Peterson, Alaska
"The Strangest Story Ever Told" by Virginia Colp
1900 to 1925
Harry B. Colp wrote about the "Thomas Bay Devils" which sound
rather baboon like but upright. A trapper disappears after reporting tracks
in the snow. Bob Titmus and his daughter investigated this story and it
seems okay. Credit the late Bob Titmus to John Green, cardfiles BC Archives.
Full story titled, "Strangest Story Ever Told" is here.... http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/harrycolp.htm
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- - - - - Anchorage
Daily News April 15, 1973 Portlock, Alaska Teacher
and his wife at English Bay stated hunters from Portlock sometimes failed
to return. In 1949 hunters found mutilated. Giant manlike tracks, 18 inches
reported closing in on moose tracks and signs of a struggle. Then only
deeper manlike tracks heading for higher mountains. Village abandoned
in 1949, residents afraid to talk about the incidents such as above.
Copyright John Green cardfile, BC Archives.
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Nulato, Alaska In 1920
Albert Petka died after fighting with a "bushman" that had attacked
him on the boat where he was living. His dogs drove the 'bushman off,
but the man later died. Copyright John Green cardfile, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Nulato Alaska 1940
Thirty or Forty years ago Mrs. Notti, now living in Anchorage saw large
human-like tracks where what she had thought was a bear swimming across
a slough. Bob Betts to John Green cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Nelchina Plateau,
Alaska 1930's in
the month of September
The hairy giant "Gilyuk, also called 'the cannibal giant,' killed one of the Indians. His sign was a sappling
twisted to shreds. Reported by Rusell Annabel published in Sports Afield Magazine.
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Bristol Bay, Alaska 1940 - Near
the ghost town of Kaluka, Alaska.
Emily Supanich's mother was berry picking with others when "they
came upon a large hairy creature that resembled a man covered with long
black hair. The ran back to the village and told the people.The men went
out, captured itand caged
it. She said her mom feed it raw fish. After some time the hair began
to fall out and it turned out to be a female with breasts. Not long after
the hair started falling out, the creature died. This is recorded in a
letter written to Roger Patterson by Emily Supanich, San Bruno, CA. John
Green's cardfiles, BC Archives
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- - - - - Wrangell Narrows,
Alaska
Late May, 1942
Bob Titmus saw an ape like thing on the beach while passing in a boat.
This was in the late evening before ten o'clock while it was still light
outside. The creature was about seven feet tall, very heavy, erect and
had dark hair. John Green's cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Wrangell, Alaska
In 1918,a German gold prospector of a stature half starved made his way back to Wrangell from a northern most mining camp, looking for food and provisions. The story goes that he sat down to pick new sprouts of fireweed plant to eat which was mixed in a scraggly field of berries. He ate what his stomach could tolerate and fell asleep curled up in a bed of grass with the warm sun on his back. He claimed he was awakened by someone talking nearby. Excited to have company and needing direction to the settlement, he crawled around a high bramble of berry thorns to see who was there and meet his company. He said he saw a bushwoman sitting on the ground feeding a small one berries by hand; it was sitting inside the circle of her huge legs. The prospector watched only a short time in fear of the giantess but heard the bushwoman talk to the smaller one in Indian language.
Alice Petermann to grandson, 1947, stories by Elwood Petermann. Full story is here... http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/wrangell.htm
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- - - - - Wrangell, Alaska
Original year unknown; a fisherman said as far back as he could remember there was a story that circulated in his family about a hairy giant that brought a three-year-old girl back to the encampment after she wandered away from her mother. The child had been missing most of the day but was returned at dusk completely unharmed in the arms of a male beast who, it was said, placed her on the ground and walked back into the forest. The little girl had learned to play the game of stick-ball while away. (Franklin)
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Near Ruby, Alaska
1943
John Mire, known as "the Dutchman" was in DeWilde's camp, 18
miles down Yukon from Ruby when attacked; he fought off a hair-covered
man but later died of internal injuries. The creature was run off by dogs.
Credit Bob Betts. John Green cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Ketchikan, Alaska
50 Miles Southwest of Ketchikan...
August 1956:
On Inside Passage, a fishcat being anchored at night, a bear was seen
on shore sitting on its rump. It got up, looked at the boat a few seconds
and started to walk away, upright like a human. It was about 200 feet
away. Bob estimated it was 7 to 8 feet tall and weighed 350 to 400 pounds.
It was blackish-reddish color with hair 2 to 34 inches long. Biologists
from Ketchikan later found and photographed big human like prints on the
beach that went into a heavily wooded area. Credit Bob Everett, BF researcher.
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- - - - - Near Ketchikan,
Alaska
Summer, 1960
Mrs. Nye's cousin Errol, then 15 years old was sent out to haul in the
skiff up on fishing boat which was tied to a float at night. Errol left
the flashlight pointing inshore. He glanced up and saw human-like figure
standing in the water up to his waist, between the float and the shore
watching him. He described it as "not exactly a person" but
arms and head like a man. The creature was grayish white all over and
had big round beedy eyes. The boy screamed and ran. About thirty men rushed
out, shone lights and saw the creature dive under the water and swim away
under water like a frog. Arms forward over head and legs doing a "frog
kick.' Reported by Mrs. Nye of Renton Washington to Nick Carter in 1975
although the incident occurred in the summer of 1960. John Green's cardfiles,
BC Archives.
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- - - - - Ruby, Alaska
August 1960
Paul Peters was at his fishing camp, ten miles down Yukon from Ruby when
he saw a "bushman" climb a steep hill by the river and disappear
into the bush. The creature walked upright like a man; was quite tall
and broad, covered with dark hair. Credit Bob Betts to John Green, cardfiles,
BC Archives.
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- - - - - Kobuk
River, Alaska
1966
Jean Joiner of Nome, while at his mine near Dall Creek on Jade Mountain
often found large manlike tracks. One day he finally faced the creature
and shot an "upright walking bear" in the back, killing it.
Joiner found the thing looked so human he didn't know what it was, afraid,
he cut it up and threw it in the stream. Bob Larson, Bureau of Land Management
area manager in Nome had the story first hand in the winter of 1973, but
Joiner's report was in 1966. Bob
Betts reported by letter to John Green April 29, 1973, cardfiles BC Archives.
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- - - - - Galena, Alaska
Summer, 1968
Hazel Strasburg of Galena reported she saw a big hair-covered man from
her boat at dusk. No other details. Credit Bob Betts to John Green, cardfiles,
BC Archives.
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- - - - - Bradfield Canal
area, Alaska
July, 1969
J.W. Huff of Ward Cove, Alaska was flown in to prospecting camp about
the 2300 foot range in the late afternoon during which time he saw a man
on a ridge 500 yards away who seems extremely large and very dark in color,
wearing no clothes. Bob Betts to John Green, cardfiles BC Archives.
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- - - - - Galena, Alaska
Summer 1969
Wein Airlines agent in Galena told Bob Betts they saw the hair-covered
man again near the bank of the Yukon between Galena and Ruby.
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- - - - - Galena Alaska Summer 1969
Dick Carol and son reportedly saw the "bushman" while constructing
a fire line near Bear Creek Drainage near Galena. Credit Bob Betts to
John Green, cardfiles BC Archives
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- - - - - Near Ft. Yukon, Alaska August 1969
Jim Ward is alleged to have shot at a large hair-covered man while moose
hunting. Bob Betts reported to John Green, cardfiles BC Archives
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- - - - - Huslia, Alaska
Letter from Bob Betts written to John Green in June of 1970 stated that "villagers near Huslia had recently seen the Bushman again; larger
than a man, covered with hair and very strong."
John Green cardfiles, BC Archives.
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Peterson, Alaska