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gerryjarcia
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Sasquatch
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“Bigfoot”, “wild man”, “Sasquatch”, “Yeti”, “Skunk Ape”, on and on goes the list of names for the legendary half human, half ape like creature reported to roam the wilder parts of North America and beyond.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory thread. I'm not interested in debating the myth itself. This is a place to share first, second or third hand stories of unexplainable encounters with something wild in the wild.
I didn’t give a second thought to Sasquatch legends until moving to the Pacific Northwest. I lived in Bellingham, Washington for a time, a small college town in the far northwest corner of the lower 48.
I moved into my first apartment there and met some of the strangest (and most interesting) people around. One evening I was roaming the grounds where my studio apartment was located and ran into the caretaker of the complex. We talked for a while and eventually I asked him how he ended up in Bellingham.
He hesitated a bit, and then went on to tell me the most fantastic “first hand” account I’d ever heard of someone encountering one of these hominids. I listened, with much skepticism and wonder, as he wove this tale of a late night drive through the Florida Everglades and a completely unexpected encounter with what many have described as a “skunk ape”.
This encounter was so earth shattering that it changed the course of his life. He became completely obsessed with trying to understand just what it was he had encountered that night in the dark pine forests of southern Florida. He eventually left Florida and moved to Bellingham to be closer to a larger group of people who were actively involved in researching the whereabouts of this mythical beast.
For him, this was no “Harry and The Henderson’s” tale he was pursing. There was something in the forest, something in the swamps, and he wanted to know what it was.
During my yearlong stint in Bellingham I took a weekend trip to Canada to celebrate a friends impending wedding. We spent the weekend partying it up on Chehalis Nation Indian Band land. I stopped by the only gas station on the res and saw an interesting native artist rendition of Sasquatch. Apparently the natives don’t see Sasquatch as some easily debunked creature that might roam the forest but rather as a spiritual being to be respected and that most certainly resides amongst them.

So, what’s your Sasquatch story?
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What was HIS Sasquatch story, the caretaker that is.
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Well I watched a new documentary on sasquatch last night. He's real. All I will say. Not stupid and more then likely intelligent. The documentary was really eye opening because the pacific northwest is so vast and un explored it could easily hide something. Two there's food source that's sufficient. Three, they documentary said sasquatch could actually be an early human, Neanderthal in type. Explaining its elusive behavior. Early humans would bury their dead, maybe even feces. Like scoop a hole in the ground like a toilet bowl then shit and cover it up. Makes sense if your gonna be in an area where you could end up stepping in your own shit if your not paying attention. The other thing that intrigued me is the native Americans in the pacific northwest still claim sightings and fear the animal, and they had an tribes member who was also a modern societal person and archaeologist show findings of stone knifes and tools that were of recent use in the remote areas that the natives held sacred for sasquatch. The stone tools were found in hollow logs and what not too. Almost hidden or put in a place where one could remember.
Ontop of all that this upcoming Monday animal planet has a new series about sasquatch hunters in pacifi north west premeiring.
Just my input. Typing on a phone. Apologies for mangled grammar.
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gerryjarcia
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AbstraKt_I_Am said: Well I watched a new documentary on sasquatch last night. He's real. All I will say. Not stupid and more then likely intelligent. The documentary was really eye opening because the pacific northwest is so vast and un explored it could easily hide something. Two there's food source that's sufficient. Three, they documentary said sasquatch could actually be an early human, Neanderthal in type. Explaining its elusive behavior. Early humans would bury their dead, maybe even feces. Like scoop a hole in the ground like a toilet bowl then shit and cover it up. Makes sense if your gonna be in an area where you could end up stepping in your own shit if your not paying attention. The other thing that intrigued me is the native Americans in the pacific northwest still claim sightings and fear the animal, and they had an tribes member who was also a modern societal person and archaeologist show findings of stone knifes and tools that were of recent use in the remote areas that the natives held sacred for sasquatch. The stone tools were found in hollow logs and what not too. Almost hidden or put in a place where one could remember.
Ontop of all that this upcoming Monday animal planet has a new series about sasquatch hunters in pacifi north west premeiring.
Just my input. Typing on a phone. Apologies for mangled grammar.
wow, sounds like a cool doc. i'll have to check out that show on Animal Planet.
"The term "Sasquatch" is an anglicized derivative of the word "Sésquac" which means "wild man" in a Salish Native American language." (taken from a wikipedia article on Sasquatch). The Salish peoples are the indigenous tribes of the Puget Sound area. They've feared and revered these "wild men" for ages.
@ Synthettek: i'll try and sit down in the next few days to bang out an abbreviated version of the story he told. i'm in the midst of moving this weekend and may not have time to get around to telling his story.
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Synthettek said: What was HIS Sasquatch story, the caretaker that is.
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AbstraKt_I_Am said: Ontop of all that this upcoming Monday animal planet has a new series about sasquatch hunters in pacifi north west premeiring. .
Ive seen the commercials and Ill probably watch some of it but from the looks of the "experts" it just seems like another bunch of idiots that are gonna run around the woods for a 58 minute show and in the last 2 minutes of each weeks episode some bushes will shake and it will say "stay tuned for next weeks shocking conlusion" only to find that the shaking bush that you waited a week to find out about the conclusion of was a cameraman getting stuck in some prickers.
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