Alaska IBS Sighting Reports

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IBS Report #: 3019

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +056˚ 24' N
Longitude: 132˚ 38' W
Day: 9
Month: MAY
Year: 1990
Time: 1 PM
Elevation: 0

Data Source: TR 76 APR 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: halfway between Petersburg and Ketchikan in the Clarence Strait
Researcher: PETER BYRNE
Witness: Tony Hawkins, Lindsey Babich

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: SEA MAN REPORT, BROWN

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TR 76 APR 98 * The Sea Man - A Salt Water Sasquatch. Peter Byrne sent me a fascinating batch of notes on a possible swimming Bigfoot that spends time in British Columbia’s Inland Passage between the mainland and Vancouver Island. It concerns deadheads, a water-logged stump, root ball up, that bobs upright very slow in the water. They are a menace to shipping and navigation. Tony Hawkins, on May 9th, 1990, was heading south from St. Petersburg as a guest on a commercial halibut fishing trip, and they were about a mile from land. He was on the bridge with other crewmen when one of them spotted a possible deadhead. As they approached it on the starboard side about 1 PM in calm seas, at 50 yards he noticed that the thing was upright above the water some 4 1/2 feet, as determined through binoculars, and was about 2 or 2 1/2 feet wide. It appeared to have hair like shredded bark, brown, and it had a head and shoulders. The arms were hanging straight down, he couldn’t see any detail, and he couldn’t see eyes in the deep sockets. The face was rounded with a distinct nose and chin, some areas seeming swollen. The head was rounded like a rounded log end, and the facial area appeared hairless, with hair on top of the head. The face was a lighter brown, almost grayish in color. Thinking it might have been a carved log, like a totem pole, he noticed that as they came abreast of it, it sank out of sight...a log doesn’t act that way, it would be bobbing, “and it was looking at us the whole time, five minutes...it watched us the whole time.” Crewman Eric said he had seen one quite a few years earlier, and again he saw one the previous September. Tony had read about one off the Oregon Coast in 1948. Cameras were on board, but were stowed below. We have wondered in the past about the swimming ability of Bigfoot, and speculated about them crossing the Bering Straits land bridge during the Ice Age. Also Bigfeet have been sighted on Queen Charlotte Island, some 40 miles from land...that’s about the distance across the existing Bering Straits. If the creatures can swim that well, they might well regularly cross from Siberia to Alaska at any time...even now. The crewman on the ship, Lindsey Babich, notes that the ten year old vessel is a seiner and is 56.5 feet long. They were halfway between Petersburg and Ketchikan in the Clarence Strait. Lindsey says that they had heard previously of the Sea Man, and it had been described exactly as they had seen it. He goes on to say that while heading towards Ketchikan, he saw the deadhead, noticing that it wasn’t bobbing up and down vertically like a deadhead. With the binoc’s he said the thing had hemp-like hair, looked like a Sasquatch, had big eyes, a nondescript mouth, and resembled a piling with head and shoulders that went up to the head. “Definitely, there were eyes. They were large, almost as large as baseballs. They were black, like a seal’s eyes, but a lot larger than that...and he was staring right at us, just as curious as we were.” The skin was a little like a muddy, tan-green. They commented on how a fisherman might dress up a deadhead and let it go as a gag, but to his mind, this was definitely a sea creature that he’d never seen before. It had a flat face, so no way was it a sea lion. And then it went slowly straight down, and didn’t reappear.
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Precip: KETCHIKAN 13.43 12.75 10.79 11.02 9.70 7.49 7.19 11.01 14.11 21.82 17.08 15.61 151.98
Temp: KETCHIKAN 33.8 36.9 38.8 42.8 48.6 54.0 57.9 58.3 53.6 46.2 38.8 35.2 45.5
Sun: Sun and Moon Data for One Day The following information is provided for (longitude W132.6, latitude N56.4): Friday 9 May 1980 Universal Time SUN Begin civil twilight 11:58 Sunrise 12:47 Sun transit 20:47 Sunset 04:49 on following day End civil twilight 05:37 on following day MOON Moonset 20:45 on preceding day Moonrise 11:25 Moon transit 16:40 Moonset 22:07 Moonrise 11:49 on following day Phase of the Moon on 9 May: waning crescent with 32% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. Last quarter Moon on 7 May 1980 at 20:52 Universal Time.
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 3629

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +055˚ 26' N
Longitude: 131˚ 40' W
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Month:
Year: 1991
Time:
Elevation: 289

Data Source: “Raincoast Sasquatch”
Credibility: 3
Locality: Connell Road, Revilla Is
Researcher: J. Robert Alley
Witness: Larry Thomas

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: MAN KNOWCKED OUT BY ROCK THROWN FROM BUSH

Sighting Text:
“Raincoast Sasquatch” J. Robert Alley 2003 Hancock House, $14.95 US $19.95 Canada ISBN 0-88839-508-6 358 pages 1991: Connell Road, Revilla Is., AK, Larry Thomas report, second- hand account from friend alleged knocked out by rock thrown from bush, same spot as Thomas' sighting in 1992. [map5]
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Sighting Report 3630 is missing

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IBS Report #: 3631

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +055˚ 26' N
Longitude: 131˚ 40' W
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Year: 1992
Time:
Elevation: 289

Data Source: “Raincoast Sasquatch”
Credibility: 3
Locality: Connell Road, Revilla' Is.,
Researcher: J. Robert Alley
Witness: Larry Thomas

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7 FT BF, WHITE EYESHINE

Sighting Text:
“Raincoast Sasquatch” J. Robert Alley 2003 Hancock House, $14.95 US $19.95 Canada ISBN 0-88839-508-6 358 pages 1992: Connell Road, Revilla' Is., AK, Larry Thomas reports seeing a seven-foot sasquatch with white eye-shine. [map5]
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Sighting Report 3638 is missing

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IBS Report #: 3645

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +055˚ 14' N
Longitude: 131˚ 44' W
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Year: 1996
Time:
Elevation: 0

Data Source: “Raincoast Sasquatch”
Credibility: 3
Locality: Bostwick Inlet
Researcher: J. Robert Alley
Witness: Mr. L. D. and uncle

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: SCREAM, CAMP VANDALIZED

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“Raincoast Sasquatch” J. Robert Alley 2003 Hancock House, $14.95 US $19.95 Canada ISBN 0-88839-508-6 358 pages 1996: Bostwick Inlet, Gravina Is., AK, Mr. L. D. and uncle reported a scream up creek, camp found vandalized on their return. [map5]
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IBS Report #: 976

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +055˚ 26' N
Longitude: 131˚ 47' W
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Month: AUG OR SEPT
Year: 1998
Time: 1:30 PM
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Data Source: TR90
Credibility: 3
Locality: SETTLERS COVE NEAR KETCHIKAN, NEAR WHIPPLE CREEK
Researcher: ROB ALLEY
Witness: Gerald.P

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7 FT DARK BROWN BF IN DITCH, 275-300#, ODOR, FLYS BUZZING AROUND HEAD, BLACK CAT IN DITCH ALSO

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AK 1998 TR#90 * Rob Alley report, kokanee@ptialaska.net This report today from Gerald.P.of Ketchikan,: "Last fall, Aug or Sept, I was riding my bike back to town (Ketchikan, AK) from Settlers' Cove along N. Tongass Hwy., Right near Whipple Ck., about near Cloudberry Rd., 1:30pm or so. I had just slowed down from seeing how fast I could go, when I noticed something stand up in the ditch on my left less than twenty feet away, as I went by. It was big, it would have been about 7' and maybe 275 or 300 lbs, long arms and dark brown fur. The fur was about four inches long on the head and shoulders, shorter on the body. It wasn't a bear. It was bent over with its arms hanging down to his knees. It looked like it was trying to dig at something in the ditch. It had matted hair on the top of his head which was bent over, square shoulders with matted hair and dirty bare patches around the outside of the elbow. It was bent over and I don't think it could see me as I went by. I couldn't see its' eyes but the top of the head at the back had a little bit of a point to it. There were flies buzzing all around it and it stank of...well like crap,and..like a strong urine smell. I just started pedaling like mad and I could hear branches breaking, I thought it was coming after me, but it must have just taken off into the bush because when I looked behind me again, it was gone. I pedaled fast all the way back to Ketchikan." The bush there is thick hemlock and cedar about 50' high, but with a lot of small muskegs with big shore pine around the edges. There were no sounds heard. The only other thing seen was a small black cat that had just popped up out of the ditch behind the creature as Gerald biked by, he says it must have seen the creature because it turned really quickly and bounded into the trees. Nearest houses are about a quarter of a mile away. This is within two hundred yards of a second hand report of a Sasquatch chasing a deer across the highway in front of a half dozen children approx. thirty five years ago, 14 IN tracks seen five miles north in 1997 by deer hunters.
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Precip: KETCHIKAN 13.43 12.75 10.79 11.02 9.70 7.49 7.19 11.01 14.11 21.82 17.08 15.61 151.98
Temp: KETCHIKAN 33.8 36.9 38.8 42.8 48.6 54.0 57.9 58.3 53.6 46.2 38.8 35.2 45.5
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Ecology: thick hemlock and cedar lot of small muskegs with big shore pine

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IBS Report #: 1262

Location: KETCHIKAN GATEWAY county, AK. United States

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +055˚ 26' N
Longitude: 131˚ 47' W
Day: 1
Month: MAR
Year: 1998
Time: 5 PM
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Data Source: TR100
Credibility: 4
Locality: 10 MILES N OF KETCHIKAN, NEAR WHIPPLE CREEK BRIDGE
Researcher: ROB ALLEY
Witness: ROB ALLEY AND STEPSON

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7 FT BLACK BF CROSSED ROAD

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AK 1998 KETCHIKAN GATEWAY TR100 552616N 1314756W Aug 12, ‘00 note. In my own ROB ALLEY 1998 sighting, Mar. 1st, 5:00 PM, light drizzle, 10 miles north of Ketchikan just south of the Whipple Creek bridge, on the highway, a seven ft., uniformly black figure, crossed the highway in front of us at 100 yds, walked across my lane(I was southbound) and ran from the center line to the trees, (about thirty feet from the center lane to trees) in three bounds, arms swinging. My twelve year old stepson didn't take his eyes off it but I had to look back at the road as we passed, I missed the last two bounds. It didn't even look at the van once, as far as I noticed and according to my step-son, and that was it. My boy was agitated and wouldn't let me stop to look for tracks. My five-year old daughter in the back seat didn't see much but she had just been watching that Disney "Goofy" movie recently, and had exclaimed, "Mama Bigfoot!" The next day, there were no tracks, sign. Both sides of the highway are heavily forested.
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Precip: KETCHIKAN 14.7 11.9 11.9 11.4 8.9 6.9 7.6 10.2 13.4 22.3 17.8 16.5 153.6
Temp: KETCHIKAN 33.8 36.9 38.8 42.8 48.6 54.0 57.9 58.3 53.6 46.2 38.8 35.2 45.5
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Ecology: LIGHT DRIZZLE, HEAVILY FORESTED

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IBS Report #: 3652

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +055˚ 26' N
Longitude: 131˚ 48' W
Day: 1
Month: MAR
Year: 1998
Time:
Elevation: 121

Data Source: “Raincoast Sasquatch”
Credibility: 3
Locality: Whipple Creek BRIDGE
Researcher: J. Robert Alley
Witness: Ketchikan family

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7 FT BROWN BF RUNS ACROSS HWY

Sighting Text:
“Raincoast Sasquatch” J. Robert Alley 2003 Hancock House, $14.95 US $19.95 Canada ISBN 0-88839-508-6 358 pages 1998, March 1: Ketchikan family sees seven foot, dark brown sasquatch walk, then run across highway at Whipple Creek Bridge. [map5]
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Sun: Sun and Moon Data for One Day The following information is provided for (longitude W131.8, latitude N55.4): Sunday 1 March 1998 Universal Time SUN Begin civil twilight 15:01 Sunrise 15:38 Sun transit 21:00 Sunset 02:22 on following day End civil twilight 02:59 on following day MOON Moonrise 16:42 on preceding day Moonset 05:32 Moonrise 17:08 Moon transit 23:54 Moonset 06:56 on following day Phase of the Moon on 1 March: waxing crescent with 11% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. New Moon on 26 February 1998 at 17:26 Universal Time.
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 3653

Location: Ketchikan Gateway county, AK. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +055˚ 20' N
Longitude: 131˚ 38' W
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Month: SUMMER
Year: 1998
Time:
Elevation: 26

Data Source: “Raincoast Sasquatch”
Credibility: 3
Locality: north of Ketchikan
Researcher: J. Robert Alley
Witness: Gerald P.

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BROWN BF DIGGING IN DITCH

Sighting Text:
“Raincoast Sasquatch” J. Robert Alley 2003 Hancock House, $14.95 US $19.95 Canada ISBN 0-88839-508-6 358 pages 1998, summer: mile 12, north of Ketchikan, Revilla Is., cyclist Gerald P. reported passing brown sasquatch digging in ditch beside highway. [mapS]
Climate / Ecology:

Precip: KETCHIKAN 13.43 12.75 10.79 11.02 9.70 7.49 7.19 11.01 14.11 21.82 17.08 15.61 151.98
Temp: KETCHIKAN 33.8 36.9 38.8 42.8 48.6 54.0 57.9 58.3 53.6 46.2 38.8 35.2 45.5
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Snow: KETCHIKAN 13.3 8.9 3.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.3 8.6 36.9
Ecology: Missing