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Northwest – Kenora District - North of Grassy Narrows

Bigfoot spotted in Kenora, Ont.

Berry pickers see 'black thing'

By GARETT WILLIAMS, SUN MEDIA

The Toronto Sun

July 28, 2008

KENORA -- Randy Fobister's pictures have been circulating through Grassy Narrows like gossip this week.

They are of a 38-cm long, six-toed "big" footprint.

Driving to a blueberry picking site Tuesday, about an hour north of the Grassy Narrows First Nation reserve 80 km northeast of Kenora, Helen Pahpasay and her mother saw something they've never seen before.

"I seen a black, um ... thing," Pahpasay said. "It was tall and lanky and it was walking towards our way.

'RUBBING HER EYES'

"I thought I was seeing things, so I didn't say anything," she said. "I looked over to my mom and she was rubbing her eyes."

About eight feet tall. Slender. Black as night. Bigfoot was out for a walk, she said.

"It was just walking casually. I know it wasn't an animal, cause it was upright. It was human-like, like the way we walk," she said.

Scared, the women drove back to their community. Pahpasay told her family, who turned her right around for the hunt.

What they found were six-toed footprints in the woods near a beaver pond. It appears it leaped over a dam, into the pond, Fobister said. "Sort of like one big-foot jump."

Fobister made a cast of the print that afternoon and plans to send it out to be analyzed.

The story of the creature isn't new to the community.

Tales circulated through history speak of a tall, creature-like thing, screaming loudly in the same area.

No one was previously ever brave enough to try to confront it in the past.

"We were just excited," Fobister said. "I've been hearing about it since I was a kid, so when I got the chance close by here I jumped right on it."

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