What Are Bigfoot Mothers To Do?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 13th, 2007
Ponder how it must be from a Bigfoot mother’s point of view.
Do Bigfoot mothers have a difficult task of loving their young and keeping control of them in an ever expanding world of human encroachment on forests?
Do Sasquatch think their kids are making up stories about those little funny humans?
While we have images of what these Bigfoot mothers may look like (see above), I have, for a long time, looked deeper for what the record might tell us of the interactions between young humans and young Bigfoot. Such encounters, I feel, might reflect on the parental actions of the adult Bigfoot nearby. Take a moment on this Mother’s Day in the USA for how this might look from the other side of the fence.
There are certainly hints of such incidents. In Ivan T. Sanderson’s Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961), writes on page 137, of “little people” from the Klamath montane forests of northern California: “The Amerinds [Native Americans] will not, as far as I have been able to determine, come right out and either assert or deny [the hairy little people's] existence. Unlike the giants, of which they speak quite factually, they seem to regard these pigmies with a high degree of superstition, and their folk-tales are rife with stories of such little people playing with their children on riverbanks; but, while being visible to youngsters, being invisible to adults.”
The “youngsters” Sanderson is speaks of are the Native children. But clearly, later on when talking about similar encounters observed by whites, it is clear that the “little people” may, indeed, be the young of the Bigfoot.
Then there has been another most peculiar business in this [Klamath] area. It transpired that nearby, certain persons who are [Caucasian] family folk, live in rather expensive houses sometimes of the split-level ranch type, on blacktop roads around which school buses parade daily to take their offspring to be educated. In many cases they own houses which stand in several acres of land backed up against solid forest that has not been touched except for logging of large timber a century ago. They had something most unpleasant to report. These people live not more than 30 miles from a large and bustling modern city. They stated, in confidence and off the record, to certain locals for whose veracity I will vouch, that they had long experienced a problem.
This was simply that their kids - i.e. under 7-year-olds - had been found to be playing in the back fields up by the borders of the forest with certain fairly small hairy ones, who, when alarmed by the approach of human adults, allegedly took to the trees.
Said human kids, on reaching the age of reason, turned out not to want to talk about this abomination, while the parents most definitely did not and do not want it talked about. Nonetheless, they have talked a bit, and I pass it on to you for what it is worth.
This is the kind of thing that get people really riled: it also seems to me to slop over into the realm of “Little People” that only kids can see.
Let us just suppose for a moment that Oh-Mah mothers permit their kids to play with ours (up to the age of 7) but tell them to cut out the moment on of our adults appear over the fence! Naturally it would be only the kids who see the little hairy ones. There is no better playmate for a child than a 2-year-old chimpanzee.Ivan T. Sanderson, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961, page 139.
Children are disbelieved. Imaginary playmates are used to explain those stories the kids bring back home. Playmates are dismissed. What’s a Bigfoot mother to do when her kids tell her they just want to go play with those cute little smooth-skinned young apes over near the forest’s edge?
Of course, some of those human kids may be wearing cool teeshirts to attract the attention of young Bigfoot! You never can tell what might cause the curious Bigfoot kids to venture closer for a game of tag. One such fashion example is modeled above by young Lux Sparks-Pescovitz.
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Sounds plausible to me.
Any firsthand accounts of this kind of interaction?
It appears that women and children have the inside track on up close and personal with the sasquatch. And sas juveniles seem to get pretty free rein pretty early on in life.
I’d say it’s VERY plausible.
I have a good recent report of a woman witness who was allowed to approach closely to a mother ‘Bigfoot’ and her young–but it includes some very good description of certain anatomical details which tell me that it was a more human-like creature than the OhMah or Sasquatch, including the tracks.
There was a recent report also of a male mountaineer that was able to approach a female Yeti and her young on Mount Everest, but she was also described in more human terms (evidently gathering yak dung for fuel and stashing it in a bag she was carrying) This report is suspect and I had not heard it repeated since the first telling by the witness, who wanted to ski down one side of Mt. Everest.
DWA…
To take this even broader, it seems that women and children are more sensitive/attractive to all things unknown/paranormal. What are we men missing? Are we too aggressive in our approach? Do things of this nature just naturally feel threatened by males? Maybe we need to get more women (and children?) involved in the field. Of course, I wouldn’t want to put anyone in danger unwillingly or intentionally. I guess it’s just a catch 22 if ever their was one.
This is a great theory to discuss and something that is too often skipped or overlooked in much BF discussions.
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This may also be the way the Sasquatch young are taught the ways of the humans.
The harder lessons will come later.
ddh1969 - “To take this even broader, it seems that women and children are more sensitive/attractive to all things unknown/paranormal. What are we men missing?”
What we are missing is an easy connection to right-brain thinking! Most men are left-brained, rational, analytical, controlling and aggressive, while women and children (before they are overwhelmed by sociological restrictions) lean to a more open-minded, creative, right-brained, non-threatening frame of mind.
Perhaps sensitive creatures, attuned to nature’s vibrations, can feel it?
That’s funny Fuzzy. I’m a musician/songwriter, artist/film maker and my wife does the books.
Ooh, Loren, I’d never thought of that before - I’d always thought of the reports about little hairy guys as being reports of a quite distinct pygmoid species, a sort of SaSQUASHED, if you will.
But you do see what this whimsically rendered little piece means, don’t you?
You not only look like Father Christmas on holiday in Miami, but you even think like him when he’s back at work at the North Pole!
A couple of points about the men versus women and children viewing opportunities that have been overlooked are fairly simple ones; we males have a distinct testosterone odor and we are almost always larger, sometimes much larger than women and children. It may be that sas males also have the testosterone odor and are loners, avoided by the women and children except at mating time (rather like orangutans, which are sort of related to gigantopithecus). The same goes for size. My wife is 5 foot nothing, I’m 6 foot 1. Almost everything sees her as less threatening than me (a mistake, actually). It could also be pointed out that, among the Native American tribes, the men were the hunters while the women were the agriculturists. Since the sas and the Indians were here together for many thousands of years this gender based difference could be well known among the sas.