A man who spent two days alone on an island after capsizing his canoe says he had a terrifying encounter with a mythical creature — and in the North West Territories Tlicho region, he’s not the first.
On July 17, after boating hours from Whati to the most northern tip of Lac La Martre, 42-year-old Tony Williah spotted some garbage in the water ahead of him — a plastic bag bobbing in the waves. Williah slowly brought his boat up beside it.
He reached in to get it but just as he did, a wave rocked the boat and he fell over the side and into the frigid water. He struggled to pull himself up back into the boat but his clothes, heavy with the weight of the water, kept pulling him down. He grabbed a plastic bag of supplies and began the long, tiring swim to shore.
“I managed to swim to an island at the end of the point,” Williah told the CBC in Tlicho in his Yellowknife hospital room last week.
He says that’s when he encountered the bushman.
“All of a sudden, there was a big man standing beside me,” he said.
“He must have walked away because I heard some branches break throughout the bushes. I packed up my clothes in a white bag and readied myself to leave.”
Williah swam away from the island and would spend another 48 hours alone in the wilderness.
When he was rescued by the RCMP and Canadian military, he would tell the story of his encounter with a bushman to whoever would listen.
m99
When I hear experiences like the man seeing a large something jump off a bridge, makes me wonder, did the Sasquatch jump dimensions?
Lisa B
How are you agent99?
Jumping a dimension, knowingly, definitely interesting.
Gabriel H
“Time immemorial” huh? The appearance of that Nation/tribe seems like living proof of Asian origins. No offense (I’m part Native American), but I bereave in SCIENCE:Biology, Anthropology, Zoology, Evolution, etc.