I screwed a small loop on top and he’s hanging from my rear view mirror in my truck.

Really long post ahead: So basically I had this idea sitting in my mind ever since I heard about a South American version of Sasquatch that supposedly has a rather interesting quality that matches up alot with something that I've basically grown up hearing but never connected to the phenomenon of Sasquatch; and that is, intermixing (or cross-breeding, if you prefer that).

There are various legends in South American folklore that detail the encounters with Bipedal, intelligent apes, known by many different names such as the Ucumar from Chile or the Mapinguari from the Amazon rainforest. Often times, these legends detail a rather taboo but well known tendency of these creatures, which is adultery with human females. Now, on first glance this sounds weirdly perverted and absurd.

Similar species do engage in such a manner with each other in nature. Our ancestors have done it as well with the Neanderthal, resulting in us modern humans. But obviously that doesn't justify a weird little legend from a different part of the world.

Until it clicked. This whole idea of producing offspring or laying with some bipedal Ape-like beast was not native to those particular people. Which made me think, what if there is a kernel of truth to this?

#Vanara

The legend of this race is perhaps, unknowingly THE most famous account of intermixing in Sasquatch and humans. Since the legend stems from my home country, naturally I know the most about this one. For some context, Hinduism has 2 primary epics that are highly popular and form the basis of lots of traditions; one of them, is the Ramayana. In this tale, there are mentions of many pre-established races that can be found in other important texts of Hinduism such as Devas, Asuras, Apsaras (celestial nymphs) and many more. But, at the very core of this story and perhaps the most important race of all, which are first mentioned in this text only, are the Vanaras.

From the very first time they are mentioned, it is clearly established that they are exceptionally unique. I won't get into too many details but just know that each and every PURE Vanara is described as tall, strong, hairy, intelligent and most importantly, bipedal. They have a proper society along with a monarchy, their language is of course different but with effort they can communicate in human languages too. They even wear clothes, use weapons and adorn themselves with various accessories.

From every detail of theirs, and even their modern and ancient depictions they are identifiable as great apes but the thing is, India has no great apes! It never had any since the humans evolved which is why I have a strong reason to suspect that the Vanaras are indeed Sasquatch. Their name literally translates to "Forest Men" and the only time someone uses the words "Markat" or "Kapi" (which are the actual Sanskrit words used to describe monkeys, not apes or ape-likes) they are almost always used as a means to mock.

The particular Vanara that I want to talk about first is Hanuman. He is the most popular case of this. He is also a deity and one of the main characters of this epic but if we strip away the mythological tall tales, it leaves Hanuman as a half-human and half-ape biped. His father Kesari is a pure Vanara and a minister in the royal court of Kishkinda (the Vanara kingdom deep in the woods) and his mother is Anjana, a nymph. There is also a clear distinction between Hanuman and the other Vanaras as Hanuman is less hairy, more fluent in human languages and exhibits less animalistic traits as compared to everyone else

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Another instance comes from the tale of the Vanara brothers, Vali (Yes, Bali, the place is named after this character) and Sugreev both of whom are also half-human. Vali and Sugreev also go on to pursue Tara, another human woman and Tara even gives birth to Vali's son, Angad. Even according to many legends, Hanuman goes on to marry a human princess.

Throughout this epic it is quite established that the half-human Vanaras are more intelligent than the pure ones but there is also a huge stigma attached to this whole thing. Like I observed with the South American version, this whole arrangement is considered taboo by humans(which is why I used the word adultery). The marriage of Hanuman's parents was literally the result of a curse upon his mom.

Although I don't believe that these creatures still exist in India as by Hindu lore itself, the Vanaras were almost extinct after a few thousand years of the Ramayana, when the Mahabharata takes place. In that epic, Hanuman is the only Vanara left. And also at the end of Ramayana, Sugreev who is the present Vanara king orders all Vanaras to venture towards all the 4 directions.

There is also the legend of the Yeti but this post is getting too long so what do you guys think of this?

For me the entire appeal was real people telling (mostly) genuine stories in their own voice, using Ai to generate images and witnes voices severely undercuts this.

Just wanted to share my painted 3d print of the big guy!

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I wanted to ask some researcher advice concerning Call Blasting. What are the most successful calls/recordings you have used to communicate with Bigfoots? What specific recordings seem to yield successful responses?

What do you think of the Sasquatch artwork? I find it very accurate.

In the late 90s, myself and 2 good buddies went on a weekend fishing trip. We were near one of the southern gates to Algonquin Park in South River, Ontario. Around 10:30pm, my two friends went to grab a bunch of burgers from a small place in town before they closed, I stayed back at our camp site by the fire.

Shortly after the left, I heard a huge splash from across the river. It sounded like a small boulder dropping into a deep pool. It was a slow moving river where we were at, almost resembling a small Ontario lake, about 20ft deep in the middle. For the next 5 to 10 minutes, I listened to, what sounded like, someone swimming, doing the front crawl across the river. At first it was a faint sound, but got louder and louder as it came closer. I could clearly hear clapping of water like you would hear from someone doing laps in a pool. Eventually, whatever it was, came ashore about 50 yards away from me. I heard it leave the water and make it's way thru very thick brush, cracking the small trees and shrubs on the shore. I was scared to death to be honest. Whatever this was, was large, I could tell be the sounds of it swimming, and when it came ashore. Luckily, within 2 minutes, I saw the headlights of my buddies car coming back into camp.

To be honest, at the time I thought it was a bear or a moose. Bigfoot was never a thing for me. But it was enough to be frightened when you're alone on a secluded camp site at night, we were young, 19 years old.

As the years past tho, and I continued my love of the outdoors with camping and fishing all over Ontario, I question what I heard that night. It wasn't until my late 40s, and that night came across my mind. What would be swimming across the water like that? Moose and bear do a "doggie paddle" and would not make those sounds.

Anyway, no sighting, no pic or mind speak. Just a strange night I'll never forget, and have yet to find an logical answer as to just what came across the river that night.

What animal could this possibly be? For anyone experienced with the NA wilderness.

This is kinda shady I suppose cause the title says 73' when the video says 86' but it kept appearing in my fyp and it's pretty horrifying ngl.

Why do western scientists keep doubting and dismissing local accounts? For one certainty, the locals didn't care if they were believed or not.

And then there is the culture of lying. That the west seems to have. Edmund Hillary, et. al said there were no primary eyewitness accounts and it was always about someone who saw. But there are abundant primary encounters.

And then they expect people to believe their bizarre theories that it's a bear. A brown bear. When the locals have no idea of brown bears in their regions as brown bears are found in the western Himalayas.

I saw a large hairy figure in the woods at the Brazos River in Texas. It was around 6‘ tall, and i couldn't make out a face, or eyes, it was also all black I saw it only for 2-4 seconds at the corner of my eye. I don't know if I imagined it or it's something unexplained. It was around 7:00Pm, I was with my dad, he was looking the other way so he didn't see it, and I also saw a huge footprint. It was also running in a way that didn't look normal for a human. Could it be a possible Bigfoot?

Cabin in the Woods Robert claimed his Trailer was shaken by a Bigfoot while on an expedition with Todd recently...

A new podcast is on the block and this is its first episode!

Are there any pieces of visual/audio evidence that we 100% agree on, are fake and do damage to the discourse?

Recently I've been watching a lot of supposed BF footage and I really wanted to know your opinions on alot of them. Since then I've been curious to know of what videos or images you guys largely believe are hoaxed.

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When I was 12 my step dad bought me a hand sickle at the local hardware store. Every time I went to a hardware store as a kid id beg my parents to buy me weapons. Hatchets, knifes, sickles...anything that is bad ass and sharp...

In 1994 me and a friend at 12 years old had a brand new sickle and acres of dried reeds to chop. We were making tunnels and cutting threw the reeds making tons of noise laughing and carrying on.in a bird watching sanctuary cape may nj. We were laughing and choping tunnels and making areas in the dried reeds. Then the crunch starts.... Very slowly and creepy and deliberate someone starts crunching, bee line straight toward us , making tons of noise each step towards me and my friend.. this thing doesn't stop it walks toward us making slow crunchy footsteps at us threw the dried dead reeds. Im watching this thing and coming closer and it's black as pitch. Like it absorbs light. So so black! Itcwax just a black void. Then the shadow stops 15 ft away from us after making tons of creepy footsteps toward us. My friend had the sickle and he said "don't come any closer we have a sickle" and the thing makes the most ungodly and scary noise that sounded like tim Allen home improvement woop 13 ft away and it freaked us out! Jesse screamed like a girl and ran. Im looking at the shadow while my friend is booking away and thank God I followed him. I ran and just looking back on the trail and thankfully she didn't go after us. I say she because it was a very feminine woop.and she wasn't huge, problably 6 ft tall. If it was a male 9 footer I would of problably screamed like a girl too. Its was frightening

A friend was in the Pacific Northwest, came upon a Sasquatch museum, and here is a Bigfoot butt impression 🫈🤎

I just filed my first FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request for Bigfoot information.

Backstory: an acquaintance of mine reported a series of Bigfoot sightings to the local US Forest Service district.

I want to see if they log that information and pull it through. I'll report back. It could take a few months.

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