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🗓️ 4 March 2024
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0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. In 1925, John Burns was a school teacher at the Chalaeus Indian Reservation deep in the |
0:25.9 | coast mountains of British Columbia. |
0:28.4 | His students told him stories about a strange giant lurking in the forest. |
0:33.0 | It was a tale told by the local tribe for generations. |
0:36.3 | Burns became curious. |
0:38.2 | Were these stories true? |
0:39.8 | The Indians insisted it was just a myth. |
0:42.3 | But one night an elder admitted |
0:44.4 | they weren't exactly truthful with him. |
0:46.8 | Fearing the white man would mock their beliefs, |
0:49.2 | but over time Burns earned their trust. |
0:51.8 | The elders told him the story of the giant was no myth. |
0:55.0 | Many of the Indians had seen this creature with their own eyes and not from a |
1:00.4 | distance it had chased them. |
1:02.6 | Burns was shown the house this mountain giant destroyed |
1:05.8 | with its bare hands as the family ran in for safety. |
1:09.5 | They had a name for the giant. |
1:11.0 | It was hard to pronounce. In the native Salish language it was spelled SES QET and it meant |
1:18.2 | Wild Man. Mainstream media anglicized the pronunciation and called it Sasquatch and a legend was born. In June of 2020, a husband and wife were on a long distance hike in the |
1:40.3 | wilderness of Trinity County in California. It was a clear day just after 10 a.m. when they approached a creek. |
1:48.8 | Then they heard an unfamiliar high-pitched animal call. It could have been a bird. |
1:54.0 | That's no bird. |
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