Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: Unraveling the Unknown

Episode Title: Bigfoot Banter

You are listening to Unraveling the Unknown with your hosts Lily and Tessa.

In this episode of Unraveling the Unknown, the Podcast we will discuss: bigfoot.

• In 1958, Ray Wallace would make mastings of alleged Bigfoot Footprints

• Bigfoot or Sasquatch may have originated from Native American legends and the Tsonoqua legend
• But the legend goes beyond recorded history
• most commonly attributed to North American western forests and mountains, originating from increasing sightings throughout history.
• Cryptid - a creature that is suggested to exist but it's existence has not been confirmed by the scientific community.
• 1800s- 1900s bigfoot sightings, footprint evidence, video and photo evidence coming up
• the word Sasq’ets from the north american Salish language. In Salish, Sasq’ets means “hairy man” or “wild man”. Native american tribes which used this dialect were found in present day British Columbia, Canada, and Montana, washington, and Idaho in The U.S.
• Humanoid creature around 8 ft tall, hairy, strong, powerful. Known to give off a foul smell.
• Some say bigfoot is silent and some say it gives off a high pitch cry.
• Many indigenous legends around the world such as, the Yeti of Asia, the Abominable snowman of The Himalayas, the Sasquatch of North America, the Grassman of ohio, the Yeren of China, the Yowie of Australia, and even more.
• Some believe that the sasquatch is a homanid creature that lives in isolation, nearly extinct, while others think that this creature is merely a made up legend or hoax, or a piece of folklore.

• How believable is the bigfoot story?
• Real scale 1-10 (1 being not beviable 10 being super real)

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