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2024 AI-generated image of a sasquatch in the woods. bOB HOmer

From big oil to bigfoot

Adrian Erickson is hopeful his big ambitions of finding sasquatch will pan out.

In 2001, while hiking through Jasper, Alberta, Adrian Erickson encountered a sasquatch — a sighting that would mark his second encounter with the elusive creature. His first sighting, at age seven, happened on a hike with his father in the forests of Peace River.

by bOB HOmer | December 5, 2024

In an interview with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News in 2011 by his late son, Jason Erickson described his father as a stereotypical outdoorsman with rugged looks and a preference for hunting with a bow and arrow rather than a gun.

Adrian Erickson spent much of his life exploring Canada’s wilderness. From childhood, he honed survival skills alongside his father, learning to hunt and trap in the Alberta community of Hines Creek to help support his family.

After graduating from Hines Creek High School, Erickson successfully built businesses serving Alberta’s oil industry.

Following the 2001 sasquatch encounter, Erickson joined the Bigfoot Field Research Organization, interviewing witnesses across North America, later developing a documentary project originally called the Kentucky Project, and renamed the Erickson Project. His sasquatch research took him to Kentucky, where he claims to have captured video evidence of the creature.

Erickson ventured into real estate, filing a 2008 permit to develop a 3,300-acre subdivision in Anarchist Mountain, near Osoyoos, B.C., under the company Regal Ridge.

Between 2005 through 2008, Adrian Erickson donated to political parties, giving $2,650 to the BC Liberal Party and an additional $2,521.80 to the Conservative Party with his youngest son Ryan, both are listed as a principal officer of Regal Ridge.

However, by 2011, Erickson’s ventures faced setbacks. His production company struggled, and Regal Ridge began experiencing legal and financial challenges.

Provincial court records show since 2011, Erickson has been involved in multiple small claims cases, seven civil cases, and eight foreclosures related to the Regal Ridge development.

Facing multiple legal action, Erickson was forced to sell his stake in Regal Ridge. The subdivision is now under new management and renamed Osoyoos Mountain Estates.


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