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Mar 3

SC EP:303 Trackway Near Sunnyslope, Washington

I will return on Sunday for the member show. Tonight, I am releasing Sunday’s Show. Paul Graves joins us to discuss the trackway that was found near Sunnyslope, WA a few weeks ago. Paul will be sharing what he found during his investigation, and there is more to the story… Paul will also be sharing with us other encounters he has investigated and some of the audio he has captured.

Paul writes, “I live in eastern Washington state and have been researching Sasquatch since 1988. On Monday, February 13th, 2017 I answered an early morning knock on my front door. It was Roy Bianchi, an acquaintance I had met a few years back through the construction trade (I own a concrete business).

He was excited and said he wanted to show me something. He produced his cell phone and showed me photos of tracks he found on Friday, February 10th behind a new subdivision built on former orchard land. Roy is also a lifelong outdoorsman, and he had never seen tracks like these before. Upon first glance at the photos, I knew I had to go see the trackway. Previously, on Thursday, February 9th, roughly 8 inches of snow had fallen. The next morning, Roy and a coworker had to plow the construction area and discovered the trackway. The tracks were most likely made at night during the snowstorm, because when they were discovered, they were partially filled in with snow. After a third coworker examined the tracks, he suggested they should get hold of me (I am well known in this town as a sasquatch researcher).

When I arrived on site there were five people already present, including the home builder, my research colleague Josh Lawrence, and a reporter for the Wenatchee World newspaper. With the exception of the reporter, each and every one of us are hunters and trackers with many years of experience, and we were all equally baffled by these prints. There was nearly 2 feet of snow on the ground, with a thin crust of ice on top that made walking very difficult. I am a trained tracker and spend a lot of time in the winter on snowshoes, and there was no indication of an animal bounding or hopping, nor animal tracks present inside of the prints.

The trackway was perfectly linear, not out of line by a centimeter for over a mile. I noted the step length was immense (varying from 4’ to 6’ 2″), with no drag marks, nor kicked snow. There was evidence of bipedalism (left foot/right foot), clear heel strikes, and the front of the tracks were fairly straight across the toe box area. Close examination showed a footprint in both outline and contour. The small amount of snow that had filled up the tracks perfectly replicated the bottom of the tracks, showing the curve of the foot, and the push-off caused by a mid-tarsal break (mid-foot flexibility). I tried blowing and removing some of the snow to get a better indication of the size and compression of the track—initial measurements showed 20 inches in length and 10 inches in width.

By making an estimate based on snowmelt, time and temperature, the tracks were originally 15–16 inches long and 7 1/2 to 8 inches wide. The tracks were visually classic Sasquatch prints. We back-tracked the prints coming out of an orchard to the south, but lost them because of damage from heavy snowmobile tracks going up and down the orchard rows from tree pruning activity. The prints came out of that orchard, and over to three trees (that may have been used as cover), then continued through the field. There have continually been many deer in this field throughout winter. We tracked the prints around the back of the last house under construction, and then into another orchard. When the tracks led up to trees with low branches, the step length shortened considerably, and when clear, longer step lengths again. The tracks went through a second orchard, then crossed a road going north.

Continuing on, the trackway then passed between two farm houses, and crossed a large irrigation canal. Afterwards, they went directly into an evergreen tree line for another 1/8 mile to where they were lost momentarily. We then noticed snow missing from the trees at this point—leading us to wonder if the track-maker had passed intentionally close to the tree trunks to drop snow over its own tracks. We circled out and reacquired the trackway going back east into yet another orchard. We tracked them through this orchard, crossed a farm road and came upon a small 4 to 5-foot embankment with just a little bit of grass and dirt sticking out of the snow (right in line with the tracks).

There, it left a footprint in the exposed dirt that clearly showed toes. We shot video footage, took photos, and recorded all measurements of the print. It is extremely difficult to cast on a steep surface; but I have a considerable amount of experience in track casting to draw upon. I stopped by the home construction site and obtained some wood scraps to build a form for a cast with some “20 minute” concrete patch mud. The result was a good quality cast that shows the gripping action of the toes. The big toe landed on a pad of grass, and thus did not sink in as much as the next three in moist dirt.

We continued on tracking from there and followed the prints along the lip of a ravine thick with brush that passes between, and divides, two orchards on either side. At one point, the tracks went down into it the thickest section of the ravine, making them nearly impossible to follow. The tracks made a circle deep into the ravine, then looped back up and out, going east into an adjacent orchard. There was a leap of about nine feet from the last print coming out of the ravine and into the orchard.

We followed until we were confronted by the land owner, who was running a pruning crew (with tractor tire marks up and down every row). This is where we lost the tracks temporarily going east. They were rediscovered further east going through a home owner’s backyard. On Friday, February 17th, I was contacted by a retired couple who read the story on the trackway published in the Wenatchee World newspaper.

The couple resided just east of the trackway and said they had some very odd tracks going through their backyard, and wanted to know if I would examine them. I arrived at their property—only 1/2 mile from the end of the original trackway—and met the couple—Rodger and his wife. Though the property is not fenced, there are large hedgerows lining both sides from front to back. Rodger mentioned that every winter there are many deer in his backyard. We walked out onto the back deck and looked down to see the same tracks we had been investigating all week. There was a well-worn trail of deer tracks coming from the road and down one side into the backyard—this is where the first print appeared (the track-maker had walked up the deer trail from the road into the backyard).

The first print was pointed south and the next step is 13 feet from heel to heel. This print has a strange indentation adjacent to it. The step length then changes from that print to the next four, all at 6 feet 2 inches, perfectly inline with no drag marks. The sixth print was 10 feet heel to heel, the seventh print 9 feet 8 inches heel to heel. Rodger, the homeowner, noted that underneath the house deck is a motion sensing security light, and it was where the 10 foot step lengths were.

The tracks continued on from the last one sideways/sidestepping to the edge of a three foot masonry retaining wall. The tracks then pointed east and leapt the other side of the wall. The prints were then side by side pointing back to the north with a strange drag mark in the middle. This is where the tracks were lost. They were pointed right at the large hedgerow that went back to the road. Whatever left the prints must have used the dense hedgerow as cover, and without leaving tracks. I looked in every yard and the front and sides of the hedgerow and there were no tracks. Another odd observation was a small set of domestic cat prints that came out from under the deck and within a few feet of the mystery prints.

At their closest approach, the cat tracks simply disappeared. This second trackway proved to be exactly the same prints as the original trackway from earlier in the investigation. I also filmed this whole trackway. For some background information, this area of Wenatchee, Washington is separated from the main part of town by the Wenatchee River, and is on the shoulder of Birch Mountain. There are a number of reports of people seeing a Sasquatch in this area over many years. I have also interviewed a long-time orchard owner who has heard odd screams and growls over the course of 20 years in this area. Until recently, there were few homes in this area; mostly orchards and farms. There are ravines and canyons running up into the mountains all throughout the area, which leads right into the Cascade Mountains.

As people who know me can attest, I am not trying to prove Sasquatch, but merely investigated this trackway with thanks to Roy and the others. The clues that were evident are truly baffling, most of the specifics happen to be known Sasquatch traits that have been document on other trackways. After working on this investigation for 5 days and going through all possible explanations, I am left with the near certainty this is an actual Sasquatch trackway. I give this subject the respect it deserves, for when you have a personal encounter like I have in the past (and as many other people have), it forces you look to at the world differently. There is without doubt something real behind this, too many good people have had encounters to say otherwise.”

 

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53 Responses to “SC EP:303 Trackway Near Sunnyslope, Washington”

  6. Rick T

    My parents had property in Sunnyslope (of Wenatchee, WA). I was born & raised up there. I also know Paul’s dad. A super guy. He was my art instructor at WVC. Thanks Wes, looking forward to listening

  9. Matt M

    I really enjoyed this one Wes. I’m sure you have your reasons but I really wish you’d have more “researchers” like Paul Graves on the show. The reputable ones can share so much information and tell many fascinating encounter stories. Keep up the good work!

    • Christian L

      No comparison in stride length or print dimensions….no bounding marks. ..no lion belly “brush marks”in between (that the videos shows)….no occasional tail marks along the track. Mountain lion prints ” they aint” unless they are mixed in along the brush……squatch are aware that tactically leaving tracks is a bad idea so they choose theyre paths accordingly and attemp when able to conceal/mislead possible prey or possible pursuit…but art the end.of the day in the Winter eventually they gotta walk somewhere with damn long strides made by damn big feet! Natural snow shoes…perfect for winter!

    • Paul G

      Hi Joe , Paul Graves here yes we did follow up on that and this track way is 100% not cougar a cougar can not go a mile and a half in a perfect straight line with out leaving one cougar print or tail mark and they always have snow kick up up ect . we had many very well trained trackers and these were not cougar not even close , and it was not a single track under the low branch’s it was the same tracks they just got shorter when going under the branch’s and then as soon as they cleared it was 5 to 6 feet from heel to heel, a cougar would not have to shorten it’s steps because it would clear the branch’s , and the main reason it is not cougar because they don’t have a foot print that is 16 inchs long by 8 inchs wide with 5 toes I cast a print in a dirt embankment right in line with these prints.

      • June P

        Paul,
        I am wondering if there is a ‘formula’ that might indicate the possible size of this Sasquatch based on the foot length and width and step and stride lengths. It seems as though this Sasquatch was taking ‘normal’ steps when it was making the steps that were 6 ish feet apart. Would that be a correct assessment? Given the fact that there are no drag marks between the steps and strides, perhaps a size could be established based on this.
        Do you have any estimations based on your investigation of this trackway?
        Thanks!
        Great investigation!

  11. Michael S

    There’s a smart reason for keeping your distance from a Pit Bull.

    Together, pit bulls (28) and rottweilers (3), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 91% of the total recorded deaths in 2015. This same combination also accounted for 76% of all fatal attacks during the 11-year period of 2005 to 2015.

    Three Pit owners get me, talk about how their dog is different, so gentle and calm-all the while disregarding the breeding history of them as a vicious fighting and killing animal, nevermind statistics. After seeing a seemingly calm, docile Pit sitting on the sidewalk unattended but leashed to a light post, nearly take a junk out of a passerby for no apparent reason….I will steer clear of them at all costs.

    • Martin Z

      Pits were genetically engineered specifically for fighting in England some time ago. Nothing in particular sets these dogs off and the mauling begins. Yes it’s true that some good people own these dogs with no abnormal aggressive behavior whatsoever. However there is a small percentage of pits that for some reason turn on their owners. Whywwould anyone want to take that chance especially if they have small children around. I don’t think it’s the dogs faul they’re like this but we can’t risk it.

      • Stephen W

        No pits were not bread in England, they are a American breed , it all started with the British bulldog cross bread with terriers and The final outcome was English bull terrier which I had , which was the best dog I had with the kids lovely good natured dog , then some yrs later you had the Staffordshire bull terrier

        • Diana I

          I’m a pet mom to 2 American Staffordshire Terriers. (slang pitbull). It’s all in how the dog is raised as to their disposition. My male was raised from a puppy and is very docile. My female was adopted and is very protective of myself, my family and property. Actually, My sisters 2 dachshunds are more aggressive than my dogs.

    • Lou V

      Fighting breeds were bred to be human friendly. Opponents had to wash each other’s dogs before fights to make sure no cheating. This is from bad breeding cause humans want there money will mate any dog. Also those stats are not accurate pitbulls are the only breed on the list that mix breed pits are added to the numbers it’s the small breeds that lead by far in bites but that don’t sell. A ADBA registered pitbull will never be human aggressive. Last how about us humans stop killing everything that moves including ourselves and our planet before we worry about dogs.

        • m99

          I second, or third that. Every Pit I’ve ever known was an awesome dog. My neighbor had a fat boy and an English type. Both sweet dogs. My grand dog was an American Pitbull, taller, named Magnus. He was wonderful and sweet. He died of cancer about six years ago. My little granddaughter called him her brother (she’s an only child), and still misses him. How about “Pitbulls and Parolees”? If these dogs are so evil, how’s it that they respond to love and touch so readily. No, it’s the people using these dogs, and abusing them that makes them behave they way they behave.

  12. F S

    Great show. This researcher/expert was a breath of fresh air:
    * Pictures
    * Recordings
    * Real Name
    * Actual Locations (sort of)
    * No trash talk about other researchers.
    ????????????

  14. Stephen W

    Great show Wes,thanks , I seen the same sort of tracks on TVs the Russia yeti and two young boys recorded the the yeti on film you can find it on YouTube looking forward to Sunday’s show

  15. Hillary H

    Time for those who know the Creatures exist to turn our backs on the ones we think we could prove it to, by bringing in a dead one. So much truth in this podcast about all the unintended consequences of Universities with ego trips demanding their own carcass for their own bloody minded egotistical research papers “experts”. Who..do you want to ‘convince’ ? People who know or like me, can trust in the obvious sincerety of the speakers / we are honourable. Don’t kill any of them to prove to the dishonourable types because they won’t respect what you did or what you know they’ll just take the bit in their teeth & run with it to poach and sell BigFoot ashtrays made of their feet! Please stop pushing the narrative that a dead one should be brought to public knowledge knowledge – the wider public do not deserve to know/ who are you trying to convince ? Please (Wes) consider it. There’s so many people now who know, or have respect…let the dead bury their dead and stay on the bright side of life: the unbelieving public deserve only to be at best, ignored and at worst ridiculed for their unbelief and that one that seemed so important to be killed and brought in: he/or she needs to be left alone. I feel this from my heart. Thank you for such a show tonight. I learned so much tonight. You know this is top shelf stuff. The masses don’t deserve . Indians don’t go around trying to convince anyone and they’ve been keeping their own counsel for centuries ~ we do well to follow in the tradition of knowledge guardianship otherwise we feed our pearls to trampling swine: the masses will never respect. They’re just not wired that way. Look also at the history of how American slaves were treated (deemed as lower than humans, non citizens & no rights). Hung from trees, flayed alive, kept with great chains around their necks & starved to weakness @ submission. There’s that much animal cruelty going on in private property as it is already – in the Soviet Union there’s a story of a big old female the towns men copulated with her and she bore a few living children of which some lived when the peasants took the babes off her… We (I’m so sorry to say this:) Legal bestiality brothels in Germany.
    Some ones gonna take a small female and tranquilizers will be employee til they get the dosages right even if a few are killed in the process – it’ll be done by some ugly military escort corrupt weirdo in the back of some reservation dumping ground…load up the creature(s) into private plane(s) and traffick them.
    Don’t need to prove nothing to nobody. We live pretty well & we love the show & the people who need to know are finding your show Wes: you’re in the midst of doing probably better than you know! Keep up the good work ~ kindest regards, from Australia, H

  16. Charles R

    Once a year, at best a handful a year of a well documented report comes out and the Paul Graves trackway is just such. We were fortunate that it was him that got involved, and the person that found it new who to contact. I imagine this happens many times each year and the ordinary citizen gives it little thought if any and then it just disappears.

    So an orchard is cut down that this hominid and his/her com padres had probably came down from the mountains to feast on the fruit for years. Was the hominid doing a reconnaissance, did it just want to have some fun and peak into houses, or was it on the trail of deer that Paul said populate this area. Maybe it took one and that was the drag marks?

    Just a fantastic interview Wes. I could listen to Paul for hours and hopefully some day will meet him. I am glad you will be bringing him back – so much to learn from a seasoned common sense researcher who is just trying ( like a lot of us ) to get the real handle on this race that is so difficult to come to grips with. I totally agree with the human camp theory if you want to have an encounter. There is such a place on the opposite side of Ohio from me, being Salt Fork Lake. I do believe these creatures operate differently ( as Paul espoused ) in these camps ( more curious ) and on a person’s property than they do when you are in their territory when they often will chase you out.

  19. m99

    “These Sasquatch just do what they do…”and …”if I know what I know, and you know what you know…”

    The sound? Sounds like East Texas at night. That doesn’t sound like coyotes to me. The third one? Ghosts? (no, not what I think really, what people think when they’re hearing this at night in certain places).

    Excellent Show! Thank You Wes

  20. Pat T

    Great story about the guy who shot one, to bad he didn’t come on. Obviously traumatised. Really enjoyed this guest! You only get the best, thx Wes

  22. Jack33

    There have been many brought in but it’s quickly hushed up and the public never gets to hear about it.

    Nobody’s going to drag the body of one of these creatures into a tv news station and have them report it on the news.

    There is no such thing as a Free Press that works for us, policing politicians and government.

    EVERY SINGLE TV NETWORK THAT COMES THROUGH ON YOUR TV IS OWED AND OPERATED BY THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES OF EITHER THE THE U.S. OR GREAT BRITAIN.

    The press serves THEM, not US.
    It’s a tool and a weapon used against us.

    Why is this such a hard thing for people to comprehend and accept.

    • Charles R

      They are too wrapped up in the daily grind to realize and/or spend the time to find out what is really going on around them. There is other reasons of course. The easy way out in life is to dismiss.

  25. Darren H

    Good show. But the comment on it would be like shooting your dad or cousin!?!?
    Think the public should be made aware of what dangers are out there. The only way that happens is if one is presented to the public. Then its confirmed they exist and everybody then knows they’re out there and can proceed with educated caution.
    I think without a doubt, the government has recovered countless numbers of these beast. But it’s anybodys guess why it’s being witheld from us.
    It would blow our mind if we knew a fraction of what Big Brother isn’t sharing with the Public. But they’re just looking out for us right!? ?

  26. Mike N

    Wes! Phenominal episode! Very intriguing and what amazing photos to go along with the audio! Well done! Would love future episodes with Paul returning. Great guest!

  27. chris m

    What an absolutely A+ show, the photos and video included in the YouTube upload just made for a fantastic show … now if only we could get the old intro music back … 😉

  29. Debbie C

    How many hunters mount their kill’s head to their walls?
    Personally, I find that disgusting.
    Eating animal’s meat I don’t have a problem with that.
    If Sasquatch one day becomes legal to shoot and kill…
    I have no doubt people will mount
    Sasquatch head to their walls.

    Pitbulls, any dog can become vicious depending how they are treated/raised.
    I love Pitbulls, I love all dogs.

    Great show:)

  31. Leah G

    JC Johnson recounts an encounter with Sasquatch somewhere out west that he witnessed in real time, watching only foot steps in the water without seeing the “being” in physical form. ??!

  40. Karla G

    People who are afraid of pit bulls have just never given them a chance. I don’t know one single Pitbull that I have ever met which was raised in a loving environment that is anything more than the most gentle dog you will ever meet. Scared of their own shadows even. I don’t know if Wes’s comparison to a Chihuahua is accurate because I have a pit bull and a chihuahua, and my Chihuahua is much scarier and more threatening than the pitbull. She runs the show and the pit is terrified of her. LMAO. I also have a chihuahua pit mix and she has an attitude let me tell you, and people always want to assume it’s the pit in her that makes her snarky, but little do they know that’s all Chihuahua. The pit bulls that you hear about on the news and that people are afraid of have been raised to be aggressive, and that’s not their fault. Like I said any pit that was raised properly is the sweetest dog you will ever ever meet. I can actually take food right out of my pit bull’s mouth, and she just gives me a pitiful look. I wouldn’t dare try that with my chihuahua. Not if I want to keep my fingers. I wish people would just give them a chance. I used to be one of the people that thought I would never in a million years have a pitbull around children, and I thought that they were all man eating killing machines, until I took in a rescue pit. From the moment I got her I realized that my assumptions about pits were all wrong. not just wrong, but completely 100% backwards. And every pit I’ve ever met since then has been exactly the same. Of course you’re going to have exceptions as you will with any dog, but I guarantee you if a pit isn’t the sweetest most timid most loyal dog in the world, it hasn’t been brought up properly, which again is not their fault. They are absolutely not born mean. They are turned mean. I am surrounded by dogs in my profession constantly. I interact with them by the hundreds, and I promise you, the pit bulls are the sweetest breed of them all. In fact, they actually have a tendency to be kind of dopey and dumb, but in a very endearing sort of way. The only time they will get aggressive is if they think you’re in harm’s way. I mean normally they are scared of their own shadows, but if for example some unwanted stranger walked up in your house and started threatening you, and you’re pit can tell that you are scared, they’re going to flip a 180 and take that person down. That’s what makes them perfect. I can take my pet to the park all day long and she just wants to play with all the other dogs. My chihuahua however tries to fight with them. I can’t even take her out in public. In fact the one time in all these years that I’ve ever seen my pit get aggressive is once when we were at the park and another female pit came running at us, but it was because I had called her over so I could pet her. She came running towards us, and for the first time ever I saw my dog go into protection mode. She immediately ran over and got in front of me prepared to fight to the death to protect me. But when she realized that the other dog wasn’t a threat, she started wagging her tail and trying to play with her. They’re great. They really are. It breaks my heart to look through dog adoption pages, because 75% of the dogs that are up for adoption are pit bulls, because people are afraid to take them in. Which is such a shame because they are missing out on the greatest dog they will ever own. I used to be one of those people who were anti-pit, until I gave one a chance on a whim. Best decision I have ever made and I am 100% reformed. Like I said I interact with multiple different dogs on a daily basis, so I’m not just basing my opinion off of one dog. Give them a chance before you make assumptions. Even the fighting dogs can be reformed. Admittedly, I don’t think I would necessarily trust that type alone with my children, at least not at first, but even they can be reformed. Okay, rant over. It’s just a really sore spot with me because Ive come to know the truth about them, and I just wish people would give them a chance instead of being prejudiced against them out of ignorance on the subject.

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