numbers of toes. (Maybe there are 2 races of BF) Hilarious. How about you stick to proving one exists before worrying about all the different types of BF species.
And if you do actually capture or kill one, then i will be happy to admit being wrong. On the other hand, how many times are you going to attempt to produce 'cold-fusion' before you admit that it doesn't exist.
29 - mitskev
What does the ages of the girls have to do with anything ?
Honestly - if you're going on knowing right from wrong at a certain age please present your scientific data ?
Otherwise perverts get your jolly's elsewhere ...
30 - Sharness Henry
rrrrright.....
31 - peter
i've hunted and tracked game all my life here in australia. the footprints are crap. an animal or bigfoot does not and would not kill all evidence of grass on the print. they simply walk on it like you and me. sure the bf may be heavier but i assume they are soft footed like us and most other animals. horses and cattle are hard hoofed and even they don't disturb the ground like the photos. the "bigfoot track" is such an amaturish hoax that i now disbelieve the whole sighting episode. the footprint is obviously manufactured. perhaps your local native indians have forgotten how to track as they should know it is a prank . local australian aboriginies here would know instantly and then probably lead you on, laughing to themselves all the way. talk about gullible!
32 - Annie
I`ve asked Sharness, who photographed the foot prints, about the grass. She said that the foot print is on an ant hill, which is why there isn`t any grass. It appears as though sand has been scraped away, but if you look at where the person is standing toe to toe to show the size, you can see that it`s their foot prints beside the BF track.
Sharness also said that there were other tracks in the grass, but this was the best one to photograph. You can see where the ants have started to dig their way back out of the hill.
33 - jack
Ha ha, that's a track? That's a goof, and a whole lot of bozos fell for it. Ha ha!
34 - The Theory
i appriciate your posts on this, Annie. While I do remain skeptical about this specific instance, I am most decidedly open to the possibility of the animal's existance.
35 - Scott
This is the biggest fake print I've ever seen. Please tell me that people don't belive this is real?
36 - Deacon Elurby
My Favorite Bigfoot Stories
37 - REYNOL ROBINSON
i think that if anybody really wanted to see big foot they would look up in the trees or stay still and look around and i think that the hole thing about keep bigfoot in the shaddows is bull they can zoom in any time they can walkup tp it it wont doany thing its more afriad of us but it wont attack unless u try to harm it
38 - Tracks
Could it be Squasnatch?
39 - cc
i can't believe bigfoot still wears KEDS tennis shoes...what a fucking dork!!!
40 - Victor Plenty
Bigfoot just can't afford Converse or Nike shoes. It's hard to get a good lucrative endorsement contract when you're so camera-shy.
Cut the poor big walking carpets a little slack!
41 - d koeffler
It is interesting how bigfoot cut the turf or grass away so he or she could leave such nice prints! Of course this ruins the chances of these prints being used to validate the girls' story. if you step on soft, grassy earth the plants are pressed down into the depression. Removing the plants makes the prints look fake.
42 - Annie
d koeffler, you must have missed the post I made after asking Sharness about that. They didn`t remove any grass. The footprint you`re referring to was on an ant hill, there wasn`t any grass there, to begin with. If you look, you can easily see where the ants are digging their way out. Also, there were more tracks in the grass surrounding the ant hill, but Sharness photographed this one because it was the clearest. What looks like scraping beside the foot print is actually Sharness' mother's foot prints. She stood toe to toe beside the track to show a size comparison.
Keep in mind, these footprints aren`t the only ones found, either. There were plenty more found, spread throughout the area. I`ve photo`s of more tracks taken in another location as well, which aren`t quite as clear as these, but are interesting none the less. I`d originally posted that 13 inch tracks had been found, where as in fact they were 16 inches long. Those are the tracks I have photos of, which I`ll be posting soon, along with some photos of some hair found at one of the locations.
There are also photos taken by the tracking party who set out following the second sighting. They recorded everything they found with photographs, as well as videotape, but I haven`t access to those.
Sharness, and Motleycree, have been going out of their way to photograph, and collect what evidence they could for me to post for everyone, and I can`t thank them enough.
43 - Ace (deadshot) Drouin
Interesting, can't wait for hair sample results. If results show unknown species, I will be on my way to Manatoba, to do my own research.
44 - Annie
Ace, the "dead shot" part of your name has me worried. I do hope you haven`t any intentions of shooting with anything other than a camera!?
If a camera is your weapon, I for one would appreciate your investigation.
IMHO,if killing this creature is the only way to prove it`s existence, then TO HELL with proof!! I`d rather it remain safely unknown!
45 - Carlos Ruvalcaba
They should try to make contact with the creature, for example make big sized copies of the photos, put them in the woods to arise their curiosity, and leave some food close by.
46 - Ace (deadshot) Drouin
I have been hunting this elusive creature for 20 years and I have my share of shadowy photos, foot print casts and stories of how I just missed it. I have traveled all over the U.S. Canada and Mexico. I have spent a fortune doing this, even learning French and Spainish to obtain the best local guides. I started with a camera only, but due to the remote areas involed in following my quest I have found that a firearm has become a much needed tool. In 1989 in Southern Oregon I stumbled across a mother cougar and her cubs, I was lucky to get out alive, all she got was my back pack which she ripped off my back moments before I made it to the river, she tore it to shreads. Now I carry a Colt.45 and will use it if I have to. My main tool is still my Nikon camera. The name Deadshot was givin to me at a turkey shoot in Texas in 1978 and it stuck. Although I have hunted many types of wildlife, I am not sure if I could shoot a Bigfoot, it is so much like a human and I don't think a .45 would stop him, it would most likely just piss him off! Ace
47 - Mark
A true ghost story
48 - Nancy
It's interesting that of all the hundreds (it feels like thousands) of reports & tales I've read, only 2 - the old man @ Ape Canyon, and the Moose Hunter - state that when they shot a BF, they killed it. All the rest relate that DESPITE numerous shots, the BF strolled away, or at least seemed to be unfazed or unhurt, and no one has ever found blood, hair, or a wounded or deceased BF, etc. after a shooting incident. The most remarkable story of "missed" shots is the BFRO report from the East Coast, in which a military task force, assigned to guard a downed army small craft, literally fired a small arsenal at 3 grown BFs at very close range - and seemingly missed (according to the C/O)! And they didn't have popguns, either. You'd certainly think an M-16 would do some damage. I'd hate to see one hurt or killed, but reading about the way some of the halfwits who have reported encountering BFs have popped off a few rounds at an unoffending BF on the next ridge or hill, because they don't know what it is, has to make me wonder how they've escaped mayhem for so long? Maybe these critters are bulletproof....
49 - Ace (deadshot) Drouin
July of last year I was in Alaska about 60 miles Southeast of Juno and I thought I had finally spotted one. He was every bit or 7 ft. upright facing a tree with his arms wrapped around it as if he was about to climb up. I got 5 pictures of it before it turned around and that's when I got a good look at it.It was the biggest dawm grizzly bear I had ever seen, he picked up our scent and then lumbered off into the brush. We went the other direction, my guide kept a close eye over his shoulder for the next 5 miles back to camp. Ace
50 - Annie
I`d rather run into a Sasquatch, than a pissed of griz! You`re lucky he ran off! They`re just as likely to attack!
I agree that carrying a weapon in the bush is a good idea,Ace...Just don`t shoot the big guy, okay!? :) Have you any photos of the casts you`ve got? I`d love to see them.
51 - Ace (deadshot) Drouin
Sorry Annie,nothing digital, they are nothing to brag about, I have seen much better on the net, and don't worry Annie, I won't shoot the big guy, but I really beleive some one will one day you see it's going to be the only way people will really believe, unless captured live. Ace
52 - mitskev
Ace - you are pretty lucky. A cougar killed a lone jogger right here in a metropolitan area (Sacramento). I've also heard one swipe of their paws can snap vertibra quite easily - man or woman. A Colt 45 should be quite ample for protection. Although I do not believe in guns solving anything but that's for another web log.
53 - Dave
What I find more amazing than bigfoot is the littlebrain people who gravitate to articles like this, just to mock it! This is an unknown phenomenon. Why not give it the benefit of the doubt, considering the payoff. This is why other people dont come forth with sightings like this one. The mockers and slur artist come out of the wood work.
Questions I have for the negative postings. How do you know its a hoax? Did you drive your lazy butt all the way up to interview witnesses and check the data first hand? Nope, duh...just like to type slurs on the keybord ma...duuuhh..drool.
I would love to see the day when someone discovers this is REAL, an interview immediately after with some of the nay sayers for their comments.
Actually, negative postings remind me of the book of infamous qoutes on inventions filled with nay sayers who were so dead wrong it's actually just pathetic. Yes, I agree. Its all a hoax, all of it. Lets just quit looking for the unknown in life. Lets just sit back down and eat the processed chemicals and tune into Springer.
54 - another HENRY
listen up DAVE, why dont u come down here and stay in the bush. Then if u dont see or hear anything then you can call us littlebrains.
55 - Blobby
sighted a sasquatch at the weskana in The Pas tonight.
she was hunting for males.
good thing i was carrying insta-sas-off liquid repellant.
56 - Annie
another Henry, he`s calling the flamers little heads, not those with open minds. Perhaps I`m not reading you right?
I agree with Dave. Why write off a possibility just because it seems unlikely? We`d still be living in caves with attitudes like that. And why go to such lengths to belittle those who choose to keep an open mind? I`m often surprised by the anger! No one is shoving anything down anyone's throat here. If you think it`s hogwash, just move on.
57 - Cindy
I totaly beleive in BF, but I find it easy to be caught with mixed feelings. I may only be twelve, but I can tell that many BF prints have been fakes, but I do NOT beleive any of the above are fake. And, if you crapheads would look closer at your own footprints, you would see that our prints just look like extermely smaller versions of those made by "Big Foot". I am a full beleiver, yet I understand if there IS a BF, very few siteings and prints are his/hers. But you people who say "Big Foot so does not exest!" will all be so embarrised when we find a BF. My friends and I hope that they will be friendly enough to allow the public to visit it/them.
58 - another henry
uhhh nm i read it wrong
59 - Abdul Rabdul
Thats a bloody elephant footprint. Aged between 6 and 8. Its soooooo obvious. You can tell by the 8 toes.
60 - Rooster
Jesus Christ, are you people even reading these? Somebody said they clipped the grass away from the tracks so you could 'em better, and you're STILL calling BS and saying Bigfoot's feet 'didn't rot the grass away'. That was common sense to begin with, who leaves debris in evidence? How do you know they're fake? Have you gone up there and taken a plaster cast? Have you looked at the DNA results? No? Then STFU. If you don't think Bigfoot's real, why are you even reading this article? There are thousands of bears down here in Georgia where I live, but I've never seen one. And there's far more deer, but I've only seen a few of those. Who's to say a creature almost as intelligent as a man, who's evolved specifically to survive in the woods, doesn't exist just because we haven't seen it? Go back to wasting your life in apathy and ignorance, we have bigger and better things to do than listen to your Bushvoter monkey-jabber.
61 - derek
it's an obvious hoax, and poorly done at that.
anybody who has looked at a print left by a human walking barefoot has noticed that the toe marks are deeper than the rest and show signs of disturbance of soil by the push-off action. (try it yourself on a beach or ant-hill!) and also that the heel is deeper due to foot-strike. there is no sign of either phenomenon the print.
it's just a stamp made by a giant foot-shaped mold. hoax! motive: to get attention or to draw tourists (= $)
how can so many be so gullible?!
62 - motleycree
what hoax? i`ve been with these people that went back to the spot of the second sighting including the mother of one of the little girls and they arent exactly charging for tours to the spots where we photographed the prints.i happen to catch them as they were leaving to go back into the bush because someone pointed out to them that there were other prints within the same area.its not like bigfoot just stood there and vanished.he has been walking around the area.back in the bush behind the residences.im going back and take pictures to show you the distances from the house to where it was spotted.and that was an anthill. nobody cleared any grass away. and another thing no ones making big bucks here in norway house.its not exactly flooded with tourists and bigfoot hunters.get real people.
63 - GARY
Sujest you put out food. Use Trailscout digital cameras. To get good pictures of BF. Put the food up about 5feet high,and mount your camera`s. Even higher angled down at the food they should be out of BF`s reach.Or you could mount a heavy duty cargo net over the food and trap BF.......just a thought. GARY
64 - LAL
Now that it's been explained, I can clearly see the antholes.
It would be nice if scoffers would withhold their comments until the facts are in. It might save them a lot of embarrassment.
Does anyone know why the BFRO ignored the hair samples?
65 - LAL
Derek, I suggest you read up on Sasquatch foot anatomy.
http://www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html
The gait is compliant; it's not like a human gait.
66 - BRIAN
i heard alot about bigfoot i even saw him once when me and my brother in law were on our way to work one evening.this happened last year because norway house is the next community over but so far we seen nothing here sasquatch would never hurt anyone so why don't we leave him alone
67 - motleycree
brian, theres nothing wrong with us blabbing about sasquatch.people are curious.and some of us from norway house are telling them whats going on over here.besides i think you missed the first thread we had going...check that out.
68 - Sharness Henry
Yeah, i just noticed that one of the four toes ( i believe it is four toes) the one closer to the pinky toe is mishaped and if u look at this drawing on http://www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html u can see that it is clearly almost the same.
69 - Laurie
I am 99.9% Norweigen!
70 - Eric Olsen
what's the .1%?
I think of my 25% non-Nowegian as spicing
71 - DICK
Having followed BF stories, programs
and various other information for a
number of years, I have developed a
question that I have never seen or
heard discussed. The "Mountain Men" of
our western mountains wether they be
trappers, explorers or hunters were
well known for keeping diaries and or
journals containing IMPORTANT info
relating to daily happenings, weather
snowfall, rain, presence of wilflife
etc. Has anyone researched these to
see if encounters with BF were ever
mentioned ? NOT Indian legends but
first or even second hand reports I
would think would add much creditable
info to the questoin of reality of
our present day sightings. These
men did not waste their time with BS
and certainly had NO reason to FAKE
anything ! INTERESTING !!
72 - son of goodstory
QUESTION
WHY IS THERE A SECOND THREAD ON THE SAME TOPIC RUNNING AT ANOTHER URL ADDRESS?
I HAVE MONITORED THAT THREAD TODAY AND SEE MANY DIFFERENT POSTERS AND INFORMATION SOURCES.
WHY HAS THE COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE INTERESTED IN NORWAY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS BEEN SPLIT?
THE SAME ANNIE RUNS THAT ONE.
I WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
73 - Janelle
Sorry but nothing will ever come of these 'sightings' because this is all a hoax perpetrated by members of the Cree Nation in northern Manitoba in order to bring money into their community.
You can side with them and listen while they continue to lead you on but it will never result in anything but the promise of more fraudulent 'evidence' (as pictured above) and endless tales about "hearing one in the woods last night" and "seeing one cross the road".
These people aren't your friends. They are toying with your emotions and lying to you.
74 - Sharness Henry
im sorry,we are not lying to anybody, how do you know this?? Janelle do u have facts that a member of this cree nation has hoaxed this??
75 - Annie
Sharness, this is the same person who`s been posting as other people on the other thread. Just ignore them.