Hall Creek is located along the northeast shore of Squanga Lake, located some 125 km southeast of Whitehorse, on the north side of the Alaska Highway.
An odd occurrence took place along the creek in July of 1998. A local history enthusiast had been searching for a US Air Force plane that had gone down by Squanga Lake during the Second World War.
At the time, US planes were being flown to Russia under a lend/lease agreement between the two countries and the air route crossed the Yukon. One of these planes reportedly had crashed by Hall Creek.
Our history buff landed his boat at the mouth of the creek, planning to follow the creek for a few kilometres with the hope of finding the wreckage. He soon had to change his plan, though. The immediate terrain by the creek was a total jungle, just about impassable.
He crossed the creek and went up about ten metres further north to more open ground, where he could see the creek below, and would probably be able to see the plane’s wreckage.
About two km into his walk, he was surprised to hear loud screaming and strange vocalizations, along with thrashing sounds originating from the area of the creek below him. He noticed a strange smell as well.
Looking more closely at the creek, he could see a large, bipedal creature moving about by the creek, causing all the racket. He did not really know what it was, just tall and huge, as he later told me.
He then started feeling sick to his stomach, seemingly for no reason, had a deep feeling of not being wanted, became confused and disoriented. He sat down for a while, trying to calm down. As the thrashing sound continued, he decided to get out of the area, quickly returning to his boat, and went back to the Squanga Lake Campground, where he had left his pick-up truck.
As it turned out the plane wreck was eventually located, closer to the south end of the lake.
Another occurrence took place at the same location in July of 2002. A Carcross Tagish First Nation couple was fishing around the lake, when at about 1 p.m., they decided to have lunch and pulled in at Hall Creek, tied up, and let their dog run around the bush– a normal routine, which quickly changed.
The dog had been running around for a few minutes, then came back whimpering, shaking, obviously scared of something, quickly jumped into the boat, trying to hide under the seats.
The couple could not figure out this strange reaction by their dog, why was it acting this way? Very unusual, odd, something that had never happened before.
The gentleman started investigating, walking a short distance into the bush when he noticed a very odd smell, similar to rotten eggs. The smell intensified as he went further in. Then, there was some movement a short distance away. Something heavy was walking about.
He first thought it might have been a moose or a bear, but that was soon dismissed as the heavy walking sound was bipedal. An entity which he could not clearly see, was distinctly walking on two feet.
That is when he started feeling confused, and an odd, unwanted feeling came upon him. Figuring it was not safe to go any further, he returned to the boat where his wife had stayed, and they went further down the lake to find a more hospitable location to have lunch.
When he later heard of my interest in Sasquatch, he contacted me. We later met and he described what they had experienced that day.
During the interview he mentioned another similar incident with his dog as well, which had taken place on the eastern shores of Little Squanga Lake a year later.
They had stopped to rest on the shore, and again his dog ran out in the bush, only to come back scared and petrified, and ran right into the boat, trying to hide.
They then heard loud screams and scary yells they had never heard of before, and worse than the ones they had experienced at Hall Creek the previous year.
I investigated these occurrences in 2008 and experienced similar activities while camping across the lake from Hall Creek.
Is there anyone continuing Reds work into these sightings?