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Episode 170: Into the Wild (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2021-05-10 07:01:01 +0000 UTCSome of the most frightening kinds of folklore are the ones with a familiar element. Details that sit a bit too close to home. Qualities that resonate just a bit too much. And few places host legends more terrifying than the wilderness around us.
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Further Reading
- Historic Royal Palaces, “The real Peter the Wild Boy,” YouTube video, 6:16, 23 March 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvlg41mdHjQ.
- Maev Kennedy, “Peter the Wild Boy’s condition revealed 200 years after his death,” The Guardian, 20 March 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/peter-wild-boy-condition-revealed.
- Megan Lane, “Who was Peter the Wild Boy?,” BBC News, 8 August 2011, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14215171.
- “Peter the Wild Boy,” In A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman’s Magazine, edited by John Walker, 581-587. London: 1811, https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/jRolAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA584.
- “About Pitt Hopkins,” Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation, https://pitthopkins.org/about-pitt-hopkins.
- Roger Burke, “Peter the Wild Boy,” Marie-Angelique, 3 October 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20131003031705/http://www.marie-angelique.com/peter-the-wild-boy.
- “Bigfoot Culture and Belief of Sasquatch in the United States,” ARCGIS, https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=a64e370436be48239ee334333522e851.
- Craig Sailor, “Before ‘Smallfoot’ and Bigfoot, native tribes told stories of child-stealing creatures of the woods,” The News Tribune, 30 September 2018, https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article219134245.html.
- Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Tom Doherty Associates, 2007), p. 304, https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/hPST5ZLI4dAC?hl=en.
- John Zada, “That Was No Bear: A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore,” Lapham’s Quarterly, 2 July 2019, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/that-was-no-bear.
- Kim Kalliber, “New exhibit showcases Sasquatches through Native perspectives,” Tulalip News, 12 July 2018, https://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2018/07/12/new-exhibit-showcases-sasquatch-through-native-perspectives
- “The King’s Mirror, Chapter X: The Natural Wonders of Ireland,” Mediumaevum.com, 5 September 2005, http://www.mediumaevum.com/75years/mirror/sec1.html#IX.
- “Legendary Native American Figures: Sasquatch (Sesquac),” Native Languages, http://www.native-languages.org/sasquatch.htm.
- “Legendary Native American Figures: Stick Indians,” Native Languages, http://www.native-languages.org/morelegends/stick-indians.htm.
- “Legendary Native American Figures: Wood Man (Woodsman),” Native Languages, 2015, http://www.native-languages.org/wood-man.htm.
- Noah W. Bailey, “Bigfoot casts a long shadow in Native American lore and American frontier folk legend,” Cowboys & Indians, 8 October 2018, https://www.cowboysindians.com/2018/10/tall-tales.
- “Pre-Columbian and Early American Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings: Salish,” Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, 18 June 2000, https://www.bfro.net/legends/salish.htm.
- Robert Benjamin, “Cryptozoology And Bigfoot,” Legends of America, January 2020, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-bigfoot/.
- Taig Spearman, “Petrus Gonsalvus And The Real Beauty And The Beast Story,” All That’s Interesting, 15 August 2018, https://allthatsinteresting.com/petrus-gonsalvus-real-beauty-and-the-beast.
- Touba Ghadessi, Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance: Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati as Idealized Anatomical Anomalies (Medieval Institute Publications, 2018), pp. 108-111.
- Ann Rawlings-Cody, “Tolowa Indian stories… Del Norte County, California 1800’s,” Bigfoot Encounters, http://www.bigfootencounters.com/legends/tolowa_stories.htm.
- Craig Sailor, “Before ‘Smallfoot’ and Bigfoot, native tribes told stories of child-stealing creatures of the woods,” The News Tribune, 30 September 2018, https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article219134245.html.
- Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Tom Doherty Associates, 2007), p. 304.
- Mark A. Hall and Alan Woolworth, “Media Article 309: Article about Gallipolis, Ohio carriage attack,” Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, orig. published 23 January 1869, https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=309.
- “The Tolowa,” Del Norte History, https://delnortehistory.org/tolowa.
- “Untitled,” 1891. Woodland [California] Daily Democrat (June 3). Reprinted from the Capay Times, In Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America, edited by Jerome Clark, 24. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- “What Is It?,” 1891. Woodland [California] Daily Democrat (April 9), In Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America, edited by Jerome Clark, 22-23. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- “The ‘What Is It?,” 1891. Woodland [California] Daily Democrat (May 13), In Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America, edited by Jerome Clark, 23-24. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- Kat Long, “The Bauman Incident: When Theodore Roosevelt Might Have Written About Bigfoot,” Mental Floss, 1 November 2019, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602406/theodore-roosevelt-bigfoot-story.
- Ken Summers, “Roosevelt’s Wendigo Witness Identified? Carl L. Bauman Survived ‘an Abnormally Wicked and Wild Beast,” Week In Weird, 6 January 2014, http://weekinweird.com/2014/01/06/truth-be-told-roosevelts-wendigo-survivor-identified.
- Montana Historical Society, Contributions vol. 7 (Montana, 1910), p. 313, 344.
- Nick Kolakowski, “Teddy Roosevelt vs. Bigfoot,” Medium, 25 October 2018, https://medium.com/@nkolakowski/teddy-roosevelt-vs-bigfoot-801f70967bb2.
- Sidney Milkis, “Theodore Roosevelt: Life Before the Presidency,” University of Virginia: Miller Center, https://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/life-before-the-presidency.
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The Wilderness Hunter, Elkhorn Edition (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906), 254-261.
- “Bigfoot Culture and Belief of Sasquatch in the United States,” ARCGIS, https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=a64e370436be48239ee334333522e851.
- “Bigfoot in a Freezer,” Hoaxes, http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/bigfoot_in_a_freezer.
- David Fleming, “Inside the world’s premier Sasquatch calling contest (yes, that’s a thing),” ESPN, 10 April 2019, https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26479629/inside-world-premier-sasquatch-calling-contest-yes-thing.
- David Petti, “Report #21839 (Class A),” Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, 14 October 2007, https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=21839.
- “Hank,” Hoaxes, http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/hank.
- Jesse McKinley, “Two Georgians Say They Have Bigfoot’s Body,” The New York Times, 14 August 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/us/15bigfoot.html.
- Kolten Parker, “Bigfoot tracker admits body is a hoax,” My San Antonio, 31 March 2014, https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Bigfoot-tracker-admits-body-is-a-hoax-5363373.php#photo-5918860.
- “Top 10 Hairiest Bigfoot Stories,” Animal Planet, http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/finding-bigfoot/lists/7-big-feet-at-bluff-creek.
- “Clue to ‘Gorilla Men’ found, may be lost Race of Giants,” The Seattle Times, 16 July 1924, hosted on Bigfoot Encounters, http://www.bigfootencounters.com/legends/seeahtik.htm.
- Eric Grundhauser, “The Ape Canyon Sasquatch Attack,” Slate, 16 June 2015, http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/06/16/washington_s_ape_canyon_got_its_name_from_an_encounter_with_extradimensional.html.
- Fred and Ronald A. Beck, “I Fought the Apeman of Mount St. Helens, WA.,” Bigfoot Encounters, orig. published 1967, http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/beck.htm.
- John Zada, “That Was No Bear: A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore,” Lapham’s Quarterly, 2 July 2019, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/that-was-no-bear.
Comments
Mara Elkheart
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode! I wonder if there's any lore connecting the Wild Men with the Pukwujininee? Maybe they're distant cousins?
