Mrs. Louise Baxter of Skamania, Washington will not soon forget her 10:00 p.m. drive along the Lewis and Clark Highway last night. She heard a noise that she thought might be a flat tire, and pulled off the road to have a look. The tires appeared to be fine, so she looked to see if something was stuck under a fender. While doing this, she got a strange feeling–as though she was being watched. Straightening up, she saw an enormous shaggy creature, 10–12 feet tall, staring at her from the woods.
It was coconut brown and “dirty looking.” It had one of its huge fists up to a partially open mouth that held a row of large square white teeth. The head was very large and seemed set directly onto its shoulders. Long hair on its head concealed its ears. It had a jutted chin, a wide nose with big nostrils, and a receding forehead. There was less hair on its face than the rest of its body. Most remarkable were its eyes. They were amber and seemed to glow like an animal’s do when car lights catch them.

TEENAGE BOYS OPEN FIRE ON STRANGE ANIMAL IN LOCAL WOODS Lumby, British Columbia, July 1973 SOURCE: Sasquatch Bigfoot, The Continuing Mystery,' by Thomas Steenburg, Hancock House Publishers, 1999. Illustrations for Christopher L. Murphy's book "Sasquatch Chronicles"

Three Lumby area youths recently went into the woods in an area near here with the unofficial name, "Hunters Range." The boys were carrying a single 22-caliber rifle with the intent of hunting small animals. What they encountered, however, will haunt their memories for many years to come. Pete Nab, aged 13, the leader of the group was carrying the rifle while the other two kept an eye out for squirrels, rabbits, or birds, which they would than shoot to earn their right of passage into manhood and keep the world safe from these dangerous creatures.