Sasquatch Sighting near Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia (2007)

In September 2007, a hiker near Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia captured shaky video footage of what he claimed was a Sasquatch moving through dense forest on a mountainside across Harrison Lake. The footage, which circulated widely online, shows a dark, upright figure walking along a tree-covered slope at a distance of several hundred meters. Harrison Hot Springs, a resort community in the Fraser Valley about ninety miles east of Vancouver, sits at the heart of the Sasquatch homeland — the word 'Sasquatch' itself derives from the Halkomelem word 'sasq'ets' used by the Sts'ailes people of the region. The Harrison area has a long and deep history of Sasquatch encounters, with Indigenous oral traditions describing encounters with large, hairy wild men stretching back generations. The town has hosted an annual Sasquatch festival and has leaned into its cryptid heritage. While the 2007 video was ultimately inconclusive — the distance was too great for definitive identification — it reinforced the Harrison Hot Springs area's status as one of the most consistently active Sasquatch reporting zones in British Columbia. The Sts'ailes Nation has formally stated that the Sasquatch is a real being, not a myth, and that their people have lived alongside these creatures since time immemorial.