We all know about the Sasquatch aka Bigfoot. A large hairy mythical creature about 7 feet tall weighing 300 pounds and somehow has escaped the human race from knowing they exist. But what you might not know is that in 1840 a missionary named Elkanah Walker wrote a letter depicting a race of giants who have lived in the mountains. He said that the creatures work and hunt at night and would often steal fish from nearby nets and eat them raw. When people awake, the creatures would know when they were coming using their acute sense of smell. Years later in 1884 near Yale, BC a creature was captured which many have been calling a young Bigfoot. The creature weighed about 127 pounds and stood at 4 feet 7 inches at height. But very mysteriously the creature escaped during transport.
An avid hunter and also president of the US Teddy Roosevelt believed the mythical creature. But it was in 1958 that the Sasquatch got popular. Road workers had found strange human like footprints several times and theorized that whatever made them were about 300 pounds heavy. This is when a news report on the footprints received a great amount of controversy. A creature hiding in the mountains that has avoided nearly all contact with the human race.
In 1967 the famous Patterson-Gimlim video was filmed. The video not only gave more evidence for the existence of Bigfoot but also popularized the topic more. This is how we ended up with movies, jokes, drawings, and stories about a race of creatures roaming the mountains, invisible to the human race.
Sources:
"Bigfoot." Narr. Leonard Nimoy. Ancient Mysteries. A&E Television. 15 May. 1997. Video
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