Pacific Northwest Bigfoot woodcarvings
There is a very long history of Sasquatch images, carvings and very detailed names from every Native American and first nations people. Check out this gallery of Sasquatch Masks, Totems and costumes from the Pacific Northwest posted on Facebook Find Bigfoot page.
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On an interesting side note, this is what one commenter wrote about the masks:
Ing Mi
Bigfoot, what strikes me as odd though is the fact that 1. most of the masks have disproportionately large ears whereas in Bigfoot reports people repeatedly say they couldn't make out ears 2. in half of the eyes of those masks, you can see the white, whereas in reports or pictures, Bigfoot eyes are always uniformly dark or glowing. No white. So how can these masks portray the same thing that nowadays is called Bigfoot/Sasquatch?
To which FB/FB replied:
Bigfoot
Ing Mi or whatever your real name is... these are ceremonial masks. If you are insinuating that these masks are used to hoax people? Don't think the witnesses would mistake this for the Big guy.
I appreciate the art and the stylish versions in these masks, but that upper right-hand corner one--reminds me of the Zuni hunting doll in "Trilogy of Terror." Yikes!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in British Columbia and spent a great deal of time in the Yukon as well. We did what any kids did and explored the woods. The older we got the further we explored.
ReplyDeleteMy opinion was that “Sasquatch” or “the distant ones” as a lot of people called them were extinct. The stories were to detailed to be lies and I knew the people telling them. A friends father who told us many stories was the one who brought up extinction. He said that had to be the case because nobody you could trust saw them anymore.
When we became teenagers we discovered a secret that would change us all forever. We had gone camping and hiked into a deep area where we had not been before. We felt uneasy because we had not been there before. While hiking we made an amazing discovery an old abandoned cabin. It was one room and we immediately decided to take a look. Inside we found unused provisions including a few bottles of alcohol. We hit the jackpot. We started spending a lot of weekends looking for other cabins like this to not only fill our need for booze but because it was also very profitable. We found a lot of things like old tools we were able to sale to local dealers and others. One had an old cast iron heating stove in it that we were able to sell for a lot of money to us. There were a lot of these cabins all within a 15 to 20 mile radius of an area where there had been a decent silver strike that brought in a lot of people. Now the land belonged to a private company and my friends dad was “in charge” of it. He was happy we were doing this because he did not know we often found booze and he did not want squatters on the land and the big responsibility of his job was to keep people off of it.
Eventually they put a bounty on wolves which determined how we would spend our weekends. We tried to flush them out of caves and found some caves we explored. This is the weird part. We found items that we knew came from the cabins we explored. A tea kettle, table knife, metal tools and the remnants of blankets. We would find wood that had been burned in what looked like a stove. The shape of the wood was how you would cut it for that. The wood looked it was just set in the corner as you could tell it did not burn there as you could tell fire never touched the surrounding area and it was on top of leaves and sticks that were not burned.
We found what we know were burial mounds in other caves. These caves never had any items in them just the mounds. Out of respect we never disturbed the mounds- this area was “wild” and people came to make a fortune. Groups of minors would be one of there own this way if something happened. The trip in and out didn’t allow for a doctor to get in easily or for an easy way to send a body out.
ReplyDeleteOne day we found a big cave and we found another stove inside it. We know how heavy they are and could not believe where it was.
At this time we attributed everything we saw in caves to old minors or hermits. As teenagers we thought- what an idiot bringing a stove to a cave. Later we started to realize that we never asked why someone would bring these items to a cave rather than just bunk down in the cabins they came from.
My friends dad who had told us Sasquatch stories seemed a little unnerved. We did not know why at the time but looking back we had gone hunting about a month before. When his son and I came home he asked if we had gotten a bear. My friend said no I had one but it was really mangy and looked like a guys face instead of a bears. Who knows what we could have caught from that.”
The bounty was soon taken off the wolves and my friends dad kept acting stranger and stranger. He would go camping in the area himself for days.
One week it seemed like he was always on the phone. Two weeks after that a group of people arrived at his house. He had been getting all these deliveries of camping gear. When his son asked what was going on he said “he was taking some men on a bear hunting expedition”. His son got excited but told he could not go. He also said it should take no more than 5 days. On the sixth day my friend was worried and wanted to go after them but we told him if something did happen we would need to go in with proper supplies. We went and bought them but then his father returned home. The hunting group was very excited and had three very very large “trophies” as they said wrapped in tarps. They also asked if he knew of a taxerdermist who could do the job. He said they could name their price and add 20% to not ever talk about the job. My friend’s father was laughing and asked how he managed to stay rich thinking like that. He said he would have ten men of equal skill bidding against one another. He acted like he was offended then laughed and said you mean like the 9 other guys like you who could not deliver. Another man then started asking my friends father tracking questions and my friends father told him to relax, part of their agreement was that he would prepare a detailed manual of what they did to teach their guides and he would also help the first few times.
This is what happened every few months for the next year. These men would come back- we would be waiting because they would ask us to take there bags 5 feet from one truck to the other and then give us each crisp $20 bills.
ReplyDeleteMy other friends father who was in charge of the land was often conned into giving us money for incidentals. We stopped by to get some one day and the same men were at the small trailer he used as an office. They joked about us being there asking if this town was that small.
I never talked about this because their were only three others who knew all the details. One friend who never cared to talk about it and my other two who just did not return to school for our junior year. The one friends father in charge of the land had moved to the coast. The company retired him at full pay and benefits. My other friend moved to Toronto where apparently he now lived in a huge house and had many fancy cars. A cousin who visited him was talking about this in a store one day and was quickly told to be quiet. I asked my friends uncle- the brother of his mother what caused them to move. He said everyone has a different opinion but we know for sure he wanted the good life- the opinion is how he got it- mine is that he has guts others did not. I asked what this meant and he said that a lot of people could have done what he did, some tried but just could not do it, he was able to and he is much better off.
For the next 10 years the land was off limits except for use by guided tours run by the owners of the land. They would bring people in in military type helecopters and would have the latest army vehicles parked to bring the hunters in. The rumor was each paid 3 million dollars to have the ultimate Canadian Hunting experience.
One day all the hunters stopped coming the fences came down and the land was donated back to the country.
Alot of you probably know about this and have heard about these expeditions.
What I want to know is who decided these mask represent Sasquatch?
ReplyDeleteSteve great point some people see what they want to see and it becomes fact.
ReplyDeleteMy story guy, very cool story man. In all seriousness I owned a few of those cabins and want my stuff back! Kidding not old enough to own one of those, but don't you think with the egos of most rich big game hunters they would brag about that. I mean I live near Tejon Ranch where the rich pay $25k to shoot a Trophy Elk! When I lived in Montana we just waited for one to walk in my yard in September.
To Bigfoot_broski above:
ReplyDeleteI thought about that and came to a conclusion when a friend wanted to join the Mason's and got all secretive.
I think it had to do with being a club where membership is very exclusive. You explained why they don'y pay $100,000 grand for the Elk. Its too much when you can get one as simple as you say. They would be paying for an elk- they and only a few others in the area can get. The fact others can also get the trophy takes away from the "prestige" so they pay a premium to talk about going to a destination considered "exclusive".
Big game hunting is about ego. Nothing wrong with that but you are looking for something you can't get from something less than hunting something others dont often do and feel the danger associated with it. They wanted to be the elite of the elite- get a 1500 pound kodiak, a lion, tiger, russian brown bear, hippo, elephant ect-eventually you run out of things. How do you still show your the best? where do you get the next challenge?
I really do think that it was not a coincidental that we pretty much explored the entire area and were doing so by the bounty. Send in someone to look for Sasquatch and they are going to want to find it. We did not think about it and would not see signs where there was nothing.
Many people believed those areas were full of them. These same people had no fear of them and said they would always avoid any interaction. No stories of attacks or anything other than them just staying away.
There was no danger in those woods other than normal wild animals so it did not matter if Sasquatch was there or not.
Do you know that nobody ever talked about prints? This was because nobody ever noticed them- if something stuck out we attributed it to a bear- we had to because of the threat- any sign had to be taken into account. Nobody would dare say a Sasquatch print because that would be ignoring the potential danger of a bear. Even when hunting and tracking there were always better signs to follow than prints.
@Autumn "I appreciate the art and the stylish versions in these masks, but that upper right-hand corner one--reminds me of the Zuni hunting doll in "Trilogy of Terror." Yikes! "
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