Reports of the humanoid/hominid we call Sasquatch here in
Canada come in from all over the world.
In the US most think of him as Bigfoot, whereas in the Far East he is
known as a Yeti. In fact, there are dozens
of names associated with this big hairy best.
Here is a list:
The Wood Man
Boqs
Snanaik
Bushmen
Timber Giants
Big Figure
Bukwas/Bukwus
Wild Man of the Woods
Dzonoqua/Tsonoqua
Wild Woman of the Woods
evil seeker
Sne nah, or Owl Women
Tsadjatko, or giants
Skukum
Hecaitomixw, or Devil of the Forest
Oeh
Tsaaloh, or, Giants
Stick Indians
Sasquatch
Windigo
The Hairy Man
Ice Giant
Man-mountain
Chenoo
Gilyuk
Tuneq
Massikruman
Chuchunaa
Nakani
Mount St. Helens gorillas
Goat man
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Nant’ina
Get’qun
Na’in, or Brushman
Koosh Taa Kaa, or Otterman
Nantiinaq
Urayuli
Miitiipi
Madukarahat, or Giant
Loo poo oi’yes
Yahyahaas
Yeti
Olayome
Oh-Mah
Stoneclad
Nun Yunu Wi
The Stone Man
Kecleh-Kudleh
Atahsaia
stetats
Nalusa Falaya
Shampe
Skunk ape
Char-Man
Swamp ape
Nyalmo
Orang Dalam
Bosjesman
Oo-el-en
Zoobie
Nuk-Luk
Devil Monkey
Honey Island Swamp Monster
Fouke Monster
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Ot ne yar heh
Stonish Giants
Ge no sqwa
The Stone Giants
Ge no’sgwa
The Stone Coats
Esti Capcaki
Albatwitches
Chiye tanka
Rugaru
The Big Man
Woods Devils
See’atco
Skookum
Yi’ dyi’ tay
Tsiatko
Seatco
Tso’apittse
Cannibal
Ste ye hah
Splintercat
Yeahoh
So’yoko
T’oylona
Tornit
Momo
Lizard man
Flint Monster
Kung-Lu
Stick Indian
No Heads
No necks
Catamounts
Ft. Worth Monster
Boggy Creek Monster
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To be fair, some of these names are not necessarily
associated with Bigfoot creatures exactly.
There is some discussion among researchers that beings like Lizard Man
and Windigo are not at all like him, but rather creatures of their own kind, or
even hoax and fictional creatures.
Like the many different names, the big hairy man has been
described with many hair colors and varieties.
North America Bigfoot Search has developed a “trait sheet” wherein they
identify hair color in bigfoot reports as “black, brown, grey, reddish and
more.” In the Far East, his hair color
is generally reported as white or grey, but in North America he is usually
noted to be brown, black or blonde—sometimes with some grey interspersed. In northern Ontario, there are many reports
of “Old Yellow Top”, a clearly blonde bigfoot specimen. It would appear that like humans, these
creatures come in all colors. The same
is true for skin color. Skin is reported
as everything from dark to light.
When it comes to scientific evidence, the hair sample field
narrows significantly. In the attached
photo, the witness claims the hair was found 7 feet up in a tree in a rural mountainous
area, probably in Pennsylvania, given her email address. Is it from a Bigfoot? Would DNA testing tell us? IN 1978, John Greene’s book “Sasquatch, the
Apes Among Us” details the investigation of a half dozen light colored hairs
found in the 1960’s. These were sent a
laboratory in Los Angeles and it was determined that the hairs showed both
animal and human characteristics. Like animal hair, they showed a variation in
color and thickness from root to tip.
The scale pattern on the outside of the shaft, however, was more like
human hair and there was no core in the shaft.
Animal hair has a core called the medulla in the center of each strand.
In the early 1990’s, Dr.
Grover S. Krantz published “Big Foot-Prints: A Scientific Inquiry into the
Reality of Sasquatch.” He explains that DNA extraction is now possible for the
study, but;
"Hair samples are the commonest of what I call bodily scraps. Some of these have been examined by hair expert and pronounced to be of an unknown animal and in a few cases even pinned down to being from a high primate. Unfortunately for these earlier studies, the science of hair analysis is rather inexact and the competence of the investigator varies greatly…the science of hair analysis is rather inexact and the competence of the investigator varies greatly.”
Analysis is currently done in comparison to most mammal DNA,
especially humans, primates, and bears.
We have been able to correctly identify what Sasquatch is not, but not what
it is. This cannot occur until we have definitive
proof of where the sample came from. In
short, we need a bigfoot, dead or alive, to take samples from. Blood and hair samples were left behind on a
Native Reserve in Washington state where the witness reported seeing a
Sasquatch bothering cattle. Fences were
torn down and what seemed to be a sleeping nest was built. Professor Stephen I
Rosen of the University of Maryland identified the hair as that of a previously
unknown primate. The blood sample was examined
by another institution and found to be primate, possibly human, but too
degraded to be definitive. The
Summerlin hairs found in the same state in 1995 were found by Ohio State
University to be “an unknown primate”.
The nature of the Sasquatch body hair may be as simple as Hypertrichosis,
or more colorfully, 'werewolf syndrome.' This is a genetic disorder characterised by
excessive body hair on the human torso. It tends to be relatively rare, but if these
beings have a limited gene pool it would be easy to propagate. If this is the case, then as Bobbie Short remarks
in her paper What
do we know about Sasquatch hair, really?
“Shave off all that hair and you have a human body looking back at you…”
In early October 2011, "yetiologists" from the
USA, Canada, Sweden, Estonia and Russia went to the Kuzbass region of
Russia. There they found footprints
believed to belong to a Yeti. Stuck into
at least one of these prints were hair samples.
Professors from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Idaho Universities tested the
hairs and found them to be identical to some found in California, the Russian
Urals, and near Leningrad. The samples
were then forwarded to the Russian Zoological Institute of the Academy of
Sciences to examine and determine the genetic code.
Dr. W. Henner Fahrenbach has the only extensive collection
of hairs presumptive for Sasquatch in the USA.
His collection is animal, human, and non-human primate samples
accumulated over time. These samples are
from 3 to 15 inches in length, and most are under 90 microns in diameter. Uncontaminated
hair samples presumed to be Sasquatch hairs can still be sent to Dr. Fahrenbach
to be analyzed at the Laboratory of
Microscopy, 6835 E. Las Animas Trail, Gold Canyon, Arizona 85118.
It would seem that we are a mere hairs bredth away from
deciphering the Sasquatch genetic code.
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