Comments on: Manitou’s Gorilla

By: idahorick

idahorick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:35:17 +0000

I also agree that the world may not have listened to anything else. A dead sasquatch is probably the only evidence that will prove their existence. I know if it was me in a situation where I am seeing one and I have a rifle. I would probably take the shot even though I don’t like the thought of killing a rare creature. It would definitively prove their existence. One dead sasquatch would lead to them being placed on the federal endangered species list.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:08:56 +0000

Good sotry. I wish the hunter would not have tried to kill the thing, but if it had, I admit I would not have been enraged at the guy. Unfortunately, as JMonkey astutely pointed out, the world “may not listen to anything less.” And to be honest, when dealing with the unknown, caution is better than total trust.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:41:59 +0000

Maybe it was one of these supposedly mythological creatures portrayed in this link of a Pacific Northwest Indian (British Columbia) carved wooden mask which according to the accompanying description is a half-human, half-animal Dzunukwa or "wild woman of the woods" which would abduct children.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Although this narrative was written nearly 150 years ago, it is still shocking to think that it was acceptable to encounter a totally unknown form of life, with the appeareance of intelligence, who tried to do the writer no harm and was indeed terrified of him, and to shoot to kill the being. You have to hope this was all a made-up story for the press, because I hate to think what that Bigfoot must have thought of his first encounter with “civilized” humans.

Are there any other stories about these islands, and especially about why they are called the Manitou Islands?

Then, of course there is the thread about the Indians making their home there, and then “in the progress of time,” taking their departure–but maybe still coming back to kidnap missing children?! What an all-purpose symbol they became, victim of an inevitable progress and bogeyman, all wrapped together.

Enough, I shall get down from my soapbox, before my arthritis makes it impossible.

By: JMonkey

JMonkey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:25 +0000

Wow. What an interesting story. 152 years have gone by and no luck. seems like this guy almost had the first difinitive evidence if only he could have hit what he aimed at. I do truly hope it does not have to come to this in our age to make people believe. Hunting something so rare down and killing it for the sake of not being made fun of, and difinitive proof of life seems so wrong. Unfortunately the world may not listen to anything less.