Bigtruth: Maine - Harper's History Vol.1 #20

by Scott Harper

Maine isn't a huge state, but it boasts a lot of forested area. These woodlands seem to be home to a population of Sasquatch, given the fairly steady flow of recent sightings coming from Maine. However, the state's Sasquatch reports aren't all from modern times. There has been Sasquatch activity in the state for quite a while. According to Native Americans, tribes of the creatures we now know as Sasquatch have long lived in the area. Their stories, and accounts of them reach back well before Maine joined the Union in 1820.

Sometime in the early 1800's a trapper witnessed a tall, hairy being approach his camp. The creature simply turned, and walked away. What was presumed to be the same Sasquatch was spotted standing on a rock in a lake the following morning. These sightings happened near Mt. Katahdin.

In Waldoboro Maine in 1855, a man was chopping wood when he heard screams coming from behind his house. Upon investigating, he spotted a short, hair-covered creature. A juvenile Sasquatch?

A book titled "Camping Out" was published in 1873. It chronicles six encounters of creatures known at the time as "Injun Devils". There is also a report in the text concerning the death of a trapper. The man had been beaten against a tree, and torn apart. Many people dismissed the death as the result of a mountain lion attack. Mountain lions don't slam their victims against a tree repeatedly to dispatch them, though. Such an activity has been attributed to Sasquatch more than once, however.

In 1886, a newspaper called the "Waterville Sentinel" reported on the death of a camper. The dead man had been found by two companions. As a 10-foot-tall "wild man" had been spotted in the area, it was immediately named as the suspect. A group of men set out, armed, to hunt for the creature. Reports state that the group found, and killed, the creature, but do not say what became of the body.

1946 brought a report from four men who were on Bigelow Mountain. They sat down for lunch, and spotted what they later claimed was a 10-foot-tall being covered in black hair walking toward them. The figure looked to be carrying a large rock. The men wasted no time in leaving the area. Three years later, in the same area, in 1949, a 7-foot-tall Sasquatch was spotted alongside a roadway by a passing driver.

All in all, the state of Maine has a wealth of Sasquatch sightings—some of which predate the Patterson/Gimlin footage from 1967, further proving that these beings didn't just suddenly pop into existence with that film, as some people seem to think.

The sightings continue right up to present day as well. They even include a few rare white Sasquatch reports. Canada boasts a large number of Sasquatch sightings. Maine adjoins two Canadian provinces. Sasquatch aren't affected by man-made borders. It's probable that the Sasquatch populations from Quebec, and New Brunswick wander back and forth into, and out of Maine. Odds are that this wandering has been going on for a very long time, and will continue to do so. Such a large area, with wooded terrain friendly to Sasquatch, goes a long way to explain why there have been so many sightings of these beings in the state of Maine for such a long time.

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