Tracks in strawberry patch left by sasquatch? Francis Joe points to one of the tracks he discovered in his field Sunday. DUNCAN (BC Newspaper Group) - Francis Joe kneels beside a trail of huge footprints crossing the strawberry field beside his home at the end of Boys Road.
Joe, 78, was born on the Native reserve south of Duncan and has never seen tracks like these before. He believes they belong to a legendary ape-like creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas and others call a sasquatch or bigfoot
"That's not the tracks of an ordinary human. You could tell if it had shoes on," he says.
Something tramped across Joe's fields sometime Sunday night, leaving a straight line of 15-inch tracks running north to south, three feet apart in soft soil.
His fields are bounded by bush to the north and the Cowichan River to the south, likely ruling out a trespasser. Joe paid no mind to dogs yapping outside Sunday because they often "bark all night." Local fishermen recently told him they've heard growling noises in the brush along the river.
The tracks also led to memories of when his three daughters saw what they think was a sasquatch at the end of Wilseem Road about 30 years ago.
"It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at us," remembers daughter Jeanne Bob, who claims she a saw bigfoot about 40 feet away.
"It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very strong smell. I wasn't kidding then and now I really believe it."
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