Candy Michlosky shared this encounter she writes: 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:
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 4×4 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.
Duke S
Excellent detail!
Erwin A
That was a great read. Great care with the details. Good to see accounts from a fellow Canadian.
Robert P
Great story you hoser!
F S
That Sasquatch was a hoser!
(Good story.)
suzanne h
Very well reported.
Linda M
To me, this account exemplifies the traits/abilities that make a great researcher. Roger was alert, observant, willing to interrupt a long road trip when he was undoubtedly already tired, logical, doing computations in his head instead of being distracted by the radio, slogging around in the snow, falling down and getting back up for over an hour because of something that piqued his curiosity! And he made a drawing to clarify the scene. I wonder why more “scientists” aren’t like this?!
Amy H
“I wonder why more ” scientists” aren’t like this ?!” They are… They just don’t believe in BF so they don’t bother researching it (there are a few exceptions). There are other money generating pursuits considered more worthy.
Great description of the encounter.!
Indignico
You, sir, win first prize for spelling. I think you might be the first person I’ve ever seen spell ‘piqued’ correctly in a comment section on the internet. Why, I’ll bet you’d have no difficulty using the phrase ‘lo and behold’ either, would you? Anyway just wanted to applaud your spelling skills and say thanks. Thanks.
Indignico
Whoops I spelled ‘madam’ wrong above. Spelled it ‘sir’ accidentally. 5 points off.
William R
J’apprécie votre attention au détail Roger. Merci pour partager votre experience.
Dominique P
ENGLISH FOLLOWS THE FRENCH RESPONSE. Merci Roger; sur plusieurs blogs , les aficionados du sasquatch se demandent pourquoi il n’y a pas plus de “sightings” de sasquatch de signalés au Québec. Je pense que la faible densité de population est une raison. Également, le fait que la population du Québec connaît le sasquatch très peu, et n’y croit pas du tout. Alors raconter sa rencontre cause l’hilarité générale. Je voulais mentionner aussi que l’hypothèse que le sasquatch soit une espèce inter-dimensionnelle qui peut “sauter” une distance sans être vue ni laisser de traces est encore une fois sur la table ici. Généralement, quand on signale avoir regarder ailleurs une seconde dans ces rencontres, on perd de vue le sasquatch. J’ai vu beaucoup de sightings comme cela. Comme si la bête sait tout de suite que nous ne la regardons plus. Si elle peut sauter dans une autre dimension instantanément, on peut imaginer qu’elle peut aussi savoir si elle est vue ou non ! Intriguant tout cela. Belle description, merci pour nous laisser cela à l’histoire. Et merci pour Candy MIchlosky qui nous signale cette rencontre. Je ne comoprends pas le lien qu’elle a avec Roger Couture, s’il en est un. Merci !
Thank you Roger. On many blog posts, the sasquatch aficionados asked why there are so few reports of sasquatch sightings from Quebec province. I believe the very low population density is a factor. But also, the fact that nobody in Quebec believes in the sasquatch nor shoiws any interest. A survey indicated about 10-15% knowledge of the subject compared to a 65% belief in British Columbia province at the extreme west of Canada near Seattle. The density of sasquatch is probable also lower than in BC, the forest in the north of Quebec is made of small coniferus and not very dense. Game is rare in the north. A few caribous only. So telling its encounters generates the general hilarity. I wanted to mention also that the hypothesis that the sasquatch is an interdimentional entity that can jump a certain distance without being seen, as if it had disappeared from our reality or dimension and had reappeared 50 feet away in half a second would explain the lack of traces and the very quick jump. So this theory is once again on the table herein. Generally, when a witness declared having looked elsewhere one second instead of staring intently at a sasquatch, the witness looses the sight. I saw many encounters being told that way. This would imply that the entity knows when we see it and when we don’t. If it can jump in another dimension at a will, that explains a lot about its elusiveness. If we theorizes it can jump into another dimension like that, we can as well imagine it can know exactly when we see it and when we don’t. I admit that if I walk along a road, I cannot say if a driver at 350 feet from me is looking in his mirror or ataring at me ! Very intriguing! Excellent sighting description, thank you to leave this sighting to the history of so many others. Food for thoughts! And thank you to Candy MIchlosky who gave us this sighting report, although i do not know the link between her and Roger Couture, if any. Thanks again! Have a good sighting!