Alaska - Prince of Wales Island reports...

Field report from Rob Alley in Alaska and a small preview of his work:

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Al Jackson, a Klawock man telephoned me tonight to report that four weeks ago, Bert C. and wife, who own and operate a taxi service in Craig, Prince of Wales Island, "My Taxi" were returning from a Hydaburg bingo game at approximately 11:30 one night when they spotted a dark-haired two-legged creature crossing the highway two miles north of Hydaburg, from west to (Oceanside) east.

"The creature was heavily built and taller than a man", Jackson said. Jackson, who is a good friend of Bert’s, did not doubt the couples' sincerity. "There have been two other reports, one from a Klawock woman, driving the Hydaburg road at that location in mid-September," Jackson added. "They told me that as the creature turned, it showed long hair running from the back of its' head and neck, down the upper part of its back, kind of like a horses' mane."

I note two reports of a creature, no mention of a mane, also sighted along the highway at this point, one two years ago in August, 9:30 pm, reported by Mr. Stanley Edenshaw, Ketchikan; another (unsubstantiated) by Al Jackson, of five Hydaburg youths, summer of 2000, who allegedly ran from an open area near the Hydaburg water towers, after allegedly witnessing a "huge, hairy man, shaking the alder trees and screaming at them at the edge of the salmonberry bushes where they had been playing." This was reported to Jackson by a friend of his, a Mr. Peratovich, a Klawock, who had been delivering fuel to Hydaburg families the same afternoon, and had told Jackson, that of the five families involved, four of the households felt their children were telling the truth.

While scouting for deer on Flicker Creek, north Prince of Wales Island on Labor Day, 2002 I found twisted alders one to two inches in diameter, about six months fresh, alongside the road at intervals of two hundred yards, no sign of twigs leaves or buds browsed by ungulates or bears. Curiously, fifteen-inch tracks were reported five miles further up the road a decade ago by logger Ted Johnson, Klawock. Also on Labor day, I met with a young Klawock hunter who promised to send me hair his friend had found this spring near Klawock, which he thought was "from a wild man, not a bear. "I am sending a strand of what looks like black bear hair, but a little finer, to Dr. Henner Fahrenbach to confirm my impression.

While in Victoria in Mid July, I missed a Ketchikan report from Mike Vandal and girlfriend Emily Guthrie, Ketchikan of two sets of five-toed tracks along the beach of the small forested island at the mouth of White River, halfway up the west side of George Inlet, twenty miles northeast of Ketchikan. The couple were beachcombing with a friend by boat, and discovered two sets of tracks circling the two-acre island. The larger set was 20" and the smaller, 16". Stride of the larger track, 10 feet., step was 5 feet.

Interestingly, the smaller rocky islets around the forested island were occupied at the time by about 100 harbor seals with pups. No photographs unfortunately. The reports will be in my new coming book, but you sure have my permission.

A Klawock man from Prince of Wales Island (P.O.W.) spoke with me today regarding P.O.W. hair he forwarded to me (that I sent to Henner this week) and mentioned that there have been "quite a few" Klawock people talking about seeing a sasquatch, or "wild men" as the Tlingit and Haida are both calling them these days, along the Hydaburg road at various spots between Hydaburg and the junction with the Klawock Hollis Highway that crosses Prince of Wales Island.

There have been reports by logging road wardens on Prince of Wales Island of a sighting of a family of sasquatches in the Harris River area, halfway between Hollis and Klawock.

In a second-hand report furnished me by Al Jackson, Klawock, the two wardens, who work for different companies, were on a gravel spur road with thick alder alongside in the small valley below them, and heard numerous screams and breaking of trees.

They were stated to have observed a group of individuals of various sizes up to eight feet, covered with dark brown or black hair, for a period of fifteen minutes. The creatures were apparently moving off in a direction away from the road.

Numerous cairns have been found by the two men, who are quite interested in the sasquatch phenomenon, and it is their feeling, Jackson adds, that the cairns are left by the males who are later followed by the females and family. What is interesting is that the men have told Jackson that they have observed that the cairns appear to be removed as the families pass them.

Cairns are reported individually at Thorne Arm by Jake Lauth, Ketchikan, in 1999 and by others from Klawock on the offshore side of Hole in the Wall (Island) some twenty miles west of Klawock, Alaska.

Best Regards, Rob

Rob and Carol Alley
Ketchikan, Alaska
October 26, 2002 1:25 AM

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