Who Were the Ape Men of Appalachia?

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  • @TheLoreLodge
    @TheLoreLodge  2 місяці тому +55

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  • @JE4-1
    @JE4-1 2 місяці тому +451

    I grew up in the mountains and was terrified of this dude when I was a kid. He was my boogeyman. Now I listen to his story while I drift to sleep. Love it!

    • @Farm_Emo
      @Farm_Emo 2 місяці тому +104

      I didn't think Aiden was that scary.

    • @benpyke-rn6xx
      @benpyke-rn6xx 2 місяці тому +11

      @@Farm_Emolol

    • @HorusHawks
      @HorusHawks 2 місяці тому +30

      I live in Chattanooga, TN and was born in a tiny town called Rossville, GA…it shares a border with Chatt. The town in GA is named for Chief John Ross because he lived there and his house still stands in the middle of town. He was chief of the Cherokee, and Chattanooga has incorporated his legacy into many aspects of the town, including our riverfront park named Ross’ Landing. My grandfather looked full blooded Cherokee, he got it from his grandmother, Mourning Dove. When he settled in Chatt after the war, it was only natural he would build a house on Lookout Mountain, in the middle of the woods. There was a trail from his house to the waterfall just up the hill, and if you were agile, you could follow the creek to the top of the mountain. I roamed all over the mountain as a kid (I can’t imagine a world where I’d ever let my son even go to the waterfall by himself!). Anytime I went into the woods, he’d stop me and tell me to use my eyes and ears. He never said Bigfoot, he just would say that I was safe because we were surrounded by civilization up there, but he said to still be safe. I was obsessed with cryptids growing up, so I would press him about it regularly. He ALWAYS told me his stories…he hated opossums because he was trying to retrieve one from under a tub and it attacked him, leaving a scar on his ankle 60 years later. When his favorite dog came home and died because something in the woods ripped his throat to the point all he could do was come home and die. Junior was a great dog! But when it happened, I heard him mutter, “He gotcha, boy. I’m so sorry”, and then he wrapped him in a blanket and sat in the driveway and held him. Two days later I finally asked him who “He” was. He said, “I don’t think the Cherokee has a name for him, but my grandma said they called him Tsul 'Kalu. I think they meant what they’re calling Bigfoot now. They respected him, but feared him. She said she thought they even used to trade with them by leaving a dressed deer in the woods, and then they’d return and find one of several different things, like a pile of fish or wood that had been busted up to where they could easily tote it back. I don’t know, but I grew up fearing him.” I asked if he ever saw one, and he said no, but regularly if they were deep in the woods, hunting, and they strayed too far into areas they didn’t normally frequent, rocks bigger than they could lift would crash through the trees. Not close to them, but always to the sides. He figured they were warning them off. And he told me another story about finding a full grown hog, slaughtered, missing its back legs, that was thrown on top of the barn. He said they were pretty nonplussed about it because they knew what happened. So I also grew up with your fear of something in the woods, @dko61. Sorry for the wall of text, I didn’t realize when I started typing, that I had this much bouncing around in my head, lol.

    • @shawn1364
      @shawn1364 2 місяці тому +11

      I thought he was talking about Danny Devito from the opening.

    • @zeus2213
      @zeus2213 2 місяці тому +5

      Damn you ​@Farm_Emo !!! You stole my joke

  • @T3nch1
    @T3nch1 2 місяці тому +305

    Lore Lodge: "The Wendigo may, depending on the story, also be a giant."
    Wendigoon: *G I A N T ?*

    • @moriahmelon
      @moriahmelon 2 місяці тому +2

      where can i watch the giant video everyone speaks of 😭😭

    • @whiskeymarie9560
      @whiskeymarie9560 2 місяці тому +9

      @@moriahmelonI think it's just a running joke from a Bible video where they mention giants but now it comes up whenever he sees the word giants 😂

    • @x-xPhobia
      @x-xPhobia 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@moriahmelon I wish he had one but i think because the belief is most likely that angels came to earth and bred with humans and those were the giants, he cant make a fully serious video on it lol. Its kind of like the christian version of believing in aliens.

    • @ssokolow
      @ssokolow 2 місяці тому +6

      @@x-xPhobia ...and, funny enough, it's a biblical retcon so old that most people don't know it's a retcon. TREY the Explainer has a video on the nephilim which goes into how we've managed to recover scraps of ancient biblical texts that show that, back in the days when Judaism was monolatric (Multiple gods exist, but we only workship one), "nephilim" was how they fitted demigods like Hercules/Herakles into their belief system and "elohim" really WAS a plural ("In the beginning, the gods created the heavens and the earth").

    • @bananashoplifter3440
      @bananashoplifter3440 Місяць тому

      He has kind eyes!

  • @DFAMPODCAST
    @DFAMPODCAST 2 місяці тому +178

    I grew up in North Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains. My neighbor was in his 70s and had a great story about his camp being stalked by a Wild Man. It freaked us all out and when we went camping we always ALWAYS set "traps" for them. By traps I mean sticks tied to cans.... we were kids lol.

    • @TheRealRusDaddy
      @TheRealRusDaddy 20 днів тому

      The string and cans is a time tested classic at the least it gives you time to react or will just scare whatevers too close off

  • @Revolver1701
    @Revolver1701 2 місяці тому +116

    She said, “The cave was very nice but I just didn’t like the granite countertops.”

    • @LOGOS_Official
      @LOGOS_Official 2 місяці тому +16

      Man been unable to please women since Adam and Eve.

    • @Revolver1701
      @Revolver1701 2 місяці тому +4

      @@LOGOS_Official yep. 🤣

    • @loganwalters5613
      @loganwalters5613 2 місяці тому +2

      Lol! Both of yalls comments are gold 😂

    • @jeffseidl
      @jeffseidl Місяць тому +3

      So, she painted them charcoal.

    • @tortureddummies1672
      @tortureddummies1672 Місяць тому +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @tinymoonraccoon2908
    @tinymoonraccoon2908 2 місяці тому +112

    I know this will probably be lost in all the comments, but the story that's mentioned around the 17:00 mark about the boy being kidnapped by a wendigo, has a Norwegian equivalent! Except the boy in the Norwegian folktale is kidnapped by visually impaired trolls and fools them by making them slice an iron nail instead of his finger until he is ready to escape. It's probably not super interesting, but it's always fascinating to see what sort of tropes different cultures have in common. Anyways, great video!

    • @fynnwhite
      @fynnwhite 2 місяці тому +12

      That reminds me of Hänsel and Gretel. Their father abandons them in the woods where they discover a house made of gingerbread. They eat some of the house and the witch living there catches them. She makes Gretel a maidservant, and places Hänsel in a cage to fatten and eat him. She checks his weight by feeling his finger too, and he too tricks her, but he uses a little bone Gretel gave him. When the witch gets furious and wants to eat him either way, they trick her, then push her into the oven, burning her to death. Hänsel and Gretel live happily ever after in their gingerbread house.

  • @dragonproductions236
    @dragonproductions236 2 місяці тому +227

    "A spiritual being, that shoots poison arrows" Well that's scarier than most poltergeists.

    • @clayxros576
      @clayxros576 2 місяці тому +11

      This sounds like the work....OF AN ENEMY STAND!

    • @Hasuklakle
      @Hasuklakle 2 місяці тому +4

      At least you can’t say it leaves its actions up to interpretation.

    • @francinesmith1889
      @francinesmith1889 6 днів тому

      Machiavellian

  • @mkaylor121
    @mkaylor121 2 місяці тому +73

    I live on the yurok Rez. In Klamath glen. We actually have a Bigfoot grave in our town site

    • @TheLoreLodge
      @TheLoreLodge  2 місяці тому +42

      Please explain more

    • @Ali_D_Katt
      @Ali_D_Katt 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@TheLoreLodge right that seems like something that would be intriguing to see

    • @OnceUponReddit
      @OnceUponReddit 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@TheLoreLodgeIt's pronounced 'yer-rock'

  • @willnolan7040
    @willnolan7040 2 місяці тому +36

    A former Boeing employee who was a whistleblower against the company was just found dead from “self inflicted wounds” in his hotel during the week of his legal interviews. Sounds like something up your alley

    • @Zer-db1bp
      @Zer-db1bp Місяць тому +2

      He may cover this later on once the case blows over. I don’t think there’s too much info right now on that

    • @mlw5665
      @mlw5665 День тому

      ​@@Zer-db1bp how about now that another whistleblower at Boeing has mysteriously ended up dead?

  • @Bardes82
    @Bardes82 2 місяці тому +50

    I'm Ojibwe and what I was always told is that the wendigo will grow as big as his appetite, meaning that it grows bigger with every meal.

    • @nouse4aname_
      @nouse4aname_ Місяць тому +1

      WOW!! OJIBWE people are gorgeous!

    • @Bardes82
      @Bardes82 Місяць тому +1

      @@nouse4aname_ Thank you so much!

    • @nouse4aname_
      @nouse4aname_ Місяць тому

      @@Bardes82 You're quite welcome, just speaking the truth. I am a 1/4 Cherokee. I'm from the southeast United States. What part are you and your people from?

  • @DUKEHadToDoItToEm
    @DUKEHadToDoItToEm 2 місяці тому +171

    Englishmen looking at Natives: "Savages, I can't believe they live this way"
    Natives looking at bigfoots: "Savages, can't believe they live this way"

    • @artpsych71
      @artpsych71 2 місяці тому +6

      I was thinking the same. 😂

    • @lakesidesusan6745
      @lakesidesusan6745 2 місяці тому

      😄😄😄

    • @AlexanderCheff
      @AlexanderCheff 2 місяці тому +10

      Bigfoot: I have returned to Monke

    • @marcopohl4875
      @marcopohl4875 16 днів тому +3

      Bigfoot looking at Englishmen: "Savages, I can't believe they live this way"

    • @lindasue8719
      @lindasue8719 2 дні тому

      ​@@marcopohl4875 👍🏼 🏆

  • @HorusHawks
    @HorusHawks 2 місяці тому +42

    Okay, you can’t just offhandedly toss out the Mooney reports, and not expect us to scream for, I don’t know, a 2 hour deep dive into this. So DOOOOO EET! (Please?)

  • @cmcapps1963
    @cmcapps1963 2 місяці тому +31

    Had to admit I was surprised by your new sponsor. Litigation attorneys...only thing scarier than the Wendigo.

  • @Vyxin
    @Vyxin 2 місяці тому +32

    "Nom Nom, some Wagyu kids." Probably one of my favorite lines so far. 😂😂

  • @stevenlwills
    @stevenlwills 2 місяці тому +39

    You should check out the japanese legend of "namahage" ogres and how much it has in common with these native american legends. Love the channel, keep it up!

    • @MichaelMassie
      @MichaelMassie 2 місяці тому +4

      Like the Manx buggane as well.

    • @DneilB007
      @DneilB007 2 місяці тому +11

      Another example would be the English wood-wose. There are many tales about a group of “Wild men of the woods” across the globe that seem to share a common theme. The Wild Men are hairy, primitive, smelly, and are prone to kidnapping women from the “civilized” neighbours. They sometimes have some kind of connection with the liminal world, but they are themselves very much human, or at least mortal.
      Frankly, the likeliest explanation is that they are a cultural memory of other species of humans, like Neanderthals or Denisovans, that has travelled with us from the regions where we both coexisted into every new region we have come to.

  • @seti48
    @seti48 2 місяці тому +16

    Reminds me of the story of Devil's Island. A true story. Some prisoners escaped but had no food. So, as one died they ate him. Fast forward. The survivors were recaptured. Two men, one who had previously escaped, got away. The guy who had previously escaped, although not starving, killed and ate his companion. A short time later he was captured. When asked why he ate his pal, he said he got a taste for human flesh. This time, he was executed.

  • @vshlxyy
    @vshlxyy Місяць тому +6

    I smoked a joint and binged you
    New follower, happy to be here 🖤

  • @gern7535
    @gern7535 2 місяці тому +43

    Bigfoot claims he once saw Chuck Norris but nobody believes him.

    • @lucasperdue312
      @lucasperdue312 Місяць тому

      Bigfoot fears Chuck Norris taking their wives

    • @Trebelsi
      @Trebelsi Місяць тому

      Oh wowwww just wowewwzers ur so intellectual

    • @briandavis4916
      @briandavis4916 24 дні тому +1

      I actually got to meet Chuck Norris during one of my Iraq deployments. I don't wanna brag but I shook his hand and survived 😂

    • @Trebelsi
      @Trebelsi 24 дні тому

      @@briandavis4916 did u find any wmds or just Christian and Muslim kids

  • @katiedean20
    @katiedean20 2 місяці тому +16

    I grew up in Yurok/Wiyot territory. It's nice to hear about my home area and the entities around it. I've had my share of experiences out there in the redwoods

    • @S.L.O.P.
      @S.L.O.P. Місяць тому +1

      Is there a Bigfoot/Sasquatch grave there?

  • @mandymacabre
    @mandymacabre 2 місяці тому +86

    These women running off with Indian Devils sound like that era's crunchy mom tbh

    • @LMerci
      @LMerci 2 місяці тому +4

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Johnniebhoy83
      @Johnniebhoy83 2 місяці тому +3

      Lmao

    • @clayxros576
      @clayxros576 2 місяці тому

      Hey, we got monster f*ckers today. Prettly likely theyve always been around.

    • @onemoreloser
      @onemoreloser 2 місяці тому +11

      frrr like you can provide me with comfy buckskin dresses and a fun nature filled childhood for our children? i’m in.

    • @mandymacabre
      @mandymacabre 2 місяці тому +4

      @@onemoreloser what else could a woman want??

  • @wowzer5189
    @wowzer5189 2 місяці тому +16

    13:31
    in the 1500's, edward topsell described a new creature from the america's called the bear ape, this "ape" turned out in modern hindsight to be a three toed sloth, given that sloths are very southwest of that area, it's possible sloths had still been considered a type of ape by many at the time

    • @MrChristianDT
      @MrChristianDT 2 місяці тому +2

      That might be part of the explanation for that word use, but no sloths in Appalachia, so it'd have to be some kind of animals that could be confused for one & I'm at a loss.

  • @Username-checks-out652
    @Username-checks-out652 2 місяці тому +44

    You know it's a good day when one of these comes out

  • @robynwilde
    @robynwilde 2 місяці тому +90

    My Friday nights have been rough this year and it's been nice to have these videos to look forward to. Some nice murder, mystery, and mayhem to keep me company. 😅

  • @criminalrappergreasygod8886
    @criminalrappergreasygod8886 2 місяці тому +17

    One of the cool things my culture (Plains Cree) has adopted from Saulteaux people is the grandfather teachings. And the grandfather for honesty is represented by a Bigfoot type creature.

  • @ThatEvilHag
    @ThatEvilHag 2 місяці тому +4

    You guys are the best. The fact that you care to provide the history of regions where crimes happened, and deliver Native American lore, is my favorite part of your channel - and that says a lot, considering I respect your case research more than I can express!

  • @MatthewGill-nv4tb
    @MatthewGill-nv4tb 2 місяці тому +11

    What you eat affects your odor. Look up the stories from vietnam.

  • @buckdharma9844
    @buckdharma9844 2 місяці тому +69

    Having already seen Trey The Explainer's video on the same topic, I can't wait to see the direction the Lore Lads take

    • @PanzerIVAE
      @PanzerIVAE 2 місяці тому +11

      Same here! I'm so fucking excited to see the Lore Lodge's take on it after Trey's video

    • @abrb1989
      @abrb1989 2 місяці тому +9

      Hey. Thanks for making this comment! It turned me on to Trey's content, which I'd not seen to date.

    • @hermescarraro3393
      @hermescarraro3393 2 місяці тому +1

      What direction did they take?
      The lore lodge I mean
      ...
      Please tell me they said things as they really are

    • @buckdharma9844
      @buckdharma9844 2 місяці тому +5

      @@hermescarraro3393 They're treating us to individual summaries of each cultural group's stories of giants/hairy men. Trey's video focuses more on debunking the myth of a singular native bigfoot legend while also providing a statistical breakdown of the ways the distinct "bigfoot" entities all manage to not be monke

  • @krisbradbury5087
    @krisbradbury5087 2 місяці тому +8

    Once again a fantastic video!
    Virtual handshake from an avid watcher from England.
    I find all American history fascinating and found your channel by chance and been soaking up all your videos.
    It is fascinating leaning about all the brilliant stories (and sad ones about the missing people) in your vast and beautiful country.
    We don’t get many stories in England as it’s so small, unless you count next doors cat going feral and being mistaken for a 18ft giant lion for two weeks then everyone realising their mistake when it staggers back home.
    Great videos, will catch all of them!

  • @ScottFrancis-pd2ec
    @ScottFrancis-pd2ec 2 місяці тому +13

    I have fished the pigeon river in Haywood county NC, which is just east of Cherokee NC and The Qualla Boundary. The peaks rise around the river to 5,000 ft and the river flows NW towards Newport TN where it meets the French Broad River. Keep up the Native American influence. Thanks for providing a factual education on these matters!

  • @Bigcountry-bx5bb
    @Bigcountry-bx5bb 2 місяці тому +21

    Found your channel not too long ago, been waiting for a more recent video in hopes you’ll see this but your videos are a god send to a working man working long hours!! I appreciate your native history segments, you’ve done your research and are a fun person to listen to. Forever grateful friend, keep it up! :) please… for my sake

  • @ryanhau1073
    @ryanhau1073 2 місяці тому +10

    Interestingly, legends of Human-Like Monsters are also pretty common in Europe and Asia, a few examples like Ogres, Trolls, Oni, and a plethora of Giants. So it is possible that European Settles heard these Native American tales of Wildmen and they associate it to the legends they may be familiar with from the Old World. In fact, in modern days Bigfoot tends to be heavily associated with the Yeti from the Himalayas. Also you probably heard about Teddy Roosevelt telling a story about a Bigfoot encounter he heard from someone else, in that story the Bigfoot creature was referred as a Goblin

  • @r.w.bottorff7735
    @r.w.bottorff7735 2 місяці тому +11

    A whole multi-part series just on the first Nations beliefs and concepts about bigfoot? Count me in!

  • @joeyhoward2669
    @joeyhoward2669 2 місяці тому +12

    Also Davy Crockett tells a tale about killing a Yahoo.. or Yihoo aka wildman AKA Sasquatch

  • @languidmccheese
    @languidmccheese 2 місяці тому +9

    The appearance of doggo brings joy

  • @stemdeckesupreme164
    @stemdeckesupreme164 2 місяці тому +5

    I once saw something in the woods, it had longer jet black hair all over it's body. It was 7 or 8 feet tall and lanky. It saw me on top of a cliff, maybe 20 feet away from it. It was already facing the cliff when I walked up. I couldnt see it's eyes or face. Only the jet black hair all over. The only features I could make out where the hands, with the hair coming up to them like a sleeve. Then it slowly backed into the trees. I never told anyone until years later, hearing a native account of the same creature. I dont go in the woods anymore

  • @Lukusprime
    @Lukusprime Місяць тому +2

    Gotta say, I came here from Wendigoon/the Weird Bible Podcast, so I was *floored* when you casually mentioned getting beat up by Bigfoot. Only when you mentioned needing legal representation did I audibly laugh out loud and say “Okay this is an ad read” 😂 well done, you certainly got me

  • @KaeYoss
    @KaeYoss 2 місяці тому +9

    6:20 The Saskettes? Now I want to see their kickline, should be a sight to see with their big feet.

  • @OhQueso10291
    @OhQueso10291 2 місяці тому +9

    "Baaaabe, more Bigfoot lore"

  • @browherenew
    @browherenew 2 місяці тому +2

    Hi Aidan! Quick correction (haven’t seen yet in the comments) - Yurok is pronounced “yuhr-OCK” (as opposed to “YOU-rock” which is incorrect). I worked for the tribe and loved my time on rez. I love your videos! Thank you for always honoring the original inhabitants of this land and making time to include Indigenous voices, authors, and stories.

  • @____________838
    @____________838 2 місяці тому +26

    That fasting request seems to have been a way to weaken the settlement.

    • @TheLoreLodge
      @TheLoreLodge  2 місяці тому +32

      I hadn’t considered that earlier, but now that you mention it, yeah that would be a possibility.
      Hey guys, don’t eat for a week and then also don’t call for help.

    • @RaeHadzega
      @RaeHadzega 2 місяці тому +10

      Fasting is also used in spiritual ways, often to purify or to induce altered states of consciousness. Perhaps these Sasquatches weren't entirely material beings and not everyone is capable of seeing them without some a ritual preparation.

    • @joeyhoward2669
      @joeyhoward2669 2 місяці тому +2

      Don't try to rationalize it by making The story more complicated keep it simple... An upright walking very very large primate in North America That's already pretty fantastic you Don't need to make it any more....

    • @____________838
      @____________838 2 місяці тому +2

      @@RaeHadzega spiritual fasting is an individual act. There was no rationale for the entire clan to undergo the ritual.

    • @____________838
      @____________838 2 місяці тому +3

      @@joeyhoward2669 please go on, I’d love to know where you were going with that thought process.

  • @tezzah94
    @tezzah94 2 місяці тому +4

    25:12 as a Scottish gal, outlander is the worst

  • @TheBambsBeauty
    @TheBambsBeauty 2 місяці тому +18

    Love the video! Just wanted to say a map in this would've been so cool and I feel like that could apply well to many of your other videos! Could be something cool to think about in the future! Love your videos, keep it up!

  • @HunterWoodlawn
    @HunterWoodlawn Місяць тому +3

    Appalachian here from the lands of the Cherokee, excited for this one!

  • @dustybrand
    @dustybrand Місяць тому +2

    The Danny Devito voice Aiden does at the start of this video? Yeah. We need more of that. I would be in a state of bliss if I heard him, in that voice say: "Christmas shoppin is for the birds. Next year everybody's getting a bottle of 151 and a luchador mask. Even gramma. Especially gramma".

  • @BizmoFunyuns-uj3kr
    @BizmoFunyuns-uj3kr 2 місяці тому +46

    Best lore lodge intro yet

  • @p.phillips291
    @p.phillips291 2 місяці тому +14

    Coos Bay people (SW Oregon) mention the giants, nicknamed 'forest people' (nuk'wiinu me in hanis, nuk'wiin də k'a in miluk).

  • @justin-os4xp
    @justin-os4xp 2 місяці тому +5

    I lived in rural west salem oregon in 2013. My house was up next to a forest. One night around 11pm i was sitting on my porch and all of the sudden what sounded like was huge branch or tree was broke off and then nastiest, deepest growl ive ever heard was directed my way 25ft from the forest. I was stunned..I thought i was imagining it..and then it did the growl again. A bear, mountain lion, dog or human was not capable of this sound. I was so terrified that i went inside and didnt even try to look out the window. I was the biggest skeptic until that moment. From what i gather in my own research from others experiences is that it was a sasquatch trying to intimidate me. It was a truly unbelievable experience to me. No one ever believes in sasquatch until it happens to them. I wish people had more of an open mind to the existence this creature. Truly terrifying though.

    • @markjackson3531
      @markjackson3531 2 місяці тому

      I'm going to assume you listened to bear, moose, wolf, etc growls....how was the one you heard, different?

    • @justin-os4xp
      @justin-os4xp 2 місяці тому +1

      @@markjackson3531 it was like clearly some an animal with huge lungs, direct, and intentional. Like it was definitely a beast. The growl filled the whole area.

  • @picklerick8785
    @picklerick8785 2 місяці тому +7

    It should be noted that wrapped up within the "Indian Devils" and the wendigo legend is the absolutely stone cold fact that some Native nations, especially in the Northeastern Woodlands like the Iroquoian Haudenosenee and Algonquian speaking nations, practiced ritual cannibalism in the context of warfare, which would fuel, especially in the early years like in the Strachey account and the 17th century documentation would become confused into "Bigfoot" mythology. In the context of mourning war, the linguistically different Haudenosenee or Wendat warriors became literal "devils" who took women captive and married them and would eat (parts of, not for food but ritually) men. They became temporary wendigos to Algonquians.
    Even to the nations that practiced ritual cannibalism, other native nations were "devils" as this Mohawk describes to James Smith in the 1750s- Also they're hunting Eastern Woodland Buffalo, not the Plains buffalo.
    "...Solomon seemed to be upon his guard, went very slow, and would frequently stand and listen, and appeared to be in suspense. We came to where the tracks were very plain in the sand, and I said it is surely buffaloe tracks ; he said hush, you know nothing , may be buffaloe tracks, may be Catawba. He went very cautious until we found some fresh buffaloe dung: he then smiled and said Catawba can not make so. He then flopped and told me an odd story about the Catawbas. He said that formerly the Catawbas came near one of their hunting camps, and at some distance from the camp lay in ambush, and in order to decoy them out, sent two or three Catawbas in the night, pan: their camp, with buffaloe hoofs fixed on their feet, so as to make artificial tracks. In the morning those in the camp followed after these tracks, thinking they were Buffaloe, until they were fired on by the Catawbas, and several of them killed; the others fled, collected a party and pursued the Catawbas; but they, in their subtly brought with them rattle-snake poison, which they had collected from the bladder that lieth at the root of the snakes' teeth ; this they had corked up in a short piece of cane-stalk ; they had also brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen, and dipped them in this poison, and stuck them in the ground among the grass, along their own tracks, in such a position that they might stick into the legs of the pursuers, which answered the design ; and as the Catawbas had runners behind to watch the motions of the pursuers, when they found that a number cf them were lame, being artificially snake bit, and that they were all turning back, the Catawbas turned upon the pursuers, and defeated them, and killed and scalped all those that were lame. - When Solomon had finished this story, and found that I understood him, concluded by saying, you don t know, Catawba very bad Indian, Catawba all one Devil Catawba..."
    archive.org/details/accountofremarka00smit/page/22/mode/2up?q=catawba

    • @MrChristianDT
      @MrChristianDT 2 місяці тому +1

      I'm trying to find direct references to the cannibalism among the Iroquois & only know about the passage from DeChamplain where his Native allies in the Ticonderoga War force fed human meat to their Iroquois captives as a method of torture.

    • @picklerick8785
      @picklerick8785 2 місяці тому +1

      @@MrChristianDT Check the digitized versions of the Jesuit Relations as well as the Sir William Johnson papers. There will be loads in there just for starters. There's tons of accounts. Charles Langlade (who was half Odawa) and his warriors ritually ate Memiskia's heart at Pickawillany in 1753. I'll see what I have in my files that are specifically Longhouse.

  • @joeyhoward2669
    @joeyhoward2669 2 місяці тому +8

    Wendigo is not wild man or Bigfoot

  • @RobertCunningham-cw4bv
    @RobertCunningham-cw4bv День тому +1

    I have lived, played and hunted my whole life, im 62, in the Western North Carolina Appalachian mountains, about 8 or 10 miles from the Cherokee reservation. I have heard stories but never saw anything myself. Cool stories man.

  • @clayharrison8596
    @clayharrison8596 2 місяці тому +7

    I lol’d at Wagyu kids… what’s wrong with me

  • @riacco
    @riacco 2 місяці тому +4

    Great video. You are a very educated and talented young man. Your best videos are when you have the ego in check. It is refreshing when you show humility. Sometimes huberous takes over, then the videos are not so enjoyable. Hope this is not offensive, just some unsolicited advice from an old man. Keep up the good work, much appreciated.

  • @bradynkesti8969
    @bradynkesti8969 2 місяці тому +82

    One time bigfoot ate my ass

  • @mkaylor121
    @mkaylor121 2 місяці тому +7

    I live in Hawaii for a long time and there are stories of the Polynesian people making it all the way to the Pacific Northwest and their canoes catamarans

    • @jamessutton4204
      @jamessutton4204 2 місяці тому +1

      Forgot name of channel but there's a guy who specializes in DNA and native American history and he has found several tribes with Polynesian DNA. He also found Celtics, African, Australian aboriginal, Minoan, Greek, Phoenician, Mongolian, soultran (original inhabitants of Europe before the Indo-European peoples arrived) shit almost forgot the Cherokee whose DNA was bout 70% Hebrew and a different video I saw that's unrelated but this guy on this other video points out that the Cherokee alphabet was exactly the same as the ancient Hebrew alphabet but reversed. It looks like pretty much everyone has left a little DNA in America

    • @thezackast2752
      @thezackast2752 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@jamessutton4204 Probably shouldn't trust that guy with the alphabet stuff. The Cherokee did not have written language until the 1810s to 1820s, when one of their members made an alphabet based on various western characters. I don't know the Hebrew alphabet very well, so there could be some similarity, but it sounds like he's trying to mislead you.

  • @robynwilde
    @robynwilde 2 місяці тому +5

    That Danny DeVito impression floored me. 🤣

  • @facepillownap
    @facepillownap 2 місяці тому +6

    Check out “Edge of the Knife”. A Haida story of a man’s transformation into a Wildman. Excellent depiction of the PNW “wildman” which is centered in realism.
    Definitely not a bigfoot legend but should be required viewing for anyone who wants to discuss the native wild man.

  • @foolsenigma
    @foolsenigma 2 місяці тому +30

    Jesus christ, the video sponsor integration made me feel like either you or i were having a stroke

  • @MrCouchIncident
    @MrCouchIncident 2 місяці тому +7

    I have that same Smartwool sweater. Oddly enough, I'm wearing it while watching this video. Spooky.

  • @AmigoRoberto
    @AmigoRoberto 2 місяці тому +6

    Honestly blown away by the level of research. In the year or so I've been watching, the editing, research and delivery has improved so dramatically. Thanks guys

  • @josiaharaki7310
    @josiaharaki7310 2 місяці тому +13

    It's really interesting how much these legends have in common with a lot of western fairy tales.
    The Tale of the "Indian devils" is somewhat reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, although it also has some striking similarities with part of Tolkien's "The Fall of Gondolin".
    In the latter, Eol, the Dark Elf, kidnaps Aredhel, the sister of Turgon, the king of Gondolin. He marries her and lavishes her with the riches of his private domain, but she misses her home and eventually escapes with her son Maeglin back to Gondolin and the protection of her brother. Eol tracks the two there, however, and tries to take them back by force, although he is quickly captured... It is also noteworthy that the son becomes increasingly like his father, to the point that he is later the one to sell Gondolin out to Morgoth.
    The tale of the Wendigo has a lot of thematic similarities with Hansel and Gretel, where the wendigo is constantly checking to see if the child has fattened up enough to eat.

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 2 місяці тому +2

      There are also similarities to Cupid and Psyche and to tales of people taken by the faeries.

    • @hollyjollyxmas
      @hollyjollyxmas 2 місяці тому +1

      I came to find this comment. I had hoped someone more eloquent than me posted it lol

  • @cherylcampbell9369
    @cherylcampbell9369 2 місяці тому +6

    I am almost positive that the chief pictured is Wolf Robe, who is Souther Cheyenne, not Cherokee. They didn't geographically overlap, iirc.

    • @TheLoreLodge
      @TheLoreLodge  2 місяці тому +5

      Appears to be an editing error

  • @tammyhanlon3057
    @tammyhanlon3057 Місяць тому +1

    That was great. I have to tell you, well i dont HAVE to tell you, but im going to. I love the history in your lessons(?) stories (?) lectures, but my favorites are when you talk a little civics. Its always a roller coaster. I laugh, frown, clap, cheer and sometimes cuss a bit.
    You even told me off once, which i appreciated. You do read the comments, you are confident and kind. A fine young man. If i were your grandma i would never stop bragging

  • @hiddenwoodsben
    @hiddenwoodsben 2 місяці тому +4

    as a man who has had the displeasure of making an overly strong first impression, i sympathize with tsul kalu greatly.
    I wont talk abut my mother in law, though. because i don't dare to 🤣

  • @andrewthomas7719
    @andrewthomas7719 2 місяці тому +8

    Love the always sunny reference! Dr. Mantis Tobagan.

  • @journeysintotheunknown1152
    @journeysintotheunknown1152 2 місяці тому +3

    I grew up on three different reservations. Each Rez had different ways of speaking about Sasquatch and we had a mass grave that was said to have been made after a battle with the wild men long ago

  • @nikki_q.
    @nikki_q. 2 місяці тому +7

    You make this easy for a dumb dumb like me to follow. Love your format and delivery. I'm hooked!

  • @sarahhannush1466
    @sarahhannush1466 2 місяці тому +3

    I grew up only an hour away from Cherokee NC, I always love seeing their stories popping up.

  • @captmashpea
    @captmashpea 2 місяці тому +5

    The restrictions on the viewing these men remind me of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. She married Cupid but was not able to view him and got punished when she tries to. Really interesting connection.

  • @halg5867
    @halg5867 2 місяці тому +3

    I know they've been briefly mentioned in a past video, but i would love Lore Lodge to speak on the Kushtaka of Southeast Alaska.

  • @leisl9321
    @leisl9321 2 місяці тому +5

    i misread this title as "the naive american bigfoot"... i thought we were going to learn about bigfoot's blissful ignorance

  • @user-kr9zb2ng8i
    @user-kr9zb2ng8i Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for your hard work researching for your videos !

  • @dawsonduke3333
    @dawsonduke3333 2 місяці тому +5

    This might be my new favorite lore lodge intro😂

  • @anaba-awendelamcmorris6897
    @anaba-awendelamcmorris6897 2 місяці тому +3

    My mom is Seminole, from Florida, and she told us about how bigfoot would follow her and her brother and sister to school every morning and home in the afternoon. He never would get to close. She said they never felt scared of it. It was like a guardian.

    • @mlw5665
      @mlw5665 День тому

      This is similar to the way he was talked about in my central Appalachian home. Protectors.

  • @FrozeMoments
    @FrozeMoments 2 місяці тому +4

    The “Tennessee Bald” is called the Beauty Spot. There’s a big bald and little bald mnt. I have had so many strange experiences up there. I live in Erwin, Tn.

    • @markjackson3531
      @markjackson3531 2 місяці тому +1

      What is Tennessee like? thinking about possibly moving there. very conservative?

    • @FrozeMoments
      @FrozeMoments 2 місяці тому +1

      @@markjackson3531 where I live it’s very but Asheville and Boone are 30 minutes over the mountain. My County is a second amendment sanctuary.👍🏼

    • @FrozeMoments
      @FrozeMoments 2 місяці тому

      Asheville is the most liberal city in N.C.

    • @markjackson3531
      @markjackson3531 2 місяці тому +1

      @@FrozeMoments yeah but thats a different state though?

    • @markjackson3531
      @markjackson3531 2 місяці тому +2

      @@FrozeMoments I once heard "Tennessee is the most racist state in the country", hoping they were right! 😆

  • @XXMatt0040XX
    @XXMatt0040XX 2 місяці тому +7

    Pre-Premiere comment: I hope the Roanoke video's referenced. I still don't get why nobody's talked about that

  • @samrobertson7535
    @samrobertson7535 2 місяці тому +4

    You're one of the few creators whose videos I always watch until the very end. Keep up the great work!

  • @ArtandDiamondsWithEskies
    @ArtandDiamondsWithEskies 2 місяці тому +3

    My knowledge of native Americans comes from my grandfather who was half Cherokee and my dad who was one quarter Cherokee. On top of that I'm from Arizona and so I'm surrounded by native nations and have grown up with quite original of the different cultures.

  • @Kitsune_Raven
    @Kitsune_Raven 2 місяці тому +3

    The Wendigo legends always creep me out, Great over all video as always Aidan

  • @mecahhannah
    @mecahhannah 2 місяці тому +1

    Awesome as always thanks guys ❤

  • @schloiviking
    @schloiviking 2 місяці тому +6

    Valiant attempt on pronouncing Wewoka, but the way I've heard it pronounced (at least in Tulsa, Chandler and Stroud) is We - Woke - Ah, though even Oklahoma is prone to regionalism in terms of pronouncing place names

  • @josefdettwyler9809
    @josefdettwyler9809 2 місяці тому +4

    The Klamath legend says that yayahyahas is an old man who lives on the mountain who yells his name. He has one leg that is shorter than the other so that he can run better on the mountain keeping his short leg on the uphill side.

  • @arqaeyrima4750
    @arqaeyrima4750 2 місяці тому +7

    I grew up in the san juaquin valley as well as in the lake tahoe areas. This monster as well as the predator like thing which was in fact invisible would cast a slight shadow despite its saran wrap like appearance within the Yosemite woods, were both completely terrifying boogey mem for me as a kid. Although im now 48, i still 100% remember the things ive seen, with great clarity. Scary stuff lol. Thanks for the story, it was really great!!!

    • @journeysintotheunknown1152
      @journeysintotheunknown1152 2 місяці тому

      I also grew up around the Reno Tahoe area and had several encounters with Sasquatch and this predator like being I’ve never met anyone else that’s seen this being before it was the most terrifying experience of my life and I saw it 3 times now

  • @Rick_Cleland
    @Rick_Cleland 2 місяці тому +63

    My life has been a complete and total misery ever since Bigfoot stole my precious girlfriend in the middle of the night. 😒 He even took all her clothes and the T.V. 😔

    • @tinkerstrade3553
      @tinkerstrade3553 2 місяці тому +21

      I'll bet he left the bills, though!🤣

    • @Rick_Cleland
      @Rick_Cleland 2 місяці тому

      @@tinkerstrade3553 🥺🥺🥺

    • @Rick_Cleland
      @Rick_Cleland 2 місяці тому

      @@tinkerstrade3553

    • @letsdothis9063
      @letsdothis9063 2 місяці тому +2

      They always take the TV! Last time, me and my wife were saving to buy a house.
      Well...my wife showed back up, but the $30k hasn't been seen since.

  • @yetimcsomethin3517
    @yetimcsomethin3517 2 місяці тому +4

    "Blah blah blah I don't like the history lessons blah" say the folks. Well... IT'S ALL RELEVANT NOW, ISN'T IT!? *shakes fist like angry old man-

  • @ronlittlejohn8046
    @ronlittlejohn8046 13 днів тому +1

    I come for the lore, I stay for the Morgan & Morgan ads

  • @highlanderNC-mr8fe
    @highlanderNC-mr8fe Місяць тому +2

    Lived in NC nearly all my life never heard of any apes or Bigfoot here. Now the people that move in from other states and tourists seem fascinated by the subject. The towns are all to happy to start Bigfoot festivals etc.

  • @sleepingisdifficult
    @sleepingisdifficult 2 місяці тому +10

    "nom nom, some Wagyu kids " 😭 SIR.

  • @cynical_serb6172
    @cynical_serb6172 Місяць тому +1

    My Dad has a camp on the Juanita River and got a book about the Natives from the area. They had a chief they called "The Great One." He was described as irregularly tall and had legs as thick as trees.

  • @samygirl3113
    @samygirl3113 2 місяці тому +5

    4:15 Reminds me of the South Park thing where you have a new random dog laying next to you every other scene.

  • @Just_some_dude_guy
    @Just_some_dude_guy 2 місяці тому +2

    If a video makes an “allways sunny” reference, it will get my like

  • @Rammmmmie
    @Rammmmmie 2 місяці тому +7

    Please more Aiden Devito

  • @RyanWilliamRoehlonYouTube
    @RyanWilliamRoehlonYouTube 2 місяці тому +8

    I'm Alaskan and I have a Native Alaskan Cousin ( I Called him Big Cuz Fred Roehl at SUBARCTIC ALASKA SASQUATCH )
    He Seen them and his side of his families and Friends and people who Retelling Fred Roehl and then he 2nd Hand Accounting the things that happened to himself or other people too

  • @grimmscuriosities9411
    @grimmscuriosities9411 Місяць тому +2

    I tune out for five seconds and suddenly this guy is talking about being bodied by Bigfoot and how he’s in the process of suing him. Took a solid ten seconds for my brain to catch up with the ad read.

  • @MatthewGill-nv4tb
    @MatthewGill-nv4tb 2 місяці тому +3

    Some of the wendigo stories or "bigfoot" stories from the plains region. They'll say they could hide behind trees.... that's not an important statement until you consider the size of the "trees" in those areas.
    It's basically an uneducated way of saying they could disappear
    Edit: the skin walker stories to me are the same... just described by different people different ways to the best of their knowledge

  • @nitiad4564
    @nitiad4564 Місяць тому +1

    The “MATERIAL WORLD” part startled me.

  • @golgotai2938
    @golgotai2938 2 місяці тому +3

    What I will say to the people that imagine massive apes behind deep growls is this little story: I used to roam the woods in all my teens sometimes very early just to see what kind of animals I encounter.
    One time I did just that about 3-4 am in half darkness sun was just about to rise and I was sneaking out to a clearing and I heard like an insanely deep raspy bark. A bit like dog barking but much longer sounds. I was petrified. I crawled another 2-3 metres towards the sound and what I saw shocked me.
    It was a group of deer.
    One of them that was probably the scout of the group spotted me and the sound was the warning sign to the group that something is closing in.
    I still freaks me out to think of their weird bark, but it was just deers. It may sound scary but sometimes it just a bear or a deer or something else and youre just not familiar with their signals.
    Also if there was a bigfoot or anything like that we should have seen at least a body or a skeleton here and there. We can find million years old dinos but not this apeman?

  • @jaredthehawk3870
    @jaredthehawk3870 2 місяці тому +3

    The claimed Klamath word for bigfoot sounds suspiciously similar to a Nepalese Sherpa term for the yeti, Metoh (Meh-teh) Kang-mi, as stated in 1921 by Charles Howard-Bury. The name translates to man-bear snowman and was mistranslated by Howard-Bury as the filthy or foul smelling snow man. The press then changed it to the now famous Abominable Snowman. This in fact might be where the word came from.

  • @bowtiegaming0001
    @bowtiegaming0001 2 місяці тому +2

    @31:00 That puts on a whole new meaning to "Would you still love me even if I was a worm?"

  • @Thorstendeal
    @Thorstendeal 2 місяці тому +1

    I love all the content that o have seen on this channel, my only gripe with any of the videos is the lack of proper subtitles as the Auto-generated captions are frankly completely crap and end up making you more confused than if you dont have them at all

  • @hellbound2012
    @hellbound2012 2 місяці тому +3

    I'm always blown away by the amount of research these youtubers do and how intelligent they are, yet they always get pronunciations wrong. Wiyot is pronounced wee-ot. Cmon lore lodge!