Researcher, P.I.R.C.
This rough draft as of now was compiled with the help of the BFRO
and the Texas Bigfoot Research Organization websites and databases.
Thanks also goes to the various books on Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti books
that I have read over the years as well as Dr. Jeff Meldrum's book Sasquatch
Legend Meets Science and videos on youtube.
Introduction
Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's have been sighted and reported
ever since the dawn of man almost.
These creatures are similar to humans except they are much larger,
more powerful, elusive, shy, silent, and keep away from civalised areas
mostly.
They like similar in some ways to humans and apes such as gorillas
but are much taller and muscular then any human or known ape
save the extinct Gigantopithius blacki.
Species and Evolution
The BFRO states this regarding evolution and origins of Sasquatch and Bigfoot primates:
"The species is deviant from Homo sapiens by anatomy.
The paleontological affiliation or identity with Gigantopithecus, as championed by the late Grover Krantz, has many aspects to recommend it."
I agree with the BFRO's statement on this after careful study and research.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch primates are most likely primates of the non-human variety.
Anatomy, Physiology and Description
The Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, appears to be a large, hair covered
bipedal hominid that is a primate but one of the non-human type
and variety. They are somewhat reminiscent of a large bipedal (upright)
walking ape.
The face of of typical Bigfoot or Sasquatch has a conical shaped
or sagittal crest as seen in adult males as well as females of Bigfoot
and Sasquatch. The face itself is rather small in nature and appears
mostly to have no neck. There is a brow ridge and the eyes appear
to be deep set and small. Eye color varies but is mostly brown
with red sometimes being seen at night. Blue eye color has
also been reported. There is no snout on the face and the features
are rather human like in appearance.
The nose of a Bigfoot or Sasquatch is often dog or pug like
in appearance and the mouth is small to medium with
yellowish teeth and thin lips.
The body of a Bigfoot or Sasquatch is muscular in nature
and muscles are easily seen when walking or moving and
prominent in certain areas such as the shoulders, buttocks,
thighs, legs and chest area esp. in adult males.
The average height can range anywhere from 7 feet
all the way to 10 feet tall and in some cases even
taller.
Younger Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's appear to be smaller and
average around 4 feet to 6 feet in height.
Since these creatures are built like football players they
tend to weigh a lot with the average weight between 500
and 850 pounds to 1,000 pounds or more.
The average footprint is anywhere from 12 inches long
to 16 or more inches long and width varies but is generally
between 5-8 inches or more.
These creatures are nocturnal and have good night vision.
Average lifespan according to various sources of these creatures
is about 35 years of age. However older individuals with grey
or silver hairs are observed and can be much older then 35
years of age such as around 40-50 years of age maybe
even more.
Bigfoot and Sasquatches give off sometimes a bad smell
reported as being similar to the smell of garbage, a wet dog's
fur, urine, feces, or rotten eggs.
Facial expressions are most often reported as a look of surprise,
fear, or indifferent when an encounter takes place with a human.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch's are like any other animal and may
suffer from various diseases, ailments, broken bones,
injury's, infections, parasites, and eventual death.
Females have breasts that tend to sag and males have
muscular chests. Females are most likely built slimmer
and not as muscular as males though certain exceptions
may apply.
The typical Sasquatch/Bigfoot gait is human like almost
in appearance except that besides being bipedal (two legged
walk or gait) it sometimes is reported to be quadrupedal (four
legged walk or gait) as well in some cases and reports.
The walk or gait of these creatures has been reported as
graceful and silent as well. They can cover much ground
and many miles or distance in a short amount of time
and may travel hundreds of miles or more in any given
year.
Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's can also assume crouching,
sitting and sleeping positions besides upright posture.
These creatures are reported to be good swimmers
and eye witness accounts describe their swim as
being powerful, fast, agile and using frog kicks
as well as strokes when swimming. They can
also swim underwater for brief periods of time.
Skin
Skin colors vary and include various types of colors
and even mixes. Colors can include black, grey,
silver, white, brown, reddish, reddish brown and
of course mixed colors as well.
Albino's have been sighted with pink skin.
Also it is indeed hair that covers a Bigfoot or Sasquatch and
not fur.
Habitats
Forests, rural areas, etc.
Geographic range & Ecology
Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's are distributed across
North America (which includes the U.S. and Canada)
and throughout other parts of the world where their
is forest and a good source of food, water, shelter,
etc.
Sightings
Hundreds of sightings are reported each year and many go unreported
as well. The most sightings take place in the United States followed
by Canada in North America. The Pacific Northwest has the most
sightings followed by the Midwest and the East Coast and Atlantic
States of the U.S.
Sightings occur in every state in the U.S.
except Hawaii.
History
From the BFRO:
"Pre-Columbian and Early American Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings
Gulf
Algonkian
Keres
Penutian
Yukian
Chimakuan
Hokan-Coahiltecan
Tonkawa
Karankawa Kuteni
Iroquoian
Wakashan
Timucua
Tanoan
Aztec-Ianoan
Caddoan
Siouan-Yuchi
Salish
Introduction
(From : Traditional Attitudes Toward Bigfoot in Many North American Cultures, By Gayle Highpine)
Originally printed in the Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter "The Track Record". Excerpted from "Legends Beyond Psychology", by Henry James Franzoni III. Reprinted with permission from all parties.
"Here in the Northwest, and west of the Rockies generally, Indian people regard Bigfoot with great respect. He is seen as a special kind of being, because of his obvious
close relationship with humans. Some elders regard him as standing on the "border" between animal-style consciousness and human-style consciousness, which gives him a special kind of power. (It is not that Bigfoot's relationship to make him "superior" to other animals; in Indian culture, unlike western culture, animals are not regarded as "inferior" to humans but rather as "elder brothers" and "teachers" of humans. But tribal cultures everywhere are based on relationship and kinship; the closer the kinship, the stronger the bond. Man Indian elders in the Northwest refuse to eat bear meat because of the bear's similarity to humans, and Bigfoot is obviously much more similar to humans than is the bear. As beings who blend the "natural knowledge" of animals with something of the distinctive type of consciousness called "intelligence" that humans have, Bigfoot is regarded as a special type of being."
"But, special being as he is, I have never heard anyone from a Northwestern tribe suggest that Bigfoot is anything other than a physical being, living in the same physical dimensions as humans and other animals. He eats, he sleeps, he poops, he cares for his family members. However, among many Indians elsewhere in North America... as widely separated at the Hopi, the Sioux, the Iroquois, and the Northern Athabascan -- Bigfoot is seen more as a sort of supernatural or spirit being, whose appearance to humans is always meant to convey some kind of message."
"The Lakota, or western Sioux, call Bigfoot Chiye-tanka (Chiha-tanka in Dakota or eastern Sioux); "chiye" means "elder brother" and "tanka" means "great" or "big". In English, though, the Sioux usually call him "the big man". In his book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," (Viking, 1980), a non-fiction account of the events dramatized by the excellent recent movie "Thunderheart", author Peter Mathiessen recorded some comments about Bigfoot made by traditional Sioux people and some members of other Indian nations. Joe Flying By, a Hunkpapa Lakota, told Mathiessen, "I think the Big Man is a kind of husband of Unk-ksa, the earth, who is wise in the way of anything with its own natural wisdom. Sometimes we say that this One is a kind of reptile from the ancient times who can take a big hairy form; I also think he can change into a coyote.
Some of the people who saw him did not respect what they were seeing, and they are already gone."
"There is your Big man standing there, ever waiting, ever present, like the coming of a new day," Oglala Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches km told Mathiessen. "He is both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as though the trees weren't there... I know him as my brother... I want him to touch me, just a touch, a blessing, something I could bring home to my sons and grandchildren, that I was there, that I approached him, and he touched me. Ray Owen, son of a Dakota spiritual leader from Prairie Island Reservation in Minnesota, told a reporter from (the) Red Wing (Minnesota) Republican Eagle, "They exist in another dimension from us, but can appear in this dimension whenever they have a reason to. See, it's like there are many levels, many dimensions. When our time in this one is finished, we move on to the next, but the Big Man can go between. The Big Man comes from God. He's our big brother, kind of looks out for us. Two years ago, we were going downhill, really self-destructive. We needed a sign to put us back on track, and that's why the Big Man appeared".
Ralph Gray Wolf, a visiting Athapaskan Indian from Alaska, told the reporter, "In our way of beliefs, they make appearances at troubled times", to help troubled Indian communities "get more in tune with Mother Earth". Bigfoot brings "signs or messages that there is a need to change, a need to cleanse," (Minn. news article, "Giant Footprint Signals a Time to Seek Change," July 23,1988).
A commenter provided additional information on this term: "Rugaru" comes from the Michif language spoken by the Metis people. Michif is actually a French-Cree/Algonquian hybrid language. The word "Rugaru" is indeed a cree pronounciation of "Loup Garou."
Mathiessen reported similar views among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway in North Dakota, that Bigfoot --- whom they call Rugaru -- "appears in symptoms of danger or psychic disruption to the community." When I read this, I wondered if it contradicted my hypothesis that the Ojibways had identified Bigfoot with Windago, the sinister cannibal-giant of their legends (see Track Record #14); I had surmised that because I had never heard of any other names for, or references to Bigfoot in Ojibway culture, even though there must have been sightings in woodlands around the Great lakes, and indeed sightings in that region have been reported by non-Indians. But the Turtle Mountain band is one of the few Ojibway bands to have moved much farther west than most of their nation; and Rugaru is not a native Ojibway word. Nor does it come from the languages of neighboring Indian peoples. However, it has a striking sound similarity to the French word for werewolf, loup-garou, and there is quite a bit of French influence among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway. (French-Canadian trappers and missionaries were the first whites that they dealt with extensively, and many tribal members today bear French surnames), so it doesn't seem far-fetched that the Turtle Mountain Ojibway picked up the French name for hairy human-like being, while at the same time taking on their neighbors positive, reverent, attitude toward Bigfoot. After all, the Plains Cree -- even though they retain a memory of their eastern cousins tradition of the Wetiko (as the Windigo is called in Cree) -- have seemed similarly to take on the western tribes view of Bigfoot as they moved west.
The Hopi elders say that the increasing appearances of Bigfoot are not only a message or warning to the individuals or communities to whom he appears, but to humankind at large. As Mathiessen puts it, they see Bigfoot as "a messenger who appears in evil times as a warning from the Creator that man's disrespect for His sacred instructions has upset the harmony and balance of existence." To the Hopi, the "big hairy man" is just one form that the messenger can take.
The Iroquois (Six Nations Confederacy) of the Northeast -- although they live in close proximity to the eastern Algonkian tribes with their Windigo legends -- view Bigfoot much in the same way the Hopi do, as a messenger from the Creator trying to warn humans to change their ways or face disaster. However, mentioned among Iroquois much more often than Bigfoot are the "little people" who are said to inhabit the Adirondacks mountains. I never heard any first-hand stories among the Iroqouis about encounters with these "little people" -- for that matter, I never heard and first-hand stories in that region about Bigfoot, either -- but the Iroquois pass down stories about hunters who occasionally saw small human-like beings in the Adirondacks (which are not all that far from the Catskills, where Rip Van Winkle was alleged to have met some
little bowlers) (and slept for 100 years -HF). Some present-day Iroquois assert that the "little people" are still there, just not seen as often because the Iroquois don't spend as much time hunting up in the mountains as they used to. many Iroquois seem to regard both Bigfoot and the "little people" as spiritual or interdimensional beings who can enter or leave our physical dimension as they please, and choose to whom they present themselves, always for a reason.
Stories about small, humanoids who inhabit wild places are found in many areas of the world, especially Europe. (The Kiowa tell a story about several young men who decide to go exploring south from their Texas home for many days, seeing many new things, until they came to a strange forest [obviously the jungles of southern Mexico] whose trees were home to small, furred humanoids with tails! This they found to be too weird, so they immediately headed back for home). I never thought to connect the stories about the "little people" with the Sasquatch until Ray Crowe brought up the possible connection. After all, if there may be large relatives of humans living in remote areas, would it be so impossible for there to be small ones? Details that stretch credibility, such as pots of gold, pointed and belled caps, games of ninepins, etc., could conceivably be embellishments added over generations to some genuine accounts of sightings.
Throughout Native North America, Bigfoot is seen as a kind of "brother" to humans. Even among those eastern Algonkian tribes to whom Bigfoot represents the incarnation of the Windigo -- the human who is transformed into a cannibalistic monster by tasting human flesh in time of starvation -- his fearsomeness comes from his very closeness to humans. The Windigo is the embodiment of the hidden, terrifying temptation within them to turn to eating other humans when no other food is to be had. he was still their "elder brother", but a brother who represented a human potential they feared. As such, the Windigo's appearance was sort of a constant warning to them, a reminder that a community whose members turn to eating each other is doomed much more surely than a community that simply has no food. So the figure of the Windigo is not so far removed from the figure of the "messenger" coming to warn humankind of impending disaster if it doesn't cease its destruction of nature.
The existence of Bigfoot is taken for granted throughout Native North America, and so are his powerful psychic abilities. I can't count the number of times that I have heard elder Indian people say that Bigfoot knows when humans are searching for him and that he chooses when and to whom to make an appearance, and that his psychic powers account for his ability to elude the white man's efforts to capture him or hunt him down. In Indian culture, the entire natural world -- the animals, the plants, the rivers, the stars -- is seen as a family. And Bigfoot is seen as one of our close relatives, the "great elder brother"
There is of course more history then just this but it is a good start and very educational as well.
North American history and Indian/Native American history plays a big part
in this field of research.
I agree with the BFRO's report on Native American Bigfoot sightings
but disagree that these creatures are psychic though it could be possible.
Vocalization, Calls & Communication
Bigfoot and Sasquatch are mostly quiet or silent when moving
about in the forest.
The sounds these creatures can produce is complex and a mix of
whistles, hoots, howls, moans, screams, grunts, deep growls,
roars and sometimes even chatter similar to human language.
Giggling, laughing and crying sounds have been heard
as well and these creatures may be able to mimic
other animals and maybe even humans.
Behavior
Bigfoot and Sasquatches are most often seen walking though
a few have been seen running as well as crawling on four's on
the ground. Quadrupedal gait i.e. walking, running, crawling
is sometimes seen in some individuals though these individuals
almost always go back to a bipedal position. Their speed when
running is probably anywhere from 35-40 mph.
They have been known on occasion to charge and run after cars
as well as people when they feel threatened, intimidated or for
other reasons.
Swimming has also been observed as well as fighting and
playing in these creatures.
They tend to sleep in caves, natural shelters and
patches of grass and other types of vegetation.
Some Bigfoot and Sasquatches may be loners
but most likely they have a family that they
belong to and a social order of some kind
must exist within these primates.
Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's are often curious and when
around human dwellings such as houses and even vehicles
they may take the opportunity to look into someone's window,
attempt to open a door or wander into a barn.
They are scared of loud noises and lights and tend
to shy away from these things.
Bigfoot's and Sasquatch's have been known to follow humans.
When they do this they often will follow a human and imitate
their behavior even stopping when they stop.
This may be to escort humans out of their territory or
out of curiosity.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch's tend to shy away from adult men
and most often will not hesitate to follow or stalk or watch
a female, child or small animals which they may either
retain as pets or toys or for food.
Tools may be used and tree knocking may be yet another
form of communication that these creatures are capable
of and exhibit.
Diet
The Bigfoot and Sasquatch is an Omnivore and consumes
many things such as, but not limited to: fruit, vegtables,
nuts, berries, leaves, aquatic plants, roots, herbs, vegtable
matter, fish, clams, crayfish, lobster, other mammals such
as squirrels, rabbits, poultry, deer, bear and elk and also can
include livestock and pets such as cats and dogs.
Blueberries, Strawberries, Peanut Butter and various types
and pieces of meat are also reported favorites of the
Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
They also tend to rummage through garbage.
They appear to kill their prey by means of using their
fist, stick or rocks or twisting their neck.
Adults need an average intake of 5,000 to 6,000 calories per day
to survive it is estimated while younger ones may need either
more or less (4,000 to 8,000 calories per day) in my own opinion.
Drinking is done by using cupped hands or
dipping faces into water or water source and
possibly lifting face in the air when raining
and opening mouth to catch water..
It is not known if Bigfoot/Sasquatch suffer from any known
food allergies.
Evidence
Many types of evidence exist for these creatures and include:
1. Footprints (casts of footprints as well)
2. Hair samples
3. DNA (such as suspected blood and saliva, etc.)
4. Feces (stool samples)
5. Eyewitness accounts, sightings and reports by respected people
and others such as police officers, firefighters, psychologists,
outdoorsman, biology experts, teachers, nurses, scientists,
doctors, hunters, campers, truckers, hikers, EMT's,
wildlife biologists and experts, fisherman, etc.
6. Film and camera pictures such as the 1967 film
Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin took in Northern
California of a Bigfoot. This video appears to be
genuine btw.
7. Recorded vocalizations of purported Sasqutach howls
and screams.
8. Native American history that goes back
hundreds of years with detailed accounts
and sightings of Sasquatch/Bigfoot creatures
and encounters with them as well.
References
BFRO FAQ and Reports from http://www.bfro.com
Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy -
Bigfoot Description, Reports, FAQ,
Articles and Evidence from http://www.texasbigfoot.com
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch Legend Meets Science
book and DVD
Professor Loren Coleman, various books
Bigfoot Wikipedia
Sasquatch Wikipedia
Authored by Robert Kiehn
Written October 2011
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