A former resident of Yukon contacted me by email in October of 2020, to share a couple of encounters with a sasquatch. The first one took place in 1995; the second one in 1997—both along the same road.
At the time, the gentleman worked at the old Swift River Lodge, located along the Alaska Highway at historic mile 733. On his days off, he would venture out and explore the nearby countryside, driving his ATV along trails and side roads.
On September 25, 1995, which he remembers well as it was his 25th birthday, he was driving along the Silver Hart Road, just east of the Alaska Highway Continental Divide at km 1120. Close to the north end of Edgar Lake, some 40 kilometres along the road, he had stopped to look around and, as he was doing so, heard a loud Snap! coming from the nearby forest. It sounded like a large branch being broken off, he told me.
Now, focusing on the source of the noise, he observed a tall and large hair-covered creature, which he judged to be at least 210 centimetres tall, in the process of crouching down in an attempt to hide behind some trees. This creature was only 30 metres or so away from the road, where he had stopped his ATV, and seemed to focus on him, as well. They were basically looking at each other.
The encounter lasted for a couple of minutes, the witness said, explaining that the creature stood at about 190 centimetres and weighed about 110 kilograms. Then he said, “That creature had to actually be at least 275 kilograms … just humongous. I got scared, big time. I did not have any weapon, so I just peeled out of there.”
On his way back to the lodge, it dawned on him and he said, “I just saw a sasquatch!” He did not say anything to anyone as he was scared of being ridiculed.
In September of 1997, he experienced a second sighting, again on the Silver Hart (mine access) Road. This time he was out moose hunting and had a rifle with him. He had driven as far as the mine site, not seeing any moose, and was on his way back to the lodge.
He drove slowly and stopped frequently to look around. In an area close to Daughney Lake, which empties into the Rancheria River, he noticed an upside-down tree, a pine tree firmly planted in the ground, sticking some three metres above ground with its root system up in the air.
I have heard of these inverted trees in Alaska, but not in the Yukon. Some sasquatch researchers have mentioned that sasquatch would plant these inverted trees as a sign. However, they have never shown anything that could prove it and I personally still have my doubts.
Farther on, on the east side of the road by a swampy ground area, he noticed movements around 100 metres or so on his left and across the road. This was taking place at about km 11 of the Silver Hart Road.
As he explained to me, he observed a large entity moving about. He knew right away that it was a sasquatch. The creature was tall, about 200 centimetres, he said, and covered with dark-brown hair. He could not make out the details of the face, however but mentioned that he thought it was a female,because it was smaller than the creature he had observed a couple of years earlier, even though he could not see any breasts. When I asked him what he figured its weight would be, he said the sasquatch probably weighed in the neighbourhood of 200 kilograms.
When queried about the actions of the sasquatch, he mentioned that at first the sasquatch did not move; then, after about a minute, it began slowly moving closer to a bunch of trees to its right and eventually moved away. During this time, the witness stayed by his ATV and watched the actions of the sasquatch.
I asked him why he did not shoot it, since he had a rifle with him. He said the sasquatch looked too much like a human being; “He looked just like us.”
