Post by bullfrog on Jun 25, 2024 19:17:43 GMT -5
That enjoyment of the unknown and the notion that there is significantly more to explore on this Earth is a major reason why the phenomenon persists specifically in the United States. The bigfoot legend has become a symbol of untamed wilderness, so as long a bigfoot is thought to be “out there,” the wilderness is also “out there.”
Yet I don’t think that adequately explains the phenomenon as a whole. The phenomenon is a lot older than recent notions of the loss of wilderness. Many tribal cultures in centuries past from around the world adjusted their lives around the presumed existence of upright-walking, nocturnal, apes that were a threat to their safeties. Some Pacific Northwest tribes forbade whistling because they believed human whistles sounded too much like a bigfoot’s natural call. Many Indian totems and masks showed bigfoots whistling with their lips pursed.
I do think there is a very unhealthy side to the bigfoot phenomenon when it comes to spiritualizing bigfoot. There is not an insignificantly number of people who regard bigfoot as a natural spirit to contact and even worship. I think Les Stroud falls into that camp. As I believe demons are completely real and eager to lead humans down the primrose path into false world-views, a proclivity to seek spiritual truths from bigfoots, whether the creatures are real or imagined, opens people to have deceptive experiences perpetrated by demons. I think that accounts for a small percentage of otherwise sincere bigfoot reports. Usually those reports don’t involve seeing a bigfoot, but instead having a spiritual experience in the woods such as a being “speaking” to a person’s mind as Les Stroud claims to have experienced or seeing some shadow person on a rock ledge or glowing orbs floating above you at night as you lay in camp. A blurring of ghosts, UFOs, and bigfoot into an overarching phenomenon. If you know anything about Stroud, you’d know he got into experiencing native animist religions and hallucinogen use for spiritual experiences. He may have damaged his brain. Or he may have opened the door to be hoodwinked by very real but deceptive demons. If you’re predisposed to view bigfoot as a special guardian or spirit of nature that’s going to bring balance to your life, that’s how a demon may present an experience to you.
We have but one way in Christ. I don't see squatch as a guardian or a spiritual thing.
Setting up sightings - - was there a person wearing the outfit and moving thru? Of was it hung over a tree branch?
The way my wife's father and uncle would set up the sightings were as follows:
They had an accomplice who was their buddy (so three men in on the hoax total). Her father was Air Force, and the accomplice was Army, I don't remember if the uncle was in the service at that time or not. Her father or the friend would lure out fellow servicemen who were down around the ONF for whatever reason and would convince them to go "shining deer" as experiencing a legitimate good-ole-Florida-boy pastime that those "Yankees" ain't never experienced in a way like we do it here. Her father and the accomplice would take them out in an open-air vehicle such as a jeep. They'd use the fire hunting laws as an excuse to make sure no one was armed, although in reality they were of course making sure no one could shoot the "bigfoot." Her uncle would be on a pre-determined cut. When they'd show up to shine, he's start off being out there a few hundred yards and would only let the light catch glimpses of him. He would be wearing the mask and the ghillie suit. Either her dad or the buddy would be operating the light so they could control how it hit the uncle. The other one would be controlling the jeep. It would start with quick glances at the bigfoot and then they'd allow the victims to get a good look at it at distance. By that time everyone would be panicking and then the driver would feign trouble getting the jeep going. Just as it gets going, the uncle would come out out of the dark and hit the side of the vehicle and chase them a short distance.
As far as the men knew, no one ever caught on. The victims treated it like a real experience.