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Bigfoot sighting near Lake Minnewanka, Alberta
1896 · Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, Canada
Two prospectors at Lake Minnewanka in late summer 1896 fired at a creature they took for a bear; it stood on two legs, shrieked, and fled into the forest.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- Late Summer 1896 - Lake Minnewanka
- Date
- 1896
- Place
- Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, Canada
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 51.260, -115.307
- Witness was
- working outdoors
- Witnesses
- 2
- Creatures
- 1
- Behaviour
- fleeing, standing, vocalizing
- Sounds
- scream
- In the account
- felt fear, firearm present, fired weapon, scream, thought bear first, witness fled
- Account
- secondhand
- Sources
- 1 independent
Sources
- Kerry Clausen-Kilmury: Canada mapRead the report
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