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| Random reports of Bigfoot wearing clothes | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 9 2009, 08:40 AM (253 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | May 9 2009, 08:40 AM Post #1 |
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In T. Peter Park’s recent guest blog on “cultural hominology,” he discussed the rare reports of seemingly adult-sized hairy hominoids said to be wearing human-type coverings. I wanted to mention one concentration of reports and some thoughts on what might be occurring in that location. In the 1960s and 1970s, reports from the American West would occasionally surface of hairy bipedal Bigfoot being seen with tattered plaid shirts and ragged shorts on their bodies. In some research, there were intriguing attempts to relate these to files of paranormal encounters with sightings of upright entities said to be wearing “checkered shirts.” (Within parapsychology, there is a subfield of study regarding “checkered shirted ghosts.”) Investigators generally did not know what to make of these Sasquatch wearing plaid shirts, but dutifully catalogued and filed them away, nevertheless. In one specific concentration, in one specific valley, however, the random reports of a group of other clothing-wearing “hairy people” have bunched into a cluster that seems to indicate perhaps the sightings are more than merely misidentifications and mind-warping mistakes - or ghostly reports of phantoms. These are the accounts and lore of the Bushman (one of many names by which they are known). The Canadian Northwest Territories’ Bushman, Nakani, or Nuk-luk, as drawn by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. George Eberhart’s excellent cryptozoology reference work, Mysterious Creatures is perhaps too expensive (from 2002 at $185) to be in most researchers’ collections, but should be in every library in the country. Eberhart wrote an entry for the Bushmen or Nakani, which overviews, as I did in my field guide, one of the rare examples of a group of hairy hominoids employing discharged clothing and boots formerly used by humans. Below is Eberhart’s entry: Nakani. Cannibal giant of northwestern North America. Etymology: Chipewyan, Gwich’in, and Slavey (Na-Dené), “bush man” or “bad Indian.” Variant names: Arulataq (Central Yupik/Eskimo-Aleut, “bellowing man”), Brush man (Western Canada Gwich’in/Na-Dené), Bushman, Enemy (Dogrib/Na-Dené), Hairy man, Mahoni (in Peel River area, Yukon), Na’in, Nakentlia (Koyukon/Na-Dené, “sneaker”), Nant’ina (Tanaina/Na-Dené), Neginla-eh (Pacific Gulf Yupik/Eskimo-Aleut, “wood man”), Nik’inla’eena, Nuk-luk, Tinjih-rui (“black man”), Woodsman. Physical description: Tall. Covered with short hair. Black face. Red or yellow eyes. Bearded. Long arms. Clawed nails. Behavior: Usually nocturnal. Swift runner. Only active in summer or fall. Lives underground or in a den in the winter. Call is a high-pitched whistle or laughing sound. Nauseating odor. Steals dried salmon from smokehouses. Said to wear hard-soled shoes and a head scarf. Makes signal fires. Said to have a hypnotic power. Throws rocks and sticks as weapons. Kidnaps women and children. Tracks: Human-like, but longer and narrower. Sometimes shoe-prints are found. Significant sightings: Paul Peters watched a Bushman along the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, in the fall of 1960. It was walking along the rocky beach toward his dogs, which were whining and acting strangely. The Bushman was very muscular, covered in black hair, and about 6.5 feet tall. John Baptist saw a man-like creature with a long, dark beard near Fort Liard, Northwest Territories, in April 1964. It uttered a wild growl and fled, leaving tracks. The following month an Indian woman saw the same wild man, and in June outside Fort Simpson a 14-year-old boy and his father saw a small, dark creature with a long beard who carried a stone club and wore a piece of moose skin around his waist. Patty Nollnar and six other villagers of Nulato, Alaska, encountered a Bushman in 1970 along the Koyukuk River about 20 miles north of its confluence with the Yukon. They didn’t see it, but it threw a rock at them as they were resting around their campfire. Distribution: British Columbia; Canadian Northwest and Yukon territories; southern Alaska; and around the Yukon and Koyukuk rivers in central Alaska. +++ As I go on to mention in the Coleman-Huyghe field guide, these Northwest Territories reports were gathered by Ivan T. Sanderson’s associate Frank Graves of the American Expeditionary Society. Both Mark Hall and I, in searching the files of the old Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU), discovered the records of Graves’ notes there. Graves was looking into the accounts from the Nahanni Valley, the “Headless Valley,” so-called because of the strange vanishings and decapitations of prospectors there for over 200 years. Indeed, a dozen men had disappeared from there since 1904, and four bodies were found without their heads. The folklore of the almost human-like phantom hairy Bushman, the disappearances from that area, and the beheadings from the “Headless Valley,” have entwined for decades. The finds of bootlike footprints and the clothing-borrowing habits of the Nakani all seem strangely related to the big picture there. Considering this is said to be occurring in one of the most regularly frigid settings for humans and hairy hominoids, it may be an incidence of adaptive evolution and cooperation taking place rather subtly. It is an area of research ripe for future investigations by youthful hominologists and cryptozoologists willing to journey north to continue the quest. Source |
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| Isis | May 11 2009, 06:42 AM Post #2 |
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The Goddess of Darkness & Desire
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Isis, The Goddess of Desire & Darkness. In The Darkness, We Find The Light. This is a Drama Free Zone..! | |
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| Mystical | May 11 2009, 11:23 AM Post #3 |
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Oh for goodness sake...
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| newbloodmoon | May 11 2009, 04:07 PM Post #4 |
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Bigfoot with clothes on? Are they sure it's not the wolf man or Robin Williams? |
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire ![]() | |
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| XNavyGunner | May 11 2009, 05:55 PM Post #5 |
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OK So I need a haircut! Alright? Sheesh. I am NOT Bigfoot. |
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| The Mule | May 12 2009, 02:02 AM Post #6 |
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Burrs, thorns, pricker bushes, poison ivy.....doesn't take a genius to protect yourself.... Actually to be serious someone in one of my archaeology classes asked the professor at what point we started wearing clothes, and he said he really couldnt tell because, unlike stone tools, clothes do not age well. I countered with - well try crouching down, smashing the two stones together till chips start flying off, and figure out how long it is till you decide to protect yourself? |
| ...I knew I should have picked a higher mammal.... | |
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| She-ra | May 12 2009, 08:18 AM Post #7 |
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Hmmm, big and tall shop?? |
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