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"A huge thank-you goes out to researcher Dustin Severs who graciously provided the interview. Thanks also to Melody and Jason banks for the intro narration. In 1971, B.C. radio station CBU aired some interviews of leading Sasquatch personalities of the time, including John Green, Ivan Marx, Roger Patterson, Don Abbott, and Albert Ostman. The first one that will be featured here is the Albert Ostman segment. Stay tuned for the others which will soon follow. Don’t forgot to subscribe and hit that notification button. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this extremely rare interview."

He looks like me.

Feller sure has some nice teeth!

My favorite account is the Bauman story. Down by where I used to pack mules!

Historical accounts? Check out the work of Timothy Renner and Chad Arment. They detail early American reports of wild men and gorillas in the woods...sightings of which that often resulted in armed posses going into the woods in pursuit. Most of these reports are from the late 18th/early 19th century, so it looks like there was a period where the Sasquatch were not as predatory but were still more visible than today. Kind of a learning curve... Also, A) If these creatures are as intelligent as many suspect, they might well have hung back and observed the white man when he showed up on the scene. It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that these new comers carried powerful weapons that could kill at a distance and that the balance of power had irrevocably changed. B) Folklore, legend, verbal histories are like the fossil record...incomplete. Plenty of accounts survived to modern day, but who knows what all has been lost over time. There could be a couple of accounts of Sasquatch being shot where said accounts were lost and forgotten. Now, add disease to the equation. There is a theory that smallpox may have ravaged the Sasquatch population along with the Native Americans. New comers show up on your continent with sticks that shoot thunder and lightning...and now members of your group are dropping like flies from a previously unknown ailment. It’s enough to make a Bigfoot give up his life of snatching women by the riverside and retreat deeper into the wilderness.