About 1973 or 1974, I was down by the Fraser River
talking with some of my old hand-logger commercial
fishermen friends and the subject of Sasquatch
happened to come up in the conversation. That was
the first time I had ever heard that at times these
beasts might make some form of nest or bed.
Old Bob was a local shake splitter who had just
returned that same day from a deer-hunting trip up
in the Hedley country. He somewhat shyly explained
to the group that he found a large animal bed
located on a perfect vantage point with six-inches
of fresh evergreen tree boughs laid carefully in the
bottom. He went on to explain he had also found
quite a few piles of huge human-type droppings that
no man or animal he knew of could make. Apparently
these droppings were located about 75-feet from the
bed and concentrated in one general area. Old Bob
also went on to seriously explain that the bed he'd
found had plenty of darker colored hair in the
bottom of it and stunk like hell.
Now if I remember right, about six people burst out
laughing. At that old Bob became extremely angry and
remarked he would take any one of us assholes
(excuse the language) back up to Hedley at that very
minute and show us the bloody Sasquatch bed he'd
found. Seeing that old Bob was seriously mad, the
entire group said they were sorry and jokingly
believed him. Sadly, nobody took Bob up on his
offer. I wish to this day that I would have.
© Ken Kristian
West Coast Sasquatch Research
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