In the late 1960s, myself and a few other
commercial fishermen and old hand loggers went
to visit Oscar Greenland (now deceased), a
long-time hand logger and permanent resident
of Pitt Lake. Oscar seemed to enjoy our visits
as we always brought a bottle of his favorite
gin and some type of a treat for his faithful
old dog. Sometime during the hours long BS
session, the subject of Sasquatch was injected
into the noisy conversation.
Oscar
told us about a time some years back when he
was heading up the lake towards home at first
light on a beautiful summer morning. He went
on to explain that the lake was a flat as
glass and there wasn't a breath of wind. As
they were heading from point to point he
happened to glance towards the shoreline and
noticed a rhythmic splashing about 300 yards
away.
Out
of curiosity he decided to head his old
Easthope powered ex-gill-netter towards the
beach in case someone was in trouble. As he
got closer he noticed a downed alder or
cottonwood tree laying in the water with what
appeared to be a huge, dark colored man-ape
jumping up and down on it - looking for all
the world like it was simply playing and
totally amused by the splashes it was making
in the water. Oscar went on to explain that
once the ape-like creature spotted him getting
closer, it went up the tree faster than any
man could have possibly gone and quickly
disappeared into the bush.
Old
Oscar then asked us all if we thought there
were any grizzly bears in the Pitt Lake
country. While none of us had ever seen or
heard of a grizzly bear down low in his
general neck of the woods, we asked him why he
enquired. Oscar said that one day he was up
behind his cabin cutting shake blocks when his
dog suddenly began to growl, bark and
generally go crazy.
Oscar
said he stared in the direction the dog's gaze
was fixed upon and saw what he thought was
about an 8-foot tall grizzly standing on its
hind legs partially hidden behind some alders.
Oscar went on to say that he'd heard plenty of
bears grunt and cougars scream in his days in
the bush, but had never heard such a
tremendously loud roar come out of any animal
he knew of.
© Ken Kristian
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