Right, Esse Tyfting describing what he and officer Joe Dunn discovered. The Sasquatch had merely stepped over a 4 foot high Canadian Pacific Railroad fence, below right, and continued on over the railroad. 

The Ruby Creek Incident, October 1941.

In 1941 Jeannie Chapman and her children were terrified when the daughter, little Rosie, reported that a “big cow” was coming out of the forest. Then Jeannie saw it herself. It was an 8 to 10 foot tall hairy creature with a human face. It was enough for her to gather her children and rush them off down the creek. She declared it to have been the Sasquatch. The local newspaper refused to mention that word since in 1941 whites thought the Sasquatch was still a mythological tribe of giant Indians and carried no animalistic overtones.

Jeannie Chapman used the cabin to shield her and her children as they fled down to the creek. At the same time, the Sasquatch broke into a heavy barrel of smoked salmon and threw some about.

When Dunn and Tyfting  arrived, they were able to follow the tracks of the Sasquatch from the cabin to the creek where it must have washed off some of the salt from its lips. It then went back through the garden, crossed the CPR fence by stepping over it.

It then went across the railroad tracks and straight up the mountain, where, of course, Tyfting and Dunn could no longer follow.

This thing must have been huge. Dunn was flabbergasted by its footprint. It was odd, to say the least. It was narrow at the heel and wide at the toes. He traced it, certain that it showed 5 toes. Tyfting would say five toes as well.

John Green would later trace the tracing, which was still in Dunn’s son’s possession in 1956.

Left, the Ruby Creek Print, based on John Green’s tracing of Dunn’s trace. There is some debate whether it was actually 4 or 5 toed, but the proportions are correct.

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