GnRfan: A Maritimer Speaks About His Bigfoot Sighting (With Full-Body Description)

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Bigfoot Evidence reader, GnRfan. He had an unforgettable Bigfoot sighting in 1997 near Wolfville Nova Scotia.

In the summer of 97 I had just returned home from a year working out west in Alberta most Maritimers head out that way for work in their teens or early twenties. After any time away from home I always head back to the south mountain near Wolfville Nova Scotia. The area has always been a special place for me with a lot of great childhood memories. The area around my grandparents property is mostly forest and across the road there is a brook where I had my first possible Sasquatch encounter in 1985 along with five or six friends.

There were stories of what the people on the mountain and in the valley area called the tramp or hobo apparently it was supposed to be a homeless man that wore animal furs and could not speak clearly, smelled really bad,did not shave and would chase people out of the area and away from the brook.

One night in the fall of 1964 a fifteen year old T. Coldwell was leaving the neighbors house to go home to what is now my Grandparents property and as she left the walkway and started out across the road to head up the mountain something very tall that cast a shadow across the entire road ran out in front of her and in to the wood lot between the properties. The only thing she was able to tell me was that it was very tall was across the road in just a few steps and that it scared her so bad she ran back into the house and would not leave until the next morning and had to have someone walk her home.

I also spoke to A&S Allen who told me of seeing a large black or dark brown figure on two legs in the corner of a field while bailing hay Mr.Allen called out to his wife and pointed it out to her coincidentally their son was with me when I had my first encounter. There is also a piece of property on the mountain where most hunters will not go. The way it was described to me was that you could go there 10 times and things would be fine but the odd time everything would go silent the birds would not make a sound the squirrels stopped making noise and you just felt like something was watching you an overall uneasy feeling I guess but enough to make you not want to go back.

This brings me to my sighting in 97 as I said I always loved the area it is an awesome place to hike and camp and I always walk up the brook never the road just the waterfalls make it worth the extra walk. On this day it had been raining a few days before so the water was flowing pretty damn good so I had to watch my step as I would cross back and forth across the water. As I turned the corner to go up to the first waterfall I saw what I thought was a black bear with it's front end in the water so I did what I always did when I saw a bear and started to back up slowly and was ready to haul ass back up the trail to my grandparents but this was not a bear it stood up, turned to his left and looked straight at me.

R-Truth, W.E. Wrestler

This was not what I thought a Sasquatch looked like he was only about six foot and built like a light heavyweight wrestler if you have ever watched W.E. there is a man named Ron Killings who performs under the name of R-Truth that has a muscular build similar to what I saw. The hair on the chest and abdomen was black and thinner than the longer hair on the arms and legs there was no point to his head although his brow ridge was out further than a man his face was dark like leather around his eyes, cheeks and some of his forehead his nose was flat with wide nostrils. His mouth was wide with thin lips that were a lighter color than the skin on his face. His neck was short and the neck muscles were visible. He stood there looking at me and only moved his head once to smell the air like what a dog does when you walk past it with a plate of food and then turned back at me.

I don't know how to describe what I felt at that time other than to say it felt l was there longer than I was like time slowed down.It wasn't like fear it was very odd.There was no smell from him that I noticed and his eyes were a dark color if I had to guess I would say dark brown. I have never been one to believe in the mind-speak thing but from his expression and my feeling it was like I have seen you and you have seen me lets just leave it at that I did not feel threatened but I knew it was time to leave so as he turned to his left I turned to mine and started back down stream I only turned back to look at him once and noticed that his arm was wet and longer and hung lower than than a man and his back hunched by the shoulders. I watched him take two steps on his way up the bank and I turned back around and continued back to my grandparents I did not see him look back at me at all.

When I got up on the patio I tried to light a cigarette but had a very hard time as I was shaking so bad it was like being on cocaine. I sat and chain smoked for a while. The fear that I did not feel before I sure as hell felt now. This was my one and only time I have ever seen one although I continue to research in the area where I live now in northern New Brunswick all I have been able to get have been Cliff Barackman type calls and eye witness accounts between here and Maine. I research for myself and have only shared this sighting with two other people besides Shawn. I am having Shawn post this for those who are interested and I will be around today to answer any questions although I will not responded to negative remarks.

There are no reported sightings in the area that I had my encounters on the BFRO site and I don't imagine there will ever be many because the people around the area a very private and private. There are things that have happened that stay in families for generations before people find out about them. The only reason I have been able to get people talking is because they have known me since I was a baby. I have worked for them or hung out with their kids or are related to them. I have wondered since my sighting if the stories of the Tramp may have actually been a Sasquatch. I don't know but I think it is possible. Thank you for reading and thank you Shawn for your interest.