Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, has been recorded in annals from as early as 1000 A.D. by the Vikings in modern day Newfoundland, Canada, and their existence is supported by hundreds of published accounts over the past two centuries. Even with tens of thousands of reports, and an extensive collection of physical evidence, Scientists in general are skeptical to their existence.

My first sighting occured in 1959, when I was seven years old and several encounters followed throughout the next few decades. However August 2001 was the pivotal point in my life when a sasquatch crossed the road in front of me driving through the Canadian Rockies and I made the decision to find out all I could about these magnificent creatures.

In 2005, I started the Erickson Project. The objective was to conduct the first long term study that would once and for all, prove the existence of the Sasquatch. In order to do so I asked Dennis Pfohl and Leila Hadj-Chikh to join me, and we set out to try to awaken the scientific community, attempted to bring awareness to the general public, while silencing the armchair critics, and tried to vindicate the tens of thousands of witnesses who had been ridiculed for speaking out.

Expanding to more study sites in both the USA and Canada, the team eventually achieved greater success, and recording extensive video and audio evidence, as well as collecting a host of other physical evidence including footprints, hand prints, and hair. Initially we felt that with the mounting evidence we were collecting, the scientific community would soon embrace this evidence, and move towards recognition of the species. With the exception of a few scientists who visited the Erickson Project, this was not the case; as the evidence mounted, the bar was raised higher, and soon it appeared that only DNA would turn the tide.

After many attempts, we perfected methods that enabled us to collect saliva, blood, and hairs from several sasquatch. The mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA of these samples are presently being analysed.

-Adrian Erickson