Albert Ostman: Abducted by a Sasquatch

 Albert Ostman: Abducted by a Sasquatch

 

 Albert Ostman (1893-1975) was a Canadian prospector who stated he was abducted by a Bigfoot while in the woods in Toba Inlet, BC in 1924. 

 

In the summer of 1924 Ostman set out in the area of Toba Inlet, BC to do some camping and hunting.  A local Native guide had warned him that another prospector had gone looking for gold and went missing.  He said that he was ‘killed by a Sasquatch’.  Ostman had never heard of a Sasquatch before and didn’t care much about it.  When he asked his guide what kind of an animal he called a Sasquatch, the Native man said: ‘They have hair all over their bodies, but they are not animals.  They are people. (…)’

 

He arrived at the inlet with the Indigenous guide, who was to return to meet Ostman at this spot in three weeks.  Ostman went out alone the next day, and after several days of camping and prospecting in the woods, he began noticing things misplaced and his backpack emptied in his camp.   He had left his back pack hanging on a tree, and was found emptied but put back on the tree where it was.  Several food items were missing.  He went looking for tracks and climbed up on a ridge but did not see anything.  The following night he decided to sleep fully dressed, and kept his rifle and shoes with him in his sleeping bag.

 

He was awakened in the middle of the night by something picking him up.   He felt that whoever or whatever picked him up was walking.  He was carried off while inside his sleeping bag with barely enough air to breathe, and was transported by the individual over a period of three hours.  He was dropped on a ridge by a cave, and found himself surrounded by a family of Sasquatch.  They were chattering, and it was still dark when he rolled out of his sleeping bag.   There was the male, a female and two youngsters, a boy and a girl.  Ostman was held captive by the family of Sasquatches for 6 days. 

 

He reported that the Sasquatches were not aggressive; they fed him grasses and they were curious about him, especially the young male.  The female washed and staked leaves.  Ostman gave a description of the creature and stated that they were ape-like in appearance.  He attempted to exit the opening of the ridge to leave the area, but the large male blocked his path and said something sounding like ‘Soka! Soka!’.   Ostman had supplies with him including coffee, snuff, butter and a couple of cans; he also had his rifle and some ammunition. 

 

He later managed to escape by making the male groggy when he offered him snuff (dipping tobacco).  The Sasquatch ate the snuff then drank a cold pot of coffee, ‘grounds and all’ and became very sick.  Ostman gathered his rifle and cans in his sleeping bag and ran towards the opening of the wall.  He fired his rifle over the female’s head to scare her off, and he ran down the mountain.

 

‘The following day I went down from this camp on Salmon Arm Branch of Sechelt Inlet. From there I got the Union Boat back to Vancouver.’   It took Ostman years to gather the courage to make his story public and did so in 1957, when he told his story to The Province.  He was later interviewed by John Green and signed an affidavit.

 

From: Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us by John Green, Chapter 5
(1978, B.C. Canada: Hancock House)

 

 Eastern Canada Sasquatch Organization

 

 

 

Albert Ostman Interview with John Green – 1957

  

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Wed March 26, 1958, p.9