This sighting took place at Marshall Creek in the early evening of Wednesday, July 20, 2014, by four ladies from the Champagne-Aishihik First Nations (CAFN).
The ladies were returning to Haines Junction after spending time in Whitehorse that day. As they approached the Marshall Creek Bridge, some 30 kilometres east of Haines Junction, they noted what they thought was a man in black coveralls who was walking about in the clearing on the right-hand side of the road, just past the bridge.
As they approached the bridge, one lady mentioned it was “odd there were no vehicles parked at the bridge,” while another lady spoke up and said, “That’s not a man; that’s a sasquatch.”
The driver then slowed down and stopped the car just past the bridge, only a couple of metres away from a sasquatch that was hunched over and that appeared to be picking and eating berries. After a minute or two, the sasquatch stood up, became aware of the car and kept looking at it and its occupants, curiously, then stepped a bit closer—probably trying to figure out what it was looking at—seemingly intrigued.
While this was going on, two cars drove by without paying attention to what was going on and totally unaware of the situation. A couple of minutes later, the sasquatch seemed to lose interest in the car and its occupants and began slowly walking away while looking back at the car, over his shoulder, before entering the nearby bush and disappearing from view.
Upon reaching her residence, one of the ladies contacted a mutual friend of mine and told him about the sighting. In the afternoon of the following day, he sent me an email mentioning what had happened. By that time it was evening, so I waited until the following morning to hit the road. Meanwhile, I contacted a friend from CAFN who got the sighting information and details, which was later passed on to me.
Arriving at the location on the following day, Friday the 22, all I could see was trampled-down vegetation. Obviously, many had visited the site, the day before, and any possible signs of activity had been destroyed in the process.
One of the witnesses mentioned to my friend that she had judged the sasquatch to be about 2.3 metres tall and that it had dark, clean and well-kept hair; also, that it looked to be in good shape, that there were no visible breasts and that the upper body was muscular and it did not appear to have any extra fat, by any means.
With this approximate height, I calculated his weight to be about 260 kilograms and the length of his foot to be about 34 centimetres, with the distance of his step being 135 centimetres; and his stride, twice that much.
There were significant points about this sighting: the manner in which the sasquatch reacted: first off, he seemed unaffected by the sound of traffic on the road, and he crossed the bridge as if he were accustomed to the noise. Then he seemed quite curious about the car and the persons inside the car, as if trying to understand what it was, and he did not appear to be scared of it at all—just curious; also, the way he moved away was intriguing, as well—slowly and deliberately, while still looking at the car over his shoulder.
Most sasquatch sightings are the result of someone who just happens to see a sasquatch crossing a road, a field or in some similar location, mostly at a distance, in a totally unplanned encounter. On the other hand, some sightings are the result of people actually searching for our legendary wild man during planned expeditions of some sort, and some are the result of game cameras that have been set up for this very purpose.
On just about every occasion, when a sasquatch becomes aware that it has been detected, it will clear the location quickly or disappear in some fashion or another—but certainly not stick around like the curious sasquatch at Marshall Creek.
Through all of my research and with reading many sasquatch reports and talking with colleagues, I have never heard of a sasquatch that became aware that it was being observed from a short distance but yet would stay around for a few minutes, seemingly interested in the people watching it—a very human-like trait.
