You don’t say. The Montana sasquatch story was front page news the morning we left breathtaking Glacier National Park, concluding 8 days of camping, fishing, wildlife spotting and glacier hopping across stunningly beautiful British Columbia and Alberta in the Banff National Park area before descending back south to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) before slipping across the largest and coolest undefended border in the world back into northern Montana and Idaho. The sasquatch story was ironic for me given that just the night before I had lamented to my better half that according to BFRO’s site there are hardly any sasquatch sightings on record for that region and you’d think it’d be lousy with them, especially given that Glacier is home to the mysterious Montana Vortex.
Then there’s the fact that I often have said if I were going to hoax a bigfoot sighting I’d skip the ridiculously fake gorilla suit idea for a more squatch-accurate ghillie suit like this guy used. This man was clearly a thinker. Truly tragic when a genius like this is struck down in his prime. We have lost a great man. And now the story…
Sasquatch Stunt Takes a Tragic Turn
By JIM MANN/Daily Inter Lake, 8/27/12
A man dressed in a military-style “Ghillie suit” who was attempting to provoke a Bigfoot sighting was struck by two vehicles and killed on U.S. 93 south of Kalispell Sunday night.
“He was trying to make people think he was Sasquatch so people would call in a Sasquatch sighting,” Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider said. “You can’t make it up. I haven’t seen or heard of anything like this before. Obviously, his suit made it difficult for people to see him.”
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell.
Schneider said Tenley’s motivations were ascertained during interviews with friends who were not in the immediate area but were nearby when the man was struck at about 10:30 p.m.
“Alcohol may have been a factor,” Schneider said. “Impairment is up in the air.” CONT’D>>
2 quotes pulled from the orignal article’s comments section:
Nativebluesky posted at 1:34 pm on Mon, Aug 27, 2012.
Rest in Peace my friend. You will never be forgotten, nor will be the antics of an awesome friend. I will miss all the jokester pranks you pulled, it made you who you were, and that was a very special, individual person. You will be so missed here on earth and no convincing the man upstairs into more pranks. I will be watching for them and I will know where they originated. There are memories and non of them will be forgotten. God spead, until we meet again.
MT mom posted at 12:51 pm on Mon, Aug 27, 2012.
You know what this is my little 10 yr old brothers father. People really should keep their negative opinions to themselves. So what he was a jokster …that was HIM. As his family we are grieving his loss while u inconsiderate people joke.