The Bighorn Dam incident of 1969 is considered one of the most active and important years in the history of sasquatch research. Sasquatch scholar and researcher John Green wrote a book about all the actions that took place in 1969, aptly titled The Year of Sasquatch.
That year was one of Alberta’s most famous resorts in 1969, work began on the present-day Bighorn Dam near the town of Nordegg in western Alberta.
The Incident
On August 24th, five men witnessed an event known as the Bighorn Dam Incident in Alberta, Canada. Harley Peterson and Guy L’Heureux were laying the foundation for a pump at a construction site. It was a black shadow, standing upright, and seemed to be watching what was happening below.
The huge figure stood there for about 30 minutes, then sat there for about 10 minutes, and by that time, the audience had grown from two to five. Stan Peterson, Floyd Engen, and Dale Boddy also observed this number during this time. The number then rises for about 15 minutes before disappearing up the mountainside and into the trees.
Two of the five men decided to climb the hillside to see if they could find any footprints, and the other three men were asked to estimate the height of the figure already there. What the men on the ground later realized was that the person standing there was no ordinary human being. Comparing the heights of the two men to the trees behind them, the man on the ground estimated that he was at least 12 feet, if not closer to 15 feet.
This is certainly one of the largest Sasquatch ever reported in North America. Before this report, many other incidents involving Native Americans living in the area above the dam and creatures known as Sasquatch were reported.
A man named George Harris, who lived in Nordegg at the time of these events, photographed two footprints believed to have been found by the First Nations in the area, one set 17 inches long and 13 inches in length. One day, another young Native American of his was cutting firewood, and soon after footprints were found, he realized he was not alone. He notices Sasquatch watching him from the edge of the tree and continued chopping wood by himself.
A young First Nation woman said at the time she and her three other elderly women appeared to have seen her four creatures on the mountainside near where she was walking. Two of hers crouched down as if they had grabbed something and the other two of hers were walking nearby and said they were about the size of a fairly large fir tree.
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Man Wes, you give us so much it’s hard to keep up! What a fantastic job you do with everything you offer. WOW. Thanks Mr. Weispoo.
Charles R
Great to read this. The Sasquatch world really owes a great debt of gratitude to John Green for cataloging about 3000 sightings and encounters, starting long before the BFRO and other research groups also took up this mantle.
Chad W
I’d read about this encounter years ago, and was startled by the estimated height provided by the witnesses – 14 feet. Almost shockingly tall.
Stiles H
Who wrote this confusing report ?
Greg O
Sounds very similar to my second sighting except I don’t think the one I saw was over 10 feet tall. Same description I have. A dark humanlike figure watched me fish for a very long time and was near the easy way out of the high alpine lake I was at alone. Episode 517 Wes labels my encounters as 2 brief ones. 40ish minutes for the first one and around 2 hrs for the 2nd one. In the 2nd encounter I did not have mind speak but a voice inside me said “do not let it know you see it.” That is exactly what I did but I did leave it 2 fish for a snack if it wanted it.