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After our exciting and informative visit to Kentucky and Wisconsin, we packed up and headed for Minnesota. We arrived in the afternoon on 5/12/07. We met with Bob Olsen, our contact in Deer River. We had heard of more recent sightings in the area and were anxious to learn more about them. Bob had arranged for us to meet with Don Sherman, a native Ojibwa Indian who has joined us on several expeditions in the past. Don is an expert woodsman and hunter and is always an asset when we are in the field, as well as being a good friend. We also met up with David Just, an old bear hunter and tracker from the “old school”. Dave is the last of a vanishing breed and a real asset to us. This visit was a real reunion for us and we were happy to touch base with so many old friends.

           The whole team together, along with David Just (the local legend)

After our short but pleasurable reunion, the team went to work. Bob Olsen shared some of his newest prints with us. We were very impressed with them. He also had a print that he traded two of his originals for with a well known Associate Professor from Idaho. We were very surprised, even shocked, to find that, in my opinion, the print he received had all of the hallmarks of being a fake! I guess people have to be very vigilant these days and really investigate what they are doing before laying out any money. In this field, as in any, knowledge is power.

 Bob Olsen’s growing collection of local prints

After meeting with our old friends, we went out into the field to see for ourselves what was happening. It seems that all of the sites we saw were pretty dry now and we had probably missed the migration through this part of the state. We headed back to town to try and contact some of the new people who had contacted us over the past couple of months. We were fortunate to be able to find

 Our guest explorer Ray Val and a local who had a physical sighting, Thelberta Lussiour and Tom Biscardi

Thelberta, a Chippewa Indian from the Red Lake Reservation, had called Searching for Bigfoot several weeks ago to share her experience. She had experienced a physical sighting where she had actually made eye contact with the creature. The experience had left her quite shaken. She told us that when she made eye contact, she felt that the creature saw right into her soul. She just knew that the creature knew all about her, who she was, where she lived, and all of her weaknesses. She was quite shaken. Being able to talk about the experience with Tom Biscardi and other team members who had experienced these kinds of encounters was a huge help to her. She no longer felt like she was alone or that people thought she was crazy. We were able to show her that she was blessed and among an elite group of people who are lucky enough to know the truth about this elusive and rare animal. We developed a very close bond with Thelberta and as a result, we were accepted into her family circle within the Chippewa. So much so, that we were invited to a traditional Chippewa wedding ceremony. This was truly a major honor for us. We had to get approval from the elders, the bride and groom, and the family before we received our invitation. Once at the wedding, we met most of Thelberta’s family members. We found that Thelberta was a respected and honored elder member of her family and a matriarch of high esteem.

 The Tribal Insignia and the sign for the reservation

 The happy couple

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At the wedding, we got a chance to meet and talk to many more native people who had seen the creature. One person told us about a film that was taken. It seems that one young person had just received a gift of a motion picture camera. He was out in the woods trying it out and photographing some eagles. As the eagles swooped down towards the ground and he followed with the camera, he saw a creature coming out of the woods dragging some other animal with it! He took the film home and shared it with his family. His parents called the Department of Natural Resources who came out and confiscated the film. He had made a copy before they got there and was able to show us the copy. It was in very poor condition and we were unable to identify with any clarity what was on it. Our cameraman explained that it had been run and rewound so many times that the film itself had become worn by running over a dirty receiver head so often. Tom contacted the DNR who told him that they did not have such a film… but during the conversation admitted to making another copy of it!?!? We are still hopeful that we will be able to uncover a copy some how. Of course if that happens, we will share it with you!

We met and interviewed several other eye witnesses who had stories of seeing a creature crossing the road at night and taking only one or two steps to make it across. Most of the stories had happened too far in the past for us to substantiate, so we did not investigate all of them. The most recent story we heard was from about a year ago. It was told by Kathy Sheffield, who saw the creature in her own neighborhood, but once again, it was too long ago for us to follow up on. All of the people we talked too seemed to be sincere and credible, but we could not verify any of the stories because of the time involved. We were on a tight schedule, so we thanked everyone and decided to move on towards Kentucky.

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