BFRO #30249: Possible daytime sighting by boaters and day prior by morning walker between Perth and Westport

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Our sightings occurred over a 34-hour span on September 28th and 29th in 2007. A group of us take an annual fishing trip to a lake that is about half-way between Perth and Westport in Ontario, Canada. One of the guys (Harry) on the trip had quadruple bypass surgery a few years earlier and gets up to walk 8-10 miles each morning around 5:30am. On Friday morning he got up for his normal walk, and while turning the corner toward the owner�s house, saw something in the darkness next to the owner�s deck. He had an LED flashlight and shined it on the deck (40-50 yards max). The thing was reaching over the deck railing and upon having the light shined on it, turned away and slowly walked away from the deck toward an open field and east toward the forest, turning away from him. Harry continued on his walk. On the way back he stopped at the deck (still very early, but now daybreak) and measured the height. Where the creature's upper thigh came to on the deck was the same as his mid-chest. At this point, Harry said nothing to anyone about it.The following day (Saturday) we have our annual fishing derby (which isn�t very serious) which runs from 9am to noon. After deciding the winners, which gets your names engraved on a trophy, everyone either hangs at the cottage, goes to town, or goes back out fishing. Two of our more dedicated guys decided to go back out after lunch. The lake has a river on the opposite end from where we stay that flows in from the southwest end and exits the northeast end. The guys (Matt and Tom) went to the inlet end of the lake and went as far up the river as they could, probably a mile or so. They then drifted down the river fishing for bass. As they approached the mouth of the river (they were on the north shore of the river), there was a canoe with two people paddling up-river (and talking) closer to the south shore of the river. As they looked at the folks in the canoe, they both saw an animal on the shore behind the canoe observing the people in the canoe. Tom said to Matt, �Hey Matt, check that out� and they both watched the animal walk along the bog and step up and over the bank to the marsh into the brush to disappear. I have since been on the other side of that marshy-bog location, and there is no way a human can or would get there, let alone, move easily. That evening, we were all sitting in the living room as usual reflecting on the day (after a few beers). I will never forget Tom saying something like, �all right, I gotta say something. I don�t know what I saw, but it got up on two feet, walked along the shore, and went where nobody could go.� As he was speaking, Harry was just about to take a sip and stopped dead cold, and said � oh F#%$. I�d just convinced myself I didn�t see what I did.� Harry then told what he had seen the morning before while on his walk.We were leaving the next day and nobody bothered to check for footprints or anything. If you have been conditioned to think something doesn�t exist, you don�t react the way people may think. If I had the chance to go back to that day I would have been in the woods at both ends of the lake looking for signs or footprints. It wasn�t until the ride home that I really started to think about what happened. During the following week, we slowly started googling for websites. We found BFRO which had an encounter reported from the scout camp on the same lake in the �90�s. Since then there has been a report from a cabin outside of Westport about 10 months after our encounter. I have since placed game cameras (started with 2 and am up to 6) in the area from August to January, annually. Great photos of deer, raccoon, porcupine, and a fisher, but no squatch.Matt and Tom are avid hunters who spend many hours in the woods each year. Harry is a self-employed businessman who doesn�t hunt anymore, but knows what he saw. My job has been to document the details of the trip. They are all available for comment.

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5:30am2:30PM

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5:30am2:30PM

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