BIGFOOT: THE LEGEND LIVES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
0:02.0	How is the answer?
0:03.0	Which supermarket is both which cheapest supermarket
0:06.0	2022 and good housekeeping reader's favorite supermarket
0:10.0	2023?
0:11.0	spoiler, it ain't asder. Yes! 2020. The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 heroes, legends, histories and mysteries. This is your host John Haggadorn and today
0:55.5	Bigfoot the legend lives. No mythical monster or legend has ever dominated the
1:02.2	media and the imagination as thoroughly as
1:04.9	Bigfoot or Sasquatch as many prefer to call him. He is a worldwide legend and
1:10.5	one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. In North America,
1:15.3	particularly the Northwest US and Southwest Canadian wildernesses, there are
1:20.4	more than 60 names for Sasquatch. Many of these names can be broken down in English to mean
1:26.0	The Wild Man of the Woods. Back in the 1920s, Canadian journalist J. W. Burns took the name Cesquack from the Salish Indians in the
1:36.0	region surrounding Vancouver and the Fraser Valley and pronounced it
1:39.6	Sesquatch. And that name is still with us today. Written reports dating back to the 1800s
1:46.3	named the creature as being anywhere from 5 to 10 feet high with a square massive shoulders and
1:51.5	arms of great length and of course covered with hair.
1:56.8	It wasn't until the late 1950s that Bigfoot became an overnight media phenomenon in the
2:01.6	U.S. when a logger named Jerry Krew discovered
2:04.6	16 inch footprints, made a plaster cast, and showed it to the Humboldt Times.
2:09.6	It hadn't been that long since the abominable snowman story had hit the worldwide press and captured people's imaginations.
2:17.0	It had also apparently captured the imagination of science's worst enemy, Hoeksters.
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