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Yeti. Canada

ID #1712673374
Added Tue, 09/04/2024
Author July N.
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Investigation

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
1894
Location: 
Река Яликом
Лиллиотт, BC
Canada

There is an amazing photo from Canada taken in 1894, which is apparently the oldest known photograph of a bigfoot.

The photo was originally sent to Tom Biscardi by Lyle Billett from Victoria (Canada), and Cryptomundo blogger Lauren Coleman then posted it on his website. The photo also appears in the updated version of the book Colina and Janet Board's "Collection of Bigfoot Cases" 1982.

They say that a picture speaks a thousand words, and this photo says a lot. It doesn't look like it's a fake. The photo is cracked from the fold in the upper quarter. The snowman is lying on the snow with his arms outstretched, so his hairy arms are visible. The face is hairy, but not very detailed. Snowshoes can be seen at the left edge of the photo. It seems that on the right side, right under the crack, there is a fence and a building. The legs of the dead bigfoot are not visible, they are cut out of the right part of the picture.

This photo tells us the story of how in 1894, in the wilds of western Canada, hunters and mountaineers met a bigfoot and shot him. Perhaps it happened not far from their hut. They took a picture of it. But that's not all: there was something written on the back of the photo:

Year 1894

Yalikom River Around Lilliott B.C.

Forestry-Hudsonbay Co.

They took the picture and the Guy that was in the picture went & stole them back from the forestry records (hudsonbay co.) I believe his last name was Holiday (Don’t know the first name)

Never took all pictures (only one) and took pictures of the rest.

(Glass Plate Photography)

________________

(translation)

The year is 1894.

Skiff River around Lilliott, British Columbia

Forest-Hudson Bay Co.

They took a photo, and the guy who was in the photo went and stole them from forestry records (Hudsonbay Co.). I think his last name was Holiday (I don't know his first name).

I've never photographed everything (just one) and photographed the rest.

(the photo was taken on a glass plate)

Original news

There is an astonishing photo from Canada taken in 1894 which would seem to be the oldest known photograph of bigfoot. The photo had originally been sent to Tom Biscardi by Lyle Billett of Victoria, Canada. Cryptomundo blogger Loren Coleman then posted the photo on his website, where I saw it. The photo also appears in the updated version of the 1982 book Bigfoot Casebook by Colin and Janet Bord.

It is said that a picture tells a thousand words, and this photo says a lot. It does not seem to be a fake. The photo is cracked from a fold in the upper quarter. A sasquatch is lying on the snow with its arms in front, so the hairy hands can be seen. The face is hairy but not very detailed. Snowshoes can be seen at the left edge of the photo. There seems to be a fence and a building on the right side, just beneath the crack. The feet of the dead sasquatch are not seen, cropped out of the right side of the photo.

The 1894 photo of bigfoot. (Author provided)

The Story Behind the Photo

The story that this photo tells us is that in 1894 in the wilds of western Canada some trappers and mountain men encountered a bigfoot and shot him. It may have happened near their cabin. They took a photograph of it. But there is more: the photo had some writing on the back of it.

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The back of the photo bore this text:

There is writing on the back of the bigfoot photo. (Author provided)

Year 1894

Yalikom River Around Lilliott B.C.

Forestry-Hudsonbay Co.

They took the picture and the Guy that was in the picture went & stole them back from the forestry records (hudsonbay co.) I believe his last name was Holiday (Don’t know the first name)

Never took all pictures (only one) and took pictures of the rest.

(Glass Plate Photography)

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It's very similar to a lynx. When they fall into a trap attached to a tree, their body assumes exactly this position.

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