Ep 212: Sasquatch: The Search for Manlike Monsters in History
To all who now hear… I say: Some white men have seen Sasquatch. Many Indians have seen them and spoken to them. The Sasquatch is still all around here. I have spoken!
– Chief Flying Eagle of the Chehalis First Nation, May 23rd, 1938, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada
Meet & Greet in Nashville, Tennessee!
Hey folks, we’re planning our first listener meetup since 2017 for August 7, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. Listen to the show for more details, but the sum up is that we are holding a ticketed meetup at 6:00 p.m. on August 7, in Nashville at The Pharmacy Burger Parlor and Biergarten. Two first season show guests will be there to tell their stories in person and we will also be joined by special guests Adam & Matt from the GraveYard Tales podcast! Tickets will go on sale on Friday, July 16, at 7:00 p.m. EDT via Eventbrite. The link to get those will be published and announced on our main show feed, so subscribers to the podcast who watch for that announcement will have dibs on them. We wanted everyone to have a chance to hear this week’s episode and be ready for that announcement. Capacity is limited, and only 70 tickets will be available, so if you want to attend, move quickly once the link is published. Ticket prices are being finalized, but all tickets will include a custom limited-run t-shirt commemorating the Nashville meetup. There will be food and drink available for attendees to purchase. Ticket costs will go towards printing the shirts and covering the private area rental fee and staff support. Thanks for listening, and see you in Nashville!
Description:
It's much more comfortable for most of us to think of paranormal subjects as having their origins beginning only in recent history – an amusing byproduct of mid-twentieth century foolishness or the internet age. Much easier to dismiss then. Many people, persuaded by an uninformed media, believe UFOs only started appearing to the public after pilot Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting while flying near Mt. Rainier on June 24, 1947, or the incident in Roswell, NM, just fourteen days later. Similarly, many people believe the Bigfoot or Sasquatch phenomenon only began in 1958 in Bluff Creek, California, after the family of Ray Wallace claimed he started it all by leaving large, fake footprints made with wooden carvings as a prank. It's uncomfortable to consider that these unnerving intrusions into our comfortable reality had occurred for maybe hundreds, if not thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years before our sophisticated logic matured. However, researchers who study paranormal phenomena know that reports of these things, especially Bigfoot, go back far beyond written history. Unfortunately, yet not surprisingly, there seems to be an air of ethnocentrism and hubris when it comes to western scientists giving credence to the indigenous oral traditions of encounters with these massive, hairy ape-like beasts. Yet, it stands to reason that if any of these beings truly existed, their origins likely go back further than the birth of Rock and Roll. So, how far back do the sightings of Bigfoot and Sasquatch go? Here's a hint: it's a lot more ancient and global than you probably imagined. To help us explore this enigma, we're fortunate to have our dear friend, researcher, science enthusiast, author, and fellow podcaster Micah Hanks join us for a roundtable discussion. We'll hear about his latest research into the earliest known writings and oral histories of the cryptic cousin creature we've come to know and love.
Location:
Ape Canyon, a gorge on the southeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington. The gorge narrows to as close as eight feet (2.5 m) at one point. On the south side of the mountain is another feature named Ape Cave. The canyon was named after a purported attack on Fred Beck and his fellow miners by a group of Bigfoots in July of 1924.
Reference Links:
Micah Hanks, Dakota “Smoky” Waddell, and Jeff Smith’s podcast, Sasquatch Tracks podcast website
David George Gordon, “The Bug Chef'“ and Sasquatch researcher
The man who coined the name Sasquatch in the 1920s, J.W. Burns
“Homo Floresiensis: Facts About the 'Hobbit'“ on LiveScience.com
“Complete Guide to the Denisovans, a Newer Hominid Species” from ThoughtCo.com
“What’s in a Name? Hominid Versus Hominin” on Smithsonian Magazine
Bigfoot Field Researcher, Museum Curator, and Public Speaker, Cliff Barackman – cliffbarackman.com
American anthropologist, cryptozoologist, and Bigfoot researcher, Grover Krantz
Astonishing Legends’ Part 1 podcast episode from the series on the Patterson-Gimlin Film or “PGF”
Leshy, the tutelary deity of the forests and hunting in pagan Slavic mythology
“Wild Men of Asia and Poets” from On the Other Side of the Eye blog
“The Yeti: Why Bhutanese believe it exists” with Dr. Mark Evans on KuenselOnline.com
“The documentary that proves the Yeti exists. Almost certainly” from The Guardian
The Astonishing Legends episode on ancient giants, “The Tall Ones Part 1”
Canadian journalist and pioneering Bigfoot researcher John Willison Green
PDF: “HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF RELICT HOMINOIDS” by Dmitri Bayanov
The Seatco in Salishan mythology – hairy wild men of the forest
Ape Canyon, on the southeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in Washington state
Related Books:
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Credits:
Episode 212: Sasquatch: The Search for Manlike Monsters in History. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel. Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer, and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2021 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.