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Sweden ?

I very much doubt that.

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Yeah, me too.  I shouldn't have said "where he was from".  It was a European country though.  Man I wish I could remember where I read that.  

 

t.

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Sweden ?

I very much doubt that.

 I have heard vague accounts of something bigfootish (if that is a word) from Sweden. Huge country, mostly devoid of people and with lots of forest in the north. Not too far from northern Russia where there have been some interesting reports.

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Troll's ?

Or is that Norway ?

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Germanic and Scandinavian folklore is full of trolls, and some have speculated that monkees may be behind the legends. Stan Courtney has some good blog posts about it.

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That is interesting, was it because of the Patty film? (care to speculate?)

I don't think so

I think stories like

Jacko

Ruby Creek

And many other lesser known reports helped our

Heck iirc John Green did presentations at local elementary schools in the early 1970's

Although not quite the same time period

Our first locally published hoax was 1977

Known as the "Mission hoax"

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Troll's ?

Or is that Norway ?

 Nah, all the trolls are in this forum. :lol:

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I think it's true to a degree, with some embellishment and over dramatising in there at times and just can't believe a Guy like Ostman could make up a story like that in 1924 out of thin air, with some of the details he gave.

I find it harder to believe it's a total fabrication than not.

 Was the Ape Canyon story out of Washington before or after this one?

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I don't think Ostman ever pinned down when exactly in 1924 his story took place. Maybe Tom Steenburg has? Ostman said he was on vacation so it was likely the summer, but that's just a guess. Some people go off in spring and autumn in preference. The Ape Canyon story came out in July 1924 and Ostman didn't tell his story until the 1957 after William Roe's story came out although John Green in a book says that "..a comment from an old friend of mine that he had first heard of the sasquatch in the early 1930s from a trapper at Toba Inlet who said that he knew of a young Swede who had been carried off by one". If that was true then Ostman's story must have gotten around locally well before he wrote it down in the late 1950s.

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I can tell you what I did back in the early to mid 1980s. I had an idea. Albert s story claimed he came out of the wilderness at a logging operation near the Salmon Arm branch Sechelt Inlet. I wondered if that logging operation might have kept a journal and would I find an entry about finding a lost prospector? In the office of MC Million Boadel and a few others I did look at records from that area and dated the year 1924. How ever I found no mention of a lost prospector being found and taken care of, and put back on a boat to Vancouver. But I must point out that there were over 30 logging operations going on around Sechelt, Jarvis and Toba inlets in 1924 and i was only able to find records of 3 of them?  Also according to Albert. An old Indian gent took him to the head of Toba Inlet in 1924, and this man was suppose to return for him in 3 weeks. What Did this man do after 3 weeks assuming that he did go to pick up Albert and could not find him? Did he report it? To make it short I found nothing record wise with the RCMP concerning any missing man from Toba Inlet from 1924? Also again according to Albert s story this same old Indian gent is said to have mentioned the name Sasquatch as they talked with each other. I find this odd since the name Sasquatch was not coined until 1929 in a magazine articular, Titled, "Introducing B.C.s hairy Giants" by J.W. Burns. And Albert s classic tale is from 1924, 5 years before the name was first published. Of course Albert  did not tell his tale until 1957 and by then Sasquatch was a house hold word in Canada.  The Albert Ostman tale is one of the Sasquatch Classic stories and unfortunately destined to remain only that.

 

Thomas Steenburg

 

An interesting book, Sasquatch in British Columbia: A Chronology of Incidents & Important Events.

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Ivan Sanderson interviewed Ostman and wrote about his impressions in Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. He admits to trying to trip him up with some purely biological questions. He was unable to do so. He mentions Ostman referring to the Sasquatch having copper colored fingernails in casual conversation. This had not been mentioned in available literature at that time. You might want to read his comments.

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The fact that he waited 25 years to tell the story bothers me. If he tells the same story in the late twenties early thirties with the details he provides it becomes much more credible. However he never changed or waivered from his tale. It will always be a classic that can neither be proved or disproved . I put much more stock into the validity of ape canyon and Roe's stories.

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The fact that he waited 25 years to tell the story bothers me. 

 

As I wrote earlier, according to John Green in his book......

 

"..a comment from an old friend of mine that he had first heard of the sasquatch in the early 1930s from a trapper at Toba Inlet who said that he knew of a young Swede who had been carried off by one".

 

So, if Green is correct then Ostman did tell his story decades before he wrote to William Roe.

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