An incident in the early 1960s that got me deeply interested in the
subject of Sasquatch went something like this: A logging company owner
by the name of Joe Manuck had a smaller show at a place on Pitt Lake
called Frenchman's Bay (now known as Christian Cove on the maps). He
went up the mountain about one mile or so to get at some big timber in
a very steep and rugged canyon. In the process of setting up a
temporary camp for his crew and cook, Manuck towed a wood frame and
plywood cook/bunk house on 3-ft-round skid logs up the valley with a
D-8 Cat. After Manuck logged the show and got most of the good wood
out, he left the old cook/bunk house up there for family and friends
to use as a hunting cabin.
One weekend during the
fall of about 1962, my friends Fred Gerak, Ron Gerak and Vince Manuck
Jr. headed up to the area for some blacktail deer hunting. They
reached the place late on a Friday afternoon and proceeded to give the
old cabin a quick sweep to get rid of the mouse droppings, chop enough
firewood to last a couple of days, cook some dinner and then hit the
sack early for some much needed rest. Sometime during the middle of
the night they were all rudely awakened by a massive crash of
something hitting the outside of the cabin hard enough to dislodge the
stove pipes and fill the entire cabin with black soot and choking
smoke. At first light in the morning they inspected the cabin fully
expecting to find a giant boulder, claw marks from a big bear or some
other such sign on the outside walls but found nothing.
I went up the following weekend on a hunting trip and had a good look
around the cabin for myself. I found no broken branches on any of the
small alders that had sprung up beside the cabin or anything else to
indicate something with a rational explanation responsible for
crashing into the cabin. Over the years I often pondered the thought
of what could have possibly hit the cabin's walls "so high up" above
the skid logs (on the bunk side where everyone was sleeping and
probably snoring a bit) with the force required to knock the stove and
its pipes completely out of commission. Not a one of us could figure
this out until a later date when the stories of Sasquatch began to
quietly circulate amongst the area's loggers.
©
Ken Kristian
West Coast
Sasquatch Research
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