Investigation notes will be posted here, as much as can be told while respecting the privacy of witnesses and the confidentiality of sighting locations.

Always more to come ...

On a recent field trip in Southern Ontario, we explored an area of a reported sighting. It was early spring when we went to the location, and the ground was saturated with snow melt. Some areas were still flooded. Photos of the location show how wet it was.

During our inspection of the area, we saw no hint of footprints ... any kind of footprints .. human or otherwise, in all the mud.

However we did see something interesting. Some might call it a tree break, or a knock down. I don't. Trees that have fallen for no apparent reason are quite common in every forest. Lots of things can knock a seemingly perfectly healthy tree over. To automatically assume it was a sasquatch that pushed it down is just simplistic, and romantic. If there is no other physical evidence of sasquatch presence in the vicinity, as in a large footprint or a trackway of large footprints that have common markers for this creature, then the treefall was likely an act of nature caused by either wind damage, another tree toppling near it, or wet conditions. Or the cause might be human in origin.

I examined the tree, and as you can see in the last photo, grasped it with my hand. It was 3 1/2 inches in diameter, and had dropped where it stood. It was a fresh break, and it lay right beside its base. Now someone wishing or hoping for a sasquatchian experience might let their imagination run wild and decide that this is absolute evidence of the creature being in the neighbourhood. Folks, that's just wishful thinking. If you didn't see that sasquatch knocking that tree over, then you can't justify saying it was a sasquatch that did it. And even though we found it in the exact location of a sighting, I would still have to say it was a natural occurance.

I had many doubts about the validity of a sighting in this location, since it's fairly near to developed areas, and there is a lot of farmland nearby. The jury's still out on this one though. After visiting the location in person, I found that there are large, unspoiled tracts of natural forest here that link up to the Bruce Hiking Trail. We'll keep an eye out for more reports from this area in the future ...