Report #013 – QUEBEC, Belleterre – Type 2
Name: Unknown
Location: McLaughlin Lake, Belleterre, (Témiscamingue) Québec
Date/Time: Fall 2002-2003
Weather Conditions: around 23h00 at night, clear, cold, near frost, full moon, no wind.
Source: BFRO Report #17214
Documented by Eastern Canada Sasquatch Organization
Report # 17214 (Class B)
Submitted by witness on Friday, January 5, 2007.
Possible vocalization heard by police officer / hunter at McLaughlin Lake outside Belleterre
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YEAR: 2002-2003
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: September
DATE: 20 to 30
PROVINCE: Quebec
COUNTRY: Canada
LOCATION DETAILS: McLaughlin Lake, rough
terrain, mixed woods, thick, some swampy areas.
drive 16 kms south on logging road from Belleterre, 11 kms. down an old road
made in the 40's or 50's, 1 km off of the dirt road, 4 to 5 kms by boat to my
old camp.
NEAREST TOWN: Belleterre, Quebec
NEAREST ROAD: Trout lake road (logging road)
OBSERVED: I am a 35 year old police officer,
father of 2 children and an ex-forestry technician, I've been hunting and
fishing in the Temiscamingue area since 1991, and had a share in a hunting camp
with my now ex-father in-law. One week-end in september, I can't really recall
the year, it was either in 2001 or 2002, we decided to go to the camp to
prepare for the hunting season,it was a cold night, clear, and a full moon.
around 22h30 or so I decided to go on the roof of the camp to let out a few
moose calls, as the moose are more active at night, and plus just to get a
thrill to hear one, once you've heard them moving at night, it's a rush!
I was on the roof, i let out a low bull moose call and waited, it was quiet
out, no wind, the echo was traveling very nice.
-I waited about 15 to 20 minutes and let another call out, i could hear some
cracking far enough away, i was thinking to myself that i was going to hear it
soon, then I could hear something walking in the shoreline a few hundred meters
away, like I said it was very echoey
I let out a another call, more aggressively, to spark the possible bull moose
that was walking in the water, that's when i heard a loud scream, nothing like
i'd ever heard before, it freaked me out and made the hair on the back of my
neck stand
up, it screamed again, at this point, i came down from the roof of the camp and
went inside.
I heard bears, wolves, moose, even when they are frightened or injured, and let
me tell you what i heard that night just plainly freaked me right out, I have
never been afraid of anything in the bush, but let me tel you that what i had
heard that night scared the bejeevehees out of me.This was the last time that
i've went back to this camp as my ex and I seperated in october of that year.
-I told my ex-father in-law about this the following morning, he thought I was
crazy, but truth to the fact, i know what I heard was nothing like i ever heard
before.
ALSO NOTICED: looked around the next day where i thought i had heard it, but did not see anything unusual, alot of swampy moss on the edge of the lake
OTHER WITNESSES: my ex-father in-law (hunting partner, he was sleeping inside the camp.
OTHER STORIES: there is old tales that my
father and uncle had told me as they used to trap and hunt in the area in the
early 60's and 70's and stories from my grandfather, who was the game warden at
the time in the 60's, my uncle and father had passed on in the late 90's, but i
remember of my uncle saying that one day when he was out checking his traps, he
had seen a large hariy like man crossing the logging road, now known as the
trout lake road, it just crossed the road, he said that he got scared and never
seen it again.
-Once in 1997, my ex-mother in-law, who was a school teacher was on her way
home and seen a huge creature standing in the middle of the road between
Belleterre and another little town called Laforce. She came around a curve in
the road, thee was a straight in the road and she could see a large creature
standing at the end of the straight, as she approaced, the creature ran off the
road in the thick alder bushes.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: around 23h00 at night, clear,cold, near frost, full moon, no wind.
ENVIRONMENT: heavily wooded area, mixed bush,
big wooded hills,
some swamps in the area.
two big ajoining lakes>>Pierre Lake and Bay Lake,
there is another camp about 2 kms from where mine was, but there was nobody
there.
Follow-up investigation report:
The witness is a Police Officer and has been
hunting for most of his life. He has been hunting at Trout Lake Road near
Belleterre for the last 10 years.
What he heard that night, in his words, "terrified him". He says that
he has never heard anything like it. It sounded like it came approximately 100
yards away in a swampy area. He cannot describe the cry, but says it was very
shrill and sounded like it came from a very large set of lungs. The cries
lasted for about 5 - 10 seconds and occurred 2 - 3 times within the span of a
few minutes. At the same time he could hear something bipedal walking in water.
This could have occurred in the swampy area adjacent to the lake or on the very
edge of the lake itself. He is not sure.
His reaction was to go immediately into his cabin and wake his hunting partner
and tell him about it. There were no other occurrences that night.
His father, uncle and ex-mother-in-law all have had sightings over the years in
this area.
This is an area about 2-hrs northeast of numerous sightings in the Temagami and
Latchford area of Ontario. It's all vast, impenetrable forest with only a few
logging roads going in and out.
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