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Father relates Native accounts from the Sangre de Cristo mountains to teenage son.
The writer relays a story from a relative who as a teenager worked as a fishing guide and spent spare time hiking with an older companion. When the relative suggested hiking into a new area near Blanca Peak, the companion refused, saying that was where the Sasquatch lives and describing it as an animal that walks like a man. The relative dismissed it at the time but recalled it with surprise after publicity of the Patterson film.
Folklore in Alabama (1920)
The guest's grandmother told that as children walking dark trails between houses on large family land, balls of light would appear in the woods to light their way. One night her brother jumped on one, it deformed around him, he fell with burn-like marks, and the lights never returned.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1918)
In 1918 a boy was reportedly abducted near the pond. Community members pursued, recovered the boy, who was scratched up, and captured the creature. The teller notes the creature did not seem intent on harming the boy and describes it as acting lonely rather than aggressive.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1884)
In 1884 a rural community living around Ocheesee Pond lost livestock and heard eerie nighttime calls from the water. After children were frightened by a hair-covered figure, residents formed a posse, captured it, and transported it chained to the governor in Tallahassee. The governor could not place it and sent it to the nearby Chattahoochee hospital, where it died and was buried under later construction.
UFO sighting
The guest retold an Aboriginal legend from a plaque at Coolatops National Park about a god in a ball of light cruising treetops. Seven women climbed trees for a better view and were taken up into the stars to become the Pleiades, one dimmer star being the less pretty woman.
Sasquatch sighting in North Dakota
As a six or seven year old at a North Dakota gathering, the guest heard an announcer tell in the traditional language how a boy playing with cousins along a creek was chased and taken by a Bigfoot. A multi-day search party was lured and misled by mimicked voices and bonfire activity, and the child was never found.
Folklore near Lovelock, Nevada
The hosts retell tribal accounts of tall red-haired cannibalistic giants who trapped and ate local people and were eventually trapped in a cave, burned and killed after a multi-year war. Later miners reportedly found large mummies, oversized sandals and artifacts, and a large hand-like mark was seen on the cave wall.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
A few years after the 1918 incident the community reportedly captured another hair-covered figure in the same swamp area. The teller suggests this individual and the 1918 figure were humans with a hair-growth condition from a family that arrived in 1901, distinct from the original 1884 wild man.
Folklore in Washington
In old times people lived around the lake but left after daughters were said to be taken by a hairy tribe from higher on the mountain. A truce was made where the tribe shared cedar-basket weaving knowledge in exchange for the people leaving the lake area.
Folklore near Mimquamlis, British Columbia
This is a traditional First Nation legend about a couple blessed with a nose-born boy who was teased. When village children stayed out playing after sunset, a hairy wild woman of the woods seized them in a sack. The boy cut the sack open and, with help from deer, bear and mink, led the children back, after which the chief ordered him respected.
Folklore
The guest relays a tribal story in songs that bothersome man-eating creatures were driven north past tall forests into very cold big mountains and into another land. Most were exiled so they would not return, though some escaped in different directions.