Vancouver Island - 2006

 

Submitted November 4, 2006

Hello....my name is Anne Charlton. I live in the area of Mt. Arrowsmith foothills [near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island]. I am not usually a believer in the Bigfoot as such but I wanted to share what I saw last week in the area where I walk my dogs behind my rural home....

When I first saw the footprint, my first thought was...why was someone out here bare feet in this kind of weather and terrain???...then I looked closer...the sun was low so showed up the print perfectly...it was on an old logging road in the sandy top soil...this is what I observed....I lined up my running shoe with the print to have an idea of how big it was...it was approximately four inches longer than my shoe which I measured when I got home...this measurement was approx. 15-16 inches in length...the width of the front of the ball of the foot was approx. 7-8 inches...the print was of a left foot which was slightly curved inwards not unlike a baby's foot with only the outside of the foot making an indentation. It had a fairly pronounced heel - it also only appeared to have four toes, which were about two inches or more in length. I then realized that perhaps this could be a bear print....checking what rear bear footprints look like, this was nothing like them....after seeing one footprint I looked for more and found a second almost identical print a few feet forward of the first one. I did not find any more however as the prints led into the forest - this area is adjacent to a magnificent, steep, jungle-like ravine leading down to the Englishman River with old growth forest...

Please let me know what you think...

Thank you for your time.

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Hello Anne,

What you describe is not that uncommon – large bare, man-like footprints in mud or snow, in remote areas. There is a highly respected wildlife biologist, John Bindernagel, living in Courtenay, BC, that had a similar experience in Strathcona Park, in 1988. In the Notes section at the back of his book, “North America’s Great Ape: the Sasquatch”, he writes:

“John and Joan Bindernagel, hiking with a school group in Strathcona Provincial Park in October, 1988, found 15-inch-long sasquatch tracks in two muddy places on a hiking trail.”

He includes a photograph of the print with dimensions very similar to yours – 15 inches long and 8 inches across the ball of the foot, except that there were clearly 5 toes. 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want more information.

David Pengilly, UFOBC

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