It's one of those weird conundrums of, well, which is it?

You know, is it, you know, 50% of time they just want you out of the other 50%

they're hunting you?

And, you know, that's just way, way hard to like pinpoint that turn of the coin from an aggressive

display to a full-on, you're done.

You know what I mean?

They're gonna snatch you and eat you. and that's one of my driving forces doing this is hoping to find some kind of information that kind of

What that light switch what that

light switch what that trigger is to go from just an aggressive display to a full-on attack and you know predation on a human and it's it's elusive you know that trying to find that information is very elusive because all we have is anecdotal

evidence, you know.

That was Fred Roll and in this episode I talked to Fred and David Holt House about Sasquatch encounters.

Fred is a youtuber and a Sasquatch or hairy man oral historian.

His channel is called the Sub-Arctic Alaska Sasquatch and Alaska little people.

And in it he narrates Sasquatch encounters and also interviews people who tell their Sasquatch stories.

At this point, he's collected over 200 of them, and he says that there are a couple common themes throughout.

Sasquatch is either pushing humans out of a territory or they're watching them.

To Fred, Sasquatch is an adversarial predator.

So sharing these stories is a form of public safety, similar to being bear-aware.

It's a perspective and a healthy fear that he grew up around in Bristol Bay.

David Holt House is an investigative journalist, and his perspective comes from the intersection of belief and propaganda

how the idea of Sasquatch can be used to enforce territorial claims or as a warning to keep people in line.

As was the case with his 2021 docuaries Sasquatch.

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