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I became aware of this encounter on Friday, July 26, 2008 through an article in my local paper, the Kenora Daily Miner and News. Knowing some people that were members of the Grassy Narrows community, I immediately spoke with them to determine if they had any information pertaining to this encounter and the people involved. I was informed that Randy Fobister was on Council and I was given a number where I could reach him. After a couple of attempts, I finally spoke with Randy on Tuesday, August 4, 2008. I introduced myself as an investigator for Ontario Sasquatch Research and made arrangements to meet him at the Band Office on Friday, August 7, 2008 where Randy would then take me to the location where his sister and mother had their encounter.

I arrived at the Band Office of the Grassy Narrows First Nation at approximately 12:00 p.m. and missed Randy who had just left to go home for lunch. However, I did bump into Chief Simon Fobister who I knew and he offered to take me out to Randy’s house. After arriving, Chief Fobister introduced me to Randy who stated that he would be ready to go in half an hour’s time. I then went to Chief Fobister’s house to wait, and during this time I chatted with him and two of his sons about the sasquatch.

While Chief Fobister had never come across anything during his time hunting and trapping in the area around Grassy Narrows, both of his sons had encounters with something that was unusual. Both told me of occasions where they were out in the bush hunting, and while they did not see anything, could smell a terrible smell and the forest sounds would go silent. They also reported that they felt uneasy during these times. Being hunters most of their lives both sons are familiar with the smells of bears and other animals, and the environment of the forest. But neither could provide an explanation for these encounters.

After half an hour, I went back to Randy’s house where we agreed to meet back at the Band Office. He suggested I park my car and we would use his four-wheel drive pick-up truck to go to the site of the encounter. While at the Band Office, another member of the First Nation (name withheld but on record) told him that she and her husband had found large footprints a couple of days previous at a different location. We agreed to drive to this new location to view the footprints, and then travel to the location of where Randy’s sister and mother had their encounter.

Location One – the New Footprints

Randy, myself and another community member travelled in Randy’s four-wheel drive pick-up truck to the location of the new footprints. The community member that had told Randy of these new footprints travelled behind us with her husband and another community member in a Dodge Caravan mini-van. We travelled south down the main road into Grassy Narrows First Nation and turned left onto a logging road approximately 10 minutes south of the community.

This old logging road is still used by community members to access the Red Lake highway and to access various sites for blueberry picking and other cultural activities. It took approximately 45 minutes to arrive at the location where the new footprints were found. The location was beside a secondary dirt track that cut through the middle of a clear-cut. Once there, the community member who found the footprints a couple days previous, led us to the area where the footprint was located, in very sandy ground. Wind and a light rain the day before had made the imprint so indistinct that it could have been made by anything.

However, the community member who found it stated that it had been clear and that three distinct footprints, small, medium and large, had made up the full imprint as if two smaller creatures were following in the footprints of a larger creature. Of course, without seeing clear physical evidence to substantiate this claim, I make no judgement supporting such a conclusion; I saw an imprint which could have been made by anything.

After viewing this imprint Randy and I walked through the clear-cut area with the hopes of finding additional footprints that were more distinct. However, other than some old bear prints, we did not find anything of interest relating to possible sasquatch activity. It must be noted that there was an abundance of blueberries growing in this area, which would account for the bear prints, and if a sasquatch indeed was in the area, that might account for their presence as well.

Travelling to Location Two

After deciding that there was no point in looking for further footprints at location one, Randy and I returned to his pick-up truck and we proceeded to drive to the location of his mother and sister’s July 22, 2008 sighting. The drive to this location normally would take approximately one hour, but Randy and I decided to stop at various locations, such as beaver ponds close to the road, to see if there was any evidence of sasquatch along the way.

During our stops we found a multitude of moose, deer and bear prints which were easily distinguishable in the dry mud. However, we did find one impression that did not fit easily into these three types of prints. For all intents and purposes, it resembled the ball and five toes of a human. However, I cannot conclude that such an impression was left by a sasquatch, as it is theoretically possible that it may be a bear print, or even that of a barefoot human, although the probability of that being the case is unlikely.

Location Two – Scene of July 22, 2008 Sighting

Randy and I arrived at the location of his mother’s and sister’s sighting at approximately 6:30 pm. Randy was able to pinpoint where his mother and sister were in their pick-up truck when the sasquatch was first seen. Randy also showed me where the sasquatch stepped into the bush when it became aware that it was being observed.

After I took a few photographs from the point of view of the witnesses, Randy took me to the area where the sasquatch went into the bush. I was informed by Randy that after coming back to the location shortly after the sighting, he and a couple of other community members tracked the path the sasquatch took after going into the bush. Randy stated that the sasquatch went approximately 150 feet to the grassy banks of a small river that runs through the area, and then followed the river for approximately 300 feet before going back onto the road.