On March 14, 2009 I received an e-mail from Sandra Maisel who wrote an article that was published in “Alive” magazine. It was called “Sasquatch in Santa Cruz?” She also wrote another article called: “Sasquatch in Santa Cruz”.

She had been talking to an acquaintance of hers who had an interesting story to tell. The sighting took place about thirty to thirty-five years ago. That would make it about 1975 to 1979. You have to remember that back then, people really didn't want to talk about it much. He is still doesn't.

However, he demonstrated how the creature walked for Sandra. The gait was similar to that of the one in the Patterson film. The man told her that it even looked similar to it also. The man said that it had more of an “ape-like” face than a human one. He said it was huge and hairy.

This same person also had a second sighting in Yosemite. He is less sure about the details of this incident. It took place approximately in the same time frame as the first—30 to 35 years ago. He and his wife and baby daughter were staying in a cabin there, (Because of this detail it is estimated that the Yosemite sighting was after the one in the camper). He heard a horrible scream and he looked out the window. He saw a huge, hairy thing looking into the window of a cabin across from them. He said it was as tall as the roof. He said it looked like the other one he saw. He only saw a profile of it. Although later he told me that he thought maybe it was a bear, he said it didn't really look like a bear. He said they were afraid to go to sleep that night. They never reported either sighting to anyone.

Sandra continues to explain: Have you heard of the book called "The Hoopa Project" by David Paulides?  I have read it and I have met the author.  We are in constant contact by email.  He spent 3 yrs. investigating Bigfoot sightings on the Hoopa Indian reservation in North. Ca.

What the Native Americans were seeing there had extremely human looking faces!  He has written another book which is not out yet, but I guessed what it is about even though he wasn't allowed to tell me yet, he gave me a hint....he said there is a definite connection between Native Americans and Bigfoot!  Meaning that Bigfoot is part Native American!  I sort of guessed that this was where he was going with this.  I have interviewed many people that have seen a Bigfoot.

The curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, Ca. saw one when he was 5 yrs. old on the banks of the Eel River in North. Ca. around 1950.  He said it was wearing a torn shirt!!!  I read another
report where a little girl saw the same thing in the same location the same year!  It was also wearing a torn shirt!  STRANGE!!!

My dad always believed in Bigfoot after finding what he thought was Bigfoot scat in the woods while we were on a Girl Scout camping trip in North. Ca.  He thought it best not to mention it to us until we got back home!

Editor's note: The mentioning of the Bigfoot having splintered off from the Native American tribes is not the first mention of this. In 1957 a newspaper article by Alex MacGillivray talks about a man named John W. Burns who was at one time a Chehalis Indian Reserve schoolteacher-Government Indian Agent. He recorded the stories that the Indians told him over the years. Burns actually “believed that Sasquatch originated in British Columbia and was of Salish descent,” MacGillivray reported in his newspaper article. MacGillivray even reports Burns stating that the Indians reported that the Sasquatch had talked to the Salish Indians in their own tongue.