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We used to be told stories like if you whistle or make too much noise, Big Foot will come.
You got to go to the tent and sleep. When it rained they used to say that was God is
blessing us with water, so the earth would grow. Spooky stories just so we wouldn’t come
out of the tent. So we would sleep. They use to tell us funny stories too.

I saw Bigfoot once. This was when I was working for gravel pit and I was working in Black
Bear Crossing. One morning I was going through Weasel Head and the leaves weren’t out
yet. I think it was during spring time and I was on my way to work. All of a sudden my
hair stood up and I stopped. I was driving my truck and my window was rolled down. So I
stopped and I took out my binoculars and sure enough there was something standing in
the cutline on top of the hill. It looked right at me and I looked at it. You just see the fur
but it had eyes just like a human. He looked at me for about five seconds and then he was
gone. He just turned around and went east. He just turned around and left and that was
just like telling me to be aware about what’s going on. It was big and that’s the first time
I’ve seen it and my hair just stood up.

My uncle Mike Meguinis he told me a story he said way in the back of where they live. He
said he was young. He said there was a funny smell and his hair stood up and he just
started running. When he got home he told his mom. She said well that teaches you to be
mischievous and not doing your chores. She kind of scolded him. But she told him now
you know what he smells like. He made us all laugh.

I didn’t believe it until I seen it that time myself. You know you hear these phenomenon’s,
like down east in Ontario they call him Cat man. In that movie he looks like a cat but
here we call is a Sasquatch. There has even been children that seen it up in Rocky
Mountain House. They say there are even leprechauns, small people. But you have to
have a special gift to see those. I get a funny feeling like there’s something looking at me. I
don’t know what it was.

When I used to walk around I’d get a funny feeling. I knew there was something around.
It’s your seventh sense they call it, of a feeling of something else around you. Yet there’s
nobody around you. Like for instance there’s a lynx around you, you know it. It’s that
seventh sense. Like a bear but even something unusual you feel it. It’s like a different
feeling. Just like that feeling when my hair just stood up and I knew there was something
but that was the first time I’ve ever seen him.

My uncle said you must have seen your son-in-law, he was teasing me about it. The way
he said it was so funny, the way he said it in our language was funny. He said maybe that
was him, the old people turn things into a joke.

I even saw a grizzly. I was coming to work and I seen something on the corner of my eye
and he was running. It was a baby grizzly, maybe about one. Just running so I slowed
down and watched it just to make sure of what it was. I thought it was a bear but it was
light colored. It ran across from me. I just let it go because it was a baby grizzly. It was
about a year old. I told everybody there was a grizzly around cause you know when there

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