Quebec Sightings Reports
Reported To Sasquatch Canada by email February 11th, 2017
To Sasquatch Canada representant:
The following text was written in august 2009. I will also try to send a drawing of what I saw (different file) along with the text.
My name is Roger Couture. The event I describe here happened on february 12th 2009 at 9h10 on the road 109 going north to south from Matagami to Amos, Province of Quebec, Canada.
In november 2008 I planned a caribou hunting trip at a Fish & Game Lodge on the road « transtaïga » that goes from west to east at James Bay latitude in the province of Quebec.
I live in a medium size city east of Montreal in an agricultural area. This hunting trip represented a 1600 km (1000 miles) car ride. I went there alone after the « pourvoyeur » I was dealing with assured me it was possible to join a group of hunters once there. Usually they ask hunters to form a group before they buy a hunting trip.
The hunt went well and happened on the 8-9-10th of february 2009. February 11th was the departure date and after a ride of 900 km I stopped in the city of Matagami for the night. The next day on february 12th 700 km were left to get home. I left Matagami at about 8h15 on the road 109 going south toward Amos city. My cruising speed was 90 km/hour. The weather was clear with little cloud, – 10˚ or -12˚C and almost no wind. The forest around was mixed with fir, spruce, poplar, birch, etc. At 9h10 the following event happened. Though it lasted about 6 seconds from the first sight till the end I must describe what went through my mind:
I came to a straight portion of the road that gave me a view of about 500 meters. At the other end of that portion of the road was a small hill with the road curving to the left. At the top of the hill still on the left (east) side of the road was a big post announcing Hydro Quebec installations called « Poste Joutel ». The secondary road that led to those installations was closer to me and on the right (west) side of the road 109 about 250 meters from the post.
At first glance I thought there was a large black domestic garbage plastic tub on the left side of the road at a distance of about 400-450 meters from me. It appeared to be at the same distance as the Hydro-Quebec post but right on the shoulder of the road. The type of garbage container with rectangular shape, standing like a column. However I thought this container did not reflect light rather appearing as black as charcoal. Furthermore I found it strange because I thought there is no house or cabin up here. As I approached the thing (350 meters) I realized that it was walking towards me down the hill still on the shoulder of the road. It appeared then not only as a rectangle but rather as a person. Probably a man of a good stature and his general appearance suggested he was wearing a snowmobile suit. At that moment I told myself that the « person »’s suit was equipped with a hood because of the bell shape it gave to the head and shoulder. If the first feature of the « person » was his blackness, the second was uniformity: there was no difference neither in color from head to toes nor in the contour of the line that would normally differentiate boots from trousers, trousers from coat, and coat from head /hat.
The observations I made were the following:
But at that distance that is as far as I can tell about details. What make me strongly believe that this being was a Bigfoot is the nature of the following events:
At that moment I took a look at my rear mirror to see the lights of a car following me at distance; this glance lasted about 1,5 seconds but was enough time for the « person » to disappear completely from my sight. In such a large corridor this disappearance was surreal. Even though I did not make the calculation right then I knew that the person had to run quite fast to get to the woods since there were two large areas cleared of any brush on each side of the road…but full of loose snow.
When I realized that the « person » disappeared I gave the benefit of the doubt for a more plausible scenario: the person probably got to his driveway and then to his cabin. However when I got to the place where it disappeared, there were no cabin, no house, no road, no car, no trail, no nothing; only woods and snow.
The calculation is the following: The shoulder of the road is large enough so that a car can be parked, let’s say 6 feet wide. Next to it is the snow bank, about 6 feet wide and 3 feet high. I will be able to check later that this is compact and crusty snow on which a person would sink only 2 inches deep. Then the person would have to cross a distance of 20 feet of white clean snow to get to the forest. When I will try to walk there later I will sink 3 feet deep on my first step and backed off immediately crawling on the snow bank.
Coming back to the event, I slowed down driving on the right shoulder of the road and looking on the left through the woods. I let the chasing car passing mine in order to get on the road again and find a place safe enough to make a U-turn. I was driving a 4x4 pulling a trailer. I needed time and space to complete a U-turn. I had to get away from this curve to have enough time to check if a heavy timber carrier truck was behind me. I went about 400 meters to do it, then I was back to the site. On my way back I noticed a small green post indicating 170 km (106 miles) just before the Hydro Quebec sign, (probably the distance from the city of Val d’Or?). I parked the car right at the spot where the « person » disappeared. When I got on the snow bank right away I heard loud branch breaking noises, I guessed 50 yards in the woods. It lasted for about 5 minutes. I needed to find tracks and I decided to proceed step by step. No track could have been made on the shoulder of the road on which the « person » was walking. It was too hard a surface regularly scrapped by snow plower trucks. I walked on and off the bank for 200 yards to check for tracks either on the bank or on the 20 feet clean snow band along the woods. No tracks. I decided then that I had to go in the woods to find the tracks. After I sank in the loose snow I decided to put a warmer coat on and a pair of snowshoes. I covered 200 yards walking 15 feet in the woods along the road. Even equipped that way I happened to sink 2 feet at some places and had a few falls. Since heavy snow falls during the last weeks had been followed by milder conditions, packs of snow had been falling from the big trees and had made track like marks on the surface of the snow in the forest. Spotting tracks in those conditions was difficult. I am sure that there where at least one track at the edge of the woods but I could not find it. Furthermore I could not expect to find tracks showing exact details of a foot since because of the abundance of snow, the holes left by the legs of a person would get filled with loose snow after the foot left. After having spent an hour and a half on this event I decided to quit.
The fact that no tracks were found in the vicinity of the road tells me that if I had kept my eyes on the « thing » instead of looking to my car rear mirror I would probably have witnessed a spectacular jump by a special creature.
It came to my mind that people living in this area must witness such events a few times a year. However for a person viewing a similar event at similar distance such as the one I reported, probably simply take it for a weird person that got quickly to the woods…and that’s it. No fuss and no need to report it.
To Sasquatch Canada representant:
The following text was written in august 2009. I will also try to send a drawing of what I saw (different file) along with the text.
My name is Roger Couture. The event I describe here happened on february 12th 2009 at 9h10 on the road 109 going north to south from Matagami to Amos, Province of Quebec, Canada.
In november 2008 I planned a caribou hunting trip at a Fish & Game Lodge on the road « transtaïga » that goes from west to east at James Bay latitude in the province of Quebec.
I live in a medium size city east of Montreal in an agricultural area. This hunting trip represented a 1600 km (1000 miles) car ride. I went there alone after the « pourvoyeur » I was dealing with assured me it was possible to join a group of hunters once there. Usually they ask hunters to form a group before they buy a hunting trip.
The hunt went well and happened on the 8-9-10th of february 2009. February 11th was the departure date and after a ride of 900 km I stopped in the city of Matagami for the night. The next day on february 12th 700 km were left to get home. I left Matagami at about 8h15 on the road 109 going south toward Amos city. My cruising speed was 90 km/hour. The weather was clear with little cloud, – 10˚ or -12˚C and almost no wind. The forest around was mixed with fir, spruce, poplar, birch, etc. At 9h10 the following event happened. Though it lasted about 6 seconds from the first sight till the end I must describe what went through my mind:
I came to a straight portion of the road that gave me a view of about 500 meters. At the other end of that portion of the road was a small hill with the road curving to the left. At the top of the hill still on the left (east) side of the road was a big post announcing Hydro Quebec installations called « Poste Joutel ». The secondary road that led to those installations was closer to me and on the right (west) side of the road 109 about 250 meters from the post.
At first glance I thought there was a large black domestic garbage plastic tub on the left side of the road at a distance of about 400-450 meters from me. It appeared to be at the same distance as the Hydro-Quebec post but right on the shoulder of the road. The type of garbage container with rectangular shape, standing like a column. However I thought this container did not reflect light rather appearing as black as charcoal. Furthermore I found it strange because I thought there is no house or cabin up here. As I approached the thing (350 meters) I realized that it was walking towards me down the hill still on the shoulder of the road. It appeared then not only as a rectangle but rather as a person. Probably a man of a good stature and his general appearance suggested he was wearing a snowmobile suit. At that moment I told myself that the « person »’s suit was equipped with a hood because of the bell shape it gave to the head and shoulder. If the first feature of the « person » was his blackness, the second was uniformity: there was no difference neither in color from head to toes nor in the contour of the line that would normally differentiate boots from trousers, trousers from coat, and coat from head /hat.
The observations I made were the following:
- Non light reflecting, deep darkness of the entire surface of the body.
- All proportion of the body could have been those of a man in a snowmobile suit.
- Clear movement of the legs even if I saw it from in front of the « person »; the legs appeared as uniform in diameter from waist to feet.
- One thing that surprised me: the slope of the hill was small, however each time the « person » made a step towards me I could see the change in height by the position of the head. This suggested that the strides were quite long.
- No movement of the arms because the « person » was holding its forearms in front as if resting on its belly or holding something; I could distinguish the 90˚ angle of the elbows pointing out on each side of the upper body. I could not distinguish the exact position of the forearms since they were as black as the abdomen.
- Broad shoulders with slight angle
- Bell shape of the head; surprisingly even at such distance I noticed a vertical lighter color line in the middle of the face which correspond to the nose location.
- This one is based on a great effort to recall the dimension of the « person »’s body but this has a larger margin of error : when I try to remember the scene as a movie clip and when I recall the bending of its knees I have the impression that they were overtopping the snow bank (3 feet).
But at that distance that is as far as I can tell about details. What make me strongly believe that this being was a Bigfoot is the nature of the following events:
At that moment I took a look at my rear mirror to see the lights of a car following me at distance; this glance lasted about 1,5 seconds but was enough time for the « person » to disappear completely from my sight. In such a large corridor this disappearance was surreal. Even though I did not make the calculation right then I knew that the person had to run quite fast to get to the woods since there were two large areas cleared of any brush on each side of the road…but full of loose snow.
When I realized that the « person » disappeared I gave the benefit of the doubt for a more plausible scenario: the person probably got to his driveway and then to his cabin. However when I got to the place where it disappeared, there were no cabin, no house, no road, no car, no trail, no nothing; only woods and snow.
The calculation is the following: The shoulder of the road is large enough so that a car can be parked, let’s say 6 feet wide. Next to it is the snow bank, about 6 feet wide and 3 feet high. I will be able to check later that this is compact and crusty snow on which a person would sink only 2 inches deep. Then the person would have to cross a distance of 20 feet of white clean snow to get to the forest. When I will try to walk there later I will sink 3 feet deep on my first step and backed off immediately crawling on the snow bank.
Coming back to the event, I slowed down driving on the right shoulder of the road and looking on the left through the woods. I let the chasing car passing mine in order to get on the road again and find a place safe enough to make a U-turn. I was driving a 4x4 pulling a trailer. I needed time and space to complete a U-turn. I had to get away from this curve to have enough time to check if a heavy timber carrier truck was behind me. I went about 400 meters to do it, then I was back to the site. On my way back I noticed a small green post indicating 170 km (106 miles) just before the Hydro Quebec sign, (probably the distance from the city of Val d’Or?). I parked the car right at the spot where the « person » disappeared. When I got on the snow bank right away I heard loud branch breaking noises, I guessed 50 yards in the woods. It lasted for about 5 minutes. I needed to find tracks and I decided to proceed step by step. No track could have been made on the shoulder of the road on which the « person » was walking. It was too hard a surface regularly scrapped by snow plower trucks. I walked on and off the bank for 200 yards to check for tracks either on the bank or on the 20 feet clean snow band along the woods. No tracks. I decided then that I had to go in the woods to find the tracks. After I sank in the loose snow I decided to put a warmer coat on and a pair of snowshoes. I covered 200 yards walking 15 feet in the woods along the road. Even equipped that way I happened to sink 2 feet at some places and had a few falls. Since heavy snow falls during the last weeks had been followed by milder conditions, packs of snow had been falling from the big trees and had made track like marks on the surface of the snow in the forest. Spotting tracks in those conditions was difficult. I am sure that there where at least one track at the edge of the woods but I could not find it. Furthermore I could not expect to find tracks showing exact details of a foot since because of the abundance of snow, the holes left by the legs of a person would get filled with loose snow after the foot left. After having spent an hour and a half on this event I decided to quit.
The fact that no tracks were found in the vicinity of the road tells me that if I had kept my eyes on the « thing » instead of looking to my car rear mirror I would probably have witnessed a spectacular jump by a special creature.
It came to my mind that people living in this area must witness such events a few times a year. However for a person viewing a similar event at similar distance such as the one I reported, probably simply take it for a weird person that got quickly to the woods…and that’s it. No fuss and no need to report it.
Report issued to Sasquatch Canada February 22, 2013
It all began when early one spring I was out raking the grass in my yard. My lot is over an acre and I save myself the gruelling task of cleaning it up after a winter by raking the grass that is exposed as it melts. This makes things easy for me as I only have to do a few feet a day as the snow recedes. For the most part, most of my yard is inaccessible through out the winter because the snow is very deep. So...I'm raking and I get to a large pine tree and as I get under it I notice that the snow has been disturbed and then I see just one big clear handprint under the canopy of the tree... like someone had been hiding under the branches when they were all weighted down by the snow. It makes kind of a shelter. I was completely freaked out, measured the handprint which was overall about 13" by 13". I took photos but not being a professional and using my crappy little camera the detail was not as clear in the photo as it was in person. The detail in the print was quite something. It was not just a flat print. You could see the texture in the palm like where the thumb muscle came down and what looked like calluses at the point where the fingers connect to the hand. You can see in the photo my size eleven boot print to the left of it for scale. So to make a very long story short the next two years revealed 14" by 6.5" impressions with a stride of between 46 and 54" in various places in my yard and most particularly under the pine tree where I originally found the hand print. One set of prints which we found a little close for comfort was under our kitchen window and have since installed spot lights in this area and this seems to have resolved that issue. For a long time I have questioned why...why my yard? and I think there are different factors involved. We have numerous fruit trees...2 plums, 3 cherries, 3 apples, 1 pear, 2 apricots so snacks are abundant but I think the main reason is it was being used as a crossover point from the woods behind my house to the woods behind my neighbour's house across the street. This is just my theory of course. Candy, quite frankly so much as happened here that it is hard to put it all in an email without it becoming exhaustively long. We've had eye shine more than once, we have heard this moaning/howling on several occasions coming from various points and distances. Also at varying times, twice during the late afternoon and 5 or 6 times at night. I got lucky one night about two weeks before my wedding (Oct 2010). I went outside for some quiet and brought a small digital recorder to practice my wedding speech when after about half an hour I could hear that moan that sounded far off to the south east of my home. I managed to record it several time times however it is faint as the recorder is designed to be spoken into within arms distance but nonetheless you can hear it. I've heard rock clacking back and forth from two locations in the woods within a few hundred yards of each other during the afternoon. Another oddity is that our yard, since we have moved here has been regularly visitied by deer and even often twice a day early morning and early evening. You know, during that two year period we did not see them once. Not even one. We've had occasions where in the night one of our cats would just jump up out of a deep sleep growling and run away. Our two small dogs would bark at something in the woods in the night when we would bring them out. On one occasion at dusk we saw something dark (colour was a mix of grey, brown and black) and tall moving behind a row of spruce trees in our back yard. I grabbed a flashlight ran out behind the spruce trees but whatever it was was gone. Seen large unidentified piles of poop often near the apple tree.
Anyway all of this occurrences were all topped off by the sighting which I will never forget to my dying day. I was out in the front of my house around 10 or 11pm having a cigar and enjoying the quiet before heading up to bed when I heard something that drew my attention to my neighbours yard across the street. There was a sound like someone quietly muttering to themselves and the tone for lack of better comparison sounded a little like Marge Simpson. I know that sounds funny but I'm serious after all this time that's the closest comparison I can give you. It was gruff but feminine sounding in pitch and quiet. As if it was talking itself trying to work something out. That was the only sound and then I saw it. It crossed over from my neighbours yard, crossed the road and then crossed the western portion of my property diagonally and then through the back of my next door neighbour's yard into the woods. There were a few things that were remarkable and even surprising to me as it crossed. When I first saw the figure coming into view my first thought was that it was the neighbour and I stepped off the front step and took a few steps in that direction. It was then I realized it was not the neighbour nor was it human. It was always my thinking that if I actually ever saw it my first reaction would be fear and that I would immediately run for cover when in reality there was absolutely no fear. None whatsoever that was surprise number one. Number two, I always imagined the hair being dull and shaggy like you see in tv and books. It was quite the contrary. The hair was long and glistened. To this day I don't know if its hair was wet but ...and here goes another funny comparison, it looked like a giant "cousin it" from the adams family. The glistening hair was not at all what I expected. It was between 7 and 8 feet tall, no distinguishable neck from my perspective and as it crossed my lot I could see it from the side. The other thing that really hit me was the size of its shoulder. It was at least as big as my hip and very muscular looking. All the while it crossed over without making a sound. Not a twig snap, not rustling the grass, nothing. Almost as if it floated through. All this happened in the space of about 15 seconds although reliving it, it seemed much longer. When it disappeared from view in the darkness I ran in the house got my camera and started snapping blindly in the dark with the flash on hoping to get something but no luck. I think that the camera may have been a mistake, or not, depending on your point of view, because after that I never saw it again. Since then I've found only one more foot impression early last spring. We did hear the moan from far off last fall and it sounded like it was coming from north east of here and oh ironically the deer have come back. My thinking is that it (or they) have moved on. I guess time will tell.
I've attached one of the recordings. I have two more somewhere taken that same night. You will have to excuse the quality and will more than likely have to wear headphones or if you have software to filter out background noise even better. This was taken in late September 2010 somewhere around 10 pm. It had been raining and you hear the odd car pass on the wet pavement. I'll see if I can find the others for you. I also included one photo of a foot print which I've tried to outline in red where the print appears.
It all began when early one spring I was out raking the grass in my yard. My lot is over an acre and I save myself the gruelling task of cleaning it up after a winter by raking the grass that is exposed as it melts. This makes things easy for me as I only have to do a few feet a day as the snow recedes. For the most part, most of my yard is inaccessible through out the winter because the snow is very deep. So...I'm raking and I get to a large pine tree and as I get under it I notice that the snow has been disturbed and then I see just one big clear handprint under the canopy of the tree... like someone had been hiding under the branches when they were all weighted down by the snow. It makes kind of a shelter. I was completely freaked out, measured the handprint which was overall about 13" by 13". I took photos but not being a professional and using my crappy little camera the detail was not as clear in the photo as it was in person. The detail in the print was quite something. It was not just a flat print. You could see the texture in the palm like where the thumb muscle came down and what looked like calluses at the point where the fingers connect to the hand. You can see in the photo my size eleven boot print to the left of it for scale. So to make a very long story short the next two years revealed 14" by 6.5" impressions with a stride of between 46 and 54" in various places in my yard and most particularly under the pine tree where I originally found the hand print. One set of prints which we found a little close for comfort was under our kitchen window and have since installed spot lights in this area and this seems to have resolved that issue. For a long time I have questioned why...why my yard? and I think there are different factors involved. We have numerous fruit trees...2 plums, 3 cherries, 3 apples, 1 pear, 2 apricots so snacks are abundant but I think the main reason is it was being used as a crossover point from the woods behind my house to the woods behind my neighbour's house across the street. This is just my theory of course. Candy, quite frankly so much as happened here that it is hard to put it all in an email without it becoming exhaustively long. We've had eye shine more than once, we have heard this moaning/howling on several occasions coming from various points and distances. Also at varying times, twice during the late afternoon and 5 or 6 times at night. I got lucky one night about two weeks before my wedding (Oct 2010). I went outside for some quiet and brought a small digital recorder to practice my wedding speech when after about half an hour I could hear that moan that sounded far off to the south east of my home. I managed to record it several time times however it is faint as the recorder is designed to be spoken into within arms distance but nonetheless you can hear it. I've heard rock clacking back and forth from two locations in the woods within a few hundred yards of each other during the afternoon. Another oddity is that our yard, since we have moved here has been regularly visitied by deer and even often twice a day early morning and early evening. You know, during that two year period we did not see them once. Not even one. We've had occasions where in the night one of our cats would just jump up out of a deep sleep growling and run away. Our two small dogs would bark at something in the woods in the night when we would bring them out. On one occasion at dusk we saw something dark (colour was a mix of grey, brown and black) and tall moving behind a row of spruce trees in our back yard. I grabbed a flashlight ran out behind the spruce trees but whatever it was was gone. Seen large unidentified piles of poop often near the apple tree.
Anyway all of this occurrences were all topped off by the sighting which I will never forget to my dying day. I was out in the front of my house around 10 or 11pm having a cigar and enjoying the quiet before heading up to bed when I heard something that drew my attention to my neighbours yard across the street. There was a sound like someone quietly muttering to themselves and the tone for lack of better comparison sounded a little like Marge Simpson. I know that sounds funny but I'm serious after all this time that's the closest comparison I can give you. It was gruff but feminine sounding in pitch and quiet. As if it was talking itself trying to work something out. That was the only sound and then I saw it. It crossed over from my neighbours yard, crossed the road and then crossed the western portion of my property diagonally and then through the back of my next door neighbour's yard into the woods. There were a few things that were remarkable and even surprising to me as it crossed. When I first saw the figure coming into view my first thought was that it was the neighbour and I stepped off the front step and took a few steps in that direction. It was then I realized it was not the neighbour nor was it human. It was always my thinking that if I actually ever saw it my first reaction would be fear and that I would immediately run for cover when in reality there was absolutely no fear. None whatsoever that was surprise number one. Number two, I always imagined the hair being dull and shaggy like you see in tv and books. It was quite the contrary. The hair was long and glistened. To this day I don't know if its hair was wet but ...and here goes another funny comparison, it looked like a giant "cousin it" from the adams family. The glistening hair was not at all what I expected. It was between 7 and 8 feet tall, no distinguishable neck from my perspective and as it crossed my lot I could see it from the side. The other thing that really hit me was the size of its shoulder. It was at least as big as my hip and very muscular looking. All the while it crossed over without making a sound. Not a twig snap, not rustling the grass, nothing. Almost as if it floated through. All this happened in the space of about 15 seconds although reliving it, it seemed much longer. When it disappeared from view in the darkness I ran in the house got my camera and started snapping blindly in the dark with the flash on hoping to get something but no luck. I think that the camera may have been a mistake, or not, depending on your point of view, because after that I never saw it again. Since then I've found only one more foot impression early last spring. We did hear the moan from far off last fall and it sounded like it was coming from north east of here and oh ironically the deer have come back. My thinking is that it (or they) have moved on. I guess time will tell.
I've attached one of the recordings. I have two more somewhere taken that same night. You will have to excuse the quality and will more than likely have to wear headphones or if you have software to filter out background noise even better. This was taken in late September 2010 somewhere around 10 pm. It had been raining and you hear the odd car pass on the wet pavement. I'll see if I can find the others for you. I also included one photo of a foot print which I've tried to outline in red where the print appears.
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