Sasquatch?

[Kurando]

@Kurando:

When you're out in the woods, do you happen to drink fresh water from the springs and creeks running freely there? Because these are likely to be lightly contaminated with quicksilver in some areas of BC. It won't kill you, but it will cause halluzinations. People see all sort of things when they drink too much of it, I'd imagine hearing Bigfoot would be pretty much the first you'd experience in that case.

Well, good point, but everything else on the lake must have been hullicinating simultainously, because when that thing let out it's call you could have heard a pin drop.

The funny thing is that it was a "buzzing" and not a howl like I would have suspected it would make. I was always curious about this...

But a few years ago, after I heard it, I was up on the north end of the lake in (the most wild part) and there is a small native settlement up there called Port Douglas. I was just pulling my kayak into a cove to camp for the night and I saw three rough lookin native guys loading firewood into a small motorboat and I figured I didn't want any trouble with them so I got out of my kayak and gave them a hand.

I played it dumb and after the work was done I said "Hey, I'm not from around here, when I was driving through town and noticed all these signs saying 'sasquatch this-and-that'; so what's-up? That things not really real is it?"

The two younger guys laughed but the older guy shot them a look and he said "you know..." "...one time when I was a kid I was hunting nearby at Chehalis Lake with my uncle and suddenly we heard what we thought was a swarm of bees coming at us..." He imitated the noise "Buzzzzz Buzzzzz Buzzzzz" and then he said "we saw some steam rising from behind the trees and my uncle told me 'that's a sasquatch' so we turned around and got the hell out of there."

I thought it was very interesting the he discribed the same type of buzzing sound.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Well, good point, but everything else on the lake must have been hullicinating simultainously, because when that thing let out it's call you could have heard a pin drop.

That is a good point.

But a few years ago, after I heard it, I was up on the north end of the lake in (the most wild part) and there is a small native settlement up there called Port Douglas. I was just pulling my kayak into a cove to camp for the night and I saw three rough lookin native guys loading firewood into a small motorboat and I figured I didn't want any trouble with them so I got out of my kayak and gave them a hand.

I played it dumb and after the work was done I said "Hey, I'm not from around here, when I was driving through town and noticed all these signs saying 'sasquatch this-and-that'; so what's-up? That things not really real is it?"

The two younger guys laughed but the older guy shot them a look and he said "you know..." "...one time when I was a kid I was hunting nearby at Chehalis Lake with my uncle and suddenly we heard what we thought was a swarm of bees coming at us..." He imitated the noise "Buzzzzz Buzzzzz Buzzzzz" and then he said "we saw some steam rising from behind the trees and my uncle told me 'that's a sasquatch' so we turned around and got the hell out of there."

I thought it was very interesting the he discribed the same type of buzzing sound.

That's scary. Now I will be afraid when I make a wilderness trip there.

How can you go kayaking there when you really think there's a sasquatch somewhere, and especially if you think it's so dangerous that even hunters (with guns) run away? And why should an ape produce steam? Or can it even make fire?

[Lemur]

How can you go kayaking there when you really think there's a sasquatch somewhere, and especially if you think it's so dangerous that even hunters (with guns) run away? And why should an ape produce steam? Or can it even make fire?

Large primates aren't usually aggressive. Mountain gorillas (which were thought to be a myth until 1959) are pretty mellow if you keep your distance.

I mean, all wild animals are dangerous, but there are degrees. It's not as though we're talking about a tiger or a hippo.

That said, I'm worried about the frequency with which Sasquatch has sex with men and women. Worse than a dolphin in that respect.

[Kurando]

Large primates aren't usually aggressive. Mountain gorillas (which were thought to be a myth until 1959) are pretty mellow if you keep your distance.

I mean, all wild animals are dangerous, but there are degrees. It's not as though we're talking about a tiger or a hippo.

I totally agree, "if" they exist, one thing that is practically certain is that they are not a threat like some other large animals; african hippos as you mention reportably being the worst of the bunch.

In BC (especially up north) the most dangerous animal around is the moose. Kinda funny because much like hippos they look so silly but I've heard that moose can get down right homicidal sometimes + once they get you down on the deck they'll stomp you for 15 minutes even after you are dead.

Conversely Sasquatch, if they exist, are probably more like cougars, just really shy and seldom encountered.

...Mind you, to go along with the multitude of aircraft that have been lost, to date, over 100 woodsman, prospectors, timber crusers, and various tradesman have disappeared in the BC wilderness without a trace; so who knows what happened to them...

[Samurai Waki]

I'm going to echo Kurando's sentiment of a possible Sasquatch existence, not that I'm convinced of it but if you've never been to the NW Pacific you have no idea how thick and concealing the foliage can be. I recently had a conversation with my cousin who lives like twenty minutes from Seattle, and through our discussion we got talking about one of her neighbors who had flown off the road into a thicket. This road happens to be CONSTANTLY busy if you've ever driven the Maple Valley 169, after about six hours of her missing, and him not able to get ahold of her, he became concerned and notified the Police. Apparently the last conversation he had with her was while she was driving home, on that road, so thats where the search began. After about six days of looking through a ten mile stretch of the road, they found her barely alive, and several of the search crew had said they came within maybe forty feet of the vehicle several times without spotting it throughout their search (Using relatively new Search and Rescue Tech, as well as Blood Hounds... The frequent rain tends to wash away a lot of smell. Now if this can happen in the middle of a fairly well developed Urban area, imagine a similar place with similar foliage density, located in an area tens of thousands of times bigger, with faaaaaaar less people per square mile, and you might get an idea why evidence is few and far between, and the mythos continues.

[miotas]

...Mind you, to go along with the multitude of aircraft that have been lost, to date, over 100 woodsman, prospectors, timber crusers, and various tradesman have disappeared in the BC wilderness without a trace; so who knows what happened to them...

Hmm... They must have been hit by falling aeroplanes.

[Megas Methuselah]

So, one of the hiker guys grabs one of his lady friends by the hand and pulls her toward Bigfoot. He coaxes her into making contact with the beast. Demurely, she approaches and holds out her delicate hand. Bigfoot sniffs her politely, then …

Eugh. You actually had me reading that down to the last period, then imagining what happens next. Lemur, you're a horrid man-stud.

Btw, what're you wearing?

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'm going to echo Kurando's sentiment of a possible Sasquatch existence, not that I'm convinced of it but if you've never been to the NW Pacific you have no idea how thick and concealing the foliage can be. I recently had a conversation with my cousin who lives like twenty minutes from Seattle, and through our discussion we got talking about one of her neighbors who had flown off the road into a thicket. This road happens to be CONSTANTLY busy if you've ever driven the Maple Valley 169, after about six hours of her missing, and him not able to get ahold of her, he became concerned and notified the Police. Apparently the last conversation he had with her was while she was driving home, on that road, so thats where the search began. After about six days of looking through a ten mile stretch of the road, they found her barely alive, and several of the search crew had said they came within maybe forty feet of the vehicle several times without spotting it throughout their search (Using relatively new Search and Rescue Tech, as well as Blood Hounds... The frequent rain tends to wash away a lot of smell. Now if this can happen in the middle of a fairly well developed Urban area, imagine a similar place with similar foliage density, located in an area tens of thousands of times bigger, with faaaaaaar less people per square mile, and you might get an idea why evidence is few and far between, and the mythos continues.

To give those folks outside the Northwest a picture:


That blue line between points A & B is the highway Wakizashi spoke of. Note how it's close to civilization, and note the huge amounts of land far from any big cities and covered in thick forest.

CR

[A Very Super Market]

And that's just in the states! The BC coast is even crazier, with less people too.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

So, on one hand, you say it's a cute monkey that doesn't want to harm anybody like a gorilla, and on the other hand you think of Bigfoot when you smell rotten flesh and run away. That doesn't make sense.

[Kurando]

So, on one hand, you say it's a cute monkey that doesn't want to harm anybody like a gorilla, and on the other hand you think of Bigfoot when you smell rotten flesh and run away. That doesn't make sense.

Well, technically I thought of dead seals when I smelled whatever it was, I never thought about a Sasquatch until I heard the thing call out, but I see what you mean. It was defintiely spooky.

It's the idea of the unknown which is scary I guess, but even though there is some evidence that these creatures might actually exist there is virtually no evidence whatsoever that they might be dangerous.

...If I could just keep that in mind I would be happy to see one, but I highly doubt I'll ever get the chance. Until then, I think it was Fragony who said eariler that campfire stories are much more fun because such mysteries. True dat.

[miotas]

Why are you worrying about something that may or may not exist. If I were you I would be worrying about those mooses...

I'm glad I live safe over here in Australia where we don't have any dangerous animals