Dressed appropriately in my high rubber boots, 
I trod across the thin ice in the late spring, 
sure that the water was not deep.
Suddenly I plunged through the ice up to my thighs.

A sink hole had formed at the bottom of “Lake Westfall,” 
as the amused students called it from then on.

Perhaps it is still there, reappearing every spring. 
Beware!

The Sasquatch industry has revved up  a little in Norway House thanks to ongoing and recent media coverage. There are numerous websites devoted to all things Bigfoot. Some people are trying to make a little industry of what appears to be lacking substance! An interesting phenomenon of human behaviour.  The Yukon one turned out to be a Wood bison.

It should be fun, anyway. Maybe there will be cryptozoological adventure tours to the area, which could include people dressed in ape suits to startle and titillate visitors! My concern is that it could be a replacement for the authentic wihtiko stories about the cannibals who almost certainly existed here and there, as well as the psychotic individuals who believed they were actually turning into wihtikos. As the language is lost, so are too many of the pieces of folklore from the pre-European contact cultures.

Bigfoot Sighting in Norway House: Blog and Footprint Photos:   At dawn on Saturday, April 16, 2005, Bobby Clarke, a Manitoba ferryboat driver and Native of the Norway House Cree First Nation noticed something, a "big, black figure," "a massive creature" on the opposite bank of the Nelson River, about 300 meters away. Clarke videotaped what many say is a Sasquatch. Follow-up 2007 Sighting

A fluke encounter with a Bigfoot has changed a man's life.
 There's Something Out There: A Bigfoot Encounter
CTV Documentary Promo ~ March 31, 2007
 A CTV Original documentary examines how a fluke encounter with a Bigfoot has changed a man's life and a small Manitoba community.  In April 2005, ferry operator Bobby Clarke wrote a new chapter in the legend of the Bigfoot. His 40-second video of a mysterious image ignited speculation that it was in fact a genuine Bigfoot recording.  A publicity storm ensued, putting Bobby and the small community of Norway House at the forefront of the greatest cryptozoological mysteries of all time.  There's Something Out There: A Bigfoot Encounter is a production of Farpoint Films, in association with CTV.