Sasquatch: Unraveling the Sightings | Monstrum
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Is Bigfoot a benevolent beast or bloodthirsty killer? Depends on who you ask, and when! Regardless, the legend of Sasquatch dates back thousands of years and still captivates us to this day.
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I cant believe you guys have been doing Monstrum for 4 years and havent covered bigfoot until now 😂
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Really shows how they cover the lesser known monsters
That shows how many got damn monsters the world has😭😭😭😭
@@zionkitbutsuchi7322 scary stuff
Was too mainstream and also the reason why I loved Monstrum- Rarer folklores and older ones are covered too
As a Native American myself, Creek, we have known about the Forest Giants, for centuries. Too bad, our history and all our Native Tribes , was ignored, erased, or considered folklore. Sasquatch ARE A REAL THING, IN FACT WE CONSIDER THEM PEOPLE.
When shooting The Return of the Jedi, specifically the Moon of Endor, they had armed bodyguards with Chewy at all times. People would try to shoot him because they thought he was bigfoot.
He also had to wear a high-vis jacket, as well as his security team
Because that area where they were filming at was a Bigfoot Hotspot and there was a sighting there before filming began.
It's only reasonable, since Chewbacca really _is_ Bigfoot (according to the never-canon comic story Into the Great Unknown).
"Hey, here is an animal that is probably endangered, let's shoot it, we'll be famous!"
The government has deemed shooting a Bigfoot illegal
Given that it’s a rare species
Anyone turning in a corpse Will be prosecuted for quite some time
When Return of the Jedi was filming in the Pacific Northwest, Peter Mayhew was told to not wander off while in costume, for fear that Bigfoot seekers might try to shoot him.
Finally an episode about good ol bigfoot. I always wonderd about its more mythical side then its cryptid one.
So true and well said! I'd never thought of it that way before but you nailed it
it is interesting, especially with how wide the range both typographically and theme wise is. This style of creature is world wide, with only Antarctica being an exception in not having native stories. The sheer number of names for the creature, and the general similarities in behavior breaking them into 2 categories makes me think there is probably more truth to it then not. Whether said creature is still around could be debated.
the lore lodge has some interesting ideas about the sasquatch or bigfoot =)
I annoy my wife to this day insisting that sasquatch is the cryptid most likely to be real. If anything, the stabilized version of the Patterson-Gimlin film makes it look like less of hoax to me. You can see muscles moving beneath the fur.
Humans have muscles too 😅
@@melanimatejak6821in 1967 costuming and special effects weren’t at the level to produce full body suits able to fully convey muscular movements under the suit.
@@Dora-hi2nw Doesn't Gimlin maintain it's genuine? If so, it's his word against Patterson's, and we're back to the film itself, which continues to divide viewers almost evenly. Skeptics see an ape costume where believers see a sasquatch. But if it's a costume, it's very unlike even pro costumes of the period.
@@Dora-hi2nw Perhaps to sabotage Gimlin, if the two had a falling out?
The only reason I can think is that Patterson said it was fake to discourage bigfoot hunters from trying to hunt that bigfoot.
It kind of reminds me of the story about the yeti. Where people depicted as a evil monster, but in old monk testaments they were seen as gentle creatures that helped the monks
Stories you hear coming out of Nepal these days from indigenous farmers and ranchers don't paint it in a very gentle light. They often talk about people being attacked and their livestock being killed by the creatures.
They are the same thing just two regional versions, but same thing.... I tend to think it's anscestral memory of gigantopithecus times and I still think, much like coelacanth, one will likely turn up officially at some point.
The timing of this video is pretty impeccable, the descendants of the miners in ape canyon actually found the mine (Venderwhite Mine) the dudes were mining out of. Like a few days ago. They had vague directions from the cabin site left by the dude(s) before they died, and actually found the mine together. Pretty cool that the actual family members of the miners were the ones that got to find it. Granted they were the only ones really that had a vague location to go off of but still. Neat.
Where can i find about more abiut this
@@leonidaspereirafilho499 google “Venderwhite Mine found” and the first link should be via Sasquatch Chronicles, gives a decent rundown on it
That first story about Ape Canyon was one of the first detailed encounters with the Sasquatch, I've heard from MrBallen. From then on I was fascinated with more stories about them.
MrBallen is my go to for the Strange, Dark and Mysterious
I loved hearing about the Boggy Creek monster in Arkansas. It terrified me to go out at night then and now. Arkansas has black bear but they don’t typically reach into houses to grab people.
Fascinating to hear the actual origins of this big guy! I honestly thought Sasquatch was just some kind of drunken man's tall tale turned myth. The truth is even better and more interesting!
Always love how Dr Z picks apart the nature of these stories and monsters, and shows us how they relate to all humans, how they touch on cultural fears and just-plain-human fears too. It feels like the best legends (and the best monsters) cross cultural boundaries with relative ease. A good scary story around the fire, like a great song, just communicates without needing much context. Monstrum and Dr Z have taught me that much: monster stories just might be the most human thing of all!
I spent my whole life until my late thirties scoffing at Bigfoot stories and such due to my own disbelief as well as shows such as this so called debunking reports until my own encounter. Then when I delved into this subject which I previously had no interest in, I found out what gets left out of shows like this. Even Walt Disney as well as top suit designers said such a suit was impossible at the time ( I always assumed it was man in a costume). As well, body proportions and movement differed. Hoaxer claims of many famous examples are claimed by multiple people for the same event. Foot molds don’t match prints shape as well as depth issues. It literally goes on and on. Actual scientific evidence is available. I’m a bit angry that I was duped by shows such as this not presenting balanced evidence. It always skews towards disproving or outright denying the actual evidence. I feel bad now for ridiculing people if only internally and not openly.
Too bad she is wrong about bluff Creek clip,she needs to do research instead of pulling some of this info out of her head
I will say this, I was iffy with the bigfoot legend myself ( despite being invested in Cryptid myths ), two weeks ago, me and my folk in Colorado ( which is a big Bigfoot hotspot ) were driving along a road in the mountains of Rye to get towards a lake we wanted to check out, we were just chillin enjoying the scenery with all the nice and beautiful trees and the view of the road on the right side in view, thats when we approached a straight road, and out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a dark/blackish figure on two feet walking across this road, my mom also saw it too more clearly, I sadly only saw it for a split second, I thought it was a person walking across the road but when i think about it, it looked hairy, tall and too big to be a person, and when we drove by the spot it crossed, it was gone! now for any skeptics, I dont hallucinate, Im not a drug user or have been deemed mentally insane by any doctors or scientists, I dont tell hoaxes or lies ( since I suck at it ), I talk facts, this just happened out of the blue as we were driving, it was too tall to be a person, yes bears can walk on two legs but not for very long as they only stand on two feet to scan their surroundings from what ive studied, and it was no deer either, and plus, this was a road that you didnt have side parkings to where you could stop and look at the views or take a walk, there were NO cars anywhere near close where this happened, me and my mom joked and laughed about seeing the legendary bigfoot, but when i think about it also, I feel like we might have actually seen a real live specimen, but its hard to say for sure..
There may have been hoaxes and stories out there that have been crafted by people ( while others might be truthful depending on the legend or people you talk to ), but I firmly believe now that something IS out there in our woods, watching.. waiting, listening..
I dont expect anyone to believe me since sometimes Idk if i believe it myself, but dont just write me off as some person who mightve just seen it as some big ass bear or some person in a costume, it just happened randomly.
@fishingmasterstudios9481 welcome to the club. Mine was in Colorado too. I was 12 and it scarred me for life in many ways.
@@BinroWasRightdamn, i may have only seen what i saw for a split second, but I am damn sure that it was no bear xD
also thanks lol
I have stories like yours reported to me on a daily basis. Some of the folks who have encounters also get video and audio evidence of them. I show plenty of the evidence on my channel, for people actually interested in the actual factual Bigfoot and want to see the evidence of it, not just hear stories.
Astonishing Legends did a deep dive into the Patterson-Gimlin film and all the people involved. And while it's easy to say that anyone now could make a film like that, the technology available to the general public in 1967 would not have been as advanced. Close up examinations reveal that the creature moves as if there is muscle underneath the skin, something that you wouldn't be able to do in the 60's.
Keep in mind, the tech for making someone look like a ape man in the 60's was the equivalent of making a costume out of carpet and wearing an ape mask. And while films like Planet of the Apes are often cited for how advance special effects were back then, it ignores that A) The cost and skill needed to make someone look like that would beyond the skill of a local horse rancher attempting to make an amateur bigfoot documentary and B) The makeup on the film was for the faces only, the rest of the costume had the actors in normal human sized attire.
Spandex is also cited as being used in the bigfoot costume, and while it was invented by DuPaunt in 1957, it would not see widespread applicable commercial use until the mid 80's. As one Hollywood FX artist put it "...this is either the best special effects ever done, or this is a living breathing creature".
Yeah, that's one of the reason's I told her she needed to do better research, as a Doctor, before spouting "the narrative" nonsense. Seeing is believing, no matter how skeptical you are.
The guys literally confessed it was a hoax lol
@@jjr2568 Roger Patterson never admitted it was a hoax, and while Bob Gimlin stated in 1999 that he thought it was possible that it could of been a hoax set up by Patterson, he later recanted his statements.
The only claims of hoaxes come from 2 men who say they were contracted by Patterson to sell an ape costume & and wear the costume respectively.
However major details related to the costume were inconsistent between the two of them, nor did either description match what appeared on the film (Also the creature was female)
@@jjr2568 The problem is far too many have stated they either made the suit or were in the suit. They can't all be right. The chance of publicity seeking is high here, I think.
I think the one thing that does mess with me on this one is the fact that the sasquatch looks to face the camera and seems to not notice or care about the group of men with a camera pointed at them.
I’m Native American (Muckleshoot) in WA state. The forests are no joke. Lots of evil things in there and bad spirits because of all the things happening during colonization and genocide. Little people (basically evil elves) terrified me as a kid. If I go camping it’s glamping lol I want to be near a city and not alone. The basket lady our version of the bogey man sacred us kids. She would take kids and put them in her giant basket and eat them later.
There's an area near Yelm where the Sasquatch do a right of passage, the challenge being placing your hand in front of a human face without being seen. This region is spooky. And don't get me started on Stick Indians, those laughing assholes!
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No doubt colonialism was terrible for the tribes but I'm curious how the bad things in the woods are because of it, was there no genocide between the tribes or even things like torture and cannibalism? Surely these would also give rise to such bad things
When you look at all of the UA-camrs doing stuff about Cryptids they seem to be mixing and matching the Windigo , hide behind and the rake
The " basket lady " you're referring to might be an amutalik, a giant inuit ogress that captures children and eats them , or maybe the " basket lady " is a made-up lendgend your parents told you ? Please reply and confirm either two.
You finally did it! 😄 I thought when Yeti came out that was it - the closest we'd get, & I was satisfied. But now you really did it!!! I am SO happy! Watching it now!!
No mention of "Skunk Ape". That's okay. Good episode.
@@drewharrison6433 Wonder if that will be a separate episode? Should be!
I would like all these chapters to be in the future seasons of Monstrum.
*Sea Serpents
*Leviathan
*The Headless Horseman ✅
*Phantom Vehicles
*Boogeyman
*Ghosts
*Possessed Dolls
*Shadow People
*Undead
*Goblins
*Bigfoot ✅
*Man-Eating Plants ✅
*Creepy Clowns
*Killer Robots
*Swamp Monsters
*The Mummy ✅️
*Scarecrows
*The Invisible Man
*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
*Merfolk
*Demons
*Skeletons
*Stingy Jack (Jack of The Lantern)
*Gnomes
*Sea Monsters that attacked Submarines
*Alien Abductions ✅
*Ogres
*Ghouls
*Lich
*Cyborgs ✅
*Witches
*Kaiju
*Cthulhu ✅
*The Rake
*Revenants
*Vampires
*Dagon
*Ogopogo
*Colossal Claude
*Spectral Carriages
*Kappa
*Flatwoods Monster
*The Flying Dutchman
*El Charro Negro
*La Santa Compaña
*Davy Jones & the Undead Pirates
*Mutants
*Beast People of Dr. Moreau
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
*Haunted Houses
*Jiangshi
*Ahuizotl
Sasquatch/Bigfoot is the only cryptid that i can't easily dismiss.
I know that there's an incredible amount of nonsense surrounding the legend, but for some reason I can't shake off the possibility.
There are beeg primates in the past which could fit the description, so technically you're not wrong.
@ianmacfarlane1241 Yeah, there is so much rubbish to sift through. The hoaxing especially, but the crazy hypotheses and half-baked theories too. That being said, as they say if only one encounter report is real, so are they...
Gorillas were discovered and confirmed extent as recently as the 1850's, not even 100 years from the ape canyon story, and unlike most crptids the possibility of a large ape species surviving in the vast forests of the pacific northwest isn't all that far fetched by comparison.
Not to mention all the known, extinct species that continued to have reported sighting, such as the renewed interest in the thylacine recently.
Giant kong
Dr. Jeff Meldrum. Look him up.
I was born and raised outside Seattle, watched Harry and the Hendersons as a kid, and to this day I still hold that winking belief that 'Squatch is out there, trying to live his life in a world that is rapidly changing and he cannot possibly understand. He has become a mythical representation of nature to a lot of folks, and is something of a shared manifestation. Thank you for this episode.
I’m from Washington State and I can confirm Sasquatch is real. I’ve seen one at least five times. You’re not crazy.
Correction: Ape Canyon is in WASHINGTON, specifically along the border between Skamania and Cowlitz County. It’s one of two things worth noting about the entire area.
Signed, someone who grew up in a nearby town.
At the time, the entirety of Oregon and Washington were both called Oregon, or Columbia.
@@mathewfinchNo it happened in Washington (Oregon and Washington have become states by the 1920s), but the incident garnered national attention because it was published in The Oregonian, which is probably why there was a mistake here
It's a great story but has been dismissed by researchers.
@@mathewfinch As Kn pointed out, this story occurs in 1924. Not only was the Columbia territory a distant memory, as well as the Oregon Country, but both territories of Washington and Oregon had been granted statehood. If you’re going to confidently correct someone on the history and folklore of their home, the least you can do is check the dates.
Horrible reporting. Keep reading, keep learning. Also, if these creatures are real, they are not out ancestors. Our ancestors are human, always have been all the way back to Adam.
I was really stressed today, seeing that there was a new episode of Monstrum made me smile. I love this series, it always gives me new authors and books to read and creatures to learn about. I love this series!!
I hope life has been kinder since then stranger, make sure to try your best to keep your head up
Glad to see you cover my favorite cryptid, Dr. Zarka! You provide an excellent mini history of Sasquatch/Bigfoot lore here, though this is the very tip of the iceberg.
I'm glad especially to see the Native, Indigenous and Aboriginal accounts mentioned and that you presented the fact that all the various nations, tribes and bands are not a cultural or spiritual monolith. In the Americas, Native beliefs do indeed vary immensely on this particular cryptid. Spirit or flesh, guardian, omen or cannibal, sometimes all at once. The lore, instructions on how to live with them and more go back millennia.
This is also a nearly global phenomenon, as you've touched on before in the Yeti video. In addition to Native American and First Nations cultures there are also Australian Aboriginal communities, Sherpas in Nepal and Tibet, many Siberian tribes, various cultures in Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.), indigenous people and others in Brazil, old European folklore (and some modern sightings in Eastern Europe), Central Asian accounts and more speak of these sorts of wildmen, as you hinted at. Every U.S. state but Hawai'i has reports. Every Canadian province, I believe. Every continent but Antarctica.
Interestingly, in the years after the Patterson-Gimlin film was released Hollywood special effects professionals were asked about the possibility of the subject being a dude in a suit. John Baker, the Academy Award-winning maker of the flexible ape masks in 1968's "Planet of the Apes" was asked in 1997 what he thought about a suit like that being made by someone like him in 1967. He said, "I'm good, but not that good." Janos Prohaska, who worked designing costumes for Lost in Space and Star Trek and had also worked in ape suits for various entertainment productions said, "To me it looks very, very real." That being said, there were others in Hollywood who thought the P-G film a fake. Interesting considering back then you mostly saw a gorilla mask and a cheap fur suit whenever anything like this was portrayed in media.
Personally, I've never seen anything that makes me feel Patty was anything other than the real thing, and I have spent vast amounts of time studying the topic due to a personal connection to it. While we don't have the definitive evidence yet (or we do, but it may have been suppressed, some have posited), the evidence for this particular cryptid exceeds that of all the others combined. Trackways with dermal ridges and mid-tarsal breaks in sand, mud or snow, sometimes for a long distance. Deformities and injuries found in footprints. Bedding sites and nests (especially in Washington state's Olympic peninsula). Tree structures I find a bit spurious, they may or may not be connected. Hair samples have been a mixed bag, but some have claimed to come back as promising. Video and photo evidence, problematic as much of it may be, is copious and some of it is quite compelling (like this from a Mississippi swamp showing very gorilla-like behavior in apparently looking for insects in tree bark: ua-cam.com/video/xb9YcIlkl_c/v-deo.html). Thousands and thousands of eyewitnesses, including me (a tale for another time). All of us changed and often left with PTSD by our encounters. All of us remembering what we saw until our dying day due to the trauma of it all and being forced in a very pointed way into questioning everything you ever thought you knew about nature, biology and what it is to be human, as coming face to face with the unknown does. I think it all gets downplayed and ridiculed for various reasons, though I'm not insinuating a conspiracy either. No tin foil hat on this head *grins*.
The symbolic relationship, the similarities and differences between Sas'qets and Human, that you mentioned are fascinating. We seem much like Yin and Yang to me. Each of us is the path the other didn't take. Each curious about the other (there are a great many reports of their peeking in houses, over fences, etc. and they seem to enjoy watching children play outside per many accounts). And a lot alike but also frightened by the other, us by their elusivity, huge size/strength/speed, skill at intimidation and ferocity, and them by our technology and especially weaponry, vast numbers and how we treat the Earth. Really liked the Robert Pyle quote!
P.S.: For anyone interested in this subject, I highly recommend the Bob Gymlan (not the PGF Bob Gimlin, but he took that nom de plume in honor of him), Hammerson Peters and Small Town Monsters UA-cam channels. They all have interesting ideas and intriguing potential evidence, and mostly represent the best in the community on here. Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum's book "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" is also a fascinating read. He is an anatomist and anthropologist at Idaho State specializing in primate foot morphology and locomotion who thinks after intense study of footprint casts that there is truly something to the phenomenon. And he isn't alone.
Well I'm familiar with two out of three channel recommendations there. Time to go look up Small Town Monster.
As a local, I had to laugh at your opening depiction of Mt. St. Helen with it's top gone in the 1920s when that didn't happen until 1980. I guess no one outside the area would recognize her with the perfect cone top she used to have. Lol. Thanks for doing Sasquatch! If you ever want to do another ledgend from the Mt. St. Helen's area, you could do the spirit of Spirit Lake. There's some fun science behind that one.
There really are 7 foot tall, hairy beasts that stand on two large feet in the wilderness. They're called "bears".
In my neighborhood, we called him Jerry
I think that our portrayal of bigfoot is directly correlated with our relationship with wild animals. During Roosevelt we were beginning to respect nature and the animals in it, then our mindset reverted to animals are dangerous and we need to subvert our will over nature, then in the late 80's we started the mindset of we need to preserve the natural beauty of our country because it is part of our national pride.
@nBasedAce This is an interesting set of ideas. I think they do reflect both what we love (freedom, living in harmony with the wild like our forebears did, etc.) and fear about nature.
I fear that we are going to go back to trying to subvert nature and animals because of increased interactions with them due to us encroaching on their habitat.
There was a movie that came out in the 2000s about these carnivorous Sasquatches that were terrorizing campers at a camping lodge.
What about the telling of Wildboy, an orphan who was raised in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by the legendary Sasquatch. Wildboy and Bigfoot roamed the countryside stomping out pollution, capturing diabolical villains, and rescuing those in distress every Saturday morning in 1977
I always liked the ancestral-memory theory. Ie, early humans saw gigantopithecus, & remembered these giant-ape distant-cousins.
Ridiculous and doesn't apply to anything else today.
@@beezelsub what’s ridiculous about it. It’s literally humans passing down stories from one generation to the other, long past the animals extinction in prehistory. NativeAmericans & other groups had stories of giant hairy ape men, legends that persisted for thousands of years before the first white man was encountered.
The patty "suit" was far better quality than anything made until the 90s, and no one can find the seems
4:36 “Skookums” has to be the cutest sounding name variant for Sasquatch I’ve ever heard.
I was 7 in 1987, we saw "Harry and the Hendersons" at the Aloha cinema…I LOVED that movie. And still enjoy John Lithgow in anything he does. Fun episode, thanks!
I’m a little surprised Dr. Zarka didn’t touch on the infamous “blurry” picture. In my mind the aspect of the inability to get clear pictures of either particularly Sasquatches or the Loch Ness Monster is one of the most fascinating things about them. Perpetually out of focus or beyond reach. I also definitely think the most meaningful aspect of the Sasquatch is not it as a projection of the forest to humans as a monster, but rather a projection of humans to the forest. I’m 28 and at least my exposure and understanding of Sasquatch has been on that more peaceful side of the “full circle” of Sasquatch lore (rather than the violent side). I’ve always seen in Sasquatch the “us that could have been” humans or human like (or ancient human) creatures that actually live in harmony with nature instead of harming it. He (and it’s almost always a “he” isn’t he? Dr. Zarka often makes excellent gender commentary but didn’t here…) is strong and has power, but seems to be elusive almost afraid of being seen or captured; in some ways I think the Sasquatch revealed us destructive humans as the monster.
Funny how the most famous example in video is clear, and a woman.
As Mitch Hedburg famously put it:
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside."
You found it! haha Thanks I knew I'd heard this before and forgot where it came from. Wow, I don't realize how deeply that Mitch Hedburg quote had influenced my own personal Bigfoot lore haha.
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@alexanderportolov - You should see the Harley Hoffman film. Try proving that's a hoax cause it aint
Oh God, all those images of hairy silhouettes with glowing, yellow eyes is enough to remind me of another sasquatch/bigfoot horror movie that was neglected to be mentioned in this video, "Abominable" (2006). It's essentially rear window with Bigfoot as the monster stalks various cabins in a mountainous area, with only a recovering paraplegic aware of the danger and trying to warn a neigboring cabin hosting a bachelorette party of the threat.
And this Bigfoot is truly monstrous: approximately 10ft tall, hands large enough to grab you by the waist, jagged teeth with a mouth wide enough to bite into a human head like an apple. And with everything the protagonists went through just to bring one down (by pinning a car to it), local authorities trying to find the monster's body in the snowy woods after it disappears are suddenly confronted by giant shadowy shapes as tall as pine trees, their searchlights can barely cover any distinguishing features except for jagged teeth and glowing yellow eyes. And in a twist ending, it's MORE Bigfoots/sasquatches, and a backlight reveals their numbers are in the double-digits, leaving the fate of the search party uncertain but more than likely screwed.
That was an awesome movie. Rear window was too.
Snow Beast was an old one back in the seventies. I don't remember them saying it was bigfoot but that's what I took it for.
Harry and the Hendersons is a family classic.
🎞 I loved 'Harry and the Hendersons'-particularly the TV adaptation!
📺 There was also a great episode of 'So Weird' that featured a kindly and helpful sasquatch.
P.S. 🙏 Dr. Z, could we get an episode on the KAPPA, from Japanese folklore, or the immortal, DORIAN GRAY, from the only novel by Oscar Wilde?
Over time the true believers have kept incorporating new methods as they have become popular science. Decades ago it was witness polygraph tests (which assuming it was done properly indicates only that the person isn't intentionally lying), then complicated biomechanical analysis of the wildly varied footprints, then DNA tests of biological samples that never seemed to pan out, and now AI review of video clips. I watched an "enhancement" of the Patterson-Gimlin film where the presenter got very excited by what he said was muscles rippling under the fur proving that it wasn't a suit. I personally didn't see that at all but the basic misunderstanding is believing AI to be a magic truth finder. Instead AI enhancement subtracts or adds based on what it's been trained to think should be there which could be anything the trainer wants it to be.
You have a very good point about AI.
You can’t just say “there have been confessions and even AI evidence the shows the Patterson Gimlin film” and not go into that further
You can just look it up lol. I did. It's all there
Tbh one of the reasons I want to believe is it would be cool to have a close relative still living. To know that for the majority of our time on this planet, we lived alongside other hominids. But in a short geologic timespan they dwindled, until we were the sole remaining member of our genus. I think there is a certain sort of loneliness that comes with that knowledge.
If Bigfoot was real, I don't think it would be in the same genus as humans.
I saw one today, I have photos and videos. They exist, they're real, it's no myth or legend, they're real animals.
Tó be fair its easier to bealive in Than especial if you go out camping in a big foot aera
Well said indeed about the loneliness.
@@jesusmaryandjoseph6 If they were real flesh and blood animals we could track them, catch them, and find their bones. We don't, and we can't.
"WILDERNESS!" - MST3k "Cry Wilderness"
The wild dense maze of the woods! The untamed tangled chaos of the jungles! The foreboding and chilling isolation of the mountains!
These habitats and their haunting beauty are enough to set mankind’s imaginations wild! Wondering what sort of beast to match such overwhelming places lurks in there!
The Bigfoot (and other apemen) is one of the culminations of mankind’s fears and fascinations with the world’s continuing mysteries! I know it’s what keeps me fascinated about these creatures!
There are UA-cam channels that specialize in posting footage of random woodlands without commentary. As a sort of video Rorschach test, Bigfoot devotees make posts about all the signs they see in the videos while I see nothing other than a few birds flitting around and some tree branches moving in the breeze.
Also reminds me of the videos on lake or sea monsters; where a wave or moving ripples in the water keeps ppl guessing if some sort of creature is lurking in there. (Odds are it’s nothing but natural water movements.)
@@dlxmarks This is true. That's an unfortunate subset of the community who can allegedly see 23 bigfoot in a small photo of a forest clearing in that pareidolia way. We are not all like that, thankfully.
Great to see a Northwest legend! Also, just a heads-up; Chinook is pronounced as "shinook".
Washington state born and raised and know so many people who are cryptid hunters. They will love this video.
Harry and the Hendersons still my all time favorite.
I’d love to see an episode on the Lougarou (Haitian werewolf/shapeshifter/witch) !!
You guys should do an episode on the character of Davy Jones
I was reading about him today, and apparently he's a kind of sea demon, as well as a euphemism for drowning
3:25
“Hello, I’m Korg. I’m made of rocks.”
The Ape canyon/Ape caves make a great day trip if you're in the area!
I am so happy to see the Native American roots of The many Alias'd Sasquatch explored.
I am always annoyed by people who pervert legend for a prank.
Easily one of the best shows on UA-cam, Thanks for another great one, Dr. Emily!
It's true that Sasquath-esque myths are everywhere, in Scotland you have Am Fear Liath Mor (the Big Grey Man) of Ben Macdui
@gaz-atollahofrockandrolla7519 One of the creepiest of the lot! I saw it mentioned once that in some parts of Scotland they would only refer to him by his English/Scots name rather than his Gàidhlig one, out of fear.
My biggest issue is that almost all primates are exclusively frugivores. fruit makes up 96% of the diet of most primates. So what would Bigfoot be eating? There is not enough naturally grown fruit found in the Pacific Northwest year round to sustain a giant primate.
@backstagecomics I do get where you're coming from. Primate and especially great ape diets do vary quite a bit, though. Orangutans are indeed mostly frugivores. Gorillas mostly eat shoots, leaves and stems, though, with only a small amount of their fruit in their diet. Chimpanzees, however, have been shown to eat monkeys semi-regularly, and one population studied in Uganda only ate 64.5% plant matter, with the rest being various animals. The various baboon species dine on small mammals, insects and arachnids, other monkeys and even antelope at times in addition to a great deal of plant matter. Mandrills and geladas are more vegetarian, it appears.
Many Sasquatch reports note them hunting various kinds of deer (especially whitetails in the U.S.) or carrying the carcasses of deer, hogs, wild boar, etc. They have also been seen at night on the shore cracking open shellfish on Vancouver Island and elsewhere as well as wading in water fishing with their hands for fish, frogs, snakes, etc.
But even for a hypothetical giant vegetarian there is much to eat in many of North America's forests including fruit (berry bushes are a common place for sightings, especially in the northern U.S. and Canada), shoots, acorns, pine nuts, legumes, mushrooms and other fungi, ginseng, kudzu, human crops (orchards seem to be popular) and/or garbage to name just a few. Something that evolved to feed on all that would be well off in many places of our country. They are said to appear potentially anywhere cover, water and food can be found. So much of North America fits those categories.
Have a great one :-)
The Patterson-Gimlin film has never been properly debunked. Analog special effects of the 1960s couldn’t have produced a Bigfoot costume like the cryptid seen in the film.
I don't believe in the existence of sasquatch, but I love the subject of it. I think there are people out there that genuinely believe that they had an encounter with the creature and I hope people continue to believe.
Harry and the Hendersons is a good wholesome childhood classic movie for me.
Would you consider Thunderbird, Whalewolf, or Horned Snake a Dragon? Next to Sasquatch and Wendigos, they are the most recognizable Mythical Creatures that America has to offer. They also have a lot of Draconic-like features
what is a whalewolf
@@metoo3342 Whalewolf is a mythical creature that looks like a Killer Whale (Orca), but it acts and kinda looks like a Wolf. The Thunderbird considers the Whalewolf as an enemy in Native American Folklore
Can you do a video about how metals have influenced the myths and legends of humanity like being used to make magical weapons, etc?
I'm always nervous when Monstrum covers cryptids because I worry it will encourage the science denial that surrounds them. But this was a good one. Focused on the reason why people are fascinated instead. Which is a very interesting question.
Then we watched totally different videos because all I heard was them saying it was a myth and was ONLY a spiritual belief. The only "sightings" they mentioned were the ones they could call a hoax. They went out of their way to shut down the whole idea of it being a real creature.
@@glennmorganfan9411 I said this was a good one, that they did a good job. That they focused on why it fascinates people instead of cheap hints that it might be out there to get views. I was praising the video. I said I was nervous, as in going into the video I wasn't sure how it would go.
@@yodaspielberg They could have gone beyond the "cheap hints" and talked about expert analysis or unidentified reports/evidence.
Instead they talked about it like it was just a bunch of garbage in people's heads.
I came into this video cautious too.....but I was VERY disappointed.
@yodaspielberg It does make me wonder if Dr. Zarka and company avoided this topic until now because of how controversial it is and because they knew the reactions would vary widely, with much emotion and vitriol displayed all around. And yes, there are science deniers (and others who appear not to understand it) in the bigfooting world, some of them *QUITE* out there. But many of us are people of science who experienced something that cannot be explained in any conventional way and are using the scientific method while investigating ourselves. The latter being as the scientific community at large has never shown much of an interest in this topic for whatever reason. To me that is both very scientific and punk rock at the same time *grins*.
@@glennmorganfan9411 I think I see the disconnect. I was praising them for treating Bigfoot as not real because it isn't real.
I've seen the the painting at the reservation... it's pretty cool and interesting to see how old this legend is...and the paintings there are beautiful.
07:28 "It doesn't take a film forensics expert to see that the Patterson-Gimlin film could easily be replicated by any small group of people with a camera and a bit of costuming know-how."
This statement seems to me to be highly dubious. The subject of the PGF (nicknamed "Patty") is perfectly authentic looking. In the modern enhanced and stabilized version of the film you can see muscles moving and even shock absorption. You don't get that with contemporaneous fake creatures, such as the gorn in Star Trek, or the ape-men in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey. And the latter example also serves to remind the viewer of just how massive "Patty" is. And no one has come close to replicating the PGF.
My chabans used to say they were to first to walk on this earth and they were our guides in living with all creations. Im from northern manitoba, swampy cree
Perfect timing--my 6th graders will be so excited tomorrow!
A really great all encompassing summary. I do appreciate y'all talked a lot about the mythology and folklore more than random encounters. I feel the ones mentioned was valuable without over focusing on it. Now to me modern sasquatch perfectly symbolizes us in a older time and nature itself. Because yes it is a very human like creature but lives in the woods. It gives us familiar, a strangeness because it is us but different and shows the unknown side of nature. Because nature can be beautiful and can be dangerous. You can have amazing experiences with animals but you can also face danger if you don't pay attention and stay safe. I'd imagine they would be like a bear where they will just go by doing their life unless they feel threatened or feel people are getting too close too soon.
Great video! I love how you dive in with the origins of sasquatch with First Nations accounts/lore. The bit about "disproving the Patterson-Gimlin film seemed a bit off though. Of course it could be easily replicated today, but it was filmed over 50 years ago. And *Actual* film forensics experts have examined the clip and found it to be plausible. Also, this video made me realize that I've somehow never seen Harry & The Hendersons!
That was my issue with this episode too. It seems to ignore that the Patterson-Gimlin film was a year before Planet of the Apes, yet somehow has a more realistic ape person than that a Hollywood blockbuster could accomplish
Really? Cause I heard the opposite, that they showed this to professional make up artists and hey said it was the worse costume they ever saw.
The footprints were always easy to see they were fake, as they were too 'perfect': no indication of weight shifts while walking.
Hey! You should do an episode on Lizard People. Think about it. It’s one of the few monsters that people still believe in and I’m curious about the history of them. :3
I'd watch it! I love lizards!
Now, that might really be interesting.
Yee that whoud be fun
So long as it’s emphasized at how often lizard people are used as anti semetic tropes, as I believe it’s modern origin also is. That point is not talked about enough, imo.
@@Caterfree10This right here.
Sasquatch remains my favourite cryptid of all time, love the video!
Hello, Dr. Zarka, I have a video suggestion. Would you kindly make a video about phobias (snakes, thunder, darkness, the number 13, etc) and how certain mythological entities represent said phobias?
I've forwarded a similar idea to Dr. Brozovsky from Otherwords. Maybe both of you can make a collab video about this topic? Thanks in advance.
I would also like this one
I love this series, Kelpie, Selkie, and Harpy would be great additions!
I'm convinced the hairy wild man (trope?) is a cultural memory of Neanderthals and Denisovans and other human species that we coexisted with and even mingled with before written language.
None of those two were hairy or the wild men. They were actually quite similar to us.
The man in the "Harry and Henderson" Bigfoot suit was also the Orginal Predator.
Love the Monstrum series!!!
The Sasquatch in the Jack Link's beef jerky commercial is very funny but also painfully brutal for the individual who is doing the messing.
You do know the Patterson Gimlin film has not been proven to be a hoax right? Its been 50 years and experts are still are unable to say its a person in a costume. This was back in the 60s and the closet thing to it were the planet of the Apes makeup. The guy who made them said about the pg film, "Im good, but I'm not that good. "
Thanks for taking on this topic, nicely done.
The Patterson-Gimlin film is a Rorshach test - if you're a skeptic, you're gonna see costume seems and whatnot. If you're a believer, you're gonna see muscle movement.
Personally, I do think it's possible an undiscovered being could exist in the wild - countless sightings across thousands of years have to amount to something - but I have to remain skeptical as there's still nothing physical to scientifically analyze. Oh well. I guess the fun is in the chase!
Eh, all the people who have done detailed and expert looks at the film, Doing things like pointing out the creatures knee and ankle placement do not line up with a humans, that the arms are to long and other problems mean you couldn't create a costume that would fit a person as well as look exactly like what was seen in the film, have been very convincing.
@@MWhaleK I agree, but I think you might have missed my point; even if you point these things out, skeptics are still gonna see a man in a suit. People on the IFLS article on the PG film are posting comments where they see "belt buckles" and other such nonsense. But they wanna see what they wanna see.
It's all jokes and making fun until you see, seeing is believing, no matter how skeptical you are.
@@BryanScott21your comment makes me think of the Mike and Molly episode "Oh, I've seen him, and I don't like him!" 😅
Didn't those cowboys confess it was all a hoax?
Between the references to the Fraser Canyon and "Cry Wilderness," my British Columbia-raised, MST3K-loving head is spinning right now.
Harry and the Hendersons is my mom's favorite movie
The rock-throwing was just one part of the ape canyon encounter. It doesn't explain the creature that was shot nor the hairy arm that tried to reach into the cabin.
Maybe it just didn't really happen
3:13 Does anyone else get a feeling that the "stone men" share some interesting traits with long-ago Viking colonists?
Also, interesting to note the Sasquatch lore they develop in the SCP Foundation
You should consider looking into the basajaun of Basque legend. Same type of creature, but in Spain, around the Pamplona region.
@PhoenixBeI, so fascinating! The Basajaun and especially the Jentilak are very much in that classic European Wildman tradition. The former is thought by some to be connected to early modern humans' interactions with Neanderthals. But the latter is very, very Sasquatch sounding. Throwing rocks, running around naked and hairy and such.
Wonderful video! It seems that Monstrum will never run out of 'monsters' to feature!😎🔥🙌
Laika's Missing Link will always be my favorite film starring Bigfoot.
Been waiting on this one since y’all started, but it was worth it. Well done!
Thanks for your videos Dr. Z . I’ve followed them for years. ✌️
There are legends of similar monster in my area, ranging from Idyllwild, Ca in the south to Helendale, Ca just north of me , and including the areas around Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear Lake, and Crestline...and I couldn't help but notice sightings included Parts of Hesperia and Victorville, where I live. My frequent joke, as I have a hairy (almost furry, as it's quite smooth) is "I went out to get the mail ONE TIME without a shirt on and the neighbors freaked out
Thanks Dr Z!
It's nice to get a new video from you and a great one at that
I've been hoping you'd do a Sasquatch video.
As a fellow Sasquologist, I appreciate your content
I’ve loved the legend of Sasquatch ever since I was a 15 and saw either a suicidal guy in some kind of ape costume DEEP in the woods of northwest MT or possibly some undiscovered species of great ape.
Either way it was cool, and has helped fuel my passion for the outdoors every since!
One note Dr. Z, I fear that I must disagree with your claim regarding the PG film. I have read multiple studies on that piece of footage (several of them written by skeptics) and most of them agreed that the footage shouldn’t be dismissed as a hoax. The creature depicted does not move like a person in a costume. Combine that with the amazing amount of details that become visible when the film is magnified and it becomes apparent that something very unusual was seen that day in 1967.
I would highly recommend the Astonishing Legends Podcast episodes on the Patterson-Gimlin film for some more quickly digestible information.
Enjoying this series for a few years now, since it's PBS days. Must comment that the name Bigfoot was first used in the late 1800's as a name for Grizzly bear. Look at any bear imagine standing upright in a dark forest and they can look very human in shape. Plus they have a strong odor and can vanish instantly just by dropping to all fours.
I've never considered them a horror creature, I always considered them just more of the woods. I like the sympathetic stories like in Red Dead Redemption that depicts them as victims rather than predators.
the sylvan, the leshy, the woodwose, even Enkidu, to an extent. The Saskets is definetely a similar creature
Entire town: "Hey, you're back from the expedition! Did you find any gold??"
Prospectors: "Uhh...noOoooOoo....no all we saw were...these...terrifying ape men!! Yeah!!! *Definitely* don't go to that canyon. No gold there, it's full of apes, it is."
Dude! I'm from Humboldt County (Bluff Creek is about an hour away from my hometown)! I've been to the Bigfoot Museum, too. I saw the article and everything. This makes me so happy.
Yes! Finally! Thank you so much.
If one "prophesy" is right, some people will still be looking for Sasquatch in 1000 years:
"Is it Bigfoot? Awww, just a flying saucer. Hey, you can't park here!"
Y’all finally covered my childhood (and lifelong) fear. I love learning about my nightmares from y’all! 😅
The truly impressive thing about the Patterson-Gimlin film is how they were able to make such a well constructed and convincing bigfoot costume in 1967.
That does give me pause. Bigfoot looks like a man in an ape suit but that one would be a hell of an excellent suit.
@@anthonymorris9061 Wasn't a suit.
The guy that wore the monkey suit and the guy that created it both confessed that it was all an elaborate hoax. Look it up it's all there. It's over
@@beezelsub I didn't say it was. What I was saying was that if it was a suit, it was excellent. Maybe I should have worded that better but I don't think I said it was a suit.
Not to mention the brilliant idea of prominent breasts.
I absolutely love Monstrum. I realize you get many of your illustrations from various sources, but as an aside, the introductory image of Mt. St. Helens isn't circa 1924. Even in my younger years, I remember the mountain looking much like Mt. Fuji when I saw it from Portland, Oregon. It wasn't until 1980 that the mountain blew off the top and side in its famous flank eruption, leaving it looking like the image we see in your video. I only point this out because I also watch other PBS programming. I would feel remiss if I didn't support the geologists who work with PBS to help keep your Sasquatches' home real. :)