Ep. 372 - Ken Walker Returns!

Ken Walker, a three-time world champion taxidermist and subject of the documentary Big Fur, returned to the show to share a dense, decades-long account of a Canadian trapper's violent encounters with Sasquatch in Alberta. Walker, who has since survived a near-fatal bout of COVID, open-heart surgery, and won a lottery, now lives part-time in Norway with a girlfriend he reconnected with after 35 years. But the core of the conversation was a detailed, secondhand narrative about a trapper who killed two Sasquatch, recovered their skulls, and then buried them—a story Walker has held for years and is now willing to discuss more openly.

The Trapper's Encounter and the Killing

Walker relayed a story from a trapper who worked a remote Alberta trap line for years. The trapper described a six-year acclimation period during which the local Sasquatch gradually accepted his presence, similar to how wolves adjust to a human in their territory. The critical incident occurred when the trapper checked his wolf snares and found a young Sasquatch caught in one, with the snare around its neck and one arm. The creature was "going ballistic" and screeching. When the trapper turned around, he saw what he described as a "huge werewolf" bearing down on him. He fired a .300 Winchester rifle, hitting the charging adult on the first shot, which spun it, and then continued shooting until it was dead