Hunt For The Skinwalker by George Knapp

Author:George Knapp [Knapp, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781416526933
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Monsters

Human beings have been terrorized, mystified, and fascinated with tales of mystery beings and unearthly creatures for as long as our species has existed. Monsters, demons, goblins, and ghosts have their roots in oral traditions that date back to cave-dwelling yarn spinners. Over the centuries, there have been innumerable other entries in this pantheon of the paranormal, from witches and werewolves to vampires and sea serpents, from blood-sucking ghouls to blood-suckingchupacabras, from trolls and leprechauns to bug-eyed space aliens who arrive in the night to snatch unsuspecting people from their beds. Godzilla, Freddie Krueger, and Frankenstein’s monster didn’t exist, so they had to be invented, the product of fertile imaginations and cinematic special effects artists. If they weren’t real before, they are now, imprinted forever on our collective psyche.

There is a distinct difference between monsters that exist only on celluloid or the printed page, however, and those that occasionally make overt intrusions into our personal realities; one emerges from the supernatural, while the other, like Bigfoot, has distinct roots in our flesh-and-blood reality. Although Mike is certain that the creature he saw crawling through the tunnel lacked hair, there is no question that Gorman and members of his family witnessed some Bigfoot-like creatures on the ranch on more than one occasion, as have others in the area.

Contrary to popular impression, however, Bigfoot wasn’t born in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

He didn’t just spring up from nowhere alongside Starbucks Coffee, Microsoft, and the grunge rock of Nirvana. Long before Europeans arrived in North America, indigenous peoples throughout the continent knew of Sasquatch, which is the name used by the Salish tribe of the Northwest. Coastal tribes called him Bukwas or Dzunukwa and have featured his likeness in masks and on totems dating back to the 1700s. The Lakota Sioux of the northern plains referred to Bigfoot as Chiye-tanka, roughly translated as the big elder brother. Joe Flying By, a Hunkpapa Lakota, told Peter Matthiessen, the author of Thunderheart, that “the Big Man is a husband of the earth,” a being from ancient times who can take a hairy form or even change into a coyote.

“There is your Big Man standing there, ever waiting, ever present, like the coming of a new day,” Joe Flying By was quoted as saying in an article inThe Track Record. “He is both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as if the trees weren’t there.”

Canadian writer and Bigfoot researcher Ron Murdock asserts that the existence of Sasquatch is taken for granted throughout Native North America. The Athabaskan Indians of Alaska regard Sasquatch as a

“big brother” who looks out for Native American peoples and brings signs or messages during troubled times. Hopi elders believe that Bigfoot delivers messages from the Creator, often messages about man’s

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disrespect for harmony and balance. “In Native culture, the entire natural world is seen as a family.

Sasquatch is regarded as one of our closest relatives.

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