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Sasquatch, A Walk-In? |
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| Diego Antolini |
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Sightings
of creatures halfway between man and ape have been part of human
history since the dawn of time. With the modern man, these sightings
took a different perspective as the difference between the two
species became more marked.
A
Meh-Teh
or
a Kangmi
of Central Asia could go unnoticed in remote times, not so much for
the appearance but rather for the way of living and the eating
habits, with the evolution of industry and technology bipedal
creatures covered with fur that walk bare feet among the frozen peaks
of the Himalayas, in the impenetrable forests of North America and
Canada, or in the midst of the marshes of Mato
Grosso,
they create at least curiosity.
The
first traces found on the ground are from the Himalayas peaks, where
Colonel Waddell was on a hunting trip. It was 1887.
In
1902 a group on twelve men on the border between Tibet and Sikkim
disappeared without trace. A
group of Indian military sent on the rescue found and killed a
semi-human creature which was sent at the closer Empire’s official
in charge, Sir Charles Bell. What
happened next never made it to the official archives or there is no
evidence left of it.
In
1920 an expedition on the Northern part of Mount Everest led by
Colonel C.K. Howard-Bury observed from the distance a group of
figures moving along the snowy peaks above them.
Once
they arrived there with great effort, they could only see gigantic
footprints (“three times that of a human being”, Colonel
Howard-Bury said.) The Sherpa guides immediately uttered the name of
“Metoh-Kangmi”
or, translated from the Tibetan, “The Human Creature” (Kangmi)
or “The living thing” (Meh-Teh),
which was further elaborated by the linguists into “A living thing
similar to human which is not a human being”. But at that time the
word “Metoh”
associated with “Kangmi”
which wasn’t a Tibetan but a Chinese word, was used colloquially to
indicate a “Snow creature”.
During
the transcription of the telegraphic message from Tibet to India the
word “Metoh”
was erroneously changed into “Metch”.
A certain Henry Newman, an expert journalist for the Calcutta
Statesman
was consulted to have an English translation of “Metch
Kangmi”.
Newman didn’t miss the chance and coined the term still used today
to describe the missing link between man and monkey: the Abominable
Snowman, or Yeti. In
North America a similar creature was already known by the Western
native tribes of British Columbia: Quebec, Northwest Territories,
Yukon (Canada), Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Western California
(USA) by the names of Sasquatch
and Oh-Mah
(or “Bigfoot”).
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The
first reports date back to 1860, but the testimony that made the
white population open its eyes to the existence of these creatures
comes from 1884. Before this date, Native American tribes were
thought to be the only inhabitants of the forests. In 1884 a group of
men from the woods captured a creature very similar to a human were
it not for the thick fur covering its body, for his superhuman
strength, and for his long arms. The creature was nicknamed “Jacko”
and he was captured in the unexplored territories of British
Columbia, between the towns of Yale and Lytton. Jacko remained in
captivity for some time (in 1946 a journalist interviewed an old
citizen of Lytton who still remembered the creature). 
A copy of the original Daily Colonist journal that published the article about Jacko on July 1884
At
present Jacko seems to be the only documented case of a Sasquatch
being captured by white men. Others
sightings of wild-men followed in 1901,1904 and 1907. In
1920 J.W. Burns put together all the local legends he was able to
collect, and published a series of articles for the Canadian
magazines. Each
tribe, each dialect had a different name for this woods creature.
Burns, trying to unify the subject, coined the term “Sasquatch”,
a name deriving from the Halkomelem dialect “Sasq’ets”. Burnes’s
articles made this name famous in Canada first, and then in the USA.
Later
on, strange gigantic footprints were found in different places of the
mountain forests between Washington State and Northern California, as
the bulldozers violated these territories cutting trees, building
roads and houses.
These
footprints gave the nickname of “Bigfoot” to the Sasquatch
(Oh-Mah
in the dialect of the local tribes) and with this the first hunters
of the creature were born (1958). The
first video of a Sasquatch
showing the creature walking towards the forest is from 1967, when
Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin recorded the creature on film near
Bluff Creek, California. Several
years later, however, Bob Heironimus, who knew Patterson, came
forward claiming that he had worn a gorilla costume to make the
footage. This statement seems controversial since hundreds of people
have declared the same thing.
How
to explain the existence of a non-human creature who does not behave
like a monkey, and doesn’t live in the regions usually inhabited by
Pongids?
The
Western scientific community has for the most part ignored the
testimonies of these creatures who are reported from almost every
part of the world, attributing them to well-concocted hoaxes or wrong
identification of known animals (especially wolves and bears, in
addition to monkeys). Other
researchers suggest that Sasquatch,
Big Foot and the Yeti
may have paranormal powers, such as the ability to read minds, to
move between different dimensions or to shape-shift. Due
to the large number of hoaxes on this subject it is not easy to tell
fake from real tracks, which nonetheless remain at present the most
concrete evidence about the existence of these creatures. But, as
Ivan T. Sanderson said in his study (Abominable
Snowmen,
1961), which is to me the most complete work after Heuvelman’s,
there wouldn’t be anything mysterious in the existence of the
Sasquatch.
Having
ascertained the existence of sub-humans and sub-hominids in certain
remote areas of the world (Neanderthals
in eastern Eurasia, pygmies in subtropical forests, and great
creatures without any "culture" in the human sense of the
term that still survive in North and South America, in the highlands
of Tibet and in the Indochinese peninsula) and that our planet has
not yet been fully charted - in spite of what we are made to believe
- nor explored in every part of it, how can we dismiss the existence
of these creatures halfway between man and ape which bear no affinity
with neither one? |
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Most
of the modern reports are almost exclusively hoaxes perpetrated to
self-styled researchers or enthusiasts, like for example the scams
Tom Biscardi suffered in 2005 and 2008 made by Rick Dyer and Matthew
Whitton. After publishing online an alleged video of a Bigfoot
corpse, Biscardi’s company, Search For Bigfoot Inc.) sent them
$50,000 to obtain the cadaver. After opening the coffin, however,
every part of the corpse was immediately proven to be a fake.
Grover
Krantz and Geoffrey Bourne believe that the Bigfoot could be a
descendant of the Gigantopithecus,
whose natural habitat was China but that, across the Strait of
Bering, could have migrated to Alaska, and then down to Canada and
North America (as a lot of animals and human species did.) The
detractors of this hypothesis argue that the enormous mass of the
Gigantopithecus
would have made its bipedal posture impossible, and that it was not a
hominid but a Pongid.
Primatologist
John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg have suggested that
the Bigfoot could be a type of Paranthropus,
although fossils of this creature have only been found in Africa. Others
speculate it could be a Neanderthal
or a Homo
Erectus,
but no discovery of these two species of Hominids has been reported
in America.
In
general, the scientific community denies the existence of the Bigfoot
(or other similar creatures) since there is no physical evidence that
prove that a bipedal, prehistoric creature similar to a monkey but
bigger in size has ever been found.
We
can not deny the truth of this statement, but then why, as
anthropologist David Daegling says, “...we see the Bigfoot where
such an animal doesn’t exist?”
This
is certainly the biggest mystery, as the most ancient cultures of
every continent have legends about these creatures, and are very
reluctant to talk about them. Especially
in Tibet, Himalaya and in the mountain massif of Sichuan Province,
China, local population has known about the presence of the “Man
that is not a man” for millennia. They fear him and they worship
him, keeping its secrets closely.
An
hypothesis that has never been taken much into consideration in the
past but that, after all we wrote above would be worth considering,
is that the Sasquatch
and similar creatures live in “dimensional bubbles” halfway
between our reality and another. This way they could be able to move
freely across the Space-Time, making their capture nearly impossible.
That
these “dimensional bubbles” or Stargates exist on Earth is
certain. They are located at the junctions between the most important
energy lines around the planet, the Ley
Lines. Now,
how these portals are activated is yet to be discovered, but surely
in these areas strange and anomalous phenomena occur like spirals in
the sky, missing time events, numbness, ESP phenomena, sightings of
strange objects, strong feelings of depression and anxiety (as
reported by many on and around Mount Shasta, California; Ben McDhui,
Scotland; some areas of the Sibillini Mountains, the Gran Sasso
massif, and the Pizzo Scalino in the Valmalenco area, Italy, etc.)
So
why not to consider the fact that this bipedal creature is able to
adapt its vibrational frequencies to more than one dimension? The
"rational" people of the West started to be aware of this
cryptid only a century ago, but the populations that have lived and
interacted for millennia with the Canadian Sasquatch
and the North American Big Foot/Oh-Mah,
the Nepalese Me-Teh,
the Tibetan Dzu-Teh
or the Chinese Kangmi,
know that they are dealing with something so elusive to defy the laws
of our physical reality. |
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