Fumi Kaneko in Giselle

An anonymous fan submitted this irresistible animation based on a recent well received post.

Sandpoint local Christine Kester never really thought much about Sasquatch until she saw three strange creatures while backpacking in the Mallard Larkins Primitive area in 2001.

The Mallard Larkins is perched in the headwaters of the St. Joe and Clearwater rivers. Kester and her companion were well into their journey, on a ridge above Heart Lake, when they looked down and saw two large figures and a dog—or a pet bear—“hanging around like a happy family” in a marshy part of the lake, Kester said. The two-legged figures were startled by the hikers on the ridge and started running.

“They were running like kids,” Kester recalled. “Their arms were out in front of them, and they were jumping over logs like they were nothing. I said, ‘Check out their dog. It’s a bear! And those people are all brown!’”

They disappeared in the trees, she said. “And we both looked at each other like, did this really happen? … To this day I regret we didn’t go down and look for footprints.”

Takrouna, Sousse, Tunisia.