The most abundant evidence for the existence of the sasquatch takes the form of eyewitness descriptions of an upright, bipedal hair-covered animal. There are literally thousands of these on file.

The value of such descriptions as evidence is increased when eyewitnesses attempt to draw what they have seen. In recent years I have been encouraging eyewitnesses to attempt such drawings whenever possible. Such drawings are helpful in showing physical features that are often not easy to describe. They have been particularly helpful in showing that we appear to be discussing the same species of animal throughout North America. A number of eyewitnesses and investigators have shared eyewitness drawings with me.
Some of these are arrayed below:

Credits:
A-from the field notebook of an un-named professional BC prospector who saw both tracks and the creature that made them on a mountainside overlooking Pitt Lake, BC, in June, 1965. (see John Green's The apes Among Us, p 425-426) (Courtesy the prospector who wishes to assist but remain anonymous)

B-Washington eyewitness Darin Richardson (June 8, 1991, nr Mineral lake, WA) Courtesy investigator Ray Crowe (editor of newsletter: The Track Record)

C-Alberta eyewitness Jim Smith and artist Robert Alley. Courtesy Thomas Steenburg (author of Sasquatch /Bigfoot:  The Continuing Mystery, Hancock House, 1993)

D-Ohio eyewitness Charles E. Fulton.(1/12/1980) Courtesy investigator Joedy Cook

E-Ontario eyewitness Desmond (Joe) Warren, Ottawa valley; Courtesy investigator Tim Yearington, Burnstown, Ontario.



The remarkable consistency of eyewitness reports and drawings across time and especially across geographical distance is indeed compelling. It really does appear that the same species of upright, human-shaped mammal has been observed by eyewitnesses of varying backgrounds, and circumstances in various states and provinces across western, midwestern, and central North America.(See Distribution page.)

The individual sasquatches observed and illustrated above may show such remarkable similarity in the eyewitness drawings because they may all be mature males as evidenced by the broad shoulders. Just as in many physically-active male human athletes (especially football players and weight-lifters) they show broad shoulders and a powerful, muscular physique.

Other sasquatches have been described as females based on the fact that breasts were visible or that they were carrying an infant. I only know of two eyewitness drawings that illustrate this. (Good copies of the Patterson film indicate the presence of breasts.)

Credits:
Above left-Drawing done by daughter of William Rowe on his instructions (not an eyewitnes drawing) based on his observations of the creature on Mica Mountain, BC in Oct, 1965

Above right- sketch by an unidentified observer in southeastern Alberta of a creature covered with dark reddish-brown fur, which waded through a cold stream in early winter of 1972.  (Tracks 15 inches long and seven inches wide with a stride length of 6 feet,  were observed nearby. Courtesy Leonard Edvardson and John Green.(see Apes Among Us, p. 240.)

Other observers have reported similar upright "creatures" covered in hair, approximately 7 feet in height, with no neck. But they lacked the broad shoulders of other eyewitness drawings and appeared to be more humanlike in their proportions. It appears that these may have been "teen-age" or subadult sasquatches.

A- drawing by Vancouver Island deer hunter Ken Berkley.
B- drawing by un-named eyewitness who encountered this sasquatch in 1967 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC
C-drawing by un-named deer hunter who saw the creature while deer hunting near Gypsumville, Manitoba. He watched it walk away through the telesopic sights of his rifle.
D-Painting by Ohio eyewitness (courtesy Don Keating)

Then there is the controversial creature filmed by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in

northern California in 1967.
Good copies of this film show that the upright mammal walking across a sandbar has a number of anatomical features which are not at all humanlike.
These include:

• the pointedness to the head (considered to be a sagittal crest, as seen in large male gorillas) (see the Washington eyewitness drawing -B above-and other reports)


• long arms (arms which are longer than legs are considered to be a characteristic of great apes, whereas legs which are longer than arms are considered to be a characteristic of humans.)

• exaggerated arm swing, compared with humans (possibly a manifestation that this species is less adept at bipedal [two-footed] walking than humans and uses its arms for balance like a human snowboarder.)


• turning entire upper body to look at the photographer rather than merely turning its head as a human might do. (Grover Krantz has explained that this is likely a function of great ape anatomy seen in gorillas, etc. The head is held low, drooping down in front of the shoulders and when the head turns the chin meets the front of the shoulders so that the shoulders themselves must turn if the creature is to see behind it. In humans the chin passes over top of the shoulders to look behind us and the shoulders can remain aligned almost straight ahead.


• the bent-knee gait of the creature is quite unhumanlike being fluid and graceful with its knee which never locks as in the human gait but which remains bent. This gait has been commented on by many other eyewitnesses who report that the gorilla-like creature they observed appeared to be "walking on air," or "walking on eggs," or that "its head did not bob up and down like a human's head does."


• The way the creature "picks up its feet" is exaggerated compared to most humans. This feature of its gait has shown up in sasquatch tracks in deep snow where is little "scuffing" as the foot in put down and lifted. (See final illustration on Bear page)