Anyone looking over large swaths of polar bear, grizzly bear, and muskox habitat – never mind the country in which enormous herds of caribou live – might tell you no way you’d find something that big there.

And you frequently won’t – unless you know when to be there, as those indigenous do.

What you saw when you were there is what many see – when they aren’t there at the time the game is.

I prefer to assess what people say they saw. This isn’t about wanting to believe. It’s about evidence.

Bears can live there; and if this is what it seems to be, it’s likely smarter than they are.

I’m sure human ‘progress’ since then has made it even less pristine than that, but trees would not have sprouted nor would a new food source be created.

Maybe Goodfoot is on to something in this particular case with the Supernatural Windigo explanation.

That seems more likely to me, although the conclusion I’ve reached in my Windigo readings is that the Sasquatch may be a primeval source of that legend.

Migration and movement for food are not precisely the same thing.

I’ve read stuff that bigfoots seem to eat berries…. and elk…. well …if the elk travel, then bigfoots must follow for food.

And if berries are only growing in certain places in certain times of the year, guess what? they go there as well.

I bet if you took a map with datapoints of all real sightings, then overlayed this with data from time of year…. and food and animal patterns…. you’d probably see a pattern.

And as I said, the sightings do not seem to describe Bigfoot/Sasquatch, but something altogether different. We shouldn’t assume that every large, hairy, bipedal primate is cut from the same stuff. And it is true that individuals within a species are larger the further they live from the equator, and vice-versa. So the increase in size described here is quite consistent with that.

In 1969 I went on a fishing holiday outside Fort Chimo (now Kuujjuaq) in Nunavik, which is appx 350 miles East/SE of Akulivik, where the sighting occurred.

Although the waters were teeming with Arctic Char, and we saw a few whales in the estuary, we saw no other wildlife, save birds and bugs.

The label ‘Above the treeline’ is an understatement. All the vegetation I saw around the many streams we fished was lichen and moss, and heather-like scrub vegetation. No cover, no caves. Barren tundra. Lichen-covered rocks as far as you could see. And that was over forty years ago.

Unless the terrain around Akulivik is very much different than Fort Chimo, I cannot imagine what a 10 foot tall creature might subsist on nor where it would shelter in bad weather.

And if these were migratory creatures, where they coming from or going to?

If this puzzles you, read THE WINDIGO, by Algernon Blackwood.

For some reason, scientists have a hard time referring to the experiences of indigenous locals in areas like this.

But yeah, I’d think their ruling out a musk oxen or a black bear (the latter extremely unlikely, as they are forest critters) would say something to a scientist.

Who knows what people are seeing? I’d just like a little more attention paid by scientists to the possibility that they’re seeing something a little more interesting than….than….um, a moose walking upright..???