Bigfoot Friend or Foe?
When you think of Bigfoot do you think of the gentle
friendly creature portrayed in the film Harry and the Hendersons or something
from a horror film?
There are many reports of Bigfoot showing violence
but only one story talks of Bigfoot killing a human.
President Teddy Roosevelt wrote a book "The Wilderness Hunter" (1890) in
which he described this death encounter:
Two
trappers were followed by a Bigfoot
creature in a remote region possibly Wyoming.
One of the trappers fired his rifle at
the creature but missed and it continued to follow them . Their new camp was found
ransacked when the trappers were away from it checking beaver traps. After it
happened for a second time the trappers
decided to leave and move on.They split up to collect their traps and were away
for a few hours. When one of them finally got back to camp he found the body of
his fellow trapper. The head showed
teeth or claw marks and the neck was broken.
In modern times there are tales of Bigfoot throwing
rocks ,sticks and pine cones .
ON 25 OCTOBER 2013 :
Extract:
“But unlike previous sightings,
Harry Cruikshank’s bigfoot actually may have tried to convey a message to him
and his friends.The message was, “stay away!”The group of four men and one
woman say they saw the creature Oct. 19. The weather was nice and everyone was
hungry for country food so they decided to go seal hunting.The group traveled
by motorized canoe to an area 45 minutes south of Akulivik on Nunavik’s Hudson
Bay coast. After a short coffee break they continued to a remote bay known to
be a good spot for seal.“We all saw the unexpected something on a small hill,
it was dark and we started staring at it,” Cruikshank said. “We knew there was
nobody up there because there were no other canoes and you can only reach that
hunting area by canoe.”The group decided to go after the creature. They
approached the area and climbed the small hill, but they found nothing. Then
they spotted a caribou trail.“We heard a strange noise up in the land,” said
Cruiskshank, “like the sound of something throwing rocks.”“Maybe the creature
was trying to communicate with us,” added Cruikshank. “But I don’t know how to
talk to the bigfoot.”
Source : https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674nunavik_hunters_run_into_rock-throwing_bigfoot_creature/
The most famous rock throwing story is set in the summer of 1924, a group of
gold prospectors stumbled out of the woods,looking like they had seen a ghost. They
said giant apes had attacked them.
Fred Beck, Gabe Lefever, John
Peterson, Marion Smith and Smith’s son Roy described coming upon “gorilla men”
near where they had built a small cabin for their gold-hunting forays.
They were about eight miles from
Spirit Lake when they encountered four giant creatures walking like men.The
newspaper report described them as covered with long, black hair with ears about four inches long. They have four
toes,not five like humans, and weighed about 400 pounds each.
Fred
Beck fired his rifle at one of the creatures and the wounded animal fell..
That night they were awakened by the
noise of huge stones hitting the cabin. Then giant bodies slammed against the
walls and door. Eventually the creatures tore a hole in the roof and carried on
tossing rocks.
So was it revenge or just
territorial behaviour? Since the 1960s, researchers have recorded such behaviours
from chimpanzees who throw rocks in displays of dominance.I would argue it was
simple animal behaviour protecting their territory. There are occasional stories
of campers saying a Bigfoot type creature urinated up their tents and wrecked
their campsite. If true again it is simply territorial behaviour as can be seen
in many animals who mark territory with their scent .If Bigfoot are indeed
giant apes then it is normal behaviour for them. They may not be the cuddly
creature in the film but are simply doing what their instinct tells them, marking
and protecting their territory. Violence against humans isn’t intended but would be the same with any
creature that they felt threatened their
home.They may well do the same to bears or wild cats but we would not know
about it.
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