October 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Before trail cameras and documentaries, there were whispered tales of a giant who roamed the dark forests.
In this episode, Matt explores the true origins of the Bigfoot legend — from ancient Indigenous stories and 19th-century frontier encounters to the event that gave birth to the modern name “Bigfoot.”
You’ll hear about:
🪶 Native American legends of Sasq’ets and forest guardians
👣 Early miners and trappers who claimed to meet “wild giants”
🗞️ How a 1958 newspaper article changed everything
🌲 Why Bigfoot remains one of the most powerful symbols of mystery in the modern world Is Bigfoot a myth, a memory, or something still walking among us? 🎧 Listen, think, and decide for yourself. —
#Bigfoot #Sasquatch #ParanormalPodcast #CryptidLegends #DeepWoodsParanormal #BigfootHistory #MakingTheParanormalNormal
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In this episode, Matt explores the true origins of the Bigfoot legend — from ancient Indigenous stories and 19th-century frontier encounters to the event that gave birth to the modern name “Bigfoot.”
You’ll hear about:
🪶 Native American legends of Sasq’ets and forest guardians
👣 Early miners and trappers who claimed to meet “wild giants”
🗞️ How a 1958 newspaper article changed everything
🌲 Why Bigfoot remains one of the most powerful symbols of mystery in the modern world Is Bigfoot a myth, a memory, or something still walking among us? 🎧 Listen, think, and decide for yourself. —
#Bigfoot #Sasquatch #ParanormalPodcast #CryptidLegends #DeepWoodsParanormal #BigfootHistory #MakingTheParanormalNormal
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, hello, my paranormal peeps, and welcome back to another
Deep Bod's paranormal podcast. My name is Matt Harvey. I
am the founder and we investigator with Deep Woods Paranormal.
I'm also the host of the Deep Wits Paranormal podcast,
where we're making the paranormal normal. All right, guys, so
my question to you today is where did the Bigfoot
legend begin? And how did you become American's greatest mystery.
(00:29):
We're gonna trace Bigfoot story from ancient legends to modern investigation.
I invite everyone big of a believer, skeptics, curious and
explorers to just keep an open mind. So we're gonna
go back to the ancient roots of the wild man.
We're gonna start with the ancient roots of the wild man.
Then we're gonna go into the frontier encounters and early reports,
(00:52):
and then we're gonna basically go into the birth of
modern day Bigfoot, and then we'll go into the culture
and symbolism of today's big Foot. All right, So let's
start with indigenous stories from a long time ago before
it was called Bigfoot. So I have a lot of
different little clips here that I've looked at for generations
(01:13):
before the Bigfoot phenemen on. Many indigenous people across North
America have had their own stories, traditions, and names for
a largely hairy humanoid creature that inhabits the forests. These
stories are very widely by tribe, deflicting them as being
powerful and supernatural spirits, elusive wild people, or sometimes as relatives,
(01:38):
so like some kind of human. So the Pacific Northwest
is the original name for sasquatch and it's home to
many many stories about these big beings. So the first
the first nations, the term Sasquatch comes from I'll come on,
(01:58):
I'll come on ward, meaning wild man or hairy man.
The people believe that the Sasquatches had the ability to
move between physical and spiritual worlds, and its protective and
a protective entity. So there's a lot of people that
think that they can travel from place to place through
portals or other things, or they can disappear and reappear,
(02:22):
or they can cloak. So this kind of makes sense.
It kind of goes towards that belief if you're into that.
So other stories tell of the Buckhouse, the wild man
of the woods, and another does Agwa, a hairy forest
dwelling female giant. It's a supernatural figure who can steal
(02:45):
the souls of lost humans and trap them in the underworld.
It's a it's a cannibalistic creature who kidnaps children, but
is also known for bringing wealth. Okay, So in the
coastal Salash tribes, many tribes, including the Lumini, have passed
down tales of the Sasquatch for centuries. The creature is
(03:08):
often viewed as a sense of relevance and mystique. Okay,
and the Mulk show Mulk Shoot tribe Tribal members have
cautioned against speaking of the Sasquatch or it might be
drawn to you. They describe it as a human like,
furry colored creature known to steal fish and women. Another
(03:31):
story tells of a Slipu, a hairy child stealing aggress interesting.
So again, when I was growing up, you know, nobody
really believed in Bigfoot, and then most of the people
told me that Bigfoot was just basically, you know, a
(03:51):
story to basically get kids in, you know, in at
night from playing in the forest. So that's kind of
how I grew up on believing that. I always thought
that they were just some kind of myth or folklore
that was just out there to scare kids out of
the forest, right. So it wasn't until I had my
first big based setting that I actually believed or became
(04:13):
a knowwherre if you will, into you know, basically, And
then I got into starting to research these things. And
the more I've researched, the more curious and the more
strange it gets, and the more I just want to
do more. I want to learn more about them. So,
indigenous legends of wild people are not limited to the
(04:35):
Pacific Northwest and are found in traditions throughout North America.
The Tully River Indian tribe the Creation tale, the Creation
Tale of the Yukout people includes the hairy man who
is a gatekeeper of the spiritual world. Ancient pictographs on
(04:55):
the Tully River Indian Reservation, estimated between eighteen hundred in
three thousand years old, depict an eight foot tall figure. Okay,
so the Lakota Indians know the creature as Chai tey tech.
I'm probably mispronouncing this. Bear with me. I'm really dealing
with sinus issues or bigger elder brother and their tradition
(05:20):
encountering a Sasquatch has considered there a spiritual gift that
brings special messages. That's pretty interesting. The obi Wa people
have a word for a similar creature, sabe, which I've
heard people call it a sab, which is used as
a symbol of or honesty. The Spokane tribe. This tribe
(05:41):
has a long told of a race of giants who
live in the mountains. Their story features common elements also
found in a modern bigfoot tales, such as creatures whispering
to each other and throwing rocks. Okay, so this is interesting.
Near Alaska, Alaska native groups. Many of these tale These
(06:02):
communities have traditions of a hairy man described a large
of exclusive and nocturnal figure. Some stories from Yukon River
Regent mentioned the creature making their territory with upside down
marking their their territory with upside down tree roots. So,
if you're listening to this and you're listening to bigfoot
behavior from you know, coming back from all these stories
(06:26):
from these tribes, a lot of it makes sense with
modern day stuff. I mean upside down trees, screams, throwing rocks,
whistling in each other, stuff like that. I mean all
that stuff that I've heard, and I know a lot
of other bigfoot researchers out there have experienced. So anyways, Yeah,
(06:51):
this is very interesting because the more you look back
at the history and you're trying to compare old stories,
the more things kind of align with what going on
now with the research. Now, it's interesting that eighteen hundred
to two thousand years ago, three thousand years ago, these
they're having the same exact experiences all as people are
(07:13):
in the you know, twenty twenty five, three thousand years later.
All right, so let's go over to similar myths worldwide.
You got the Yeti, the Yawi, the almost basically, you know,
you've got all kinds of different creatures. I don't think
there's a continent on this planet that doesn't have some
(07:35):
kind of bigfoot like creature. So the legends of large bipedal,
hairy humanoids like the Yeti, the Yawi and almost exists worldwide,
suggesting a universal archetype k archetype representing humanity it's connection
to the primal world. These stories tappen to deep sea
did human themes such as the mystery of the wild
(07:59):
men who the and the fringes of civilization, bridging the
gap between humans and animal kingdom. So what's interesting about this, uh,
the consistency presence of the human uh, the very humanoid
across the global focal are points towards a powerful university
(08:19):
universal archetype meaning basically similar. I mean, if you look
at humans, we are similar, but we're different. We're different shapes,
different sizes, different colors, different heights and stuff like that.
And uh, you know, Bigfoots could be similar. I mean
(08:40):
if if we really did come up from primates. The
more you look at primates, the more they kind of,
you know, we have may have evolved from them, The
more we kind of look like into the bigfoot theories,
the more they kind of all kind of matt You know,
(09:00):
if you look at primates now, a lot of the
behaviors they have bigfoots have. So let me continue to
read this to you. The wominal elemental figure this creates, Uh,
this creature exists at the boundary between nature and civilization,
(09:20):
animal and human that represents the untamed wild that modern
humans have left behind, acting as a link to more
of a primate past. The projection of humanity, fears and anxieties,
as Carl Jung theorized, archetypes reside in the collective unconscious,
(09:43):
the very humanoid, often in Boyah gosh, I can't talk today,
and bodies humanity's fears of our own animalistic and savage nature,
a dark reflection on ourselves, ourselves now we fear losing
control over. Basically, what he's saying is that basically, if
you took the humanity kind of out of us, we
(10:05):
might be more like a gorilla or other animal with
more primal instinct that basically would make us more animal
like instead of civilized. Okay, unknown and mysterious. As humanity
(10:26):
is settled, so the world expands. As humanity settled world expands,
these key creatures reside into the most resort places, remote
places on Earth, such as snowy mountains and vast wildernesses.
They symbolize the mysterious, unchanted territories that still exist beyond
(10:47):
the reach of modern society, a cautionary tale. Like many
other mystical creatures mythological creatures, these humanoids may serve as
a social function. As a cautionary tale, they represent what
can happen when humanity so it comes to their base
instincts and abandons the rules of society. So what they're
(11:09):
saying there is basically, if you took a human and
basically dropped them out in the woods, they would become
more animal like, and they might become a little bit
more bigfoot like if you will. They would have to hunt.
You have to go back to hunting and building primitive
shelters and learning how to use rocks to you know,
(11:31):
make tools and stuff like that. It's kind of looking
back at human history, if you will, and showing how
we kind of evolved and saying that maybe Bigfoot just
hasn't evolved as much as us in this point. You know,
like I said, if we kind of split off from
them and they are some kind of humanoid creature, and
(11:54):
again take all this with a grain of salt. This
is all just theory at this point. Theasically there's you know,
there could be they could be the missing link, if
you will. I don't think they are. I think there's
some kind of humanoid preacher that basically maybe never evolved
past what they have, or maybe they still are evolving.
(12:17):
Who knows, Maybe they're getting smarter, maybe they're learning how
to you know, basically maybe seeing what we look like
and what we do. And if she was chosen not
to evolve past where they are you just never know. Anyways,
let's continue on with the research here. So frontier encounters
and early reports of Bigfoot in America. Well, the term
(12:42):
bigfoot is modern invention. Stories of large harry ape like
humanoids in North America precede a European colonization, meaning when
basically they moved, they came across the seas from from
Europe and stuff like that, and begain colonized here, the
indigenous people basically continued to have experiences with them, So
(13:06):
indigenous legends of front air Frontier era settled accounts describe
encounters with creatures now associated with Bigfoot or Sasquatch. For
centuries before Europeans arrived, Native American tribes passed down stories
of wild men in their oral traditions, often referring to
them by names of translating to hairy man or wild man.
(13:30):
These beings were seen in diverse ways, from spiritual entities
to early earthly creatures, so some of the tribes saw
them as guardians, including the First Nations, and then that's
basically where the term sasquatch derives from. Tradition view the
(13:52):
Sasquatch as a deeply respected spiritual entity and guardian of
the forest. Indigenous people of Oregon also tell the wild
wild men who looked near their villages, and other traditions
call them monsters until of malevant the malevolent beings with
the Lumini people of Washington State, for example, to large
(14:15):
bipedal stalkers who would have abduct misbehaving children, and then
basically the other colonies basically shared stories of giant, cannibalistic
stone giants. So there's old ancient rock paintings pictographs on
the Chilly River and the Indian Reservation in California, and
(14:38):
they're believed to be depicted of a family of sasquatch.
The paintings potentially one thousand years old, nature, hairyman and
our key part of the local Ucots tribal folklore. So
let's get into the early European settlers here. As European
settlers moved westwards, their stories often echoed existing in dingerous
(15:01):
folklore throughout usual unusual, sorry show, let me try that again.
As European settlers moved westward, their stories often echoed existing
indigenous folklore through usually with less spiritual context, more focused
on fear and hunting. Okay, So let's talk about Daniel Boone.
(15:26):
He does have a forest named after him out here,
and according to family tradition the legend of the Frontiersmen
claimed to have killed a ten foot tall hairy giant
called the Yahoo late in his life. The name may
be referenced to the monsters humanoids of the from Culver's Travels,
(15:46):
or variation of Cherokee term of the hairy giant eho.
So slippery skin skine. Okay, So settlers in northern Vermont
in the seventeen hundred smoke of a book of a
slippery skinne a bear like creature that walked on two
(16:06):
or four legs, was known for throwing rocks and was
impossible to trap. Okay, So let's kind of look at
that for a second here. So bigfoots are known to
do the like the bear crawl. They do walk on
all fours. I've seen it many times. And they also,
(16:26):
you know again, I've been known for throwing rocks. This
goes back to the seventeen hundreds. So, I mean people
have been reporting them throwing rocks at them and walking
on all fours for what three over three hundred years.
So now we're tracking this behavior all the way back
three hundred year, three hundred plus years, so that's pretty interesting.
(16:49):
In the nineteenth century Arkansas wild Man in eighteen fifty one,
a newspaper reports in eighteen fifty one described two hunters
in green Care, Alaska, Arkansas. Excuse me, we saw a
creature of gigantic stature. The body was being covered with hair.
(17:10):
The body being covered with hair, chasing cattle. The wild
man was seeing leaping up to fourteen feet at a time.
That's crazy. I've actually seen a bigfoot jump a creek
that was probably about thirteen fourteen feet wide, but that
bigfoot was probably twelve feet tall. Just a big, black,
(17:35):
hairy beast. Essentially, just imagine a giant eight basically running
on two feet and then just basically being able to
jump really far. Okay, so let's keep going with this.
The Wildman of California eighteen seven eighteen seventy east of
San Jose, newspapers documented the sighting of a hairy guerrilla
(17:58):
roaming the Diabulo out in Range, and then Theodore Roosevelt
in eighteen eighty in his book of the Wilderness Hunter,
Roosevelt wrote of a frightening encounter in Washington State, which
he heard strange and unselling noises that he could not identify,
which is strange. So okay, he actually didn't have actual sighting,
but he heard a bunch of strange noises that he
(18:19):
could identify. And Roosevelt was an avid hunter, so he
would know the noises in the actual forest. Okay. So
the capture of Jacko in eighteen eighty four of a
much disputed report from Yale, British Columbia, claims that a
train crew caraptured a gorilla like creature they named Jacko.
(18:41):
It was said to be about four feet seven inches
tall and weighing one hundred and twenty seven pounds, but
it later disappeared while being transported. Huh. Scratch in your head,
and you're like, okay, that's a little strange the one
that got away, right, Okay, And that's probably a juvenile
that point. I mean, if it's only four feet seven
(19:02):
feet tall and all one hundred twenty five pounds, I
mean that must have met a baby Bigfoot. Okay. So
twentieth century in the rise of Bigfoot. So the legend
gained further traction and its modern name in the twentieth century,
particularly in the Northern Pacific. So the Ape kingan incident
of nineteen twenty four miners on Mount Saint Helens, and
(19:24):
if you know anything about Mount Saint Helens, there's you know,
when erupted. Supposedly there was a bunch of dead bigfoot
bodies found and they basically made it disappear, big brother.
But people have been claiming to see bigfoots up there
for a long time anyways, So miners on Mount Saint
Helens and Washington claimed to have been attacked by a
(19:46):
group of large ape like creatures that threw boulders at
their cabin. This while, this while, they reported story significantly
fueled the legend. Blah, bear with me, guys on it
really battling sentences right now. So the term bigfoot nineteen
fifty eight. The modern term was coined in nineteen fifty
(20:07):
eight after a large, unidentifi footprints were found in the
Humboldt County, California and publicized by the Humboldt County Times. Okay,
so let's keep going with this. So after logging after
logging company employee Jerry Crwe found a set of enormous
(20:28):
men like sixteen inch footprints in the mud at Bluff Creek, California.
Vincent received national media attention and unpopularized by the name
Bigfoot by the mysterious creature. So here's the details. The
initial fines nineteen fifty eight. Crew was working as a
(20:48):
bulldozer operator for the Wallace Brothers Logging Company near Bluff
Creek in northern California when he found strange tracks. Widespread
rumors Cruse discovered the crewis discovery prompted other loggers to
share their stories of huge tracks they also found along
(21:09):
unexplained along with unexplained events like one hundred and fifty
pounds oil drums being unexped unexplicitly moved. Oh my gosh,
I am really struggling. I bear with me, guys, I
can't even talk the name, the name? Where did the
name come from? The crew and his co workers began
(21:30):
calling the creature Bigfoot and named the gained Traction after
the local journalist. Andrew Gazansi of the Humboldt Times picked
up the story. The evidence crew made a plaster casting
of the tracks and brought them to the newspaper office.
(21:50):
A photo of him holding one of the castings was
publicized in the October nineteen fifty eight, and the story
that was picked up on the news outlets. All let's
nation widescuse you for a second, excuse me? All right.
Decades later, the incident was revealed to be a hoax,
(22:10):
but by then the legend was already firmly established. And
I guess in Ray Wallace's confession in twenty twenty two,
I'm sorry. Twenty two thousand and two, after the death
of logging company owner Ray Wallace, his family claimed that
they had carved the wooden feet using and news to
meet the prince. I guess they The family had a
(22:35):
history of making pranks. Wallace's family stated that the giant
foot prints originally intended it as a joke, and that
he was to embarrass to embarrassed to reveal the truth.
After this regained so much attention, so the debate continues.
The Wallace family relevation did not completely end the belief
(22:56):
in Bigfoot, as some enthusiasts continue to search for the
roof of its existence. All right, So Bigfoot tracks are
often found in Bigfoot hot spots. I mean they faked them,
but I mean, if you look back at the history
these things, these footprints have been seen well before that happened.
(23:18):
You know, they're probably just looking for some attention, trying
to maybe get some new accounts or whatever, and so
they basically just wanted to, you know, make a name
for themselves. I mean found I found twenty two inch footprints.
I mean I was thirteen wide, and I put my
foot next to this, and it's like half the footprint
(23:39):
almost and my foot looks like a little kid's foot
next to it, and a clear print. Unfortunately, it was
sitting in some water. There's some water in the bottom
of it, and if I put some plaster casting in it,
it would never have dried. And so it just wasn't
a good time to do it. But I've found tons
(23:59):
of prints. I have one that broke on me that
was about eighteen inches and about ten inches wide. So footprints,
you know, there's lots of people out there with blaster
castings of unknown footprints out there. I don't believe that
they're all faking stuff. I mean there are fake footprints.
(24:20):
I mean people unfortunately do that, unfortunately just to get attention,
or just to mess with people, or just to basically
hurt the actual research of these things. But anyways, so
we talked about that, Okay. So basically, back in the
(24:42):
nineteen sixties and seventies, TV shows, documentary, tabloid tabloid covers,
and toy lines. In search of episodes and stuff and popularity,
I started using the big Foot, you know, just basically
to get attention. I guess it became pulk pulp culture icon,
and Bigfoot was basically born basically just you know, I
(25:08):
guess there was a lot of toys. I mean, look
at Chebacca from Star Wars. He was supposed to be
a Bigfoot. And you know, as more and more people
got interested in the subject back in the sixties and
seventies and eighties, bigfoot research was really kind of born,
and people started going out researching these things looking for them.
(25:28):
And as they've done the research over the years of
the last forty to fifty years, sixty years now, Bigfoot's
really kind of come to life. I mean, And whether
you're a believer skeptic, go excuse me, guys, I apologize
a believer skeptic or you know, you're on the fence
(25:49):
or whatever it's. You know, the decision is up to you.
I always say, if you know, don't expect anyone to
believe in Bigfoot until they've really gone out and done
their own research, and that goes with anything paranormal. But
once you've experienced one of these things, I mean, I've
seen them so many times. I've had so many encounters
with them. I mean, I'm up probably fifty sixty encounters
(26:12):
at least where I could say that couldn't be fanals
but a Bigfoot. And especially when I was at researching
black Star Canyon day night, you know, middle of the afternoon,
they would just show themselves to me. They felt comfortable
with me until I screwed up and crossed an imaginary line,
that boundary with them where I left trel cams down
(26:33):
and I caught them on camera. But you know, I've
learned that you've got to be really careful because they're
they're they allow you to come into their territories to
a certain amount, and then you know, it's kind of
like Jane Goodall had to when she first found the
Mountain Girl, as she had to kind of take her time.
It took her what ten years to really kind of
(26:55):
get to establish herself with them and to build a
relationship with them and stuff like that. You know, there's
a lot of people out there afraid of bigfoot, and
I understand that there's hostile beat you know, there's hostile
bigfoots out there, but there's also family groups. If you
can find a family group and you can start to
build a relationship with them and start to gift and
(27:19):
to you know, build that relationship, you can do all
kinds of cool things with them. They will become friendly
and social with you, and they won't be afraid to
show themselves to you and stuff like that. I mean,
I imagine leaving something for something, you know, something that's
supposed to not exist, and getting something cool back, like
(27:42):
a you know, a wooden cross where it's been all
twisted around, or you find symbols on the ground, or
you find a teepee, or you find a tree structure,
or they leave you you know, something else and stuff
like that. I mean, it's just really cool that they
can do that, all right. So, you know, could these
(28:05):
ancient memories of real homonides like jack Annipith I guess
have inspired these stories or are they just physicological archetypes
with a wild man within? You know? What are these things?
You know, really, you guys really have to answer your
own questions on this. Have you ever seen a bigfoot
(28:27):
you know? Have you ever seen one disappear? Have you
ever seen one? Go through a portal? I don't know.
You can basically go through and share your stories down below.
Please feel free to again on this channel. There's no judgment.
We don't want anybody being mean in the comments. But
(28:48):
like I said, if you if you had it, you've
had an encounter. We love to hear about it. If
you love to be a guest, like to be a
guest on here, We'd love to hear from you. And
have you shared your story? Who can be? You can
be anonymous if you want to. But you know, the
more stories that come out, the more people that kind
of come out and tell their stories, the more we're
(29:09):
shedding light on this subject, and the closer we are
to getting to the bottom of what this really is.
What they are? Are they some kind of you know,
paranormal creature. Are they some kind of guardian in the forest.
Are they a you know, spirit of some sort? Are
(29:30):
they indimensional of the beings? Are they just like an
ape like creature that lives in the woods. Are they
some kind of human relative that is just unknown at
this point, or that big brother doesn't want us to
know about right, all right, So you know, are the
ancient legends? You know, I don't know the story. The
(29:52):
folklore of Bigfoot continues, you know, whether you think it's
a myth, a memory, a legend, just folklore, or something
that's designed to keep kids out of the forest, let
us know and we'll love to hear from you, guys.
So again, comment down below and we'd love to hear
(30:13):
from you and we will catch you, guys on the
next one.
Well, hello, my paranormal peeps, and welcome back to another
Deep Bod's paranormal podcast. My name is Matt Harvey. I
am the founder and we investigator with Deep Woods Paranormal.
I'm also the host of the Deep Wits Paranormal podcast,
where we're making the paranormal normal. All right, guys, so
my question to you today is where did the Bigfoot
legend begin? And how did you become American's greatest mystery.
(00:29):
We're gonna trace Bigfoot story from ancient legends to modern investigation.
I invite everyone big of a believer, skeptics, curious and
explorers to just keep an open mind. So we're gonna
go back to the ancient roots of the wild man.
We're gonna start with the ancient roots of the wild man.
Then we're gonna go into the frontier encounters and early reports,
(00:52):
and then we're gonna basically go into the birth of
modern day Bigfoot, and then we'll go into the culture
and symbolism of today's big Foot. All right, So let's
start with indigenous stories from a long time ago before
it was called Bigfoot. So I have a lot of
different little clips here that I've looked at for generations
(01:13):
before the Bigfoot phenemen on. Many indigenous people across North
America have had their own stories, traditions, and names for
a largely hairy humanoid creature that inhabits the forests. These
stories are very widely by tribe, deflicting them as being
powerful and supernatural spirits, elusive wild people, or sometimes as relatives,
(01:38):
so like some kind of human. So the Pacific Northwest
is the original name for sasquatch and it's home to
many many stories about these big beings. So the first
the first nations, the term Sasquatch comes from I'll come on,
(01:58):
I'll come on ward, meaning wild man or hairy man.
The people believe that the Sasquatches had the ability to
move between physical and spiritual worlds, and its protective and
a protective entity. So there's a lot of people that
think that they can travel from place to place through
portals or other things, or they can disappear and reappear,
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or they can cloak. So this kind of makes sense.
It kind of goes towards that belief if you're into that.
So other stories tell of the Buckhouse, the wild man
of the woods, and another does Agwa, a hairy forest
dwelling female giant. It's a supernatural figure who can steal
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the souls of lost humans and trap them in the underworld.
It's a it's a cannibalistic creature who kidnaps children, but
is also known for bringing wealth. Okay, So in the
coastal Salash tribes, many tribes, including the Lumini, have passed
down tales of the Sasquatch for centuries. The creature is
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often viewed as a sense of relevance and mystique. Okay,
and the Mulk show Mulk Shoot tribe Tribal members have
cautioned against speaking of the Sasquatch or it might be
drawn to you. They describe it as a human like,
furry colored creature known to steal fish and women. Another
(03:31):
story tells of a Slipu, a hairy child stealing aggress interesting.
So again, when I was growing up, you know, nobody
really believed in Bigfoot, and then most of the people
told me that Bigfoot was just basically, you know, a
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story to basically get kids in, you know, in at
night from playing in the forest. So that's kind of
how I grew up on believing that. I always thought
that they were just some kind of myth or folklore
that was just out there to scare kids out of
the forest, right. So it wasn't until I had my
first big based setting that I actually believed or became
(04:13):
a knowwherre if you will, into you know, basically, And
then I got into starting to research these things. And
the more I've researched, the more curious and the more
strange it gets, and the more I just want to
do more. I want to learn more about them. So,
indigenous legends of wild people are not limited to the
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Pacific Northwest and are found in traditions throughout North America.
The Tully River Indian tribe the Creation tale, the Creation
Tale of the Yukout people includes the hairy man who
is a gatekeeper of the spiritual world. Ancient pictographs on
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the Tully River Indian Reservation, estimated between eighteen hundred in
three thousand years old, depict an eight foot tall figure. Okay,
so the Lakota Indians know the creature as Chai tey tech.
I'm probably mispronouncing this. Bear with me. I'm really dealing
with sinus issues or bigger elder brother and their tradition
(05:20):
encountering a Sasquatch has considered there a spiritual gift that
brings special messages. That's pretty interesting. The obi Wa people
have a word for a similar creature, sabe, which I've
heard people call it a sab, which is used as
a symbol of or honesty. The Spokane tribe. This tribe
(05:41):
has a long told of a race of giants who
live in the mountains. Their story features common elements also
found in a modern bigfoot tales, such as creatures whispering
to each other and throwing rocks. Okay, so this is interesting.
Near Alaska, Alaska native groups. Many of these tale These
(06:02):
communities have traditions of a hairy man described a large
of exclusive and nocturnal figure. Some stories from Yukon River
Regent mentioned the creature making their territory with upside down
marking their their territory with upside down tree roots. So,
if you're listening to this and you're listening to bigfoot
behavior from you know, coming back from all these stories
(06:26):
from these tribes, a lot of it makes sense with
modern day stuff. I mean upside down trees, screams, throwing rocks,
whistling in each other, stuff like that. I mean all
that stuff that I've heard, and I know a lot
of other bigfoot researchers out there have experienced. So anyways, Yeah,
(06:51):
this is very interesting because the more you look back
at the history and you're trying to compare old stories,
the more things kind of align with what going on
now with the research. Now, it's interesting that eighteen hundred
to two thousand years ago, three thousand years ago, these
they're having the same exact experiences all as people are
(07:13):
in the you know, twenty twenty five, three thousand years later.
All right, so let's go over to similar myths worldwide.
You got the Yeti, the Yawi, the almost basically, you know,
you've got all kinds of different creatures. I don't think
there's a continent on this planet that doesn't have some
(07:35):
kind of bigfoot like creature. So the legends of large bipedal,
hairy humanoids like the Yeti, the Yawi and almost exists worldwide,
suggesting a universal archetype k archetype representing humanity it's connection
to the primal world. These stories tappen to deep sea
did human themes such as the mystery of the wild
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men who the and the fringes of civilization, bridging the
gap between humans and animal kingdom. So what's interesting about this, uh,
the consistency presence of the human uh, the very humanoid
across the global focal are points towards a powerful university
(08:19):
universal archetype meaning basically similar. I mean, if you look
at humans, we are similar, but we're different. We're different shapes,
different sizes, different colors, different heights and stuff like that.
And uh, you know, Bigfoots could be similar. I mean
(08:40):
if if we really did come up from primates. The
more you look at primates, the more they kind of,
you know, we have may have evolved from them, The
more we kind of look like into the bigfoot theories,
the more they kind of all kind of matt You know,
(09:00):
if you look at primates now, a lot of the
behaviors they have bigfoots have. So let me continue to
read this to you. The wominal elemental figure this creates, Uh,
this creature exists at the boundary between nature and civilization,
(09:20):
animal and human that represents the untamed wild that modern
humans have left behind, acting as a link to more
of a primate past. The projection of humanity, fears and anxieties,
as Carl Jung theorized, archetypes reside in the collective unconscious,
(09:43):
the very humanoid, often in Boyah gosh, I can't talk today,
and bodies humanity's fears of our own animalistic and savage nature,
a dark reflection on ourselves, ourselves now we fear losing
control over. Basically, what he's saying is that basically, if
you took the humanity kind of out of us, we
(10:05):
might be more like a gorilla or other animal with
more primal instinct that basically would make us more animal
like instead of civilized. Okay, unknown and mysterious. As humanity
(10:26):
is settled, so the world expands. As humanity settled world expands,
these key creatures reside into the most resort places, remote
places on Earth, such as snowy mountains and vast wildernesses.
They symbolize the mysterious, unchanted territories that still exist beyond
(10:47):
the reach of modern society, a cautionary tale. Like many
other mystical creatures mythological creatures, these humanoids may serve as
a social function. As a cautionary tale, they represent what
can happen when humanity so it comes to their base
instincts and abandons the rules of society. So what they're
(11:09):
saying there is basically, if you took a human and
basically dropped them out in the woods, they would become
more animal like, and they might become a little bit
more bigfoot like if you will. They would have to hunt.
You have to go back to hunting and building primitive
shelters and learning how to use rocks to you know,
(11:31):
make tools and stuff like that. It's kind of looking
back at human history, if you will, and showing how
we kind of evolved and saying that maybe Bigfoot just
hasn't evolved as much as us in this point. You know,
like I said, if we kind of split off from
them and they are some kind of humanoid creature, and
(11:54):
again take all this with a grain of salt. This
is all just theory at this point. Theasically there's you know,
there could be they could be the missing link, if
you will. I don't think they are. I think there's
some kind of humanoid preacher that basically maybe never evolved
past what they have, or maybe they still are evolving.
(12:17):
Who knows, Maybe they're getting smarter, maybe they're learning how
to you know, basically maybe seeing what we look like
and what we do. And if she was chosen not
to evolve past where they are you just never know. Anyways,
let's continue on with the research here. So frontier encounters
and early reports of Bigfoot in America. Well, the term
(12:42):
bigfoot is modern invention. Stories of large harry ape like
humanoids in North America precede a European colonization, meaning when
basically they moved, they came across the seas from from
Europe and stuff like that, and begain colonized here, the
indigenous people basically continued to have experiences with them, So
(13:06):
indigenous legends of front air Frontier era settled accounts describe
encounters with creatures now associated with Bigfoot or Sasquatch. For
centuries before Europeans arrived, Native American tribes passed down stories
of wild men in their oral traditions, often referring to
them by names of translating to hairy man or wild man.
(13:30):
These beings were seen in diverse ways, from spiritual entities
to early earthly creatures, so some of the tribes saw
them as guardians, including the First Nations, and then that's
basically where the term sasquatch derives from. Tradition view the
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Sasquatch as a deeply respected spiritual entity and guardian of
the forest. Indigenous people of Oregon also tell the wild
wild men who looked near their villages, and other traditions
call them monsters until of malevant the malevolent beings with
the Lumini people of Washington State, for example, to large
(14:15):
bipedal stalkers who would have abduct misbehaving children, and then
basically the other colonies basically shared stories of giant, cannibalistic
stone giants. So there's old ancient rock paintings pictographs on
the Chilly River and the Indian Reservation in California, and
(14:38):
they're believed to be depicted of a family of sasquatch.
The paintings potentially one thousand years old, nature, hairyman and
our key part of the local Ucots tribal folklore. So
let's get into the early European settlers here. As European
settlers moved westwards, their stories often echoed existing in dingerous
(15:01):
folklore throughout usual unusual, sorry show, let me try that again.
As European settlers moved westward, their stories often echoed existing
indigenous folklore through usually with less spiritual context, more focused
on fear and hunting. Okay, So let's talk about Daniel Boone.
(15:26):
He does have a forest named after him out here,
and according to family tradition the legend of the Frontiersmen
claimed to have killed a ten foot tall hairy giant
called the Yahoo late in his life. The name may
be referenced to the monsters humanoids of the from Culver's Travels,
(15:46):
or variation of Cherokee term of the hairy giant eho.
So slippery skin skine. Okay, So settlers in northern Vermont
in the seventeen hundred smoke of a book of a
slippery skinne a bear like creature that walked on two
(16:06):
or four legs, was known for throwing rocks and was
impossible to trap. Okay, So let's kind of look at
that for a second here. So bigfoots are known to
do the like the bear crawl. They do walk on
all fours. I've seen it many times. And they also,
(16:26):
you know again, I've been known for throwing rocks. This
goes back to the seventeen hundreds. So, I mean people
have been reporting them throwing rocks at them and walking
on all fours for what three over three hundred years.
So now we're tracking this behavior all the way back
three hundred year, three hundred plus years, so that's pretty interesting.
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In the nineteenth century Arkansas wild Man in eighteen fifty one,
a newspaper reports in eighteen fifty one described two hunters
in green Care, Alaska, Arkansas. Excuse me, we saw a
creature of gigantic stature. The body was being covered with hair.
(17:10):
The body being covered with hair, chasing cattle. The wild
man was seeing leaping up to fourteen feet at a time.
That's crazy. I've actually seen a bigfoot jump a creek
that was probably about thirteen fourteen feet wide, but that
bigfoot was probably twelve feet tall. Just a big, black,
(17:35):
hairy beast. Essentially, just imagine a giant eight basically running
on two feet and then just basically being able to
jump really far. Okay, so let's keep going with this.
The Wildman of California eighteen seven eighteen seventy east of
San Jose, newspapers documented the sighting of a hairy guerrilla
(17:58):
roaming the Diabulo out in Range, and then Theodore Roosevelt
in eighteen eighty in his book of the Wilderness Hunter,
Roosevelt wrote of a frightening encounter in Washington State, which
he heard strange and unselling noises that he could not identify,
which is strange. So okay, he actually didn't have actual sighting,
but he heard a bunch of strange noises that he
(18:19):
could identify. And Roosevelt was an avid hunter, so he
would know the noises in the actual forest. Okay. So
the capture of Jacko in eighteen eighty four of a
much disputed report from Yale, British Columbia, claims that a
train crew caraptured a gorilla like creature they named Jacko.
(18:41):
It was said to be about four feet seven inches
tall and weighing one hundred and twenty seven pounds, but
it later disappeared while being transported. Huh. Scratch in your head,
and you're like, okay, that's a little strange the one
that got away, right, Okay, And that's probably a juvenile
that point. I mean, if it's only four feet seven
(19:02):
feet tall and all one hundred twenty five pounds, I
mean that must have met a baby Bigfoot. Okay. So
twentieth century in the rise of Bigfoot. So the legend
gained further traction and its modern name in the twentieth century,
particularly in the Northern Pacific. So the Ape kingan incident
of nineteen twenty four miners on Mount Saint Helens, and
(19:24):
if you know anything about Mount Saint Helens, there's you know,
when erupted. Supposedly there was a bunch of dead bigfoot
bodies found and they basically made it disappear, big brother.
But people have been claiming to see bigfoots up there
for a long time anyways, So miners on Mount Saint
Helens and Washington claimed to have been attacked by a
(19:46):
group of large ape like creatures that threw boulders at
their cabin. This while, this while, they reported story significantly
fueled the legend. Blah, bear with me, guys on it
really battling sentences right now. So the term bigfoot nineteen
fifty eight. The modern term was coined in nineteen fifty
(20:07):
eight after a large, unidentifi footprints were found in the
Humboldt County, California and publicized by the Humboldt County Times. Okay,
so let's keep going with this. So after logging after
logging company employee Jerry Crwe found a set of enormous
(20:28):
men like sixteen inch footprints in the mud at Bluff Creek, California.
Vincent received national media attention and unpopularized by the name
Bigfoot by the mysterious creature. So here's the details. The
initial fines nineteen fifty eight. Crew was working as a
(20:48):
bulldozer operator for the Wallace Brothers Logging Company near Bluff
Creek in northern California when he found strange tracks. Widespread
rumors Cruse discovered the crewis discovery prompted other loggers to
share their stories of huge tracks they also found along
(21:09):
unexplained along with unexplained events like one hundred and fifty
pounds oil drums being unexped unexplicitly moved. Oh my gosh,
I am really struggling. I bear with me, guys, I
can't even talk the name, the name? Where did the
name come from? The crew and his co workers began
(21:30):
calling the creature Bigfoot and named the gained Traction after
the local journalist. Andrew Gazansi of the Humboldt Times picked
up the story. The evidence crew made a plaster casting
of the tracks and brought them to the newspaper office.
(21:50):
A photo of him holding one of the castings was
publicized in the October nineteen fifty eight, and the story
that was picked up on the news outlets. All let's
nation widescuse you for a second, excuse me? All right.
Decades later, the incident was revealed to be a hoax,
(22:10):
but by then the legend was already firmly established. And
I guess in Ray Wallace's confession in twenty twenty two,
I'm sorry. Twenty two thousand and two, after the death
of logging company owner Ray Wallace, his family claimed that
they had carved the wooden feet using and news to
meet the prince. I guess they The family had a
(22:35):
history of making pranks. Wallace's family stated that the giant
foot prints originally intended it as a joke, and that
he was to embarrass to embarrassed to reveal the truth.
After this regained so much attention, so the debate continues.
The Wallace family relevation did not completely end the belief
(22:56):
in Bigfoot, as some enthusiasts continue to search for the
roof of its existence. All right, So Bigfoot tracks are
often found in Bigfoot hot spots. I mean they faked them,
but I mean, if you look back at the history
these things, these footprints have been seen well before that happened.
(23:18):
You know, they're probably just looking for some attention, trying
to maybe get some new accounts or whatever, and so
they basically just wanted to, you know, make a name
for themselves. I mean found I found twenty two inch footprints.
I mean I was thirteen wide, and I put my
foot next to this, and it's like half the footprint
(23:39):
almost and my foot looks like a little kid's foot
next to it, and a clear print. Unfortunately, it was
sitting in some water. There's some water in the bottom
of it, and if I put some plaster casting in it,
it would never have dried. And so it just wasn't
a good time to do it. But I've found tons
(23:59):
of prints. I have one that broke on me that
was about eighteen inches and about ten inches wide. So footprints,
you know, there's lots of people out there with blaster
castings of unknown footprints out there. I don't believe that
they're all faking stuff. I mean there are fake footprints.
(24:20):
I mean people unfortunately do that, unfortunately just to get attention,
or just to mess with people, or just to basically
hurt the actual research of these things. But anyways, so
we talked about that, Okay. So basically, back in the
(24:42):
nineteen sixties and seventies, TV shows, documentary, tabloid tabloid covers,
and toy lines. In search of episodes and stuff and popularity,
I started using the big Foot, you know, just basically
to get attention. I guess it became pulk pulp culture icon,
and Bigfoot was basically born basically just you know, I
(25:08):
guess there was a lot of toys. I mean, look
at Chebacca from Star Wars. He was supposed to be
a Bigfoot. And you know, as more and more people
got interested in the subject back in the sixties and
seventies and eighties, bigfoot research was really kind of born,
and people started going out researching these things looking for them.
(25:28):
And as they've done the research over the years of
the last forty to fifty years, sixty years now, Bigfoot's
really kind of come to life. I mean, And whether
you're a believer skeptic, go excuse me, guys, I apologize
a believer skeptic or you know, you're on the fence
(25:49):
or whatever it's. You know, the decision is up to you.
I always say, if you know, don't expect anyone to
believe in Bigfoot until they've really gone out and done
their own research, and that goes with anything paranormal. But
once you've experienced one of these things, I mean, I've
seen them so many times. I've had so many encounters
with them. I mean, I'm up probably fifty sixty encounters
(26:12):
at least where I could say that couldn't be fanals
but a Bigfoot. And especially when I was at researching
black Star Canyon day night, you know, middle of the afternoon,
they would just show themselves to me. They felt comfortable
with me until I screwed up and crossed an imaginary line,
that boundary with them where I left trel cams down
(26:33):
and I caught them on camera. But you know, I've
learned that you've got to be really careful because they're
they're they allow you to come into their territories to
a certain amount, and then you know, it's kind of
like Jane Goodall had to when she first found the
Mountain Girl, as she had to kind of take her time.
It took her what ten years to really kind of
(26:55):
get to establish herself with them and to build a
relationship with them and stuff like that. You know, there's
a lot of people out there afraid of bigfoot, and
I understand that there's hostile beat you know, there's hostile
bigfoots out there, but there's also family groups. If you
can find a family group and you can start to
build a relationship with them and start to gift and
(27:19):
to you know, build that relationship, you can do all
kinds of cool things with them. They will become friendly
and social with you, and they won't be afraid to
show themselves to you and stuff like that. I mean,
I imagine leaving something for something, you know, something that's
supposed to not exist, and getting something cool back, like
(27:42):
a you know, a wooden cross where it's been all
twisted around, or you find symbols on the ground, or
you find a teepee, or you find a tree structure,
or they leave you you know, something else and stuff
like that. I mean, it's just really cool that they
can do that, all right. So, you know, could these
(28:05):
ancient memories of real homonides like jack Annipith I guess
have inspired these stories or are they just physicological archetypes
with a wild man within? You know? What are these things?
You know, really, you guys really have to answer your
own questions on this. Have you ever seen a bigfoot
(28:27):
you know? Have you ever seen one disappear? Have you
ever seen one? Go through a portal? I don't know.
You can basically go through and share your stories down below.
Please feel free to again on this channel. There's no judgment.
We don't want anybody being mean in the comments. But
(28:48):
like I said, if you if you had it, you've
had an encounter. We love to hear about it. If
you love to be a guest, like to be a
guest on here, We'd love to hear from you. And
have you shared your story? Who can be? You can
be anonymous if you want to. But you know, the
more stories that come out, the more people that kind
of come out and tell their stories, the more we're
(29:09):
shedding light on this subject, and the closer we are
to getting to the bottom of what this really is.
What they are? Are they some kind of you know,
paranormal creature. Are they some kind of guardian in the forest.
Are they a you know, spirit of some sort? Are
(29:30):
they indimensional of the beings? Are they just like an
ape like creature that lives in the woods. Are they
some kind of human relative that is just unknown at
this point, or that big brother doesn't want us to
know about right, all right, So you know, are the
ancient legends? You know, I don't know the story. The
(29:52):
folklore of Bigfoot continues, you know, whether you think it's
a myth, a memory, a legend, just folklore, or something
that's designed to keep kids out of the forest, let
us know and we'll love to hear from you, guys.
So again, comment down below and we'd love to hear
(30:13):
from you and we will catch you, guys on the
next one.
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