A Port Alberni, BC cab driver recalls a skinny hunched-over Sasquatch that crossed the highway in front of him. The local Hupacasath First Nations people called it 'The Old Man.'
"I was born raised and live in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. As a child growing up here my grandmother and mother would occasionally tell us stories of individual experiences they had with Sasquatch on their farm back in the 1940s. When it was told to us I always thought they existed among us.
I drive a taxi here in Port Alberni and one night in early May 2006 around midnight I was driving back from Sproat Lake with a passenger who was intoxicated but awake in the front passenger seat. We were on the Pacific Rim Highway coming down the hill towards Hector Road when my headlights caught this creature crossing the double line in the road. It was walking kind of hunched over with a hobble to its walk. It had black short fur all over its body with the exception of its face. When the lights of my cab hit his face I noticed it had very wrinkled light-colored skin on its face. It didn't look at me so I only saw the side of his face. I noticed it was very skinny with very large slender hands and feet with skinny arms and legs. I figured it was 7 or 8 feet tall. It stood upright but it was hunched over so it's hard to tell. It was trying to get to the other side of the road where there were trees, brush, and a swamp.
There were no other vehicles on the road behind me or coming in the other direction. My passenger said to me as we passed the thing, "What was that?" I said I think that was a Sasquatch. He said, "Are you kidding me?" I said, "No, that was a Sasquatch." He didn't say anything else on the rest of the ride.
I know what I saw and it wasn't human. The way it walked and how thin it was with its large thin hands and feet convinced me it wasn't human or anything I had seen before. I didn't stop when I saw this thing. At the time the Pacific Rim Highway or Highway 4 is a major highway that runs through Port Alberni. There was a bend in the road so I didn't want to stop and look where this thing went as I didn't want to cause a possible accident. Also, it was raining lightly and it was dark so I would find it hard to believe someone would be playing a prank on a dark rainy Saturday night crossing a major highway in a gorilla suit. Most people at the time were in the local pubs or nightclubs at that time on a Saturday night or at home.
I have told a few people about my experiences here in Port Alberni and one of the Hupacasath First Nations people I spoke to about this said it sounds like you saw the old man. She told me a few people over the years, as well as herself on that reserve where I saw it, call it the 'old man.' Well, that's my story. I didn't have any negative feelings about seeing this thing, just surprised.
Transcribed source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQh_DWCRRc
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