A Matter of Time

 

The name of this column is “A Matter of Time.” (I know it is hard to read the title on the Sasquatch drawing but it’s there.) I do believe it is just that―a matter of time―before the animal is labeled by scientists as a living being. Since writing this column, each week I research the different Sasquatch sites on the internet. For example this week I read of several sightings around and near The Dalles area, Oregon. One sighting was of as many as seven of the animals crossing a ridge. Another sighting in the same area was of a Sasquatch attacking and killing an elk. If you have any interest at all in Sasquatch/Bigfoot look into these sites. There are many of them and you will quickly decide which you enjoy, as the formats vary greatly. One of my favorites is www.oregonbigfoot.com.

     This last weekend I spoke to Pete Heley of Winchester Bay. He writes a column for The Umpqua Post, entitled Outdoors and More. I asked him what his thoughts were on Sasquatch/Bigfoot. I waited for his face to draw into an “I can’t believe you asked such a question” expression. But, not a nary of disbelief creased his brow. He simple said: “I thought those sighting stopped a long time ago.” Well, I was happy to inform him that they still were coming in at around a hundred a year for the Northwest. 

     I look at it this way: Most people that see the animal don’t even want their names known. So many of them simply want to tell the “authorities” that yes, yes the animal exists. “Bigfoot exists and I saw one! I’m sane, of good reputation, so isn’t that good enough.” Of course it’s not good enough, buddy! You should have bribed the big guy into hopping in the back of your pickup and taking a ride into town where… Oh, you get the picture. The animal has been seen by hundreds of people over the last couple centuries, and that in every state except Hawaii. One person that kept the remains of an elk for his own use after witnessing it killed by a Sasquatch, inquired about being paid for the information and hide (the Sasquatch had chewed on part of it). Wanting to be paid for positive proof the animal exists seemed, evidently, a little too greedy on the part of the discoverer. Hey, if I brought proof, I might demand the animal be named after me―and paid handsomely  as well! So there!

Till next week.

(Linda Newton-Perry along with her husband Christopher Perry, is the author of the Viking Age novel, Forced Blood The Norseman. Books Gallery in Sutherlin has copies available.)