Origins of the words "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot"
The term "Sasquatch" is an anglicized derivative of the word
"Sésquac", meaning "wild man". The original word, in the Stó:lõ dialect
of the Halkomelem language, is used by the Coast Salish Indians of the
Fraser Valley and parts of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Indian tribes across North America have a total of more than sixty different terms for the Sasquatch.
"Bigfoot"
was a journalistic term generated in the middle of the last century
during a rash of sightings in Northern California. The word has come to
be recognized widely.
Many different terms have been used
by pioneers and later non-native inhabitants of North America, including
"skookums" and "mountain devils".
The description given
here is derived from a compilation of thousands of eye witness reports
from the entire continent, some of astounding length, detail, and
corroborative evidence; the Patterson movie, taken in 1967, and a recent
computer-based image analysis of it; and statistical analysis of a
large database accumulated over the last fifty years, primarily by John
Green.
W. H. Fahrenbach
(Source: W.H. Fahrenback)
I personally prefer the term Bigfoot...I really don't know why.
Thanks
~Tom~
This
post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the
cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto
Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of
unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild
land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet
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