The Matilda Story | The Sleeping Sasquatch
Each of us at one time or another has heard a word or two about Matilda, the sleeping sasquatch, and the Erickson Project.
Realizing there is so much more to this story than a video of something "breathing" and a few photos of a Chewbacca look alike, I started looking around in an attempt to try to piece things together.
I think as a first step, perhaps we should get to know the "players". Trying to understand a person and his reasons for things can go far in attempting to see a larger picture than what was once before our eyes.
For those of you who were there and witnessed firsthand these events, or who may even have played a part in them, hopefully, you will take my attempts at reconstructing them in stride. I'm certain some of my interpretations of events and people will not agree with yours. I have tried to approach this from as many angles as I could discover; from both supporters and detractors; from believers to skeptics. And I'm certain I've missed many.
So for part one of this series, I will introduce the key player in this event: Adrian Erickson.
While still in high school, at age 16, he became a guide for hunters looking for moose. After graduating, he expanded that guiding and outfitting business into reclamation work for the oil and gas industry.
By age 26, he had turned in his gun for a bow. It was nothing for him to go into the wilderness and camp there alone, in all kinds of weather and conditions.
In 2001, near Jasper, something crossed his path. He admits he initially tried to dismiss it as a cow moose but knew in his heart that the "lumbering, hairy brown creature" was no moose. This appears to be when he took his first steps into investigating Sasquatch. Through the internet, he discovered the BFRO; examined the Patterson Film; and learned from John Green's records of encounters.
He signed up with BRFO as a researcher and began talking with those who were reporting encounters. This instilled the big question for him: "Why is the sasquatch shunned by science?"
In 2005, he turned that question into the Erickson Project, named the first multi-state field study of sasquatch in Canada and the United States with the goal to have it recognized as a species. "It is to vindicate the thousands of people who have been ridiculed."
He then hired two people for the project: Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh and Dennis Pfohl. Dennis Pfohl was named Project Manager, Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh Project Scientist and later on in the project Dr. Melba Ketchum and DNA Diagnostics Inc. were added for DNA testing.
The project ran from 2005 to 2010.
Pfohl is also an investigator for BFRO; in 2012 he became part of the Olympic Project team. He is also listed as taking part in the following: 2004 New Mexico Expedition (Mescalero {IR}), 2005 New Mexico Expedition (Mescalero), 2005 California Sierras Expedition, 2005/2008 Oklahoma exp., 2008 Texas Experiditon; organizer of the first Colorado BRFO expedition in 2006 and organized the 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and (non public) Colorado Expeditions.
She said in an email to the BFRO: "I was especially excited to be able to learn so much from other expedition members who have been doing this for some time." And: "I felt honored to have the opportunity to get some first-hand experience in investigating these animals with you."
She also wrote the forward for Dr. John Bindernagel's 2010 book: The Discovery of Sasquatch".
Her LinkedIn profile lists these degrees for her: PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University; a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Penn State; and a B.S. in Biology from Wilkes University. She currently works in non-sasquatch-related fields.
Her LinkedIn profile lists these degrees for her: PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University; a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Penn State; and a B.S. in Biology from Wilkes University. She currently works in non-sasquatch-related fields.
Tomorrow: The Erickson Project Part 2
Nancy
"I'll spark the thought; what you do with it is up to you."
"Those that know, need no further proof. Those that don't, should not demand it from others, but seek it for themselves."
[Please Note: Sadly Nancy passed away on the first of January, 2022. We will continue to honor her and her research by sharing her work. RIP Nancy. -Thomas]
"I'll spark the thought; what you do with it is up to you."
"Those that know, need no further proof. Those that don't, should not demand it from others, but seek it for themselves."
[Please Note: Sadly Nancy passed away on the first of January, 2022. We will continue to honor her and her research by sharing her work. RIP Nancy. -Thomas]
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