If you go down to the woods today…have an eye for...
Sasquatch.
Really?
In Simcoe County?
"Yes," says Ryan Willis of the Trent University Sasquatch Society, "we've had some witnesses come forward and say they've seen Sasquatches around Barrie…a good number of reports coming out of the Barrie area and Oro Medonte."
Willis wants to speak with people in the Barrie area who have seen, or think they have seen, a Sasquatch, for a TV program he's working on. A production company in Peterborough saw one of their pieces on the news and thought filming the group while conducting their research was a great idea for a show.
Chasing Sasquatch has been a lifelong dream for Willis, though he has yet to see one, "but we've talked to a lot of people who have…and I think that's really good evidence when you have a bunch of people saying they saw the same thing.
As for the skeptics, Willis thinks that will change, pointing to DNA evidence, footprints, photos, and videos that have been handed in. All that's missing, he says, is a physical specimen. But he's confident that will come soon. "And I think when it does, I think people will be forced to go, 'oh, this wasn't just some pop culture joke that's going on. There's an actual animal here.'"
So, what you should be watching for if you're wandering about the woodlands around Barrie?
A seven to 10-foot ape-like creature would be your first hint. "Other than that, it's footprints, that's a big one. But if you're in a spot in the woods and there are a bunch of trees that are snapped in half, eight to 10 feet in the air, that's something a lot of researchers say Sasquatch's will do."
But the big thing is footprints, an ape-like footprint about twice the size of a human footprint.
If you've seen any of the above, you can contact Willis through sasquatchuniversity.com.
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