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Trepidation was stalking Travis Watson like a wild animal when he was writing Sasquatch Canada: Beyond British Columbia. Much like the eight-foot-tall suspected primate of Canadian folklore, his consternation loomed over him, giving him complicated feelings, as the subject of Bigfoot is one that heightens division. “There’s just an awful […]
There is an afterlife for Brennan Storr’s homage to his hometown Revelstoke, British Columbia. The Victoria resident’s book A Strange Little Place, which was originally published in August 2016 by Llewellyn Worldwide, went out of print in April 2022. Storr, one of the founding members of The Ghost Story Guys […]
Photojournalist and filmmaker Jason Kenzie is no stranger to exotic wildlife, having worked with tigers, grizzly bears, alligators, monkeys, wolves and even the African serval. And he is no stranger to the sprawling forests and mountains of his native British Columbia, where he grew up hearing stories about the “hairy man […]
Jason Hewlett’s cryptozoological mission into the wilds of British Columbia’s interior yielded some fascinating discoveries, including a ghostly side quest. The former crime reporter turned paranormal investigator shared his team’s discoveries on the Bonaparte Plateau, as well as in Shuswap and Barriere in the latter half of 2020 on the […]
North America is rich in diversity and has plenty of different perspectives when it comes to the inexplicable. From First Nations to the introduction and emancipation of slaves, to the many waves of immigration, there are mythologies imported and shared across all ethnicities on the continent. Even though there is […]
Gino Meekis said he is surprised by how many people still believe in the Sasquatch. The 39-year-old Sioux Lookout resident is still trying to process what he recorded in the woods 45 kilometres outside the Northern Ontario community. On Oct. 3 he was grouse hunting with his wife Joanne and […]
An encounter with a Sasquatch at 6-years-old left an impression on actor Kiana Passmore. The now 25-year-old was with her family in Campbell River, B.C. when she heard unexplainable noises and saw evidence that something large had crashed through the dense underbrush. That memory provided the impetus for Passmore to […]
Though Salt Spring Island writer-artist Briony Penn has never had a run in with the Sasquatch, she suspects one experience she had northwest of Bella Coola, B.C. could be attributed to the legend that covers British Columbia like the Cordilleran forest. While leading a small group around the Kowesas River, […]
There is a human side to the study and research of the elusive Sasquatch. Beneath the Ghillie suit Todd Standing wears to blend into the environments while on investigations in Radium Hot Springs, B.C. or in Alberta and Montana, is a man who has sacrificed plenty to get the evidence […]