Patrick: The Sasquatch Hybrid

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

May 29, 2026 · 1h 3m

About this episode

The episode discusses a remarkable story about a Sasquatch-human hybrid named Patrick, based on research by Norman Sollie.

This episode comes out of a recent conversation I had with author and researcher Norman Sollie, and it stopped me cold. Norman is the author of a brand-new book called Before Patty, Volume One: Patrick, the Sasquatch-Human Hybrid and Our Genetic Inheritance, and when we sat down to talk, he walked me through one of the most remarkable stories I've come across in close to forty years on this subject. I knew I had to share it with you. This isn't the interview itself. This is me, sitting at the mic, telling you what I learned and why I think it matters.The story starts in the late summer of eighteen ninety-one, at a Sinixt fishing camp on the San Poil River in Eastern Washington. A young bride, newly married, went down to fetch water one evening and was taken from her own people by what the Lake Band called a Skanicum, their word for Sasquatch. She was held in the high country for two months. She escaped while her captor was sleeping in a wild potato patch. She came home pregnant. And nine months later she gave birth to a boy named Patrick.That's where most of us thought the story ended, because the original ethnographic record set down by Dr. Ed Fusch in nineteen ninety-two left…

People in this episode

Host: Backwoods Bigfoot Stories

Guest: Norman Sollie

Topics covered

Sasquatch
hybrid
genetic inheritance
historical documents
ethnography

Keywords

Sasquatch
hybrid
Patrick
Norman Sollie
historical documents
ethnography
genetic inheritance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Before Patty, Volume One: Patrick, the Sasquatch-Human Hybrid and Our Genetic Inheritance

Places: San Poil River, Eastern Washington