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There are a lot of Sasquatch / BigFoot Researchers just in North America. As time goes by I hope that more of them will take a keen interest in finding out more about Sasquatch Language.

If we can come to a good understanding of what they speak then we will greatly increase our chances of an encounter that could develop into regular contact ;henceforth; a great scientific breakthrough.

LANGUAGE

Does Sasquatch / Bigfoot have Language ;

The Native First Nations People have a long history of sharing the land with Sasquatch. They have many names for Sasquatch depending on the geographical area in question. From what I have learned and understand, the Native People have traditionally referred to Sasquatch as "a People". I also understand that some have said that Sasquatch speaks the Douglas Dialect, which originates from the Native People who traditionally live at the northern portions of Harrison Lake..

This poses some real interesting questions for food for thought.

If Sasquatch has learned the Douglas Dialect, then it would only seem reasonable to consider that he may have also learned other languages as well , based upon the traditionally spoken language of the individual geographical areas. If the Traditional Native Language of the Native People in the Central Interior and Central Coastal Region of British Columbia is The Carrier Language, then it seems to me that Sasquatch in this region would speak The Carrier Dialect, or possibly his version of it. East of the Rockies it would be Cree or some other dialect. I don't know what the Traditional Native Language in Washington and Oregon would be, but it seems to me that Sasquatch would speak that in that area. Of course this should also apply to other geographical areas of this 3rd rock from the sun which we inhabit.

Now when you consider that Traditional Native History says that Sasquatch would sometimes kidnap young women and girls in order to propagate his species. Therefore, it would only seem reasonable to assume that Sasquatch would learn some of her Language from her. It also seems likely that Sasquatch would learn a lot of language and language words during the times when he is hiding and watching people.

We do know that they like to simply watch people when you read stories related by people who have had encounters while out working, hiking or camping in the woods. If you watch and listen to someone long enough, and if they in fact speak a foreign language, sooner or later you will start to pick up the odd word and what that word means. So, why should Sasquatch be any different ??

Now with that being said, why is it so hard for us to even think that Sasquatch could have some English Language capabilities ? Sasquatch has been watching us English speaking folks ever since the first explorers entered this land. Over the centuries Sasquatch is bound to pick up some English words, even if he doesn't know the meanings of all of them. And if he is like any other intelligent Primate he will eventually pass what he has learned onto others, especially his offspring. They too will learn and pass along what they have learned. One thing is common amongst the intelligent primates, especially humans, is that when we learn something new we simply cannot keep quiet about it. Sooner or later we simply have to share what we have learned with someone. What about Sasquatch ???? We all learn and learn best by example.

These thoughts are undoubtedly very hard for some people to even comprehend, but, just stop and and think about it for a while. Common sense and a reasonable consideration of how things in this world progress amongst intelligent species will likely bring you to the same conclusions.

Things that are possible are greatly limited by what we are willing to perceive in our minds and in our hearts. If Sasquatch speaks one language then why would it be so hard for him to learn more from those who he spends lengthy periods of time observing. Perhaps his language has become a mixed bag of parts of several languages.

There are people who say that Sasquatch could not have spoken language. They step forward and publish writings that say Sasquatch doesn't have the intellectual capability, or, doesn't have the physical attributes that are necessary to produce speech. . Yet, they are amongst those who have never seen a Sasquatch and / or heard Sasquatch vocalize or speak. I have heard Sasquatch voices, I have heard them communicating amongst themselves, although I could not understand what they were saying, but then my education does not go beyond the English Language, and I even have limitations with it. I can tell you in absolute certainty that there is nobody on this planet who will ever convince me that they do not or could not have Language. To those people I say, Talk is cheap when it comes to the study of a subject of which we do not have a sample. If you should ever hear their voices and listen to them talking you will be eating a lot of crow for the rest of you life.

There is literally hundreds if not thousands of people who have heard Sasquatch voices over the centuries ; heard them vocalize as well as heard them talking. The testimony of these people in a Court Of Law has the power to send a man to the Gallows. Yet, when they testify about Sasquatch they are ignored ; especially by those who are educated and consider themselves to be know it alls who won't accept anything that contradicts what they have chosen to stand on.

First hand witnesses like me and so many others are often frowned upon simply because we can not produce absolute physical proof to support what we have seen and heard.

Please excuse me for being so blunt, but armchair, desktop experts need to go out into the bush where Sasquatch lives and learn about them first hand before spewing out unsupported information that you expect others to accept and believe. I am a very well seasoned outdoors man, lived most of my 59-plus years hunting and fishing in the backwoods. I have no use for city life, and I understand animals out in the bush far better than I understand people, so, when I see something I can usually tell you what I have seen, and when I hear something I know what I hear. I didn't learn all that from an armchair or Discovery Channel. I have seen Sasquatch. I have heard their voices. Yes, I have heard them talking amongst themselves. No matter what the opinion of some so called expert might be, it will not change the truth of the experiences of people like me.

I purchased the High Sierra Audio Recordings. If these recordings really are of Sasquatch talking and vocalizing then these recordings are amongst the greatest Crypto zoological discoveries ever made. And here is why I say this.

I had a video production business from the early 1990's until about 2002 when I closed it down. I had to know a fair bit about video and audio work. I also have been a novice musician since the early 1970's. I also gained a working knowledge of audio clarification and altering. I say that to establish an understanding that I have enough background to know what I am doing with video and audio, and have an ear that catches things more than most people without any musical background would hear.

I downloaded those High Sierra recordings into my computer. I have a semi professional audio software program that can do amazing things with sound. I used this software to clean up the recordings and clarify the sound as well. What I ended up with is to say the least amazing. Sasquatch at one point was slamming a toilet seat up and down, then he says, "Oh my letch, what is that." I don't know what the word letch means but the rest is english words. There is another point where Sasquatch has gotten tired of doing vocalizations back and forth with Ron Muirhead and his party. Sasquatch says, "Heyy. tired of the waps." Again I am not sure of the word "waps" but it obviously refers to the men present, the rest is English Language. There is more but I think that I have made my point.

One more point ; Even a stupid Parrot or Magpie can quickly pick up on words and repeat them sometimes very fluently. He may not know what they mean but none the less the first step to language has been accomplished by a stupid bird with a brain the size of a pea. With all common sense, we should really expect far greater things from Sasquatch!

......... Leo Selzer, Sasquatch Research & Reporting .................. If anyone would like to copy and use what I have just said please feel free to do so. As long as the use is for Public Education, and NOT for any financial gain........

The following story was extracted from "The International Bigfoot Society Website" Because if the link should ever fail I did not want to loose this story. I feel that it is that important. Link to website supplied.

http://www.internationalbigfootsociety.com/html/dsp_report.php?id=586IBS Report #: 586

Location: KING county, WA. United State

Latitude: +047° 33' N Longitude: 121° 32' W

Day: 10 Month: OCT Year: 1997 Locality: GREEN RIVER near Quartz Creek

Researcher: Ray Wallace Witness: BUSS

Sighting Type: 1

Summary: 8 BF CATCHING SALMON, SPEAKING A LANGUAGE, MOSS BEDS

Sighting Text: WALKING 1997 TR#72 * Ray Wallace letter of Oct 15th.

Last week some friends of mine saw the whole family of Bigfoots catching salmon in the Green River (WA, near Mt. St. Helens). The family of Bigfoots were a total of eight, they thought there was three females, two large males, and three young ones half as tall as the three females.

These two friends of mine viewed them from a bridge across Green River for a half hour last Friday (Oct. 10th) as they were scouting out the remote area in search of deer as the hunting season was opening on Saturday. Buss told me if he would have had his camcorder he could have made a movie worth a million dollars without a doubt, as these creatures were really busy catching these large salmon that they figured would weigh about 35 pounds.

They know this as, they are fishermen and they have boats with 60 horsepower motors. And they catch a lot of salmon in the Cowlitz River that borders my 405 acre ranch where I have hydrogen gas wells.

The Green River is about 40 feet wide and about three feet deep nowadays in the fall. Buss said they were speaking a language that they, the witnesses, could not understand. They were only 20 feet above this whole family. Buss said a log truck came along and when it crossed this bridge, they all fled and they never returned.

Buss said they left and he went back on Saturday to make some movies of them if they were there, but they weren’t there, and none of the pile of salmon were there.

Buss said the Bigfoot probably returned when it was dark and carried the Salmon to their caves near Quartz Creek. These caves were made by the early day Indians, about the year of 1750, when the Indians took out all of the gold then left the area. I know what happened as I have been told about that ; When the white men came up on the Indians mining, they were all shot.

A lot of the old pioneers are all dead now, as I am 79 years old so now I am an old pioneer. I will be on the lookout for these Bigfoots fishing on Green River with their hands with long white claws as Buss said they have claws that looked to be 1 1/2 inches in length.

Deer hunting season is on now, so these hairy furred creatures will be hid during this hunting season with all of the shooting all over that area, and the spawning season (salmon) will be over.

You asked me one time if I had ever seen sword ferns in a Bigfoot bed. No, I have never seen any ferns as they are hard and sticky. All of the beds we have ever seen in caves near Quartz Creek east of Mt. St. Helens, was made from soft moss, a least one foot thick. We could see where all of this moss had been removed from the large maple trees as these are the only trees where this soft moss grows.

Bigfoots are not dumb like a lot of people think. Like I have said before, these creatures have lived off of this land all of their lives by catching salmon and drying them in the sun and storing them in caves for winter food.

The person relaying this story seems to know a lot about Sasquatch-Bigfoot. The implication that Sasquatch is a hunter gatherer who stores away for winter is clearly said. If true, then these magnificent Beings are certainly not dumb apes by any means. Also, the teller says that the family of Bigfoot were speaking in a language. To the best of my knowledge, only humans have and use verbal language to communicate. If the above story is true about the language and the gathering and storing of food, then where does Sasquatch-Bigfoot fit into the world of man? What are they?

.Sasquatchs Do Talk

The interesting part about this is that in many similar cases related by the Indians of the Chehalis reservation about sasquatchs speaking, the creatures are nearly always understood to be speaking in what is referred to as "the Douglas dialect."

DO SASQUATCH HAVE LANGUAGE

I believe that this is such an important article being put out by people who know and understand Sasquatch / Bigfoot I am concerned that if there should ever be a problem with the above link, the article might not be visible to some people ar for that matter it might be lost altogether.

It is because this that I am copying and pasting this article here below.

( With all due respect for Bobbi Short and the incredible amount of contribution that she has made to the world of Sasquatch / Bigfoot Research. Bobbi and her staff have put in many years of hard work researching and publishing so that people all over the world can enjoy Sasquatch stories and learn about our big hairy friend. Thanks Bobbi.)

Please take the time to go to the "Bigfoot Encounters Website" where you will find an absolute treasure chest full of great reading and learning about Sasquatch.

A Great Article published on The BigFoot Encounters Website ;

Bobbi Short also included an Article written by me.

Thank You Bobbi for bringing light to this incredibly important subject.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/fateoct04.htm

DO SASQUATCH HAVE LANGUAGE

I believe that this article is such an important article being put out by people who know and understand Sasquatch / Bigfoot I am concerned that if there should ever be a problem with the above link, the article might not be visible to some people or for that matter it might be lost altogether.

It is because this that I am copying and pasting this article here below.

Please take the time to go to the "Bigfoot Encounters Website" where you will find an absolute treasure chest full of great reading and learning about Sasquatch.

Bigfoot Encounters

Do Sasquatchs have a Language?

by Micah A. Hanks, freelance writer for Fate Magazine October 2004 Issue ...with comments

Albert Ostman had been restricted to a sitting position for the better part of what he guessed was three hours, a prisoner inside his own sleeping bag. He could barely move and he had nearly passed out more than once already since the mouth of his bag was kept closed and he had been forced to recycle the same air since his strange journey had begun. As best as he could gather from the bouncing he’d felt since he awoke, something large had thrown him over its shoulder while he was sleeping and carried him off into the night.

Whatever was carrying Albert had taken him from his campsite in the mountains on Vancouver Island and though he wasn’t sure what time it was, he could sense it was still dark as he and his captor traveled. Finally all the motion stopped and he felt himself being lifted up, then gently placed on the ground. Albert could hear voices, but he couldn’t understand any of the words he heard, though he could certainly tell that there were more than only the once that had brought him here. Crawling out of his sake, he tried to massage his legs, which were cramped from holding the same position for so long. In the faint moonlight, he could make out little more than the silhouettes of four figures around him.

The chattering continued and Albert remembered legends that the natives in the area had told him of creatures called sasquatchs, a race of hairy giants that haunted the highest most inaccessible regions of the island. Though he couldn’t yet see the things standing all around him, he knew now what they were.

He was a little frightened and finally asked them why they had brought him here. Only more chatter, this time a female voice expressing what Albert took as anger that he’d been brought to the sasquatch home. Dawn came slowly and as the dim light of morning began to fill the sky, he began to see clearly how hairy these “people” were, despite which they certainly looked like people. The large male waved his hands wildly, presumably relating the ordeal of bringing Albert back with him and drawing closer to him said something that sounded to Albert like “sooka sooka.”

The young boy came near also and grabbed Albert’s can of snuff, tasting a bit of it. He too spoke with his new prisoner proclaiming “ook” which Albert took as a request for a can of snuff from the young sasquatch.

If you thing this sounds like the dialogue from a television show or a grade B horror flick, think again. This is actually a portion of a story dating back to the late 1920’s describing how Albert Ostman, a construction working looking for a lost mine near the head of Toba Inlet, Vancouver Island, was kidnapped by what he believed were sasquatchs, the legendary beasts that haunt the mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest. According to his account he was kept with the creatures at their home in the mountains for several days before he fed them snuff, on which they choked, allowing him to escape.

Stories like Ostman about humans interacting with sasquatchs may actually provide more than just entertainment and fuel for the fire of investigators in search of proof. There seems to be recurring element in most tales where sasquatchs are wither surprised by or are in regular contact with humans; they are often observed speaking and in a few odd cases, have actually said things that people were able to understand.

Just what is speech?

Speech can be defined as verbal communication through air vibration. As far as science can prove, humans are the only creatures on Earth with a sophisticated verbal language based on this principle. It has been proved in recent years under lab conditions that some animals, including parrots and gorillas can learn to communicate with humans. You ay have seen gorillas on television communicating by use of sign language not only with humans but with each other, and parrots have been able to learn human names for objects and solve puzzles with the air of verbal communication on about the level of a second grader.

Obviously, animals can communicate. We see them do it every day from dogs marking their scent to define territorial boundaries to bees directing other workers to a source of nectar with their dance. Animals can also communicate pretty successfully with humans. Just try surprising a rattlesnake on a warm day in the woods – I’m sure you’ll know just what he means when he rears back and rattles his tail!

But wouldn’t it be a little strange to try and call this form of communication a language? There obviously has to be more present before intelligent, comprehensive communication in the form of verbal speech can be recognized.

J.W. Burns and the Chehalis Indians

In the 1920’s, a man named J.W. Burns began collecting odd stories of hairy giants that haunted the mountains, legends of the Chehalis Indians whose reservation was located near the southern end of Harrison Lake, British Columbia. Burns had worked for a number of years as the government Indian agent of the Chehalis reservation and had noted that the Chehalis people were reluctant to talk about their bizarre experiences with these hairy savages of the mountains.

Through years of inquiry, Burns began gathering tales from the natives on the reservation about their encounters with this entity. Many of these tales came from hunters or others who happened upon one of these creatures by chance while alone in the forest. These tales often ended with one or both parties fleeing from the scene. But in a few of the accounts gathered by Burns, some of the natives had actually said they heard the sasquatchs speak and a few even claimed to understand what they were saying.

In one case Burns collected, an Indian named Charley reported coming across a sasquatch woman while on a hunting trip. While in the woods with his hunting dog, Charley heard what eh thought was a bear crying from a hole inside a redwood tree. When his dog disappeared into the hold, Charley shot the first thing that came running out, which he said looked to him like a young Caucasian boy. The injury was only a flesh wound and Charley tried to comfort the boy who continued to cry out into the empty forest around them. Before long, a voice began answering from off in the distance and finally a large female sasquatch appeared. Charley was frightened already but his apprehension only increased when the creature turned to him and said, “You have shot my friend.”

The Douglas Dialect

I first found mention of the Douglas Dialect in stories from Burns’ collections. But there was little else said about it in these texts and I had a difficult time digging up much additional information on my own. Finally, thanks to a native British Columbian I contacted named Ken Kristian, I learned that “Douglas” was reference to Salish Indians living in the area of Port Douglas at the north end of Harrison Lake. This particular band is known as the Douglas First Nation. Kristian also told me that the Chehalis band that Burns had worked for as an agent was located on the south end of Harrison Lake. Each band’s dialect differs slightly from one to the next but as one could guess, there would obviously be recognizable trails between dialects just as well as the differences. The aforementioned Charley was said to be part Douglas himself.

But why has the Douglas Dialect been associated with sasquatch speech patterns? Although the region in which this dialect originates also happens to have been a hotbed for sightings over the last several decades, it still seems strange that there might be a specific Northwestern Indian dialect associated with this entity.

What if it were a regional variation on what is known to be the Douglas Dialect? Perhaps certain groups of sasquatchs borrowed portions of an existing language from other people in the region.

Charley recounted the sasquatch calling the child her “friend.” He took this to mean that the creature had probably kidnapped the while Caucasian boy, hence “friend” supported the fact that the child wasn’t her own. But could Charley have been mistaken in his interpretation? Cold the sasquatch have meant “child” after all, but opted for this term because she didn’t know the correct word?

Such speculation still leaves us with the question of how these creatures started speaking a language so similar to that of a particular group of humans. Might this suggest that the sasquatch and human races had common ancestors? It is said that Charley himself guessed that the sasquatchs were somehow related to the Douglas band.

Into the Modern Era

At the current time, the field is simply to broad to even try and make guesses, at least until we are finally able to interact with a living specimen of bigfoot.

I’ve spoken with a number of experts and researchers about the possibility that bigfoot may be able to speak. The general consensus, it seems, is that they probably don’t have language. Even when shown the stories of J.W.Burns, many people say that such tales are outdated and merely reflect the cultural beliefs of a secluded group of people.

But Native Americans are by no means the only people to report experiences in which sasquatchs appear to be trying to communicate. A man named Alexander Katayev told of an experience he had in Russia in August 1974, where he witnessed two large hairy creatures eating together. He reported that one appeared male, and other female, and that they seemed to speak to one another in voices that reminded him of how deaf people sound when speaking. At one point the female appeared to respond with laughter to something her male counterpart said. The creatures were also described using hand motions.

Arthur Buckley once said of his research, “They communicate orally. On two separate occasions with colleagues, we have surprised a small group in their base camp -- who upon a hurried retreat have resorted to a jargon that has the phonetics of a language when we got close to them.”

Another strange account from September 1955 is presented by J. Robert Alley in his book Raincoast Sasquatch:

Just as it was getting dark, we heard a noise coming from the far bank; it sounded like rising and falling series of barking chattering sounds. We answered back, but it waited a minute before answering and was moving along the edge of the trees. It was wailing and making different sounds, and I asked Ed, who had a lot of experiences down south with coyotes, if it was a coyote, but he said not.”

“The sounds were all jumbled together and it sounded as though whatever it was, were trying to put words of sorts together, like it was trying to communicate with us. This would go on every minute or so.”

“Whatever it was circled around our camp in the forest without ever coming out. It sounded like it was trying to talk to us but didn’t quite have the nerve to step out and let us see it. It wasn’t real high pitched and was about as loud as us, like a man talking in a normal voice.”

Even with as many accounts as there are, we’ll never be certain as to whether or not people may actually be witnessing sasquatchs performing anything close to speech as we know it until we can actually sit down with one and attempt to communicate verbally with it. The idea that we could share language with another species on this planet is fascinating for us as humans, no matter how far-fetched or even frightening it may be for some of us. Ultimately, such a discovery would certainly make this strange planet of ours feel a little smaller.

And besides, until proven under biological conditions, we may never know whether or not the sasquatch is really anything more than a figment of our collective imaginations. But for the time being, the more we can learn about them, the closer we may come to actually providing the hard evidence for which we’ve searched for so long. So we might as well turn over every stone we can, no matter how strange the notion behind them. For all we know one day we may be able to learn much about the sasquatchs from their “language” alone. -- Micah A, Hanks is a freelance writer and cryptid researcher. He is also the public relations affiliate and resident crypto zoology expert with the L.E.M.U.R. paranormal investigation team based out of Asheville, North Carolina.

Article photos by Ken Kristian and sketches by R. Crumb - ---Article transcribed from Fate Magazine for Bigfoot Encounters.com by Bobbie Short, who pulled the following accounts regarding language from her database:

There is the report from Navajo sheepherders of old in the four corners district (where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico come together) who believe to this day that the Ye'iitsoh speak the language of the northern tribes, "a tongue that we do not understand here in the southwest. They come here in the season of the long shadows to winter in our warmer climate and exchange sheep and goats for the fish they bring from the north -- fish that is not known to this area, making talk with us in a language that is not ours, but of the tribes who live in the north. They are of great size and have a body covered in long hair; they are the giant people from the mountains and traveling here is a great distance. " (Short)- ---

The late Gloria and John Millard emailed excerpts from their journal in 1997 in which they observed a large male sasquatch for three years in the high forest range of Arizona. I remember Millard emailing me that the male spoke stern words to its youngster while it was behaving badly. It appeared to be a verbal correction of behavior in some language for the little one's temper tantrum and dirt throwing display. (Millard to Short, 1997-8) - ---

From Wrangell, AK a 1918 story about the gold miner who was awakened from a cat-nap in a field of berries by "people talking." Upon his investigation he encountered a mother-bushwoman feeding berries to a little one and talking to it in the manner of the Tlingit language. (Petermann to Short) http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/wrangell.htm - ---

There is also this newspaper account from 1935 with these words worth noting:

VANCOUVER, B. C.—(U.P.) — Sasquatch men, remnants of a lost race of "wild men" who inhabited the rocky regions of British Columbia centuries ago, are reported roaming the province again. The strange men, it was reported, after emerging from the woods, came leaping down the jagged rocky hillside with the agility and lightness of mountain goats. Snatches of their weird language floated on the breeze from across the lake to the pioneer settlement at the foot of the hills. The giants walked with an easy gait across the swamp flats and at the Morns Creek, in the shadow of Little Mystery Mountain.... http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/1935.htm ...and finally, there is this recently acquired report from a woman who befriended a sasquatch family as a little child on her father's Salmon River Ranch in Idaho who said they spoke and communicated together; they were her "friends".... published in Fate Magazine, 2004 http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/salmonriver2.htm

....there are many incidents of vocal interaction and language skills by sasquatchs collected in various databases, why it has been overlooked or discarded as a possibility is anyone's guess. Thirty eight years since the Patterson Film and we are just becoming interested in their language skills? It is blatant testimony to how backward North American research still is or perhaps how stuck research is in their collective assumption that sasquatchs must be apes, napes or "animal-like speechless creatures." I don't pretend to know how science will classify the sasquatch, I only know these can't possibly be apes, - not as we currently know the great apes to be and that opinion is based primarily on the sasquatch's bipedalism. No ape has ever evolved to walk upright as a normal course of locomotion. It would take major anatomical modifications to achieve true bipedalism in apes. If more accounts of language skills are uncovered, that would definitely eliminate the ape. Add to the mix the "human element" found in hair and scat analysis. Not all of that can be attributed to contamination by the investigator, assuming so is too convenient. ...Bobbie Short, October 2005. . .

Other comments: From Prince George, B.C., Canada:

I read this article of sasquatch having language, and the attached stories and accounts. God Bless you for putting this on your website. I have heard Sasquatch speak with my own ears. I couldn't understand much of what was being said because it was not loud enough, but what I did hear was definitely communication language.

My research assistant Mike was having a bit of a tough time grasping that the sasquatch does have language until just last week. He lives just above the shore of a lake. Only 10 minutes drive from his home.

Back in July 2005, he helped me investigate a clear sighting by some Saskatchewan visitors. Now here we are 2 and 1/2 months later, he takes his dog for a walk down to the lake and he hears voices across the lake. Voices of people talking but the voices seemed a bit different for some reason, almost immature in some ways, but the vocal range of adults.

There were no people over there and he says that the voices were saying words like we hear on the High Sierra CD's, Bigfoot Recordings. I bought these CD's myself a few months back and found that what I heard back in 1994 was much of the same that is on these CD's. If you go to my website, http://sasquatch-pg.net you will see in my home page where I explain my position quite clearly about sasquatch language.

Also I noticed in the article that a reference to the Sasquatch is being made in a human sense of being. In the past I personally have found it quite difficult to view these as people.

But, with all that I have heard, seen, and learned about Sasquatch, in my personal encounters and in my research studies, I find it absolutely impossible to view them as mere apes.

They most definitely are not mere apes and people who view them as such need to experience their presence and vocal talents first hand. Should people of this thinking experience what I have and many other people have experienced I will absolutely guarantee that the mind of the skeptic will change immediately.

I am becoming a very strong believer in what our Native First Nations People have said about Sasquatch for centuries; that being; that they are a people, that they do speak language.

With that being said, would they actually be human or a sub species of human?? I don't know, but this I do know. God has given them life the same as He has given us life. If they are in fact human it just means that we are the higher order of our species. I know that this line of thinking will likely offend a lot of people. But, why should we be so pompous as to think that we are the only representation of our species.

When Scientists wake up to this fact and more Researchers begin to accept the possibilities then maybe we can get more serious work done in creating contact and communication with Sasquatch/Bigfoot. Hopefully this would also result in proper funding coming forward to help carry this very important work. - Leo Selzer, Prince George, BC, Canada (…. with permission) October 13, 2005 - ---

..."and don't for get the language abilities being reported and published by people in Tennessee." I believe the publication was "50 Years With Bigfoot." Els Brickman, Overton County, TN November 2005

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Another Story to read about the subject of Language is at http://oregonbigfoot.com/

From the Data Base of Oregon Bigfoot http://www.oregonbigfoot.com

Go to the National Dada base , stories,. There you will see in the list a story from ; Fall 1993 Butte County CA ; Woman describes seeing two adult creatures communicating and gesturing ; file 01451

Read the Articles and the attached story Links within the articles.

Oregonbigfoot.com file# 01451

Woman describes seeing two adult creatures communicating and gesturing

Date: fall november 1993
Butte county, CA

Nearest town: Oroville/Paradise
Nearest road: confidential
Conditions: Cold / Clear
Time: pre dawn dark hours 12:00-1:00 am
Location: Confidential

Description of event: I was staying with a friend at her parents house at the time. They live in the middle of no where literally, in the back wooded canyon's of *confidential*.

It was about 12:00-1:00 AM , and I had to use the restroom . Well, these people were serious hippies. They actually had an outhouse, so I had to get up, and walk outside to get to it. I had just walked outside the house, when I thought I heard people walking up the old logging road near the house. This was still their property, so it surprised me.

I went into the wooden outhouse, and I could still hear people coming. I got a little scared at first. When I was finished in the outhouse, I started to walk out, but I could hear these two creatures within feet of me. As I came out I leaned around the door I was so surprised to see two large hominid creatures walking by.

I froze... I think they heard me because they both stopped and looked around. It was a Full Moon. I think they could hear me breathing, I was so shocked.

The larger one turned towards me, glanced, and then went back to talking like they didn't even care I was there.

They talked, laughed, used hand gestures just like a person, I still can not tell you how shocked I was. I could still hear them long after they passed me.

I went into the house, I woke up my friend's parents, told them I wasn't dreaming, and told them what had just happened.

They weren't surprised. They said they saw them almost every night. I barely slept at all that night. The next morning we got up, and went out to look at the old road. Sure enough, there were tracks. I was so excited yet still in shock.(

(My major in college was Physical Anthropology - I wanted to study Mountain Gorillas. I believe this is the closest I will very get to seeing a Mountain Gorilla or some sub-species.)

I have since then had a few minor experience's, but nothing like that one. I will never forget it!

Editor's note: This report is included in the database because, if true, it is one of a handful of reports that include information about these creatures communicating with one another in much the same way humans do and the information contained within this report may be valuable to the researchers. The area in question has a long history of sighting reports.

Source: oregonbigfoot.com
record updated: 20060104

The following article was written by Douglas E. Trapp. and published on the Bigfoot Encounters Website

Excerpt from that article.

The disturbing nature of the loud screams seems to lie in their perceived near human quality, though too loud, enduring and powerful to be attributed to any possible "real" person. Giggling, laughing and crying sounds have been heard, sometimes in response to appropriate events.

Bigfoot Encounters Website http://www.bigfootencounters.com

Wrangell, Alaska 1918

In the age of Internet e-mail, I was surprised to receive this report by forwarded ground mail postmarked July 2005 Wrangell, AK 99929. It is uploaded on this website under ‘stories’ because attempts to contact anyone by the name listed has proven futile, making investigative contact impossible. The letter has been spell-corrected but wording and sentence structure remains as original as possible. It was written by hand and readability was difficult, perhaps done by a senior citizen. Still, the letter contains interesting observations.

Wrangell, Alaska

In 1918, a German gold prospector of a stature half starved made his way (a day’s walk) back to Wrangell from a northern most mining camp; he was looking for food and provisions. Lacking in strength from dietary neglect and penniless except for a pinch of garnered gold, in route to the settlement he sat down to pick new sprouts of fireweed plant to eat which was mixed in a scraggly field of berries. He ate what his stomach could tolerate and fell asleep curled up in a bed of grass in the warm afternoon sun.

The story goes on, -the prospector claimed persons talking nearby awakened him. Glee filled to have company and needing direction to the settlement, he worked his way twixt high berry brambles of thorn to see who was there and meet his company.

His eyes beheld a bush woman! The hairy woman was sitting on the ground feeding a small one berries hand to mouth; the little one was sitting inside the circle of her huge legs. "…the bulk of my being was in great astonishment and fright for my safety in the presence of the giantess." Later he exclaimed, “…now in control of my faculties, I take leave of my civil upbringing to declare she is the ugliest woman ever a lonely man set eyes upon.”

His journal indicated the bush woman talk to the smaller one in words sounding of the same kind to the Tongass Tlingit Indian, which he knew as Native. She was of brown colored hair about her face and body, unclothed bosom in nakedness of great size, a length of darker hair on the back of her head and neck and fed the berries left-handed. The note is blurred, ending with, “…heard the bushman on the Stikine River…(a blurred or stained space) ...capsized his dugout last spring.”

No one knows what became of the bush woman, but his youngest son found the prospector’s bones in his camp four years hence. There was no disturbance or clamor in camp and no tins of food. It was determined his father died of delirium from starvation and cold; a length of cord was found tied such to hold up his trousers around his wasting figure. Tools and bedding in his tent untouched.

A. Petermann to grandson, 1947, unpublished stories by E. Petermann " On his great grandfather's knee."

Sent to Bigfoot Encounters by Anna Petermann in a hand-written note, portions translated from German in September 2005. It was postmarked July 2005 Wrangell, AK 99929

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