I feel like Lore Lodge doesn't get enough credit for how regular they post. Every week I'm happily surprised to see another new video. Aiden and Aiden never let me down
For starters, there isn't even a myth about feral cannibals in WA. Or in the NW. The most relevant thing, is a reddit thread where somebody talks about it as a cool concept. Dude posts frequently, because he is blatantly making shit up.
It is true! It has become such an establishment in my weekly routine. To the degree that I have made extra time in my scheduled weekly free time to watch Lore Lodge twice a week! It's better than any TV show.
When you live out of town in the Pacific Northwest, it becomes easy to believe that all kinds of creatures could live out in the dense, vast forests without scientific documentation. Which is what I yell, every year, at the wasps who insist on building nests in our porch or inside our car door wells, that if they can't find a better place to hang their homes, in a forest thick and wide enough to hide cryptids, they aren't even trying!
This is such an oddly specific rant that’s especially funny to me given I have a brother-in-law who’s both deathly afraid of and VERY allergic to wasp stings, that I can’t help but laugh!😂
I feel this to my core. I even have an apple tree, piles of wood etc... they always pick my kids swingset and sandbox. I even leave shallow water away from the house, during dry summer months, for them and the bees, butterflies and any community cats that might be thirsty... still they choose the kids' stuff or porches. And im trying to make it easy for them! Gigglesnort.
If the hornets can find a significant food source they will build in the closest safe place they can find out of the rain. Food source? Dry pet kibble,? Compost pile?
Listen, I know this is easier said than done but I highly recommend doing the dishes you use right after you use them. I use to have a dishes day and would spend the whole day doing the dishes of the week. It was soooo worth it to clean them right after use or at the end of the day vs picking a day to do them all. It’s a weight off your shoulders. I know it’s not doable for everyone but if you can it really is a game changer
When I was really young living in north Idaho, I remember looking down into our backyard (we lived in the mountains) and seeing what I thought was a gorilla walk for about five steps before disappearing into into the treeline. I remember it walked upright, was dark brown and had a very conical head. I had never heard of bigfoot at that time and my parents are huge skeptics so they never discussed that sort of stuff. I had a pretty vivid imagination as a kid, but I definitely knew the distinction between that and real life, and remember just being confused as to why a gorilla would be in our backyard. The closest zoo was about a 6 hour car ride away. I don't know what to make of it but thought I'd share it given the video's topic.
My mom does think learning about this stuff is fun but is also a sceptic. However I swear I once the Care Bears! I swear im not making fun of you!!! I was out flying I looked outside and saw this like blob of pink and other of purple behind some thin clouds but as soon as I blinked and looked back they were gone. I have thought about this many times since and I still don’t know what in the regular day sky would make a pink and a purple blob. This was before my mom would watch those kinds of shows infront of me and before I even knew English - I just liked the Care Bears Your comment reminded me of that experience :)
@@Moon_x_sun I know people like to think you have to be crazy to hallucinate, but it's actually quite normal to do so briefly in a way that doesn't interfere much with your life, particularly when the imagination is quite active, when very tired, and in sleep transitions. Once you start paying attention to that fact I think it's easier to notice them. We don't experience quite 'reality' as everything has to be discerned by our living computers in our heads. I remember when I was 5 I saw a cat not quite like ours blink into existence in our hallway and back out. It looked more vivid than she did and her coat was different, something I have since attributed to the fact I am nearsighted and have pretty bad astigmatism and I did not see it with my eyes. Once I am far enough away from a cat to see its' whole body it will start to look fuzzy especially as it moves. I can still remember that 'cat'. We had just gotten our first cat and our house is a new build on undeveloped land, us being the only owners and I have never seen it again, so not a ghost cat. If you find hallucinations interesting, I would reccomend Oliver Sach's book 'Hallucinations'. Working with blind patients gave him quite a bit of insight into the patterns of hallucinations that people see as they go from sighted to blind. Their brains expect input they are not getting from their eyes and they often see people.
My friends family grew up in eureka ca and spent alotta time in the green triangle and all over deep in norcal forests. Never said anything about ufos or aliens but they believed in big foot. They had some weird encounter but no full frontal big foot action... it's pretty ingrained in people out their to be cautious of weed grows bears and strange things. It's beautiful out there but it can be very dangerous
Currently recovering from a medical procedure. This is exactly what I needed today! Really looking forward to this one! 😊 Thanks Aiden you rock dude! I would definitely say that Lore Lodge qualifies as comfort food for my brain lol😂
I don't understand he basically says that the natives and the settlers say something that was not human or was archaic human or ancient human and at the end of it he says bigfoot doesn't exist so I'm not sure what to think?
Your content is in this very hard to find sweet spot where I can both fall asleep listening, or watch it all the way to the end without becoming bored. Long enough for a good watch, but with plenty substance that it doesnt feel intentionally stretched out! Keep it coming!
I'm not sure how long it's been around for but I only recently started noticing the "..." representing that something is being quoted and I absolutely love it. It's a top tier way to visually reference quotes in the style of an academic paper
Real nw folk dont drink starbucks that shit is trash, dutch bros aint much better these days. They were much better when they were just local to Oregon
My friend has been bugging me about going to the new Starbucks that just opened up in town. I told him to relax right at the moment I started reading your comment. And yes I live in N California next to the Redwoods. 🤔👌🇺🇸
I JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO WHISTLE WITH MY FINGERS IN MY MOUTH???? IN *MY* 27 YEARS I NEVER KNEW IT WAS *UNDER* THE TONGUE. You learn somethin new with the Lore Lodge every day 🎉
Hahaha, i came to say the same. It's a fair pronunciation given the spelling, but it made me laugh because I'd never heard THAT one before 😂 - a Greenleafian
You’d think with how many ads we have to put up with during these videos he could spend some of that money on a service that teaches him how to pronounce stuff right. Constantly getting things wrong.
@@lapislazuli-yh9py yes neighbor! How's McKenzie River Valley? I do need to get back there. Theres no place on this planet that's more beautiful than Washington Alaska and Oregon!
Interesting follow-up potential on one point, Lore Lodge. There was a documentary (originally BBC, I think) regarding Neanderthals. One researcher and her assistant gave an example of how the Neanderthals body and nasal/vocal structure would have made their voices higher pitched than ours. Interesting connection to the berry picking "wildman" you noted who "sounded like a woman".
Californian here. I can't say with any certainty that Bigfoot as it's thought of today exists or not. But I CAN say that every NorCal Bigfooter I've ever interacted with has been unwaveringly kind and welcoming to everyone. If you've never been to Willow Creek and have the means to go there, you should for sure check out their China Flat & Bigfoot museum. They have a lot of exhibits from the locals' family history, as well as plenty of vintage Bigfoot memorabilia. And everyone in town is so friendly! Plus, if you're in the area, NorCal has a lot of other cool tourist attractions, such as Confusion Hill (where Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch got the inspiration for the Mystery Shack), the Redwood Highway (prettiest drive you'll ever take), Drive-Thru trees (people love fitting their cars through trees, I guess; I like to go to one close to Eureka that has lizard ponds), and Fort Humboldt historic park (a Civil War-era fort built on a hill overlooking the ocean).
No fossils, no bones, no bodies. Thousands of 'sightings' and yet zero footage despite people having a phone with camera in their pocket for 20 years. Not to mention all the deercams, trailcams, dashcams, drones, CCTV. So saying is doesn't exist is 100% legit. Same for Santa Claus or Nessy.
I like the lighting in your videos. Makes it look like its some high budget History channel show. You know,back when they were still good. Also I love your dog. I think we all do.
Normally I can't get through the current crop of paranormal/mystery/true crime video producers - they're either clickbait-y trash or grossly sensationalised (and that applies to a lot of the big wheels in the game here on YT). Thanks for keeping it real, guys.
Yo so not to be that guy but I'm a legacy Mormon, my great something grandpa was John Tanner the man who essentially funded the Mormon Church in its early days. I just wanted to clarify something you said about Mormons not drinking. That long ago, with the standards and members both so new and different than the common lifestyles of the time, a lot of Mormons did actually still drink. They'd go to church every week, follow most rules but they broke a lot of them too. A good example is my great grandpa on my dad's side who was a heavy drinker and smoker, but still was Mormon. A good historic example of this would be Porter Rockwell. But anyway just thought it was an important note as it still coulda been drinking Mormons! Cheers! Thanks for another great video!
also not practicing anymore, before anyone hops in here telling me to find God, I did, and yes I know he wasn't hanging out with Joseph Smith in the 1800s.
It is hard to conjure up given Mormons aren't suppoused to have a soda with caffeine these days. Could have been drinking Mormons. Well, every single person in my family who is of a faith follows whatever rules they want. Even one of my ancestors was read out of (Quaker) meeting for (gasp!) getting divorced. From what I can tell, her husband was beating her, so good for her.
I was fishing from a boat in Wells Gray Park on Alice Lake when a powerful kerplunch happened beside us. It was a round white patch of water boiling like something real solid and heavy dropped over top. We were about 20 ft from shore and the splash came a little to the side maybe 15 ft from shore, I thought it had to be a fish because it was too heavy sounding to be a beaver clap and ducks don't really do that. If it was a fish I thought I should of heard it jump up before it went back down but I didnt. The shore was solid thick with trees and bushes so a bigfoot could hide easy there, and the park is the ideal spot of wilderness. I also heard a crack from a tree that something real heavy must of stepped on at night along the road I was walking on, shined a flashlight but didn't see or hear anything. I yelled at it but nothing. Animals would of all made sounds of retreat... but it sounded like it just stopped where it was... I kept going but I wonder if something was just hiding from me
I prefer to "Save" uploads of The Lore Lodge for my Saturday morning coffee. However I may have to reconsider due to the coffee I have to clean off my television after a uncontrollable spray left my mouth after the word "Gorillistrations"was used by Mr.Maddox. Not my usual channel for laughs but thank you
Writing this before watching the video in case he covers this: Before gorillas were known to western science in the 1860s they were only known through african folk lore and unreliable descriptions written by the Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator dated to the 5th century BCE (2,300 years before they were "discovered"). His account refers to what his translators called "Gorillai" or "tribe of hairy women" as described by native African peoples as their groups consisted of mostly females and were fairly large creatures with dark hair and rough skin. They attempted to capture some of these gorillai, the males were deemed too fierce but they managed to capture 3 females which were also extremely fierce and were put down and skinned. Those skins were brought back to Carthage where they were destroyed when Carthage was sacked by Rome some 350 years later according to accounts by Plinny the elder.
There was a lot of cultural transmission. In the Northwest, Chinook Jargon (mixture of Chinook, English, and French) was the primary language of communication until the 1930's. In that time period, it was very easy to live off the land, and never have to see other humans if you wanted. Be it a lost tribe, or isolationist cult members from the 1850's, both are possible. Especially in the PNW. Salmon, Lamprey, and smelt returns were easily enough that dozens even could survive off the catch and what you preserve of the catch. And that's even without foraging for berries, nuts, and mushrooms, or hunting larger game.
I don't expect anyone to know this, I also don't think anyone is curious, but for some reason we call it Weezer Idaho, as in if you want to destroy my sweater. Have an algorithm comment
Even though I watched this LIVE, I think I'm gonna add it to my Playlist for tonight. I don't feel like I paid any attention to the video and barely to the chat. Still a great way to spend a Fri afternoon though even when I don't have full mental focus.
I'm from Eastern WA and when I was in boy Scouts, one of our scoutmasters would tell us all these native folklore stories when we were sitting around the campfire at night. Scared the crap out of me.
i love hearing stories from the area i grew up, i highly recommend visiting one of the squatch festivals in washington if you ever get the chance. lots of cool people telling their stories and cool merchandise being sold
While the Mormons of the time would have been "discouraged" from drinking whiskey, the ban on alcohol didn't become complete till like the 1930's after the end of probation in the US.
I was listening to Uncanny's 4th season, which was based in America, and episodes 4 and 5 have a fellow named Fred talking about his experience with a "Hairy Man" in Alaska. It threw rocks at him, chased him around, etc. It might be interesting for you to reach out to him. Or at least just listen to his story on the podcast!
The single largest bioterrism attack in US history happened in my hometown here in the PNW. Also a hell of a lot of paranormal activity. Gotta love it🤙
It's pretty hard not to believe in some kind of Bigfoot-type creature given the amount of sightings and the literal worldwide reportings. It's the hubris of man that makes us think we know what roams in places modern humans have never set foot. How many thousands of square kilometers do you need in Canada to think it might be possible? Even in the relatively small Solomon Islands the prime minister talks about giants like they're an every day annoyance.
As indigenous tribes in America had no written history until very recent times; their history was passed down orally. Telling stories to their children and their children’s children. And so on and so forth. I think many outsiders hear this but don’t take it in past a very surface level. When you take a second and realize that many of these stories are based in fact and are told and retold over and over generation after generation for untold numbers of years. In doing so, some stories can sound fantastical to our ears now when they may very well be factual. Stories passed down from many hundreds if not into the thousands of years. Stories that have what sound to be mythical creatures could very well be stories from so long ago that they’re referring to animals long since extinct. Like the dozens of North American tribes that seem to reference woolly mammoths. It reminds me of an elder I had the pleasure of hearing speak a few months back. He’s a member of the Nisqually Tribe which is a coastal tribe of the Puget Sound. The conversation was mostly about the Fishing Wars and the legendary Chief Billy Frank Jr., but he told a story about how there was legend of a giant who would be seen along the shoreline past the mouth of the Nisqually River, at Franks Landing. Come to find out they did a ton of research and found there was actually an INSANELY TALL member of what was likely a nearby band who people had seen glimpses of from far away and spoke in whispers about it and it became legend. How cool is that?!? I’ve spoken with elders of the Puyallup Tribe which is another tribe in the Pacific Northwest/Puget Sound region. What in larger terms is of the Salish people. They have so many rich stories that few outside of their people have ever heard. To think that some of their traditional stories could harken so far back that there was still a land bridge that allowed them to travel on foot from Siberia to the Americas.. what they must’ve encountered living of the earth… I could go on about this forever, fascinating stuff!
I live in Central Oregon. We have a family here in Crook county that has been using a ape costume to run across roads since the 40s. They were well known for it, and are attritubted to a hige majority of sightings.
The Rocky Mountains alone are a much longer range than the Virunga Mountains in Rowanda where the mountain gorillas were discovered. The U.S. has the 3rd largest forest area on earth and is connected to the 2nd largest(Canada). The U.S. has more uninhabited forest area than most countries have in total area. The fact that people accept that there are undiscovered species of anything anywhere, but reject the fact that there could be creatures that are rarely seen or completely unseen is, to me, insane......I'm not saying "bigfoot" exists, but I challenge those who use the lack of body as evidence against it to go to an area that they know has bears and find a dead bear.
There was a guy who had a corpse of one that he took on tour with his tractor collection to state fairs. All academics refused to look at it when invited, but some medical students stumbled on the exhibit at one point. They were very impressed by it and concluded it was a real dead body and not a human. Also, his story of how he killed it while hunting was clearly a lie given the injuries it did have didn’t match what he said happened at all. Anyways, he was put on a hoax list and everyone refused to believe and examine the evidence he had until damage to the refrigeration case he displayed it in made it start to rot, so he hired someone to make a replica of it to keep the display around, since it was popular. Upon him issuing a notice that it was now just a replica, the Smithsonian immediately sent someone to investigate and discredit him, because that’s how the pieces of shit in the scientific community treat any cryptid. As another example, look at the history of the ‘gilled deer’. It was a frequently sighted semi-mythical animal in Vietnam (I think it was Vietnam?) that western science refused to acknowledge and classify even with corpses of it, claimed its distinctive feature was just a knife wound… until there was video evidence of one alive and using the weird snout slit thing. All this to say, the burden of evidence would be much less if there were people who investigated these things rather than just shouting hoax from half a world away without even looking at it. Many of those who perform earnest investigations end up believing there is something out there, but this isn’t treated as a need for further investigation, but instead as an infection that other academics have to shield themselves from least they fall for the hoax as well.
If you’re going to do a deep dive on the film aspect of the Patterson-Gimlin Film, you HAVE to listen to the Astonishing Legends 6-part podcast on the PGF. They broke down EVERY film aspect you could possibly want to know, as well as every other aspect surrounding the film. Super informative podcast.
Gorilla's do not climb trees and nothing ever comes back from Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is like an artifact roach motel. Artifacts enter and never leave and are lost to history...
You know, sometimes I wonder about animal trade being responsible for questionable sightings. Like, what was animal trade like? Regulated, illegal, private? Plenty of animals have been taken to different countries, released or escaped, and then gets spotted well outside of their natural habitat/range. I don’t doubt that there are other, more spiritual or supernatural beliefs in plenty of cases, just that I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that some are due to animal trade. Also, there was absolutely at least one person in American history who got their hands on an exotic animal, leaned over to their friend, and said “get a load of this bs.” No one can convince me that this didn’t happen at least once.
A note on the Mormon thing -- until the 1920s, drinking was not actually forbidden. It was part of the "Word of Wisdom" (voluntary dietary advice). In the 1920s, the alcohol, coffee, tea, and tobacco portions of the Word of Wisdom (but not the part about meat consumption, lol) became official LDS "commandments" in solidarity with the Prohibition movement. Source: Former Mormon and Mormon Missionary. I still agree with your conclusions though!
A new sub from South Africa. Happy Holidays ☃️🎉🎊. I'll take some time later to go through your videos. You have an impressive list & some just my cup of tea. Actually all are. Stay Safe 🌍🇿🇦💌🙏👍
36:08 I hope you do reach out to people involved with preserving native American stories and traditions about this because a lot of the stories used by bigfoot enthusiasts are to say the least. Either children’s stories meant to keep kids behaving or are not even related in the slightest to any notion modern of in the past of bigfoot. I feel it would be a wonder topic to discuss as it would help people who want to learn more about these traditions and see what is taken out of context and what is related (in any meaningful way)
Hey, Aiden. The story of the disappearance of Chris Metallic is something you should cover. Please. More attention needs to be paid to this case. It's been over a decade with no answers
you should look into and do a video on the piasa bird from my town, they talk about it a lot in the local school district without talking about the native tribes origins
I feel like Lore Lodge doesn't get enough credit for how regular they post. Every week I'm happily surprised to see another new video. Aiden and Aiden never let me down
They’re so consistent and yet I forget every week and am happily surprised by a new video :)
The best part? IT'S NOT SLOP!
They work SO hard!! I love them for it.
For starters, there isn't even a myth about feral cannibals in WA. Or in the NW. The most relevant thing, is a reddit thread where somebody talks about it as a cool concept. Dude posts frequently, because he is blatantly making shit up.
It is true! It has become such an establishment in my weekly routine. To the degree that I have made extra time in my scheduled weekly free time to watch Lore Lodge twice a week! It's better than any TV show.
When you live out of town in the Pacific Northwest, it becomes easy to believe that all kinds of creatures could live out in the dense, vast forests without scientific documentation. Which is what I yell, every year, at the wasps who insist on building nests in our porch or inside our car door wells, that if they can't find a better place to hang their homes, in a forest thick and wide enough to hide cryptids, they aren't even trying!
This is such an oddly specific rant that’s especially funny to me given I have a brother-in-law who’s both deathly afraid of and VERY allergic to wasp stings, that I can’t help but laugh!😂
I feel this to my core. I even have an apple tree, piles of wood etc... they always pick my kids swingset and sandbox. I even leave shallow water away from the house, during dry summer months, for them and the bees, butterflies and any community cats that might be thirsty... still they choose the kids' stuff or porches.
And im trying to make it easy for them! Gigglesnort.
There's a certain ethic group that is paying them to come to your house
Eh, it could just be that they are close to the house and it is more preferred due to other factors. Mainly safety and quality of the nesting area
If the hornets can find a significant food source they will build in the closest safe place they can find out of the rain. Food source? Dry pet kibble,? Compost pile?
Having the "it didn't ask how to get to Bells Canyon" line then followed by a loud ass commercial bassline was just diabolical
Im still recovering from that
Baals=0000-😮😮😮😮
"Gorillastrations" is an S-Tier pun.
Made me stop the video, laugh and leave comment. Aiden deserves a POB for that pun.
Put it on a t shirt
He's got gorillusions of grandeur.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 That is a most gorillegitimate claim.
I bet some people were going ape when he said it.
Lore lodge and the dishes I’ve been neglecting for a week. I love fridays
Listen, I know this is easier said than done but I highly recommend doing the dishes you use right after you use them. I use to have a dishes day and would spend the whole day doing the dishes of the week. It was soooo worth it to clean them right after use or at the end of the day vs picking a day to do them all. It’s a weight off your shoulders. I know it’s not doable for everyone but if you can it really is a game changer
This. Absolutely. @@sadkidsaesthetic7253
I recommend getting a dishwasher, you can pick one up at a bar or buy one at any store that sells them. 😉
For legal reasons this is a joke.
@ Nah, those are soooo hard to come by. You gotta have space for it 🥲
@@sadkidsaesthetic7253it’s also MUCH easier and faster to rinse off a dish right after you use it.
I'm very pleased with the little ellipsis indicator when you're reading your excerpts. Much cleaner than putting the text up on screen.
When I was really young living in north Idaho, I remember looking down into our backyard (we lived in the mountains) and seeing what I thought was a gorilla walk for about five steps before disappearing into into the treeline. I remember it walked upright, was dark brown and had a very conical head.
I had never heard of bigfoot at that time and my parents are huge skeptics so they never discussed that sort of stuff.
I had a pretty vivid imagination as a kid, but I definitely knew the distinction between that and real life, and remember just being confused as to why a gorilla would be in our backyard. The closest zoo was about a 6 hour car ride away.
I don't know what to make of it but thought I'd share it given the video's topic.
My mom does think learning about this stuff is fun but is also a sceptic.
However I swear I once the Care Bears! I swear im not making fun of you!!! I was out flying I looked outside and saw this like blob of pink and other of purple behind some thin clouds but as soon as I blinked and looked back they were gone. I have thought about this many times since and I still don’t know what in the regular day sky would make a pink and a purple blob. This was before my mom would watch those kinds of shows infront of me and before I even knew English - I just liked the Care Bears
Your comment reminded me of that experience :)
@@Moon_x_sun 👎
bigfoot: 'are you calling me pinhead?' -_-
@@Moon_x_sun I know people like to think you have to be crazy to hallucinate, but it's actually quite normal to do so briefly in a way that doesn't interfere much with your life, particularly when the imagination is quite active, when very tired, and in sleep transitions. Once you start paying attention to that fact I think it's easier to notice them. We don't experience quite 'reality' as everything has to be discerned by our living computers in our heads.
I remember when I was 5 I saw a cat not quite like ours blink into existence in our hallway and back out. It looked more vivid than she did and her coat was different, something I have since attributed to the fact I am nearsighted and have pretty bad astigmatism and I did not see it with my eyes. Once I am far enough away from a cat to see its' whole body it will start to look fuzzy especially as it moves. I can still remember that 'cat'.
We had just gotten our first cat and our house is a new build on undeveloped land, us being the only owners and I have never seen it again, so not a ghost cat.
If you find hallucinations interesting, I would reccomend Oliver Sach's book 'Hallucinations'. Working with blind patients gave him quite a bit of insight into the patterns of hallucinations that people see as they go from sighted to blind. Their brains expect input they are not getting from their eyes and they often see people.
My friends family grew up in eureka ca and spent alotta time in the green triangle and all over deep in norcal forests. Never said anything about ufos or aliens but they believed in big foot.
They had some weird encounter but no full frontal big foot action... it's pretty ingrained in people out their to be cautious of weed grows bears and strange things. It's beautiful out there but it can be very dangerous
The consistency of the stories even 100 plus years ago is the one thing about the big foot stories that’s hard for me to ignore.
@@zacharydalton8132 u believe in bigfoot🤭
@@shanehester5317 so? If you don't I think I prefer it that way.
Nothing sets the mood like shouting "turn on the mood lighting!!"
XD True! Is it intentional tho that then nothing changes!? I kept wondering.
Hahaha
@@nanathekatz I was listening and didn’t actually look at the “mood lighting.” 🤣
Currently recovering from a medical procedure. This is exactly what I needed today! Really looking forward to this one! 😊 Thanks Aiden you rock dude! I would definitely say that Lore Lodge qualifies as comfort food for my brain lol😂
Wishing you a speedy recovery :)
hope you feel better. ❤
Agreed.
Im both comfort eating and comfort watching :)
Hope you are on the mend..🙂
Blessings of Health,Wealth,and Happiness..from West Virginia ❤
My grandmother used to tell me this story of watching "the hair man" steal corn from their field. She's from Weiser Idaho, lol
I don't understand he basically says that the natives and the settlers say something that was not human or was archaic human or ancient human and at the end of it he says bigfoot doesn't exist so I'm not sure what to think?
@@dumbvedeoz the gorillq thing could have been a non bigfoot thing
Love all the locals chiming in with their tidbits of info
It’s my favorite thing about the comments sections. I’ve learned quite a bit from them.
u believe in bigfoot
Did you know we have a bigfoot trap here in SW Oregon? Nice little hike. 😂
Your content is in this very hard to find sweet spot where I can both fall asleep listening, or watch it all the way to the end without becoming bored. Long enough for a good watch, but with plenty substance that it doesnt feel intentionally stretched out! Keep it coming!
I'm not sure how long it's been around for but I only recently started noticing the "..." representing that something is being quoted and I absolutely love it. It's a top tier way to visually reference quotes in the style of an academic paper
i just noticed this bc normally im crocheting but i saw it and was trying to find what it ment. thats so smart though
17:10 Mr. P Burns sounds like the name someone would use to prank call Moe's bar.
His first name is actually Mai.
"It did not ask how to get to Bell's Canyon"....😂❤
Knowing the Pacific Northwest, there's probably some starbucks in the caves as well, perfectly tailored to serve the cave yuppies.
It’s the inland northwest
We do dutch bros here
Real nw folk dont drink starbucks that shit is trash, dutch bros aint much better these days. They were much better when they were just local to Oregon
Restoration hardware couches in there too?
My friend has been bugging me about going to the new Starbucks that just opened up in town. I told him to relax right at the moment I started reading your comment. And yes I live in N California next to the Redwoods. 🤔👌🇺🇸
I think you have a very wrong understanding of the PNW outside of like 3 major cities most people here aren’t yuppies
I JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO WHISTLE WITH MY FINGERS IN MY MOUTH???? IN *MY* 27 YEARS I NEVER KNEW IT WAS *UNDER* THE TONGUE.
You learn somethin new with the Lore Lodge every day 🎉
And I also just learned you can bold youtube comments. Wild 🎉
Using both pointer fingers or the thumb and the pointer???
@@InBuffaloi can only do it with both my pinkies :,)
Is there a porpoise for this like what are you doing to your tongue to influence the whistle
@@Rork333you take your fingers- roll the tongue backwards and press the tongue down:)
I'll be the token native Idahoan and point out that Weiser is pronounced as "wheezer" and Boise is "Boy-see".
Awww.. I was going to jump on that ! 2nd place for me 😅
Hahaha, i came to say the same. It's a fair pronunciation given the spelling, but it made me laugh because I'd never heard THAT one before 😂 - a Greenleafian
I'm an Oregonian and I was annoyed at the mispronouncing too. Thanks for correcting it.
I'm so cooked I read wheezer and buddy Holly started playing in my head
You’d think with how many ads we have to put up with during these videos he could spend some of that money on a service that teaches him how to pronounce stuff right. Constantly getting things wrong.
Thank you guys! Born and raised in the north cascades and I'll tell you we have some creepy doings going on here in the beautiful PNW
Hello, fellow Washingtonian.
@supposedhumanmars hullo my friend!
Oregonian checking in.
@@lapislazuli-yh9py yes neighbor! How's McKenzie River Valley? I do need to get back there. Theres no place on this planet that's more beautiful than Washington Alaska and Oregon!
@@audibjornsson6107 gorgeous as always. They're locking up the aluminum foil at plaid pantry now.
Interesting follow-up potential on one point, Lore Lodge. There was a documentary (originally BBC, I think) regarding Neanderthals. One researcher and her assistant gave an example of how the Neanderthals body and nasal/vocal structure would have made their voices higher pitched than ours. Interesting connection to the berry picking "wildman" you noted who "sounded like a woman".
That new cinematic intro was sick!
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I legit thought this said Cannabis in the Caves at first lmao
Ok so it really wasn't just me...
I mean, it IS the PNW, so it could go either way. 💀 Although Idaho is still in hardcore prohibition bc Jesus or Joseph Smith or whatever. 😓
The Ascent. (It's like that movie The Descent but with weed. I know, I ruined my own joke by explaining it)
@@David-x8y1x lol
Californian here. I can't say with any certainty that Bigfoot as it's thought of today exists or not. But I CAN say that every NorCal Bigfooter I've ever interacted with has been unwaveringly kind and welcoming to everyone. If you've never been to Willow Creek and have the means to go there, you should for sure check out their China Flat & Bigfoot museum. They have a lot of exhibits from the locals' family history, as well as plenty of vintage Bigfoot memorabilia. And everyone in town is so friendly! Plus, if you're in the area, NorCal has a lot of other cool tourist attractions, such as Confusion Hill (where Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch got the inspiration for the Mystery Shack), the Redwood Highway (prettiest drive you'll ever take), Drive-Thru trees (people love fitting their cars through trees, I guess; I like to go to one close to Eureka that has lizard ponds), and Fort Humboldt historic park (a Civil War-era fort built on a hill overlooking the ocean).
No fossils, no bones, no bodies. Thousands of 'sightings' and yet zero footage despite people having a phone with camera in their pocket for 20 years. Not to mention all the deercams, trailcams, dashcams, drones, CCTV.
So saying is doesn't exist is 100% legit. Same for Santa Claus or Nessy.
I like the lighting in your videos. Makes it look like its some high budget History channel show. You know,back when they were still good. Also I love your dog. I think we all do.
Really glad to hear people appreciate the effort put into the production of the show! - Producer Thornbury
I love it too! A tie would really bring it together. Maybe one of those printed on a shirt. 😂
"There's a wild gorilla on the loose?!" - Legends of Avantris, is the only thing I could think of on the recounts
Normally I can't get through the current crop of paranormal/mystery/true crime video producers - they're either clickbait-y trash or grossly sensationalised (and that applies to a lot of the big wheels in the game here on YT). Thanks for keeping it real, guys.
Yo so not to be that guy but I'm a legacy Mormon, my great something grandpa was John Tanner the man who essentially funded the Mormon Church in its early days. I just wanted to clarify something you said about Mormons not drinking. That long ago, with the standards and members both so new and different than the common lifestyles of the time, a lot of Mormons did actually still drink. They'd go to church every week, follow most rules but they broke a lot of them too. A good example is my great grandpa on my dad's side who was a heavy drinker and smoker, but still was Mormon. A good historic example of this would be Porter Rockwell. But anyway just thought it was an important note as it still coulda been drinking Mormons! Cheers! Thanks for another great video!
also not practicing anymore, before anyone hops in here telling me to find God, I did, and yes I know he wasn't hanging out with Joseph Smith in the 1800s.
It is hard to conjure up given Mormons aren't suppoused to have a soda with caffeine these days. Could have been drinking Mormons. Well, every single person in my family who is of a faith follows whatever rules they want.
Even one of my ancestors was read out of (Quaker) meeting for (gasp!) getting divorced. From what I can tell, her husband was beating her, so good for her.
Plenty of practicing and non-practicing LDS do drink alcohol nowadays. No reason to think the same, back in the day.
You shouldnt feel beholden to those telling you to find god, but maybe yr just joking, bc it was funny.
I got a lore lodge shirt for Christmas! Very happy with it and excited to finally own some merch from you guys 🩷 keep up the great work!
Laughed out loud at the Bell's Canyon drop, great timing and placement lmao
LOL. Aidan "I almost froze to death once" Matiss calling someone else smug.
I was fishing from a boat in Wells Gray Park on Alice Lake when a powerful kerplunch happened beside us. It was a round white patch of water boiling like something real solid and heavy dropped over top. We were about 20 ft from shore and the splash came a little to the side maybe 15 ft from shore, I thought it had to be a fish because it was too heavy sounding to be a beaver clap and ducks don't really do that. If it was a fish I thought I should of heard it jump up before it went back down but I didnt. The shore was solid thick with trees and bushes so a bigfoot could hide easy there, and the park is the ideal spot of wilderness. I also heard a crack from a tree that something real heavy must of stepped on at night along the road I was walking on, shined a flashlight but didn't see or hear anything. I yelled at it but nothing. Animals would of all made sounds of retreat... but it sounded like it just stopped where it was... I kept going but I wonder if something was just hiding from me
Let's be real, you just have to go to downtown Portland or Seattle and you'll find plenty of feral humans already. No need to go into the forest.
lmao
I prefer to "Save" uploads of
The Lore Lodge for my Saturday morning coffee. However I may have to reconsider due to the coffee I have to clean off my television after a uncontrollable spray left my mouth after the word "Gorillistrations"was used by Mr.Maddox. Not my usual channel for laughs but thank you
I know its gonna be a great evening when TheLoreLodge posts, especially when it's on my favorite topic of historical bigfoot tales
I wouldn't doubt it, these ancient forests can be host many things, quite many terrifying.
Saw this video up last night but it was about midnight and I was not in the headspace for it 🤣 great episode x
Writing this before watching the video in case he covers this:
Before gorillas were known to western science in the 1860s they were only known through african folk lore and unreliable descriptions written by the Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator dated to the 5th century BCE (2,300 years before they were "discovered"). His account refers to what his translators called "Gorillai" or "tribe of hairy women" as described by native African peoples as their groups consisted of mostly females and were fairly large creatures with dark hair and rough skin. They attempted to capture some of these gorillai, the males were deemed too fierce but they managed to capture 3 females which were also extremely fierce and were put down and skinned. Those skins were brought back to Carthage where they were destroyed when Carthage was sacked by Rome some 350 years later according to accounts by Plinny the elder.
I remember one of the your live streams you did, someone, i think it was wendigoon, just randomly walked out with a rifle 😂
Oooo! As a native of northern CA , I love finding new lore! I’ve never heard of cannibals in caves up here ! Nice 😅
My bf just said "I'm just gonna get you a t-shirt that says THE AIDENS"
😂😂
I talk about y'all all the time!
“Bob, you okay!?”
“Guys….. that’s no tail… so no. I’m not okay.”
There was a lot of cultural transmission. In the Northwest, Chinook Jargon (mixture of Chinook, English, and French) was the primary language of communication until the 1930's. In that time period, it was very easy to live off the land, and never have to see other humans if you wanted. Be it a lost tribe, or isolationist cult members from the 1850's, both are possible. Especially in the PNW. Salmon, Lamprey, and smelt returns were easily enough that dozens even could survive off the catch and what you preserve of the catch. And that's even without foraging for berries, nuts, and mushrooms, or hunting larger game.
Thanks for the near spit take! I'm weak against puns and had just taken a sip of tea for "gorillustrations" 😂😂😂
Need a time stamp here because I must have been distracted or something when he said it.
@@newshodgepodge6329 8:56
Happy to be back to more regular content. Couldn't bring myself to watch the last couple. I've been here for a while and watched everything else.
I don't expect anyone to know this, I also don't think anyone is curious, but for some reason we call it Weezer Idaho, as in if you want to destroy my sweater. Have an algorithm comment
Please don't pull that thread, I like this sweater.
Lying on the floor.
I’ve come undone
Thanks for the upload. Needed something to listen to whilst I clean and had no motivation. Cannibals cave? Nice. Nice. Matches my holiday spirit.
8:55 I very much will not, sir!
Even though I watched this LIVE, I think I'm gonna add it to my Playlist for tonight. I don't feel like I paid any attention to the video and barely to the chat. Still a great way to spend a Fri afternoon though even when I don't have full mental focus.
I'm from Eastern WA and when I was in boy Scouts, one of our scoutmasters would tell us all these native folklore stories when we were sitting around the campfire at night. Scared the crap out of me.
Always glad to see the Bigfoot videos. Dont let the true-crime dorks that don't watch these get you down
i love hearing stories from the area i grew up, i highly recommend visiting one of the squatch festivals in washington if you ever get the chance. lots of cool people telling their stories and cool merchandise being sold
Telling their lies 😅
Thanks!
watching this from the foothills of the cascades, exactly what i needed after a long day at work. midnight local time
While the Mormons of the time would have been "discouraged" from drinking whiskey, the ban on alcohol didn't become complete till like the 1930's after the end of probation in the US.
I was listening to Uncanny's 4th season, which was based in America, and episodes 4 and 5 have a fellow named Fred talking about his experience with a "Hairy Man" in Alaska. It threw rocks at him, chased him around, etc. It might be interesting for you to reach out to him. Or at least just listen to his story on the podcast!
The single largest bioterrism attack in US history happened in my hometown here in the PNW.
Also a hell of a lot of paranormal activity. Gotta love it🤙
The Rajneeshees in Antelope?
You mean the Oakville blobs?
@@williampehl5133yep. The attack happened in The Dalles though
It's pretty hard not to believe in some kind of Bigfoot-type creature given the amount of sightings and the literal worldwide reportings. It's the hubris of man that makes us think we know what roams in places modern humans have never set foot. How many thousands of square kilometers do you need in Canada to think it might be possible? Even in the relatively small Solomon Islands the prime minister talks about giants like they're an every day annoyance.
Deep in the ocean lies horrible unknown. Deep in the wilderness and underground, walks creatures of the fallen.
There is a statue of Bigfoot near the Fort Boise replica in Parma Idaho.
I still want to know how to get to bells canyon everyone runs when I ask
PG Film seems real to me! Glad you are going to look at it close.
As indigenous tribes in America had no written history until very recent times; their history was passed down orally. Telling stories to their children and their children’s children. And so on and so forth. I think many outsiders hear this but don’t take it in past a very surface level. When you take a second and realize that many of these stories are based in fact and are told and retold over and over generation after generation for untold numbers of years. In doing so, some stories can sound fantastical to our ears now when they may very well be factual. Stories passed down from many hundreds if not into the thousands of years. Stories that have what sound to be mythical creatures could very well be stories from so long ago that they’re referring to animals long since extinct. Like the dozens of North American tribes that seem to reference woolly mammoths. It reminds me of an elder I had the pleasure of hearing speak a few months back. He’s a member of the Nisqually Tribe which is a coastal tribe of the Puget Sound. The conversation was mostly about the Fishing Wars and the legendary Chief Billy Frank Jr., but he told a story about how there was legend of a giant who would be seen along the shoreline past the mouth of the Nisqually River, at Franks Landing. Come to find out they did a ton of research and found there was actually an INSANELY TALL member of what was likely a nearby band who people had seen glimpses of from far away and spoke in whispers about it and it became legend. How cool is that?!?
I’ve spoken with elders of the Puyallup Tribe which is another tribe in the Pacific Northwest/Puget Sound region. What in larger terms is of the Salish people. They have so many rich stories that few outside of their people have ever heard. To think that some of their traditional stories could harken so far back that there was still a land bridge that allowed them to travel on foot from Siberia to the Americas.. what they must’ve encountered living of the earth…
I could go on about this forever, fascinating stuff!
A good break from the wonderful, but no doubt taxing work on the Ramsey case.
Many thanks
I live in Central Oregon. We have a family here in Crook county that has been using a ape costume to run across roads since the 40s. They were well known for it, and are attritubted to a hige majority of sightings.
i love this finally some more feral people videos ive watched everything on youtube already.
The Rocky Mountains alone are a much longer range than the Virunga Mountains in Rowanda where the mountain gorillas were discovered. The U.S. has the 3rd largest forest area on earth and is connected to the 2nd largest(Canada). The U.S. has more uninhabited forest area than most countries have in total area. The fact that people accept that there are undiscovered species of anything anywhere, but reject the fact that there could be creatures that are rarely seen or completely unseen is, to me, insane......I'm not saying "bigfoot" exists, but I challenge those who use the lack of body as evidence against it to go to an area that they know has bears and find a dead bear.
There was a guy who had a corpse of one that he took on tour with his tractor collection to state fairs.
All academics refused to look at it when invited, but some medical students stumbled on the exhibit at one point. They were very impressed by it and concluded it was a real dead body and not a human. Also, his story of how he killed it while hunting was clearly a lie given the injuries it did have didn’t match what he said happened at all.
Anyways, he was put on a hoax list and everyone refused to believe and examine the evidence he had until damage to the refrigeration case he displayed it in made it start to rot, so he hired someone to make a replica of it to keep the display around, since it was popular.
Upon him issuing a notice that it was now just a replica, the Smithsonian immediately sent someone to investigate and discredit him, because that’s how the pieces of shit in the scientific community treat any cryptid.
As another example, look at the history of the ‘gilled deer’. It was a frequently sighted semi-mythical animal in Vietnam (I think it was Vietnam?) that western science refused to acknowledge and classify even with corpses of it, claimed its distinctive feature was just a knife wound… until there was video evidence of one alive and using the weird snout slit thing.
All this to say, the burden of evidence would be much less if there were people who investigated these things rather than just shouting hoax from half a world away without even looking at it.
Many of those who perform earnest investigations end up believing there is something out there, but this isn’t treated as a need for further investigation, but instead as an infection that other academics have to shield themselves from least they fall for the hoax as well.
If you’re going to do a deep dive on the film aspect of the Patterson-Gimlin Film, you HAVE to listen to the Astonishing Legends 6-part podcast on the PGF. They broke down EVERY film aspect you could possibly want to know, as well as every other aspect surrounding the film. Super informative podcast.
Gorilla's do not climb trees and nothing ever comes back from Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is like an artifact roach motel. Artifacts enter and never leave and are lost to history...
Another excellent show guys, thank you!
John Gooch and P. Burns are such bart simpson ass names man
You know, sometimes I wonder about animal trade being responsible for questionable sightings. Like, what was animal trade like? Regulated, illegal, private? Plenty of animals have been taken to different countries, released or escaped, and then gets spotted well outside of their natural habitat/range. I don’t doubt that there are other, more spiritual or supernatural beliefs in plenty of cases, just that I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that some are due to animal trade.
Also, there was absolutely at least one person in American history who got their hands on an exotic animal, leaned over to their friend, and said “get a load of this bs.” No one can convince me that this didn’t happen at least once.
I'm sure whoever left that footprint was quickly recruited for the NBA.
It's so cool to watch my favorite show and hear you talk about where I live. I live in San Joaquin valley in CA. 😊 Great episode!
I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area for 22 years and NEVER heard of this! I hiked Mt Diablo all the time! I’m sad I didn’t see a gorilla :(
A note on the Mormon thing -- until the 1920s, drinking was not actually forbidden. It was part of the "Word of Wisdom" (voluntary dietary advice). In the 1920s, the alcohol, coffee, tea, and tobacco portions of the Word of Wisdom (but not the part about meat consumption, lol) became official LDS "commandments" in solidarity with the Prohibition movement. Source: Former Mormon and Mormon Missionary.
I still agree with your conclusions though!
Hey, Aiden. Love the vids, just wanted to say "Weiser", Idaho is pronounced like the band "Weezer". Keep up the great work brother!
It’s south idaho, but still idaho, i’ll take it.
Ruby Ridge video when?
Wendigoon did a Ruby Ridge
@ i’m aware, so did Count Dankula
I like your stories and you present them well. Keep up the good work.
4:22 that name got a solid laugh. The direct delivery is what did it
“Well do it live!”
*a little while later*
“We will not do it live.”
Neat to see the original "Big Foot" article and the story of what "Big Foot" is, evolving into the hulking hominid we are familiar with today.
I feel like it’s been years since lore lodge posted (I’m aware I’m here every Friday watching a new upload😂)
Seems like you do some good research. I appreciate your efforts.
I live here in the PNW. I can’t say thank you enough for covering our woods lol ❤😊😊
I have had a Bigfoot around my camp. Your welcome to come camp with me
Holy crap I actually caught one early. Love these videos!!
A new sub from South Africa. Happy Holidays ☃️🎉🎊. I'll take some time later to go through your videos. You have an impressive list & some just my cup of tea. Actually all are. Stay Safe 🌍🇿🇦💌🙏👍
34:31 you mean that science has covered up this entire time
Well done compiling and presenting these reports
4:22 JOHN GOOCH?
Read this right as he said it 😅
36:08 I hope you do reach out to people involved with preserving native American stories and traditions about this because a lot of the stories used by bigfoot enthusiasts are to say the least. Either children’s stories meant to keep kids behaving or are not even related in the slightest to any notion modern of in the past of bigfoot. I feel it would be a wonder topic to discuss as it would help people who want to learn more about these traditions and see what is taken out of context and what is related (in any meaningful way)
The transitory nature of language. Always fascinating to hear the turn of phrase used by press articles so long ago.
BIGFOOT TAKES CALIFORNIA
That would be a great Harry Callahan movie. "Go ahead sasquatch, make my day"
😂 need to pack a bigger equalizer tho
Hey, Aiden. The story of the disappearance of Chris Metallic is something you should cover. Please. More attention needs to be paid to this case. It's been over a decade with no answers
Great video Aidans this is an interesting one 👐.
Do to shenanigans this is the third time I'm watching this video 🤣
you should look into and do a video on the piasa bird from my town, they talk about it a lot in the local school district without talking about the native tribes origins
Omg so excited for this topic. Great pick !!! Thanks bro