First recorded mention of a Bigfoot type creature.

Since this is the first post on this blog, It seems fitting to show the first recorded mention of a Bigfoot type creature. Check back daily for new posts and videos. Thanks for checking us out!
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Bigfoot, or as it's often called in Canada, the Sasquatch, is mentioned in several native American legends. In fact, the term "Sasquatch" is Indian for "hairy giant." The first sighting of a Sasquatch by a white man apparently came in 1811 near what now is the town of Jasper, Alberta Canada. A trader named David Thompson found some strange footprints, fourteen inches long and eight inches wide, with four toes, in the snow.



On January 17th, 1811, a surveyor and trader from the Northwest Company spotted Bigfoot prints on snow, while he was crossing the rocky mountains. The man's name was David Thompson, born in 1770 and died in 1857. He also carried a daily journal with him, and on the day he spotted the footprints, he made an entry. He described the footprints as large with four large toes. The entry reads: 


"January 7th continuing our journey in the afternoon we came on the track of a large animal, the snow about six inches deep on the ice; I measured it; four large toes each of four inches in length, to each a short claw; the ball of the foot sunk three inches lower than the toes. The hinder part of the foot did not mark well, the length fourteen inches, by eight inches in breadth, walking from north to south, and having passed about six hours. We were in no humour to follow him; the Men and Indians would have it to be a young mammouth and I held it to be the track of a large old grizzly bear; yet the shortness of the nails, the ball of the foot, and its great size was not that of a Bear, otherwise that of a very large old Bear, his claws worn away, the Indians would not allow." (David Thompson's journal entry, January 7th, 1811.)


Source
"David Thompson, Old Report:Year 1811" Bigfoot Encounters. Web. November 23, 2011.