(Ruby Creek home)
(Picking up the story from Part 1of one of the classic Bigfoot encounters on record)
)
Mrs. Chapman who thought the boy seemed strangely disturbed went out to
look. They both thought it most likely a big bear in the bushes which bordered
the field just beyond the railway tracks.
When she called out to the two children , they came running to her. It was
then that the creature started to move onto the tracks and she saw what she
describes has a gigantic man, covered with hair, not fur, about four inches long
over the body and a pail yellow brown color. Mrs Chapman compared the color to
sheet of lightly varnished plywood that was located in the room with her. A
brown-ochre color.
The creature came right toward the house, she was standing there with her
eldest son. On her instructions, got a blanket from the house and rounded up the
rest of the children.
By this time the creature has reached to near the corner of the filed
approximately 100 feet away from her. Mrs Chapman spread the blanket, holding it aloft to shield the children
from seeing this being. She backed off into the old field and went down onto the
river beach to get out of sight. They headed downstream straight to the
village.
When asked if her purpose of using the blanket to keep the creature from
seeing the children in accord with an Amerindian belief that if they had seen
the creature, it brings very bad luck and often death, she said that she had heard
the white man speak of that belief, she had not been told that by her own
parents. She was told to not wander off or go near certain points and valleys
and run if she saw one, which they referred to as The Sasquatch. They also told
her not to struggle if one caught her because it may squeeze her to death by
mistake
Mrs . Chapman said she also used to blanket because she thought it was
after one of the kids or it may get into the house, which it did. This creature went
into the house and rummaged through things and hauled a 55 gallon barrel
full of salt fish, breaking it open and thus scattering to contents all over the
house.
The sad things is that later all three children died within a 3 year span.
Two boys drowned and the girl passed away on her sickbed. After one of the
original interviews, the Chapman's also drowned in the Fraser River when their
row boat capsized.
(More in Part 3 when Mr. Chapman is interviewed)
