Seized 1992 Bigfoot Expedition Footage Has Hidden Copies

The Stikine River region in northern British Columbia has long been considered prime Sasquatch habitat. The remote canyon country, with its old-growth temperate rainforest and massive salmon runs, provides exactly the kind of environment that researchers have theorized could sustain an undocumented hominid population. So when a story surfaces about a 1992 university expedition that allegedly captured footage of something extraordinary in that very wilderness, and then had it seized by institutional hands, it's the kind of thing that makes you sit up and pay attention. A recent video posted to YouTube tells exactly that story, and it's a wild one. The narrator, a former field biologist named Dale Faucet, claims he was part of a four-person research team from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) that spent three weeks in the lower Stikine Canyon in the summer of 1992. The official purpose of the expedition was to study large mammal corridor use and interspecific competition in the watershed. The real purpose, according to Faucet, was something else entirely. The expedition was led by Dr. Carol Briggs, who held a joint appointment in wildlife biology and physical anthropology at UNBC. Briggs had apparently spent nearly a decade building a research case for an undocumented hominid species in the Pacific Northwest and sub-boreal wilderness zones of British Columbia. Her previous peer-reviewed work on unusual hair samples collected from the region in 1987 had been politely dismissed by most colleagues but had generated enough institutional interest to secure a modest field research grant from the provincial government's wild species research fund. Faucet describes the team as carefully assembled. Lauren Higgins, a physical anthropologist with postdoctoral research on large primate behavior at two universities in Ontario, was brought on specifically because he was rigorous, methodical, and skeptical in exactly the right ways. Briggs needed someone who would not let enthusiasm corrupt the data. Sheila Park, a wildlife photographer with 15 years of experience shooting for natural history publications across the Canadian North, handled all visual documentation, including the expedition's VHS video camera, a Sony CCD-V90 that weighed about 3 kg and ran on rechargeable battery packs. The team flew into Telegraph Creek by commercial float plane from Prince George, then took a second float plane to a put-in point on the Stikine about 40 km upstream from the canyon entrance. From there, they ran the river downstream by inflatable raft, camping in the canyon and working in sections. Before entering the canyon, Briggs deliberately spent two days in Telegraph Creek speaking with people who knew the lower canyon. She met with two Tahltan elders, a former river guide named Bill Quack, and a retired Forest Service ranger who had spent three field seasons in the watershed during the 1970s. She didn't reveal the real