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Part V Dress to fit the environment, I am a great believer in blending in with the environment as it gives you the advantage of stealth when investigating and on surveillance. Those of you have been out in the woods with me, especially those from Ohio, Texas and British Columbia will know that I always […]

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The Highland News out of Inverness is reporting that an English couple twice spotted something in Loch Ness during a visit to the area. Here’s the report in full followed by my comments. By, the way, this is the same publication that brought the August sighting of an unknown object off Dores to the attention […]

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Part IV How – I would recommend the following procedure from start to finish in investigating a sasquatch occurrence. 1) Secure the scene temporarily by using the caution tape to rope off the site where evidence may lie. 2) All investigators in the zone must wear shoe protection bags and gloves, and optimally filter masks […]

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A witness to a famous Ogopogo sighting in 2004 is lying critically ill in hospital in India after a freak accident aboard a local train. Josh Casorso, his father John and other members of his family were aboard a houseboat on Okanagan Lake on August 9, 2004 when at about 7:30 in the morning they […]

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Part III This is a continuation of our series on how law enforcement methods we have seen on television and read about might help us in the search for cryptids and for sasquatch in particular. 2) What – This section deals with the activity the animal was engaged in when the contact with the witness […]

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Part II This is the second part of our series on how law enforcement techniques can help in cryptid investigations. Preparing Yourself for the Investigation You have received a report of an encounter with a sasquatch by an eyewitness. Optimally, you will have your team assembled, if not and you are just a single individual […]

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Part I My previous lengthy series of postings on Canada’s Cryptid Cops has inspired me to share a few thoughts on ways and means that may prove useful in the search for cryptids. In particular, the sasquatch field is today populated by a large investigator base attempting to locate evidence for the existence of a […]

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As if my luck at being at Lake Windermere in England a few days after a sighting was obtained of an unknown creature wasn’t enough, I happened to be visiting Loch Ness when British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) member, Andreas Trottmann, alerted me to a sighting that had taken place at Dores. This was […]

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It’s not often that one has the opportunity to be in two lake monster venues in a very short period of time, and it is even less often when one is there just shortly after there has been a sighting. This summer I had the incredible fortune of following up on two sightings at lakes […]

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While the Kelowna detachment has had to deal with people attempting to harm an aquatic cryptid, the RCMP detachment near Peter Pond Lake in Saskatchewan has had to deal with a ‘lake monster’ which could prove harmful to humans. “Puff,” as the creature is known, has had a habit of tearing up the nets of […]

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The Thetis Lake Gillman is not the only aquatic anomaly that the RCMP found themselves dealing with in the course of their duties. The force has crossed paths with a number of aquatic cryptids known commonly as “lake monsters,” the most famous of which is the world-famous Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia. I am […]

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One of the strangest cases the RCMP has been called upon to investigate was the Gillman of Thetis Lake on Vancouver Island. Situated near the community of Cottonwood, Thetis Lake is not really much of a lake, but in reality is more of a glorified pond. On August 19, 1972 two young men, Robin Flewellyn […]

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Many people know the story of Mrs. Jeannie Chapman’s encounter with a sasquatch at Ruby Creek in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia in 1941. She and her children fled the family home when a huge sasquatch showed up on her property. When her husband, George Chapman, returned to the property with fellow workers from […]

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1977 was a busy year, as far as cryptids were concerned, because the RCMP were called out to investigate huge footprints found in Alberta. The following news paper from the period gives us the details: THE MYSTERY AT MANYBERRIES DAN TRAFFORD MANYBERRIES Who in Manyberries could leave footprints in the snow measuring 19 inches? Or […]

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In 1977, a Greyhound bus driven by Pat Lindquist, coincidentally a reserve officer with the Vancouver Police Department, came to a screeching halt near Lake Erroch outside of Mission, B.C. when what appeared to be a sasquatch crossed the road in front of the vehicle. Lindquist leapt from the halted bus and went chasing after […]

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