The modern legends of Bigfoot/Sasquatch may or may not be based upon Native American folklore. We know there is no such thing as these creatures because their existence would require enough breeding pairs to keep them a viable species and they definitely would have been discovered with irrefutable evidence beyond “man in ape suit” footage or easily staged giant footprints.
There seems to be a conspiracy at work here, but I’m not sure what it is.
I wouldn't believe Bigfoot was real, but the govt and other people in charge seem to be really shifty about it, which makes me more prone to believing there's something to it. If it was just silly conspiracy nonsense, surely the people talking about it wouldn't get banned from social media and there wouldn't be nearly as much of an effort to discredit bigfoot hunters as idiots dicking around in the woods.
I know The Lore Lodge used to posit that the National Parks were hiding the wendigo, which he's backed away from lately after doing more research, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a kernel of truth. Even if it's not explicitly "the government knows about the wendigo and hides it from us," there's something they're hiding in the damn woods. Could be secret bases that they kill people who get too close to, could be some kind of non-human creature, could be some Mesa Verde Base type horrors, who's to say? But the idea that there's something weird out there, the Natives knew about it, and the government hides it all make a lot of sense. Makes me wonder if maybe part of that's why the trail of tears happened, the government could very easily have just done all that to get land, but what if part of their reasoning was wanting to have control over whatever horrible secret the natives knew about?
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Unrelated, I'm watching the new Red Thread on Jack The Ripper and I had a thought: what if seemingly unrelated mass killings are all orchestrated by the same guy, a serial killer who just contracts the killings out to disturbed individuals so he can kill tons of people and never get caught? Serial killers in the old sense were people who wanted infamy and just killed to scare people, and today mass killings aren't so much long strings of missing people (that we know of, bear with me) but individual rampages. School/workplace shootings, Elliot Rodgers style manifesto bullshit, it's all localized into singular horrific events. What if there's one (or more, but let's start with one) serial killer with a fuckload of money, or power, or charisma, and he just "hires" people who are already miserable to do these things so he can be responsible for killing lots of people, for whatever reason?
Obviously the first solution is that all the shootings are false flags so the government can strip gun laws from law-abiding citizens so eventually they can become a police state and we can't fight back, we all know this, whatever. But imagine some type of charismatic cult leader figure who whispers in the ears of incels, pooners, bullied teens, and convinces them to carry out their murder fantasies. This dude gets lots of people killed, up to and including the killer in question, nobody knows he's related to it because he's King of Opsec, and he gets the population scared. Maybe he uses the victims' murders as sacrifice to a deity, maybe he just likes watching the world burn, who's to say? But there's a thought there, right?