September 12, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode, Ayden shares the legend of a cave dwelling, giant ape-like creature with backwards feet that kidnaps women and babies in Honduras.
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Things had been very different since Valentina returned from the forest.
It had been only a few weeks since she returned
running into the streets of San Ignacio screaming about a giant,
hairy monster with backwards feet. She had gone missing years ago.
Her family gave up on searching for her because the
Hunduran mountains can be a dangerous place for those who
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take a wrong turn or get injured. When she finally
did return, everyone was shocked. First they thought they saw
a ghost, Then, after hearing her frantic ramblings, they believed
Valentina lost her mind after spending so long lost and alone.
Although she was back home, she spent her days wandering
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the streets muttering about this monster, about mutant children. Everyone
would gather and try to piece together the bits and
pieces they could understand. Soon the story was that she
was abducted by an ape like creature. They called it
the Sisimete. She was forced to carry the Cisimetha's children,
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two of them, and when she finally did escape, he
tossed their unnatural offspring into a river. Again, her neighbors
took pity on Valentina and simply tried to keep her calm.
Then the baby started disappearing. The first one, a six
month old from the Mehia family, vanished overnight. The community
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did what they could to be more vigilant. All doors
were locked and windows remained shut. But it happened again,
this time to the Bignellas. Their eight month old was
outside in the middle of the day with a group
of children being watched by the eldest cousin. The kids
were caught up in their games and baby Binneeda had
just figured out how to crawl. Before they knew it,
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the baby was gone. At this point, the town was
in a full on panic. The children were no longer
to play outside, at least until everyone figured out who
or what was taking their kids. But it still wasn't enough.
Senora Zuniga ran into the streets screaming for help. Her baby,
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a newborn, was sleeping in a hammock in the hallway
of the house while she cooked. When she walked by
to check on him, the hammock was empty. No longer
safe in their own homes, the people of San Ignacio
knew they had to take action, but they were distraught
and unable to think clearly. So the abductions continued until
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almost all the babies of San Ignacio were gone. This
already small community was shrinking, one child at a time.
Valentina silently watched the town become engulfed in a sense
of dismay and trepidation. She knew who was responsible for
the abductions, and she knew how to get his attention.
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Valentina took some of her clothes, a needle and thread,
and made a doll. She made it the size of
an infant, filled it with sand, and punctured a small
hole in one of the doll's feet. She unlocked the doors,
cracked open the windows, and spent the night at a
relative's house. The next morning, Valentina returned home to find
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the doll missing. She grinned for the first time in
years and ran out to gather whoever she could get
to follow her back. At first, they were confused, convinced
this was more of her typical ranting, until she met
the sand. Look, it's a trail, it's hymn. The townspeople's
eyes widened as they finally understood Valentina had set a trap,
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and it worked. A group of townspeople, including Valentina, ventured
into the forest following the trail of sand. They came
upon a clearing. When she halted them, she put a
finger to her mouth, signaling them to remain quiet, and
pointed to a cave. Although it felt like hours, it
wasn't long before clattering and grunting reverberated from the cave's mouth.
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The group was at full attention. The hair on the
back of their necks stood and chills covered their bodies
as he came into view. The sisimthe exactly as Valentina
had described him all those months ago, Towering over six
feet tall, thin covered in long, dark fur, and backwards
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facing feet. The group devised a plant to kill the Sissima.
They were going to start a fire at the cave's
entrance and burn him alive. As the noise from the
cave retreated deeper, they inched closer and closer, staying as
silent as possible. Finally, at the opening of the Sisimetha's layer,
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they started a blaze and moved back. Very soon after,
they could hear the agitated grunts and howls of the Sisimita.
Their plan was working. While they cheered and held each other,
but Indiina kept her eyes on the cave. She could
feel that something was wrong. She saw a plume of
smoke rise into the air. A couple yards north of
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where they celebrated. The cave had a second opening. She
screamed and pointed. Horror melted the smiles off of their
faces as the Sisimita rose from the other side of
the cave, and ran into the forest. In a sense,
their plan did work. San Ignacio saw no more abductions
and the community finally new piece again. Townspeople regularly visit
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the cave and set a fire at its mouth as
a warning to the cci Meta, and for now he
keeps his distance. Welcome back, gl friends, once again, this
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was a Susto original. Applause, applause, Nobel Prizes, thank you.
I'm kidding, but Suso original. I wrote this story with
the help of Jeffrey. Thank you so much. We love you, Jeffrey,
and I'm gonna go ahead and read through the notes
that jeff has here before we go through all the
links that both of us put together. You can find
the direct links to these Google docs on Patreon dot
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com slash Sustra podcast. So let's go ahead and go
through it. So we know that the cci meta is
from Hodudas and actually the cave that is mentioned in
the story, it is a real cave. It's the Ccimeta's
cave or La cueva del Scimeta, I think is what
they called it, and the notes heresay. The ccimeta is
a tall ape slash human type creature. It is covered
in long hair, it's feeder on backwards, which if you
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all have been listening for a while or if you
remember a long time ago in I have it right here.
In January of twenty twenty one, I did an episode
on Lasiwappa, who is one of Susto's cryptid fems, and
she also has backwards facing feet. I think the story
with her is that if you hear her footsteps again
all of these kinds of noises el Si Lechusa's there
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have been several featured on Susto that when you hear
their noise, whatever it is, whether it's footsteps, whistling, crying, hooting, whatever,
if you hear them further away, that means they're closer,
And if you hear them closer, that means that they're
further away. And so I think that also applied to
La Siwappa. So just a cool connection right there. I
think that might be something that deserves its own episode
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after how many times we've seen it on here. So
let me know that's something y'all are interested in and
I can try and put it together. This continues. It
likes to kidnap, it being the cisimeat that likes to
kidnap women and babies. In some legends, it will force
the women to carry its children. This has some crossovers
with of course lod or not because the women will flee,
but instead of taking her children like Lyodorna did, the
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cisi meat that will drown the children to spite her
for not taking them. So talk about a dead bee, dad, right.
But also it's going to come up again in a
bit and then we'll that'll kind of explain a little
bit more. I guess the motive behind that, if there's any.
The notes continue. In other variations, there are both male
and female cisimeta who will kidnap babies cisi meat that
are also associated with rain, slash thunder deities such as Chok,
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the Mayan god of rain, thunder, and lightning, sent to
protect nature from over harvesting, also associated with Sutaka, a
Mayan group of deities who have both rain and earth features.
The Sutaka protect farmers and agricultural workers from wild animals,
so they are reported to have pushed the ccimeat that
to only exist in dense forests so that harmless humans
are not damaged. It seems like the cci meta is
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meant to represent a balance with nature, whereas it only
goes after people and their kind if the people start
to encroach on the boundaries of nature. So kind of
like an interesting take there, I do want to read
about this. The Mayan deity chalk at Chaac. This says
that Chalk is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder,
and lightning. With his lightning acts, Chock strikes the clouds,
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causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chok corresponds to
Laroque among the Aztecs. And this is a Wikipedia entry.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that. In the mythology
section of this, it says the rain deity is a
patron of agriculture. A well known myth in which the
Chalks or related rain lightning deities have an important role
to play, is about the opening of the mountain in
which the Mayis was hidden. In Sotzil mythology, the rain
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deity also figures as the father of newbile women representing
mayis and vegetables. In some versions of the Gekchi myth
of Sun and Moon, the rain deity Chok or Cloud
is the brother of Sun. Together they may defeat their
aged adoptive mother and her lover. Later, Chok commits adultery
with his brother's wife and is dually punished. His tears
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of agony give origin to the Rain. Versions of this
myth show the rain deity Chok in his warlike fury,
pursuing the fleeing Sun and Moon and attacking them with
his lightning bolts. In some mythologies, it is believed that
water and clouds are formed within the earth in caves
and sonotas and then carried into the sky by deities
such as Chok. So maybe that's the connection between a
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Cisi Mita and Chok is that In some mythologies, like
it says here, it's believed that water and clouds are
formed within the earth in caves, So maybe that's the
correlation between Cisimta and this deity. Classic period Maya's sources
also suggest that Chok was the god who opened the
mountain containing Mayis using his lightning acts. So also from
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Wikipedia is an entry and this says Cisimethal with an
O instead of an E at the end, but it
says in Belizean, so there's a connection to belize here
and Honduran folklore. The Cisimito again alternatively called Cisimeta, Cimita, sukara,
and itta Gayo, is a bipedal upright guerrilla like creature
that possesses a head much like a human, with long
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hair or fur covering its body. It is also referred
to as the Mexican Bigfoot, though it is also known
in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I have
had several people ask me about covering bigfoot sightings from Mexico,
so maybe this will kind of lead us into that,
and I'm sure it'll probably be a lot about the Cisimtha,
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but there's got to be a lot of I guess,
local legend around that. This description says the Cisimtha is
believed to resemble a humanoid creature with black or dark
brown fur, described as larger than an average person. It
is said to have four fingers on each hand and
no thumbs, eight like facial features, and backward facing feet
with no damn. That's gotta be a stiff walk if
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he doesn't have knees. Its name differs between ethnic groups.
For example, the Gattifuna call it SiZ Midu. The name
has no true English translation, and it is believed to
have come from the Nahuatl word mek in Honduras. According
to the legends, it is believed that the Sisimta targets
and kidnaps human women. It is believed that when a
woman falls in love with the Sisimta, the Sisimta will
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claim her as his own and she will never be
seen again. The Hunduran explorer and historian Hissus aguilada Bas,
which I think Hissus Agladabas is like a really famous
folklorist in or from Honduras, said that the Sisimta lives
in the highest part of the Hunduran mountains, more specifically
in the inaccessible caverns found there. Aguilad also explains that
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the sisi meat that feeds on the wild berries from
the mountain, and that it is not a carnivorous being
or hunter. However, it usually goes down to the village
to kidnap women to take them to his cave. The
union of Asisi Meta and a human is believed to
produce ape men and then so tying it into Belize.
As I mentioned earlier, it says in Belizean legend, the
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ceci Meta is said to also feast on humans so
not just wild berries, but people. Furthermore, in Belizian societies,
the belief is quote, if you are a man and
you look at him in the eyes and escape, you
will die within a month. If you are a woman
and you look at him in the eyes and escape,
your life will be prolonged. What's his beef is He's
just like a supernatural alphamel and he's just going to
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kill other men. This continues. Tales of the Cecimeta were
told in the camps by the Mahogany cutters of early
days and are still passed along in villages like Ranchito
and Hill Bank. The cci Meta is said to live
in high forest areas and lives in caves and on
rocky land in the Toledo District. Forest areas have decreased
over the years because of agricultural development, and the Getchee
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believe that Toutraka, the thunder deities who protects them from
the wild animals, has pulled the Cecimeata back into the
few densely jungled areas remaining, so he is rarely seen today. Again,
we have this idea of this forest dwelling creature that
protects the nature. But this guy is kind of also
insidious because he kidnaps women and babies, and depending on
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where you're from, you will die if you're a man
and you look at him. The Cecimeata diet is believed
to consist of raw meat and fruits. Again, this isn't
belieze in under us. He's more of a what is
it omnivore herbivore. There you go, And when feasting on
human beings, he will tear the body into several pieces
before devouring it. Though fierce and malevolent towards humans, he
is afraid of water and dogs and will avoid them
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at all costs. See now this is an opposition of
the Hunduran belief or the I guess the tie to
the mind deities is that why would this rain this
creature associated with like rain deities be afraid of water?
I'm not sure? And also dogs, So good to know
it says. The Cecimeta is believed to often assume human
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form in order to lure people out of villages with
the purpose of killing them. Because of this, he is
sometimes confused with Stabe or Layona. On Sundays and religious
holidays such as Good Friday, Girhojans the devil happen on
a good Friday, they say. The Cisimeta is believed to
prey on hunters and other people who straight into the bushes.
He follows human footprints, with its main purpose being either
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to kill its victims or to rip off their thumbs. Oh.
The Cisimeta is also believed to attack men who are
killing animals needlessly or destroying the forest. See that we love.
That is king behavior. Keep it up, Cecimeta if that's
what you're doing. The next piece of notes that Jeff
has here is what I actually kind of based my
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own story of This is from X like the the
letter x ploor Onduras dot com. This entry is called
lequeva cimite and this says the Cisimeta cave is a
peculiar cave located in the community of San Ignacio, which
is a municipality of Gamasca, a department of in Theia Buca.
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And again this is in Honduras. According to stories from
the community's ancient inhabitants, the cave was inhabited by a
man or a kind of giant who ate children. This
terrifying being that inhabited was associated with the Ccimeta which
is why they called it the cave of Ccimete. So
this says this being, and again this was It looks
like this was translated from Spanish to English. In English,
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it says that this being was associated with the Cisimeta.
It could also be that it is the Cisimeta. This continues,
in fact, the Cisimeta cave does exist, and that there's
a picture here that, of course I will be posting.
And so the legend here says what is said to
have happened in the community of Kamasca left its history
marked forever. It was a quiet and sparsely populated community,
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so everyone quickly realized what was happening. One day, a
mother became desperate when she noticed that her baby had disappeared,
and no matter how hard they looked for him, the
baby never appeared, which caused the entire town to panic.
As the days went by, another baby, who was sleeping
peacefully in a hammock in the hallway of his house,
also disappeared while his mother was in the kitchen making lunch.
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That was in my story. This continues. While some mothers
continue to search for their babies, it was the turn
of the others. The tragedy was repeated until almost all
babies in the town had disappeared. This abominable event had
the town's inhabitants baffled since no one had any idea
what was happening with the sudden disappearance of the babies.
So this continues. There's this plotline that I also included
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in my story of the trap that was set, and
here it says it was a desperate mother who lost
her baby set this trap. She made the figure of
a baby, filled it with ashes. In this story, she
kind of left it out like unattended for the cecmedia
to come and snag it. So her and other villagers
followed the trail of ashes. It took them to a
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mysterious cave located at the highest point of the village.
It says here it describes them waiting and they see
the ceci meet the tall, thin creature with backwards facing feet.
When they saw it, they were terrified, and then they
devised the plant to set fire to the cave so
that the creature would burn to death inside. And then
here again it says, however, when the cisi meta felt
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the fire, it came out from the top of the
cave After this, peace returned to the community, but no
one was able to forget what happened. Since the babies
never reappeared. The case still exists, but they never heard
from the strange, creepy creature again. Again, that story is
what I based mine on. So more from the notes here.
This is from oocities dot org and this is just
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titled the Mysteries of on Buddhas by Bablo Vier Rubia Mausol.
The notes that we have here says they're just excerpts
from this source because it's a it's a pretty robust page,
a lot of text. But the notes that Jeff pulled
from that say, my grandfather told me that he ran
into the Cisimta around nineteen twelve up there on Pico Bonito.
It walked like a man, had a very hairy body
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and was very tall, said Don Manuel Mechilla. Oh, I
didn't even notice that I used that name. I just
kind of chose it randomly. And huh interesting, interesting, spooky,
said by Don Manuel Mechilla, an octogenarian living in the
village of Laognon, scant kilometers from La Seva. Also, I
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had to look this up. An octogenarian is someone who
is in their like eighties eighties Yeah octo eight. His
shaky hand pointed toward the mountains robed in their thick foliage.
But what was the sisimta really? Much like its colder
relatives such as the Tibetaneti or the Sasquatch of the
US and Canadian Pacific Coast, the sisimta is another such
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creature which can appear out of nowhere and vanish in
the same way. According to jus Agular Baz, one of
Honduras's most renowned folklorists, Again, what's that name? The sisimita
or Itakayo wanders the high mountain ranges and lives in
dank caverns, feeding on wild fruit. In the same way
as its Mexican cousin El Perludo or the Hairy One
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and Argentina's Ukumari quote. These monsters would kidnap women and
take them to their layers. It is said that man
apes were born of these made added the old man.
The story of a woman who managed to escape from
one such sisimita abode is still discussed among the mountain villagers.
The creature pursued her, carrying with it the three offspring
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they had had together and showing them to the mother,
who had fled to the other side of a river,
in hopes of attracting her to her children. Its efforts
were in vain, and the trogledite mortally threw the inhuman
infants into the water. Again. This kind of inspired that
part of my story. Other cisimitas have appeared in the
Gamasca caverns. Italian friar Frederico Lunardi, one of the most
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influential scholars of Honduran culture, associated the creatures with the
Mayan god Chok quote he who holds up the heavens,
the god of water. According to Lunadi, within the caves,
there was a wall depicting a hand with all its
fingers and a number of scratches allegedly made by the cisimitas,
who would go there at midnight to scratch the walls
with their claws. I want to know if that mural
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is really in there. I don't know. That connection to
me just seems kind of wonky. I guess as the
word I'll use, I'm not entirely convinced by it, but
maybe it's not for me to be convinced right. This
continues the following day, and at my insistence, we headed
for Punta Bethulia. Driving on the dirt and sand road,
Houstino talked about my old friend, the ccimeta in those
lands and other parts of Central America. Quote. Around nineteen
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forty six, a chain gang cutting wood in the mountainous
area of Gopiedol caught two cisimetas, male and female. How
also do they? I just like, I wonder about the
physiology of these creatures. If there are these like ape
like creatures, did one of them have a bow and lashes?
You know when cartoons do that, when it's like, let's
say emojis or something, those generic emojis, and one of
them doesn't have anything on it, and the other one
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has like a bow and lashes, and people are like, oh,
that's the girl. I don't know anyway, Sorry, this continues.
They were hiding in a cave and were about four
feet tall. See now this is different because they're four
feet tall here, So wondering worthy ccimethas or were they
just apes or chimps. What was strange is that they're okay.
What was strange is that their legs were backward and
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their hair was very long. They only had four fingers
and very short hands. Their legs were long and had
hair reaching down to their knees. This says that employees
of a banana company called Standard took them to Thruquillo.
This says I never got to see them, but they
were there for some ten to twelve days. The workers
told me that the gringos wanted to take them to
La Ceva and then to the United States. They would
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feed them meat, bananas and other things they wouldn't eat,
and they died. This person asked, did you ever see
a sisi mita and they responded no. But there are
still some of these animals in the Truchuillo mountains because
their screams can be heard. Since I've slept in these woods,
I've heard them. We have virgin rainforests here between Galentura
and Capiro, and it's possible that some of these creatures
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may still exist. Upon reaching Santa Fe, we met Ilario
Amidres Galderon, aged forty three, who confmed the story of
the Cisimita's capture. His version differed somewhat from that of
Professor Galan, perhaps because his recall was faulty or he
had heard it from third parties. It says, quote they
caught them with a net. They would only eat river shrimp.
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I think a ship belonging to Standard Fruit took them
to the US. Dccmethas were taller than a person he
told us. So these are just really unreliable accounts. They
don't line up at all. The ccmethas they looked different,
they were captured different, they ate different things, and in
one telling they survived, in the other they didn't. So
who knows what the actual truth is there. This next
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one is an academic source that discusses giant humanoids in general.
It looks like it's from something called Unknown Hominids and
the New World Legends from Western Folklore Volume twenty three
by A. Basal F. Curtly, and this says on the
unexplored mountaintops is said to be found a tellus anthropoid ape,
reminding of the gorilla, orangutang or chimpanzee of the Old World.
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It is of erect position, about five feet in height,
covered with black hair, and has the feet turned backward.
It is generally feared as it is supposed to carry
off human beings of the opposite sex. This belief is
also found among the other populations of the Mosquito coast,
The Rama and the Creoles call this ape Yoho or Yojo,
while the Baya and Ladinos apply to it the Spanish
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Mexican name Sisimeta or chichi Meta. Some Indians claim that
this mysterious being has been seen several times during the
last twenty years around the Guarunta Mountains, which extend northward
of the Rio Coco. And again this is where it
references the Belizian belief that if you are a man
you look into the eyes and escape, you will die
within a month. If you're a woman looking to the
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as an escape, your life will be prolonged. So the
next thingk I have here is from a website Onduras
dot com and this is just legend of Honduras Sisimita.
It says it's a supernatural creature, one of the best
known legends in Hunduran territory. It is kind of like
a giant monkey with long hair that looks strong and
lives deep in the forest and in the highest mountains
of Honduras. It is said that the Sisimedia canaps women,
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takes them to its caves, makes him his wife. Okay,
this one history of Cisimtadas. This says here it's kind
it's a similar story, but there is slight variations. So
this says the best known story of the cisi meet
the legend is that of a woman who is walking
through the forest exploring when she was kidnapped by this
great ape man. She says, the Cisimeta kidnapped her and
had children with him. They had three children. One day,
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she managed to escape from this monster with her children
and ran all over the hill until she reached a river,
where she had to leave her children and escape herself.
The Cisimeta, in revenge for the woman, drowned them in
the river and she had to flee to save herself.
Legend has it that one day the Cecimta comes down
from the mountain and kidnaps a woman to take to
his cave. The villagers say that the woman had already
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been presumed dead until she was found near the town
years after her disappearance, and apparently she told the story
that is the most well known version about this creature,
since she claims to have given birth to three ape children,
and that the cci Meta kidnaps women who walk near
their caves in the forest and the last press that
I have here, it's actually an Instagram reel from this
person who they did a longer video on YouTube, and
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I will have both those links in the sous to
Google doc and I'll find a way to repost the
YouTube video, maybe on like the website or something, because
he does like a whole I haven't seen it. I
just watched the reel, but the YouTube is the longer
version of that, so I'll find a way to post
that so that you all can see it as well.
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Things had been very different since Valentina returned from the forest.
It had been only a few weeks since she returned
running into the streets of San Ignacio screaming about a giant,
hairy monster with backwards feet. She had gone missing years ago.
Her family gave up on searching for her because the
Hunduran mountains can be a dangerous place for those who
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take a wrong turn or get injured. When she finally
did return, everyone was shocked. First they thought they saw
a ghost, Then, after hearing her frantic ramblings, they believed
Valentina lost her mind after spending so long lost and alone.
Although she was back home, she spent her days wandering
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the streets muttering about this monster, about mutant children. Everyone
would gather and try to piece together the bits and
pieces they could understand. Soon the story was that she
was abducted by an ape like creature. They called it
the Sisimete. She was forced to carry the Cisimetha's children,
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two of them, and when she finally did escape, he
tossed their unnatural offspring into a river. Again, her neighbors
took pity on Valentina and simply tried to keep her calm.
Then the baby started disappearing. The first one, a six
month old from the Mehia family, vanished overnight. The community
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did what they could to be more vigilant. All doors
were locked and windows remained shut. But it happened again,
this time to the Bignellas. Their eight month old was
outside in the middle of the day with a group
of children being watched by the eldest cousin. The kids
were caught up in their games and baby Binneeda had
just figured out how to crawl. Before they knew it,
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the baby was gone. At this point, the town was
in a full on panic. The children were no longer
to play outside, at least until everyone figured out who
or what was taking their kids. But it still wasn't enough.
Senora Zuniga ran into the streets screaming for help. Her baby,
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a newborn, was sleeping in a hammock in the hallway
of the house while she cooked. When she walked by
to check on him, the hammock was empty. No longer
safe in their own homes, the people of San Ignacio
knew they had to take action, but they were distraught
and unable to think clearly. So the abductions continued until
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almost all the babies of San Ignacio were gone. This
already small community was shrinking, one child at a time.
Valentina silently watched the town become engulfed in a sense
of dismay and trepidation. She knew who was responsible for
the abductions, and she knew how to get his attention.
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Valentina took some of her clothes, a needle and thread,
and made a doll. She made it the size of
an infant, filled it with sand, and punctured a small
hole in one of the doll's feet. She unlocked the doors,
cracked open the windows, and spent the night at a
relative's house. The next morning, Valentina returned home to find
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the doll missing. She grinned for the first time in
years and ran out to gather whoever she could get
to follow her back. At first, they were confused, convinced
this was more of her typical ranting, until she met
the sand. Look, it's a trail, it's hymn. The townspeople's
eyes widened as they finally understood Valentina had set a trap,
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and it worked. A group of townspeople, including Valentina, ventured
into the forest following the trail of sand. They came
upon a clearing. When she halted them, she put a
finger to her mouth, signaling them to remain quiet, and
pointed to a cave. Although it felt like hours, it
wasn't long before clattering and grunting reverberated from the cave's mouth.
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The group was at full attention. The hair on the
back of their necks stood and chills covered their bodies
as he came into view. The sisimthe exactly as Valentina
had described him all those months ago, Towering over six
feet tall, thin covered in long, dark fur, and backwards
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facing feet. The group devised a plant to kill the Sissima.
They were going to start a fire at the cave's
entrance and burn him alive. As the noise from the
cave retreated deeper, they inched closer and closer, staying as
silent as possible. Finally, at the opening of the Sisimetha's layer,
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they started a blaze and moved back. Very soon after,
they could hear the agitated grunts and howls of the Sisimita.
Their plan was working. While they cheered and held each other,
but Indiina kept her eyes on the cave. She could
feel that something was wrong. She saw a plume of
smoke rise into the air. A couple yards north of
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where they celebrated. The cave had a second opening. She
screamed and pointed. Horror melted the smiles off of their
faces as the Sisimita rose from the other side of
the cave, and ran into the forest. In a sense,
their plan did work. San Ignacio saw no more abductions
and the community finally new piece again. Townspeople regularly visit
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the cave and set a fire at its mouth as
a warning to the cci Meta, and for now he
keeps his distance. Welcome back, gl friends, once again, this
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was a Susto original. Applause, applause, Nobel Prizes, thank you.
I'm kidding, but Suso original. I wrote this story with
the help of Jeffrey. Thank you so much. We love you, Jeffrey,
and I'm gonna go ahead and read through the notes
that jeff has here before we go through all the
links that both of us put together. You can find
the direct links to these Google docs on Patreon dot
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com slash Sustra podcast. So let's go ahead and go
through it. So we know that the cci meta is
from Hodudas and actually the cave that is mentioned in
the story, it is a real cave. It's the Ccimeta's
cave or La cueva del Scimeta, I think is what
they called it, and the notes heresay. The ccimeta is
a tall ape slash human type creature. It is covered
in long hair, it's feeder on backwards, which if you
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all have been listening for a while or if you
remember a long time ago in I have it right here.
In January of twenty twenty one, I did an episode
on Lasiwappa, who is one of Susto's cryptid fems, and
she also has backwards facing feet. I think the story
with her is that if you hear her footsteps again
all of these kinds of noises el Si Lechusa's there
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have been several featured on Susto that when you hear
their noise, whatever it is, whether it's footsteps, whistling, crying, hooting, whatever,
if you hear them further away, that means they're closer,
And if you hear them closer, that means that they're
further away. And so I think that also applied to
La Siwappa. So just a cool connection right there. I
think that might be something that deserves its own episode
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after how many times we've seen it on here. So
let me know that's something y'all are interested in and
I can try and put it together. This continues. It
likes to kidnap, it being the cisimeat that likes to
kidnap women and babies. In some legends, it will force
the women to carry its children. This has some crossovers
with of course lod or not because the women will flee,
but instead of taking her children like Lyodorna did, the
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cisi meat that will drown the children to spite her
for not taking them. So talk about a dead bee, dad, right.
But also it's going to come up again in a
bit and then we'll that'll kind of explain a little
bit more. I guess the motive behind that, if there's any.
The notes continue. In other variations, there are both male
and female cisimeta who will kidnap babies cisi meat that
are also associated with rain, slash thunder deities such as Chok,
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the Mayan god of rain, thunder, and lightning, sent to
protect nature from over harvesting, also associated with Sutaka, a
Mayan group of deities who have both rain and earth features.
The Sutaka protect farmers and agricultural workers from wild animals,
so they are reported to have pushed the ccimeat that
to only exist in dense forests so that harmless humans
are not damaged. It seems like the cci meta is
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meant to represent a balance with nature, whereas it only
goes after people and their kind if the people start
to encroach on the boundaries of nature. So kind of
like an interesting take there, I do want to read
about this. The Mayan deity chalk at Chaac. This says
that Chalk is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder,
and lightning. With his lightning acts, Chock strikes the clouds,
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causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chok corresponds to
Laroque among the Aztecs. And this is a Wikipedia entry.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that. In the mythology
section of this, it says the rain deity is a
patron of agriculture. A well known myth in which the
Chalks or related rain lightning deities have an important role
to play, is about the opening of the mountain in
which the Mayis was hidden. In Sotzil mythology, the rain
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deity also figures as the father of newbile women representing
mayis and vegetables. In some versions of the Gekchi myth
of Sun and Moon, the rain deity Chok or Cloud
is the brother of Sun. Together they may defeat their
aged adoptive mother and her lover. Later, Chok commits adultery
with his brother's wife and is dually punished. His tears
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of agony give origin to the Rain. Versions of this
myth show the rain deity Chok in his warlike fury,
pursuing the fleeing Sun and Moon and attacking them with
his lightning bolts. In some mythologies, it is believed that
water and clouds are formed within the earth in caves
and sonotas and then carried into the sky by deities
such as Chok. So maybe that's the connection between a
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Cisi Mita and Chok is that In some mythologies, like
it says here, it's believed that water and clouds are
formed within the earth in caves, So maybe that's the
correlation between Cisimta and this deity. Classic period Maya's sources
also suggest that Chok was the god who opened the
mountain containing Mayis using his lightning acts. So also from
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Wikipedia is an entry and this says Cisimethal with an
O instead of an E at the end, but it
says in Belizean, so there's a connection to belize here
and Honduran folklore. The Cisimito again alternatively called Cisimeta, Cimita, sukara,
and itta Gayo, is a bipedal upright guerrilla like creature
that possesses a head much like a human, with long
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hair or fur covering its body. It is also referred
to as the Mexican Bigfoot, though it is also known
in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I have
had several people ask me about covering bigfoot sightings from Mexico,
so maybe this will kind of lead us into that,
and I'm sure it'll probably be a lot about the Cisimtha,
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but there's got to be a lot of I guess,
local legend around that. This description says the Cisimtha is
believed to resemble a humanoid creature with black or dark
brown fur, described as larger than an average person. It
is said to have four fingers on each hand and
no thumbs, eight like facial features, and backward facing feet
with no damn. That's gotta be a stiff walk if
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he doesn't have knees. Its name differs between ethnic groups.
For example, the Gattifuna call it SiZ Midu. The name
has no true English translation, and it is believed to
have come from the Nahuatl word mek in Honduras. According
to the legends, it is believed that the Sisimta targets
and kidnaps human women. It is believed that when a
woman falls in love with the Sisimta, the Sisimta will
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claim her as his own and she will never be
seen again. The Hunduran explorer and historian Hissus aguilada Bas,
which I think Hissus Agladabas is like a really famous
folklorist in or from Honduras, said that the Sisimta lives
in the highest part of the Hunduran mountains, more specifically
in the inaccessible caverns found there. Aguilad also explains that
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the sisi meat that feeds on the wild berries from
the mountain, and that it is not a carnivorous being
or hunter. However, it usually goes down to the village
to kidnap women to take them to his cave. The
union of Asisi Meta and a human is believed to
produce ape men and then so tying it into Belize.
As I mentioned earlier, it says in Belizean legend, the
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ceci Meta is said to also feast on humans so
not just wild berries, but people. Furthermore, in Belizian societies,
the belief is quote, if you are a man and
you look at him in the eyes and escape, you
will die within a month. If you are a woman
and you look at him in the eyes and escape,
your life will be prolonged. What's his beef is He's
just like a supernatural alphamel and he's just going to
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kill other men. This continues. Tales of the Cecimeta were
told in the camps by the Mahogany cutters of early
days and are still passed along in villages like Ranchito
and Hill Bank. The cci Meta is said to live
in high forest areas and lives in caves and on
rocky land in the Toledo District. Forest areas have decreased
over the years because of agricultural development, and the Getchee
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believe that Toutraka, the thunder deities who protects them from
the wild animals, has pulled the Cecimeata back into the
few densely jungled areas remaining, so he is rarely seen today. Again,
we have this idea of this forest dwelling creature that
protects the nature. But this guy is kind of also
insidious because he kidnaps women and babies, and depending on
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where you're from, you will die if you're a man
and you look at him. The Cecimeata diet is believed
to consist of raw meat and fruits. Again, this isn't
belieze in under us. He's more of a what is
it omnivore herbivore. There you go, And when feasting on
human beings, he will tear the body into several pieces
before devouring it. Though fierce and malevolent towards humans, he
is afraid of water and dogs and will avoid them
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at all costs. See now this is an opposition of
the Hunduran belief or the I guess the tie to
the mind deities is that why would this rain this
creature associated with like rain deities be afraid of water?
I'm not sure? And also dogs, So good to know
it says. The Cecimeta is believed to often assume human
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form in order to lure people out of villages with
the purpose of killing them. Because of this, he is
sometimes confused with Stabe or Layona. On Sundays and religious
holidays such as Good Friday, Girhojans the devil happen on
a good Friday, they say. The Cisimeta is believed to
prey on hunters and other people who straight into the bushes.
He follows human footprints, with its main purpose being either
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to kill its victims or to rip off their thumbs. Oh.
The Cisimeta is also believed to attack men who are
killing animals needlessly or destroying the forest. See that we love.
That is king behavior. Keep it up, Cecimeta if that's
what you're doing. The next piece of notes that Jeff
has here is what I actually kind of based my
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own story of This is from X like the the
letter x ploor Onduras dot com. This entry is called
lequeva cimite and this says the Cisimeta cave is a
peculiar cave located in the community of San Ignacio, which
is a municipality of Gamasca, a department of in Theia Buca.
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And again this is in Honduras. According to stories from
the community's ancient inhabitants, the cave was inhabited by a
man or a kind of giant who ate children. This
terrifying being that inhabited was associated with the Ccimeta which
is why they called it the cave of Ccimete. So
this says this being, and again this was It looks
like this was translated from Spanish to English. In English,
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it says that this being was associated with the Cisimeta.
It could also be that it is the Cisimeta. This continues,
in fact, the Cisimeta cave does exist, and that there's
a picture here that, of course I will be posting.
And so the legend here says what is said to
have happened in the community of Kamasca left its history
marked forever. It was a quiet and sparsely populated community,
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so everyone quickly realized what was happening. One day, a
mother became desperate when she noticed that her baby had disappeared,
and no matter how hard they looked for him, the
baby never appeared, which caused the entire town to panic.
As the days went by, another baby, who was sleeping
peacefully in a hammock in the hallway of his house,
also disappeared while his mother was in the kitchen making lunch.
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That was in my story. This continues. While some mothers
continue to search for their babies, it was the turn
of the others. The tragedy was repeated until almost all
babies in the town had disappeared. This abominable event had
the town's inhabitants baffled since no one had any idea
what was happening with the sudden disappearance of the babies.
So this continues. There's this plotline that I also included
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in my story of the trap that was set, and
here it says it was a desperate mother who lost
her baby set this trap. She made the figure of
a baby, filled it with ashes. In this story, she
kind of left it out like unattended for the cecmedia
to come and snag it. So her and other villagers
followed the trail of ashes. It took them to a
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mysterious cave located at the highest point of the village.
It says here it describes them waiting and they see
the ceci meet the tall, thin creature with backwards facing feet.
When they saw it, they were terrified, and then they
devised the plant to set fire to the cave so
that the creature would burn to death inside. And then
here again it says, however, when the cisi meta felt
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the fire, it came out from the top of the
cave After this, peace returned to the community, but no
one was able to forget what happened. Since the babies
never reappeared. The case still exists, but they never heard
from the strange, creepy creature again. Again, that story is
what I based mine on. So more from the notes here.
This is from oocities dot org and this is just
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titled the Mysteries of on Buddhas by Bablo Vier Rubia Mausol.
The notes that we have here says they're just excerpts
from this source because it's a it's a pretty robust page,
a lot of text. But the notes that Jeff pulled
from that say, my grandfather told me that he ran
into the Cisimta around nineteen twelve up there on Pico Bonito.
It walked like a man, had a very hairy body
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and was very tall, said Don Manuel Mechilla. Oh, I
didn't even notice that I used that name. I just
kind of chose it randomly. And huh interesting, interesting, spooky,
said by Don Manuel Mechilla, an octogenarian living in the
village of Laognon, scant kilometers from La Seva. Also, I
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had to look this up. An octogenarian is someone who
is in their like eighties eighties Yeah octo eight. His
shaky hand pointed toward the mountains robed in their thick foliage.
But what was the sisimta really? Much like its colder
relatives such as the Tibetaneti or the Sasquatch of the
US and Canadian Pacific Coast, the sisimta is another such
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creature which can appear out of nowhere and vanish in
the same way. According to jus Agular Baz, one of
Honduras's most renowned folklorists, Again, what's that name? The sisimita
or Itakayo wanders the high mountain ranges and lives in
dank caverns, feeding on wild fruit. In the same way
as its Mexican cousin El Perludo or the Hairy One
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and Argentina's Ukumari quote. These monsters would kidnap women and
take them to their layers. It is said that man
apes were born of these made added the old man.
The story of a woman who managed to escape from
one such sisimita abode is still discussed among the mountain villagers.
The creature pursued her, carrying with it the three offspring
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they had had together and showing them to the mother,
who had fled to the other side of a river,
in hopes of attracting her to her children. Its efforts
were in vain, and the trogledite mortally threw the inhuman
infants into the water. Again. This kind of inspired that
part of my story. Other cisimitas have appeared in the
Gamasca caverns. Italian friar Frederico Lunardi, one of the most
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influential scholars of Honduran culture, associated the creatures with the
Mayan god Chok quote he who holds up the heavens,
the god of water. According to Lunadi, within the caves,
there was a wall depicting a hand with all its
fingers and a number of scratches allegedly made by the cisimitas,
who would go there at midnight to scratch the walls
with their claws. I want to know if that mural
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is really in there. I don't know. That connection to
me just seems kind of wonky. I guess as the
word I'll use, I'm not entirely convinced by it, but
maybe it's not for me to be convinced right. This
continues the following day, and at my insistence, we headed
for Punta Bethulia. Driving on the dirt and sand road,
Houstino talked about my old friend, the ccimeta in those
lands and other parts of Central America. Quote. Around nineteen
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forty six, a chain gang cutting wood in the mountainous
area of Gopiedol caught two cisimetas, male and female. How
also do they? I just like, I wonder about the
physiology of these creatures. If there are these like ape
like creatures, did one of them have a bow and lashes?
You know when cartoons do that, when it's like, let's
say emojis or something, those generic emojis, and one of
them doesn't have anything on it, and the other one
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has like a bow and lashes, and people are like, oh,
that's the girl. I don't know anyway, Sorry, this continues.
They were hiding in a cave and were about four
feet tall. See now this is different because they're four
feet tall here, So wondering worthy ccimethas or were they
just apes or chimps. What was strange is that they're okay.
What was strange is that their legs were backward and
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their hair was very long. They only had four fingers
and very short hands. Their legs were long and had
hair reaching down to their knees. This says that employees
of a banana company called Standard took them to Thruquillo.
This says I never got to see them, but they
were there for some ten to twelve days. The workers
told me that the gringos wanted to take them to
La Ceva and then to the United States. They would
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feed them meat, bananas and other things they wouldn't eat,
and they died. This person asked, did you ever see
a sisi mita and they responded no. But there are
still some of these animals in the Truchuillo mountains because
their screams can be heard. Since I've slept in these woods,
I've heard them. We have virgin rainforests here between Galentura
and Capiro, and it's possible that some of these creatures
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may still exist. Upon reaching Santa Fe, we met Ilario
Amidres Galderon, aged forty three, who confmed the story of
the Cisimita's capture. His version differed somewhat from that of
Professor Galan, perhaps because his recall was faulty or he
had heard it from third parties. It says, quote they
caught them with a net. They would only eat river shrimp.
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I think a ship belonging to Standard Fruit took them
to the US. Dccmethas were taller than a person he
told us. So these are just really unreliable accounts. They
don't line up at all. The ccmethas they looked different,
they were captured different, they ate different things, and in
one telling they survived, in the other they didn't. So
who knows what the actual truth is there. This next
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one is an academic source that discusses giant humanoids in general.
It looks like it's from something called Unknown Hominids and
the New World Legends from Western Folklore Volume twenty three
by A. Basal F. Curtly, and this says on the
unexplored mountaintops is said to be found a tellus anthropoid ape,
reminding of the gorilla, orangutang or chimpanzee of the Old World.
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It is of erect position, about five feet in height,
covered with black hair, and has the feet turned backward.
It is generally feared as it is supposed to carry
off human beings of the opposite sex. This belief is
also found among the other populations of the Mosquito coast,
The Rama and the Creoles call this ape Yoho or Yojo,
while the Baya and Ladinos apply to it the Spanish
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Mexican name Sisimeta or chichi Meta. Some Indians claim that
this mysterious being has been seen several times during the
last twenty years around the Guarunta Mountains, which extend northward
of the Rio Coco. And again this is where it
references the Belizian belief that if you are a man
you look into the eyes and escape, you will die
within a month. If you're a woman looking to the
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as an escape, your life will be prolonged. So the
next thingk I have here is from a website Onduras
dot com and this is just legend of Honduras Sisimita.
It says it's a supernatural creature, one of the best
known legends in Hunduran territory. It is kind of like
a giant monkey with long hair that looks strong and
lives deep in the forest and in the highest mountains
of Honduras. It is said that the Sisimedia canaps women,
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takes them to its caves, makes him his wife. Okay,
this one history of Cisimtadas. This says here it's kind
it's a similar story, but there is slight variations. So
this says the best known story of the cisi meet
the legend is that of a woman who is walking
through the forest exploring when she was kidnapped by this
great ape man. She says, the Cisimeta kidnapped her and
had children with him. They had three children. One day,
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she managed to escape from this monster with her children
and ran all over the hill until she reached a river,
where she had to leave her children and escape herself.
The Cisimeta, in revenge for the woman, drowned them in
the river and she had to flee to save herself.
Legend has it that one day the Cecimta comes down
from the mountain and kidnaps a woman to take to
his cave. The villagers say that the woman had already
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been presumed dead until she was found near the town
years after her disappearance, and apparently she told the story
that is the most well known version about this creature,
since she claims to have given birth to three ape children,
and that the cci Meta kidnaps women who walk near
their caves in the forest and the last press that
I have here, it's actually an Instagram reel from this
person who they did a longer video on YouTube, and
(29:01):
I will have both those links in the sous to
Google doc and I'll find a way to repost the
YouTube video, maybe on like the website or something, because
he does like a whole I haven't seen it. I
just watched the reel, but the YouTube is the longer
version of that, so I'll find a way to post
that so that you all can see it as well.
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