Bigfoot and Water

I'm posting a small article from John Green talking about the statistics of Bigfoot sightings and water. It's a pretty interesting read. I heard several accounts of people witnessing Sasquatch fishing, and or digging for presumably clams or muscles. It makes sense that they would utilize any food source that is readily available to them. In Robert Morgans book "Bigfoot Observer's Filed Manual" he talks about a river crossing that Sasquatch were using. He also details how and why they were using it. So I think it's safe to say that water plays an important role in the lives of Sasquatch. Whether for food and hydration, or for the security of the thick vegetation, Sasquatch won't be found too far from water sources. Please note the "sophisticated Southern California Sasquatch" that was seen drinking from a hose! I laughed my butt of at that! 

WATER AND THE SASQUATCH

It is common knowledge that Sasquatch, unlike the other apes, are quite often reported in some sort of association with water. A survey of the 1,343 Western reports in my computer provides confirmation that this occurs throughout the area in fairly consistent proportions.

There are 78 reports in which tracks or sightings indicated contact with water, 5.8% of the total. Also, 104 were estimated to be either within 10 feet or "close" to water another 7.7% of the total.

Percentages in the “contact” category are 7.8% in British  Columbia; 6.1% in Washington; 5.3% in Oregon; 4.2% in California and 6% in the other states and provinces.

Actual numbers are small enough so that this degree of variation in percentages could probably be expected, but there are also special circumstances boosting the percentage for B.C. and Washington and reducing it for California.

In B.C. Bob Titmus spent several years investigating among the coastal islands; in Washington in two separate years there was a rash of reports during a salmon run at the mouth of the Nooksack River, while in California the percentage is reduced because there have been so many reports of tracks on dirt roads in the Bluff Creek area.

Over the entire area, there were 38 creatures reported seen wading, four swimming and four reaching into the water. There were also 36 sets of tracks entering and/or leaving the water. These figures don't quite match the "contact" total because some reports include both sightings and tracks.

Swimming Sasquatch have been reported once each in B.C., Washington, Montana and Alaska. The one in Alaska was swimming underwater, and there were also two seen wading in the Nooksack that rose from or went down into the muddy water, where they presumably swam but could not be seen.

Presumably at least some of this water activity involves fishing, but the only report I have of a Sasquatch seen eating a fish, in Oregon, is not in the computer because of confusion about the location. There is also a B.C. report of a Sasquatch seen carrying a fish.

Four Sasquatches were reported seen playing in water: one in Washington in the sea, two in California in a stock-watering pond and one in Alberta in a river. A pair in Oregon were reported eating water plants in a creek and one in B.C. was washing roots.

Eight in various places were reported seen drinking, four from streams, one from a spring, one from a small lake, one from a canal, and a sophisticated Southern California Sasquatch from a hose. One was lying on its belly, another on all fours. The positions of the other six were not described.

More than half of the reports of contact with water involve creeks or rivers, 58%; lakes 16%; the ocean, mainly in inlets, 15%; ponds and swamps, 4.5% each, and 1% sloughs.

John Green                  January, 1996