Hey guys
Thought you might like this true story of a Bigfoot encounter back in 1941, by an Indian family by the name of Chapman`s. The article appeared in True Magazidne, March 1960, written by Ivan T. Sanderson. Enjoy.
While the American Indian stories have usually been dismissed as legend. or laughed off because Indians are not supposed to be reliable,( that would be because of the ignorance of some white men) this experience was accompanied by to much physical evidence to be ignored.
The Chapman family consisted of George and Jeannie Chapman and children numbering, at my visit, four Mr. Chapman worked on the railroad, and was living at theat time in a small place called Ruby Creek, 30 miles up the Fraser River from Agassiv, British Columbia, in Canada!s great western province.
It was about 3 in the afternoon of a sunny, cloudless day when Jeannie Chapman`s eldest son, then aged 9, came running to the house saying that there was a cow coming down out of the woods at the foot of the nearby mountain. The other kids, a boy aged 7 and a little girl of 5, were still playing in a field behind the house bordering on the rail track.
Mrs. Chapman went out to look, since the boy seemed oddly disturebed, and they saw what at first she thought was a very big bear moving about among the bushes bordering the field beyoud the railway tracks. She called the two children who cam running immediately. Then the creature moved onto the tracks and she saw to her horror that it was a gigantic man covered with hair, not fur. The hair seemed to be about four inches long all over and of a pale yellow-brown color. To pin down this color Mrs. Chapman pointed out to me a sheet of lightly varnished plywood in the room where we were sitting. This was of a brown-ochre color.
This creature advanced directly toward the house and Mr. Chapman has, as she put it,(much too much time to look at it) because she stood her ground outside while the eldest boy-on her instructions-got a blanket from the house and rounded up the other hildren. The kids were in a near panic, she told us, and it took two or three minutes to get the blanket, during which time the creature had reached the near corner of the field only about 100 feet away from her. Mrs. Chapman then spread the blanket and holding it aloft so that the kids could not see the creature or it them, she backed off at the double to the old field and down on to the river beach out of sight, and then ran with the kids downstream to the village.
I asked her a leading question about the blanket. Had her purpose in using it been to prevent her kids seeing the creature, in accord with an alleged American Indian belief that to do so brings bad luck and often death? Her reply was both prompt and surprising. She said that, although she had heard white men tell of that belief, she had not heard it from her parents or anyother of her people whose advice regarding the so-called Sasquatch had been simply not to go further than certain points up certain valleys, to run if she saw one, and not to struggle if one caught her as it might squeeze her to death by mistake.
No, she said I used the blanket because I thought it was after one of the kids and so might go into the house to look for them instead of following me. This seems to have been sound logic as the creature did go into the house and also rummaged through an old outhouse pretty thoroughly, hauling from it a 55-gallon barrel of salt fish, breaking this open, and scattering its contents about outside.(The irony of itis that all those three children did die within three years: the two boys by drowning, and the little girl on a sickbed. And just after I interviewed the Chapman`s they also were drowned in the Fraser River when a row-boat capsized)
you can read the entire story on the following link:
http://www.tracone.com/the_unexplained/bigfoot_sasquatch_sightings/bigfoot_classics/chapman_family_ruby_creek_story_1941enjoy
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