Written Confession: Possible Sasquatch Tracks Discovered After Overnight Snow
The following written confession and images were submitted via email:
First off, I have to tell you how much I appreciate your podcast! About a year and half ago I stumbled upon Blurry Creatures, then quickly found your Confessionals podcast, and Wes' podcast with Sasquatch Chronicles. But yours and the Blurry podcasts have had a huge impact on my Christian faith by delving into strange topics and the unseen realm. I had always believed in the spiritual realm, growing up in church as a Christian, but had a hard time connecting the dots with subjects like giants, bigfoot, aliens, portals, and all the other high strangeness out there. Your show however, has been the perfect platform for filtering these topics through a Biblical worldview. I love it, and God is glorified through your work!
I wish I had an actual encounter to share with you. However, it's simply some possible sasquatch tracks that we found at the beginning of the week. Sunday March 2nd, we got 4-5 inches of snow that my coworker plowed and cleaned up. Monday (March 3rd) I arrived at camp around 6:30am. It had snowed another inch and a half overnight, so I began plowing and clearing the snow as my coworker began cleaning the last building and prepping the kitchen. By 8:30am -9am more staff arrived. Around 9:30am one of the naturalists (teaching staff) began inspecting our trails, seeing if he needed to stomp them down in prep for students to use them that day. It was then when he first noticed these strange tracks near a trail down by our shop. My boss was notified about it so he took a quick look. Both people thought the tracks were odd but were too busy to linger and didn't investigate any further. Later that morning, that same naturalist asked if I had seen the bigfoot tracks. I said no, and thought he was joking, or playing a prank of some kind. I was too busy at the moment to investigate but had the chance to look at these tracks after lunch. I located the area by the shop where the tracks were first spotted and I began following them and took pictures and video along the way. What I found very interesting is the pathway the tracks take. They start by our wood shed, where I had the plow parked, they go behind the woodshed, behind the shop, then down towards one of the trails we use. But rather than staying on trail, the tracks go into tall grass and vegetation for 20-30 paces, then turn left towards the creek, then follow upstream along the creek. For the next 1/8 to 1/4 mile the tracks follow mostly our trail along the creek until the area behind a roofed structure we call our luggage shelter. At this point, rather than following the path of least resistance, which is our trail, the tracks veer left into the thick trees for 40-50 ft. before popping out at the clearing behind our luggage shelter. They continued for another 50 or so feet directly into the back of the luggage shelter and ended there. Or at least I couldn't find any more tracks after that.
Most of our staff just think that the tracks must be a local person with elaborate bigfoot snowshoes pulling a prank on us. Which I suppose is possible. But if someone was pulling a hoax, I'd imagine they would use a more obvious pathway in the middle of our camp or something to make sure someone would see these tracks. Had we not planned to use that trail it's possible those tracks would have gone unnoticed. These tracks take a very odd route. Plus the timing in which they were made. It would have had to have been sometime after the last snow late night Sunday and before my coworker and I were working at 6:30am. Unless I completely missed seeing someone sneak in while I was plowing snow, I think the tracks were there before I arrived. The last weird thing about these tracks is that I had seen very similar tracks about a month back, again after it had snowed a few inches. These tracks were at the opposite end of our camp in our girls village. I noticed they went behind our well pump shed and continued upstream out of our camp but not on our trail. I thought they were odd, so I almost took pictures. But thought, no, they must just be the new snow shoes that our naturalist team just got. Someone must be testing them out. So I never took pictures and I never followed them. However, one naturalist also confirmed seeing those tracks that day as well.
