Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti . . .
Bigfoot is a guy you’d probably recognize on sight, but around the world he’s known by many different names. What you call him probably depends on where you spot him. In the United States he ’s also known as Sasquatch, and on the other side of the world he ’s called the Yeti or Abominable Snowman. Bigfoot-like critters have some bizarre names around the world, but the fascinating part is that similar creatures are sighted in so many places. Most cryptids are localized in one specific area, but Bigfoot seems to be on every continent, except maybe Antarctica.
Everywhere there are humans there are stories of Bigfoot. It kind of makes it seem like Bigfoot has been with us all along, lurking is the darkened woods just out of our sight. From the dawn of man until modern times, perhaps Bigfoot has always been around, and our ancestors have always known. Going back to the earliest campfire stories thousands of years ago, all the way up to websites like this one, stories of Bigfoot live on.
Different Names for Bigfoot
So what does it all mean? Could a massive species of ancient ape called Gigantopithecus really have followed early humans throughout their migration out of Asia, across the Bering Land Bridge and into the Americas? Or, does it just mean we ’re all equally crazy, no matter where we are from? Before we attempt to answer the question of how deluded the average human being may be, let ’s take a look at some of the names Bigfoot goes by in different places.
Sasquatch
We all know this one. Maybe viewed by some as more representative of the Pacific Northwest, really it ’s pretty much interchangeable with “Bigfoot”. These days the Sasquatch is spotted all over North America, from the thick forests of New England, to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and everywhere in between.
The current Bigfoot craze took off in the 1950s, but Native Americans knew about the Sasquatch long before Europeans arrived. Some tribes saw it as a forest spirit, and others as just another being that shared the land with them. The point is, we know from their stories that the Sasquatch isn’t just some monster invented by modern culture in order to get TV ratings. There is a real creature here, with a real history behind it.
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Yeti
Stalking the regions around the Himalayas, and sometimes called the Abominable Snowman, the Yeti is probably the next best-known cousin of Bigfoot. Sightings of this creature have it pegged as a dead-ringer for the North American Sasquatch. Are these two beasts related?
Maybe. Something called Bigfoot-Giganto Theorymay explain how both the Sasquatch and the Yeti came into existence in Asia, long ago. It’s possible they may trace their lineage back to a massive ape called Gigantopithecus Blacki. It was a 10-foot tall monster, and some researchers believe it may have evolved into what we call today Bigfoot, or the Yeti.
It’s an interesting idea, but however it happened there seems to be the same creature running around the Himalayas as there is in North America.
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Wendigo
Hailing from the woods of Canada, the Windigo (or Wendigo) is a big, hairy man-like creature from Native American legend. But legends don ’t always think of it as an animal; Windigo can be a creature that transforms from a human, and has very bad intentions.
Some interesting hypotheses concerning Bigfoot have been borne from the Wendigo legends. On one hand, perhaps the wild stories of the supernatural Wendigo stem from sightings of a real creature like Bigfoot, and maybe Native Americans have expanded on the abilities of the creature, making it into some kind of spirit being.
On the other hand, perhaps the legend of the Wendigo is proof that Bigfoot really only exists in the spirit realm, and not in the real world at all.
Yowie
From the outback of Australia, by many accounts this guy is yet another version of Bigfoot. In some stories the Yowie is an apelike hominid. In others it is more like a primitive human living in the outback. Aboriginal legend doesn’t clear things up much, but like Native Americans in North America they do have a history of the creature dating back hundreds, even thousands of years.
One problem with the Yowie is that Australia has been isolated for thousands of years. This mean whatever factor may have driven the Yeti or Sasquatch to evolve and migrate across Europe and North America can’t be responsible for the Yowie. So where did this beast come from? It’s an interesting questions, with some equally intriguing answers.
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Skunk Ape
The Bigfoot of the Southern US. He ’s just as big and scary, but ups the bar with the added benefit of a horrific stench. It ’s claimed he gets his illustrious odor by hanging out in methane-packed bogs, but really its anyone’s guess.
With dense and dangerous swamps, parts of Florida and other southern swamps are ideal habitat for a large creature that doesn’t want to be spotted. Bigfoot seems to have made his home here, and who can blame him?
There has been some interesting evidence for the Skunk Ape over the years. Perhaps most notably, a decade or so a go a woman claimed a large animal had been stealing apples from her porch. She set up a camera and snapped a few pictures, and the result was the Myakka Skunk Ape photo to the right.
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Orang Pendek
From Sumatra, and only a few feet tall, so not really similar to Bigfoot in stature. But Orang Pendek is definitely an example of a bizarre Bigfoot-like critter from an unexpected place. And there may be more similarities than we’d think.
For one thing, if Orang Pendek is real it raises the question of Bigfoot’s origins. Could it be a kind of pygmy version of Bigfoot, or perhaps a related species that went down some different evolutionary path?
Even more intriguing is the idea that Orang Pendek could actually be some kind of human ancestor, perhaps a relic population of the tiny “Hobbit” humans found on the island of Flores. Whatever it is, Sumatran native are seeing something strange in the jungles, and it appears to be a bipedal ape.
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Yeren
This creature lives in the forests of China, and is described as something very close to Bigfoot in size and appearance. What ’s interesting is that the Yeren hails from the general area of the world where Gigantopithecus, the ancient giant ape, is believed to have gone extinct. So could this be yet another example of Bigfoot-Giganto Theory?
Also called the Chinese Wildman, reports of this beasty go back for generations. Again, like the Sasquatch in North America and the Yowie in Australia, stories often contain a touch of mysticism, making it tough to discern if the Yeren is a flesh-and-blood creature or some kind of spiritual being dreamed up by local cultures. Still, many cryptozologists find it worth exploring, particularly due to the possible link to Gigantopithecus.
How to Find Bigfoot
Now that you know a bunch of places around the world where Bigfoot-like cryptids have been spotted it should be easy for you to go out there and catch one. So get to it! If this sounds unreasonable, let ’s get back to the original question: What does it mean when so many people, from so many countries and so many cultures, seem to spot the same kind of mysterious creature in so many different places around the world? And yet, despite all of these sightings, there is no scientifically accepted evidence for the existence of these beings?
Maybe we ’re inherently crazy as a species, prone to seeing and imagining things that don ’t exist. But we don’t have to be nuts to appreciate a good Bigfoot sighting. We humans seem to be quite vulnerable to amazing stories, the more fantastic the better. No doubt the caveman with the best Bigfoot sighting story got a lot of attention around the campfire, and maybe a few truths were stretched. Is it any different today around the water cooler?
Tales of Bigfoot could be the residue of ancestral memories, dating back to a time when stranger creatures shared the earth with us. Gigantopithecus roamed Asia thousands of years ago and has since gone extinct. No doubt ancient humans had contact with this beasty, and perhaps their fears have been passed down genetically over generations.
Or, maybe Bigfoot is real and very adept at hiding. Reports of sightings seem to come from just about everywhere, and we can’t all be crazy!
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