Sasquatch

[Carcajou Garou]

Do The British Ilses have any history/legends of beings like Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti? Does mainland Europe? Have you ever had an unexplained sighting? The Sasquatch goes deep in our aboriginal cultures as an accepted matter, in the Pacific regions the sightings are more frequent I think.

 

[g4ghb]

We have the beast of bodmin and Nessie of course - how many more do you want!

 

[Goose]

There is an old story about the wodehouse/woodhouse, similar type of creature/person to the sasquatch, yeti, yowie(from australia) and Yeren(china), but it is not as widely known or as recent as the bigfoot, abominable snowman stories.
It seems that all cultures have similar legends(?), about a wild man.

 

[Goose]

Found a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwose
There are more spellings than I thought

 

[Abbe Osram]

We have the "Näcken" a mystical human type of figure which sits on a stone in a river or rapit playing the fiddle with a kind of music which draws you to him.
Then he drowns you and takes you with him into the river.

Cheers
Abbe

 

[andyn]

With all these legends - it makes you wonder if any of them are true ??!?!?!?!?

I like the sound of the Nacken! Sounds like a nice bloke! :shock:

 

[JoshG]

Well we know for sure nessie doesn't exist.

 

[lardbloke]

I wonder if any of our fellow bushcrafters/outdoor friends have actually experienced anything out of the ordinary whilst out and about???
Cant say I have.....except for the odd glue sniffer etc.

 

[MartiniDave]

Around the Cambs/Norfolk/Suffolk area we have Black Shuck - a large ethereal black dog. Depending upon which exact part of the area you are from it can be either benign and helpful, or hostile and the portent of doom. I think The Darkness did a song about it in their inimitable style!
Never came across anything like it myself, but a good & trusted friend claimed that when he was lost on the Welney Washes while duck shooting in the fog, he came across a large black dog which led him to the safety of a familiar track, then vanished into the fog. I don't think he'd been drinking but who knows!

Dave

 

[Rhodri]

Hi Carcajou,

No real 'bigfoot' type myths in the UK I don't think. Russia has some though...

 

[anthonyyy]

I dont know of any bigfoot type beliefs from Ireland.

 

[Povarian]

I wonder if any of our fellow bushcrafters/outdoor friends have actually experienced anything out of the ordinary whilst out and about???.

You betcha!

This isn't the right medium to tell them in. Wouldn't do them justice. I'll save all mine for when we're sat around an evening fire at a moot somewhere, with a chill mist rolling across the ground, a lone owl hooting from on high, and shadows flickering at the edges of your vision.

 

[wentworth]

There have been many many sightings of the Yowie here in the Blue Mountains. You can read them all on www.yowiehunters.com
There's a guy living at th end of my street who has taken infrared pictures of them. There have apparently been police stakeouts down there to try and find something.
I had an experience a couple of years ago where a friend and I were camping under hootchies on the side of a track. Behind us we heard slow heavy footsteps walking through the bush. They walked across to near where the track started. They then started back, semi circling fom one side of the track to the other, around our camp. When we turned on our lights to try and see something, the footsteps stopped.
(I know everything sounds big in the bush, but this thing sounded heavy).
It continued for hours. My friend woke up during the night and said he could still hear it. We slept with big sticks that night... my swiss army knife looking faintly whimpy in the gleam of my torch.

Just my experiences. Not asking anyone to believe it. Just though it might provide an interesting read.

 

[RovingArcher]

How are the different versions of the same creature depicted in the different stories?

There are several versions of Sasquatch, many of them depict Sasquatch as a spiritual being, which is why they can't be proven, but are often seen. They are depicted as being the quardians of Nature and show themselves so people know that they are still with us and according to stories, they will show themselves to all when it is time for nature to take back what is hers, destroying all those that are trying to destroy or mess with nature. So, when we see them, It's not a good thing, it's a reminder of what's to come.

 

[MartiniDave]

A bit on Black Shuck :-

http://www.cambridgeparanormal.co.uk/phantomhounds.html

http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/SpookyNorfolk/asp/NorthNorfolk/BlackShuck.asp

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/black_dogs.html

Dave

 

[happy camper]

hello
found this with interesting info. and links about various types and names depending on country of origin..
http://www.occultopedia.com/m/mysterious_primates.htm

 

[Spacemonkey]

I wonder how many of these primitve man stories ape (sorry..) from the period in time when we still mingled with the remenants of Neanderthal man and his cousins?

It's curious how stories in the UK of big black dogs were popular and widespread until recent times, when they have been replaced by ABC's (Alien Big Cats) such as the Bodmin 'Beast'? And don't forget the giant otters in Ireland...

There is no doubt that ABC's exist in this country and are fairly widespread. Many bodies of them have been found all over the land, yet they so far as i know they haven't attacked a human. There is the odd story of a defensive scratch, but they mainly run a mile when they encounter us. They are mainly the ubiquitous labrador sized black cat which are probably descendants of the cat's released in to the wild by people who had them as pets until the laws made it very difficult to keep them in the 60's. My dad has seen one in the New Forest when out on his motorbike, and i had a close encounter with one VERY close to London. This case was backed up by lots of evidence to agree with my eyes, and it appeared that the area was part of the cat's territory that it visited every 6 months or so. I usually walked my dog in the fields very late at night and when the cat was in the area the dog was very nervy, not to mention the total lack of wildlife noise. I found definite cat footprints (quite different to dog) and black hair from a fence over it's trail. I reported the incident and evidence to the group that investigates these things and they agreed, but i didn't want anyone to know the location, after all, it wasn't harming anyone...

 

[Beer Monster]

The UK does indeed have a yeti type mystery. There is the Grey Man of Ben Macdui in the Cairngorms also known as Ferla mohr.

PROFESSOR Norman Collie was a man of science, a professor of chemistry at the University College London. He was also an avid hill-walker and the last man anyone expected to tell absurd stories of strange footsteps on a remote hill. Yet that was the tale he told at the annual general meeting of the Cairngorm Club in Aberdeen on a dark, winter night in December 1925.

Collie had been alone on Ben MacDui, the highest peak in the Cairngorms and the second highest in Scotland, in 1891 when he was became convinced that he was being stalked.

"I began to think I heard something else than merely the noise of my own footsteps," he said. "For every few steps I took I heard a crunch, and then another crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own."

Overwhelmed by a sudden and fierce terror he ran four or five miles down the mountain as "the eerie crunch, crunch sounded behind".

This was the first official record of a strange presence on the hilltops high up in the Cairngorms, but it was not the last. A number of experienced climbers - rational men and women - have since given accounts of encountering Am Fear Liath Mor (The Big Grey Man) on the mountain.

Physical descriptions agree that the figure is hairy, huge - about 10 feet tall - with pointed ears, long legs and finger-like talons on his feet. So far so yeti, but descriptions of the Grey Man don’t stop there.

Rather bizarrely, a couple of witnesses claim the creature wears a top hat and whenever he appears, the sound of loud, crunching footsteps echo across the mountain. Some hear singing, others ghostly laughter.

The Grey Man is apparently more often felt than physically seen. Climbers experience uncontrolled terror, deep despair and huge negative energy. Not surprisingly many walkers feel an overwhelming desire to run away. Some have felt themselves pursued by echoing footsteps. Others are hypnotically drawn to the edge of cliffs.

The Cairngorms: home of Scotland's Yeti?
There have been a number of explanations put forward to explain the Grey Man, from the reasonable to the surreal. Among the favourites is that the beast is some type of big-foot species long thought extinct. If this sounds too plausible, then you may choose to believe that he is some mystical holy man or even an extraterrestrial. More recently it has been suggested that Ben MacDhui is a "window" area – an interface between two worlds. Could the Grey Man be the portal guardian, placed among the high Scottish hills to deter intruders?

More sensible suggestions consider that the Grey Man is a geological holograph, an optical illusion or perhaps a hallucination brought about by oxygen starvation.

If you prefer your explanations totally down-to-earth then consider this. A similar phenomenon was witnessed in Germany’s Black Forest. People were terrified, claiming to witness misty grey men following them and hearing the echoing of footsteps. Scientific enquiries found a startling conclusion. The German Grey Man? These German climbers were being spooked by nothing more sinister than their own shadows.

Link to article.

I think the last encounter was in 2004 when someones tent got trashed (with them in it) by a large animal near the summit. They had to walk of the mountain in the night an unfortunatley one of the men was so frightened he had a heart attack on the way down and had to be rescued.

 

[EdS]

In North Yorkshire the is the Barghust (not sure about spelling). A big black dog the that Bram Stoke used as the insparation for the dog that lands at Whibty in Dracula.

There are also Hob. Small furry beings that live on farms. Leave food and milk and the they do odd jobs. Do not and they get up to mischief.


Big hairy bipedes that live in the wild of the UK. Must resist the urge to mention the Scots - ducks and runs for cover.

 

[Beer Monster]

Big hairy bipedes that live in the wild of the UK. Must resist the urge to mention the Scots - ducks and runs for cover.

Only on the weekends ! Also been known to be quadrapedial (sp?) after a night in the pub.