During the afternoon of July 11, 2011, a Crestview resident decided to go shopping in downtown Whitehorse. Driving from his home, via Azure Road, he approached the water-pumping station located on the right-hand side at the bottom of the hill where he noticed something unusual walking in the ditch. He immediately slowed down to better see what was going on, and what he witnessed was so astounding that, to this day, it still baffles him.
A tall, dark creature, which he judged to be just over two metres in height, fitting a sasquatch description, was walking in the ditch, going at a steady pace—like a “man on a mission,” walking with a purpose in mind. The creature was almost beside him, only two metres away on his right. He observed it in amazement from his small car.
The sasquatch was visible mostly from the left-hand side and had the following characteristics: it was a remarkably large, striking creature entirely covered in long, black hair that was straight and well-kept. The shape of the head was mostly rounded and the visible skin was dark-brown, as if burned by the sun. The nose was shaped like that of a boxer’s, and the forehead was sort of squared off to the hairline, with a noticeable brow ridge, while the jaw protruded somewhat.
Its knees were slightly bent and it walked with its arms moving in a controlled manner, with its fists closed and facing backwards (as opposed to humans who close their fists inward towards their thighs). The upper body was described as being muscular—solid and strong—with well-developed forearms and biceps and with hands that reached just below the knees.
The shoulders were wide and muscular; the neck, not visible due to the long hair. The stomach and chest were large but not fat, while the legs appeared to be muscular and strong. Genitalia were not visible and there were no discernable breasts. The witness thought it to be a male.
The person reporting this sighting was Caucasian, in his early 70s at the time. He had been a resident of the Yukon for some 35 years—a person who enjoys the outdoors and felt at ease in the bush.
As he explained when he took me to the sighting location, the sasquatch did not pay attention to the car and was walking at a steady pace for some 90 metres. As the bipedal entity approached a lamppost, being some three metres away from it, it started becoming translucent, as if the witness was looking at him through a dirty window, and then it gradually became transparent. At one point, the witness could see the outline of the creature and yet could see the trees right through the sasquatch.
Then … he was simply gone. There was nothing there. Puzzling indeed, as if the sasquatch had walked through a portal of some sort.
After the witness described his encounter, I took measurements and calculated the height of the creature by using objects pointed out to me by the witness, resulting in estimations as I measured various distances such as the depth of the ditch in comparison to the road surface at various locations.
There are a few points that stand out as valuable for an investigator: height, the colour of the visible skin and hair, the manner of walking, facial and body details such as muscularity and the movement of the arms and hands and how the hand made a fist and the fact that the hair was well-kept, and so on.
There was no traffic on Azure Road while all of this was going on, although there was traffic on the Alaska Highway, which was only 100 metres away.
However, the most significant part of this sighting is the vanishing—the disappearance of the sasquatch. How could this happen? Since I have been gathering reports of sasquatch activities from the Yukon, for some time now, I can report two other occasions where witnesses have mentioned a sasquatch that was observed as simply vanishing in front of them.
Other sasquatch enthusiasts and colleagues have several explanations for this, yet nothing specific or proven. Some First Nations people have expressed that sasquatch have a cloaking ability and can change their form at will.
However, could it be that sasquatch have the ability to make people think they become invisible, but they are not actually vanishing?
