Wildfoot Hypothesis Series Part 2
When people talk about Bigfoot, they act like it’s some modern internet creature that just popped up in the 1960s. They talk as if Bigfoot was born out of pop culture, hoaxes, and blurry photos. But here’s the truth:
Bigfoot is older than every modern country on this continent.
Older than colonization.
Older than written English.
Older than the borders we live behind today.
Everywhere you look across North America and even across the world there are ancient names, carvings, oral histories, and stories describing the same creature we talk about now.
And that’s where this second pillar of the Wildfoot Hypothesis comes in:
If different cultures with no communication describe the same forest giant,
that’s not myth that’s memory.
Let’s break it open.
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The Indigenous Names That Pre-Date “Bigfoot” by Centuries
Long before the word “Bigfoot” existed, different First Nations and Indigenous groups already had names for this creature. And these names weren’t created as fairy tales. They were treated like descriptions like you would describe a wolf, a bear, or a wolverine.
Across North America, we see:
Sasq’ets / Sasquatch – Coast Salish
The name means “wild man of the woods.”
Descriptions match modern sightings perfectly.
Ts’emekwes – Lummi Nation
Hair-covered, tall, silent-moving forest beings.
Stiyaha / Kwi-kwiyai – Yakama Nation
Shadow beings that follow hunters, avoid light, and move between deep forest ridges.
The Wendigo (older, non-horror variant) Algonquin
Originally describing a tall, wild, man-like forest-dwelling being.
Chemequah / “Big Elder Brother” – Cree Nations
A wilderness guardian, powerful but solitary.
Stone Giants -Iroquois
Large, heavy-bodied beings that stalk from the trees.
These names describe the same behaviors we hear today:
- Nocturnal movement
- Watching from the shadows
- Huge size
- Long arms
- Forest silence
- Avoidance intelligence
- Rock throws
- Whistles or calls
- Tree knocking
- Boundary behavior
And the crucial thing?
These names existed long before cameras, TV, newspapers, or modern storytelling.
- Thousands of kilometers apart.
- Different languages.
- Different cultures.
- Same creature.
That’s not coincidence that’s a species profile preserved by memory.
Carvings, Petroglyphs, and Ancient Art
Look at ancient rock carvings from different regions:
You find tall, broad-shouldered, long-armed figures carved into canyon walls, river stones, and cliff faces. These aren’t cartoon drawings. These are recordings the earliest form of “this is what lives out there.”
Some show:
- Large footprints
- Hair-covered bodies
- Eyes deeply carved
- Stick-like humans drawn beside them for comparison
- Huge arms down to the knees
- Massive heads
- Forest surroundings
These carvings are 500 to 1,500 years old and they match modern eyewitness descriptions exactly.
Detail-information Depiction The Hairy Man (Mayak Datat) Pictograph Location Painted Rock, Tule River Indian Reservation, Central California.CultureYokuts Tribe (Tule River Indians).Age Estimate Estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old.Significance This figure is cited in tribal oral traditions as a large, powerful, hair-covered being of the forest who features in creation stories and is regarded as a legitimate part of the natural world, reinforcing your blog’s theme of ancient memory.
Ask yourself:
Why would ancient artists describe the same creature people still see today… unless they were both looking at the same thing?
Historical Encounters Before “Bigfoot” Was a Word
Even early European explorers wrote about creatures that were clearly Bigfoot long before the name existed.
David Thompson (1811)
Canada’s most legendary surveyor documented 14-inch footprints in the Rockies matching modern Sasquatch tracks perfectly.
Prospectors in the 1880s–1920s
Repeated journals describe “giant men of the trees,” “hairy mountain people,” and “wild giants” stalking camps at night.
Bauman’s Story (Theodore Roosevelt)
One of the earliest and most chilling Bigfoot accounts. Roosevelt records a trapper describing a large, aggressive, man-like forest being attacking their camp.
Ship captains and coastal logbooks
Descriptions of tall, silent “forest men” watching from tree lines.
None of these people were trying to create a myth.
They were trying to record what they saw.
They had no Bigfoot documentaries.
No social media.
No incentive.
Just raw accounts.
Why Ancient Memory Matters to the Hypothesis
This is where the real power of this pillar comes in:
If Bigfoot were a hoax or a modern invention,
you wouldn’t see matching details across civilizations.
You’d have:
- Different shapes
- Different behaviors
- Different interpretations
But instead, you see global consistency:
- Same height
- Same hair-covered body
- Same long arms
- Same forest territory
- Same nighttime behavior
- Same wild-man descriptions
- Same shadow-stalker movement
- Same whistles, knocks, or howls
Sometimes thousands of years apart.
This is what biologists call cross-cultural verification separate groups describing the same animal without contact.
That’s powerful.
Bigfoot in Worldwide Ancient Records
It’s not just North America.
Yeti (Himalayas)
Huge, heavy, nocturnal, hair-covered.
Yowie (Australia)
Massive, deep-voiced, human-like forest giant.
Alma / Almas (Mongolia, Russia)
Human-like primate, solitary, territorial, forest-dwelling.
Ban-manush (India)
Hairy, tall forest man same description again.
These aren’t cute fairy tales.
They’re field notes from civilizations long before ours.
When dozens of cultures describe the same thing,
you’re not dealing with myth you’re dealing with reality.
People Also Asked
Did Indigenous people believe in Bigfoot?
Yes. Indigenous cultures across North America had names, stories, and warnings about a large, hair-covered forest giant long before the word “Bigfoot” existed.
What is the oldest evidence of Bigfoot?
Petroglyphs, carvings, and oral histories describing tall, human-like forest beings exist from over 1,000 years ago, matching modern sightings.
Are Sasquatch and Bigfoot the same?
Yes. Sasq’ets (Sasquatch) is an older Coast Salish name describing the same creature known today as Bigfoot.
Is Bigfoot found in other ancient cultures?
Yes. The Yeti, Yowie, Alma, and Ban-Manush are all ancient versions of the same creature described in different parts of the world.
Christmas Note
As we move deeper into the winter season the time when tracks stay longer in fresh snow this is the perfect moment to revisit these ancient stories and see how they line up with modern encounters.
If you enjoy diving into the roots of this mystery, my Bigfoot books go even further. They’re great winter reads or Christmas gifts for anyone who loves the old stories mixed with new research.
You’ll find them all in the Wildfoot Library.
Next in the Series
Part 3 is where we get scientific the biological feasibility of Bigfoot.
This is where biology, evolution, and wilderness logic start clicking together.
will be released tomorrow Stay tuned !!
