Chris and Sam discuss Richard Dawson, Bigfeets, and hyper-aging alien mountain climbers. Also subterranean, humanoid symbiont fungus farmers.

Note: The background music is a little loud but still listenable.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

Jane Goodall, in a September 27, 2002, interview on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday”, expressed her ideas about the existence of Bigfoot. First stating “I’m sure they exist”, she later went on to say, chuckling, “Well, I’m a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist”, and finally: “You know, why isn’t there a body? I can’t answer that, and maybe they don’t exist, but I want them to.” However, the vast majority of evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and paleontologists completely dismiss the possibility of the existence of sasquatch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_trap
What is believed to be the world’s only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border.

The trap is a wooden box 10 by 10 feet (3 by 3 m) made of 2×12 planks bound together by heavy metal bands and secured to the ground by telephone poles. A Forest Service special use permit was issued for its construction, but the door has been bolted open since 1980.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_Canyon
“Ape Canyon is a gorge along the edge of the Plains of Abraham on the northeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington. The gorge narrowed to as close as eight feet at one point. The name alludes to a reported encounter with several “apemen” in 1924, an event later incorporated into Bigfoot folklore. …[and] was heavily impacted by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.”

Ape Canyon was reportedly the site of a violent encounter in 1924 between a group of miners and a group of apemen. These allegations were reported on in the July 16, 1924 issue of The Oregonian. Fred Beck, one of the miners, claimed they shot and possibly killed at least one of the creatures, precipitating an attack on their cabin, during which the creatures bombarded the cabin with rocks and tried to break-in. Beck detailed his claims in a book written in 1967, in which he identified the creatures as mystical beings from another dimension, explaining that he had experienced psychic premonitions and visions his entire life of which the apemen were only one component. …

This story was dismissed as merely kids from a nearby camp throwing stones into the canyon from its edge, unaware of the miners below. Wouldn’t they have become aware of them after being shot at?

…There was another mysterious incident in Ape Canyon that took place in 1950. It involved world ski champion Jim Carter who disappeared while on a ski trip in the canyon. He was with some companions and had then gone off by himself to take some photos. Only his camera case was found. Searchers reported finding his ski tracks in the snow. Carter had apparently taken off at an incredible rate of speed performing jumps and maneuvers that no skier would have taken unless he was very frightened or being pursued. One of the searchers reported an eerie feeling that he was being “watched” the whole time. Carter’s disappearance is a mystery to this day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsul_%27Kalu
The tale [of Tsul ‘Kalu] is one of the best known Cherokee legends and was recorded by Europeans as early as 1823… The name Tsul ‘Kalu means literally “he has them slanting/sloping”, being understood to refer to his eyes…

A long time ago a widow lived with her one daughter at the old town of Känuga on Pigeon River. The girl was of age to marry, and her mother used to talk with her a good deal.

One day, her mother told her she must be sure to take no one but a good hunter for a husband, so that they would have some one to take care of them and would always have plenty of meat in the house.

The girl said such a man was hard to find, but her mother advised her not to be in a hurry, and to wait until the right one came.

Now the mother slept in the house while the girl slept outside in the âsï. One dark night a stranger came to the âsï wanting to court the girl, but she told him her mother would let her marry no one but a good hunter. “Well,” said the stranger, “I am a great hunter,” so she let him come in, and he stayed all night. Just before day he said he must go back now to his own place, but that he had brought some meat for her mother, and she would find it outside. Then he went away and the girl had not seen him. When day came she went out and found there a deer, which she brought into the house to her mother, and told her it was a present from her new sweetheart. Her mother was pleased, and they had deer steaks for breakfast.

He came again the next night, but again went away before daylight, and this time he left two deer outside. The mother was more pleased this time, but said to her daughter, “I wish your sweetheart would bring us some wood.”

Now wherever he might be, the stranger knew their thoughts, so when he came the next time he said to the girl, “Tell your mother I have brought the wood”; and when she looked out in the morning there were several great trees lying in front of the door, roots and branches and all.

The old woman was angry, and said, “He might have brought us some wood that we could use instead of whole trees that we can’t split, to litter up the road with brush.” The hunter knew what she said, and the next time he came he brought nothing, and when they looked out in the morning the trees were gone and there was no wood at all, so the old woman had to go after some herself.

Almost every night he came to see the girl, and each time he brought a deer or some other game, but still he always left before daylight. At last her mother said to her, “Your husband always leaves before daylight. Why don’t he wait? I want to see what kind of a son-in-law I have.”

When the girl told this to her husband he said he could not let the old woman see him, because the sight would frighten her. “She wants to see you, anyhow,” said the girl, and began to cry, until at last he had to consent, but warned her that her mother must not say that he looked frightful (usga’së`ti’yu).

The next morning he did not leave so early, but stayed in the âsï, and when it was daylight the girl went out and told her mother. The old woman came and looked in, and there she saw a great giant, with long slanting eyes (tsul`kälû’), lying doubled up on the floor, with his head against the rafters in the left-hand corner at the back, and his toes scraping the roof in the right-hand corner by the door.

She gave only one look and ran back to the house, crying,
Usga’së`ti’yu! Usga’së`ti’yu!

Tsul`kälû’ was terribly angry. He untwisted himself and came out of the âsï, and said good-bye to the girl, telling her that he would never let her mother see him again, but would go back to his own country. Then he went off in the direction of Tsunegûñ’yï. (Mooney, 1900)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
Robert Holden recounts this story of the Yowie (or Yahoo) in 1842:

The natives of Australia … believe in … [the]Yahoo … This being they describe as resembling a man … of nearly the same height, … with long white hair hanging down from the head over the features … the arms as extraordinarily long, furnished at the extremities with great talons, and the feet turned backwards, so that, on flying from man, the imprint of the foot appears as if the being had travelled in the opposite direction. Altogether, they describe it as a hideous monster of an unearthy character and ape-like appearance.

Another story, collected from an Aboriginal source, seems to confirm the creature as a part of the Dreamtime.

Old Bungaree a Gunedah aboriginal … said at one time there were tribes of them [yahoos] and they were the original inhabitants of the country – he said they were the old race of blacks … [The yahoos] and the blacks used to fight and the blacks always beat them but the yahoo always made away … being … faster runners.

In 1882, Mr. H. J. McCooey, claimed to have seen an “indigenous ape” on the south coast of New South Wales:

“A few days ago I saw one of these strange creatures … on the coast between Bateman’s Bay and Ulladulla … I should think that if it were standing perfectly upright it would be nearly 5 feet high. It was tailless and covered with very long black hair, which was of a dirty red or snuff-colour about the throat and breast. Its eyes, which were small and restless, were partly hidden by matted hair that covered its head … I threw a stone at the animal, whereupon it immediately rushed off …”

More info on Bigfoot (Bigfeet?) and ongoing research into their existence http://www.bfro.net/